becomingkate

 I know not everyone is a Valentine's Day fan, but I appreciate it. I have a guilt complex about spending money, so any day where it's "okay" to spend money is good by me. I know, consumerism is bad. I'm such a basic white girl it isn't funny.

I do have a funny story about V-day though. My husband gave me a box of chocolates, how generic, right? But then he says "I see you already found your other presents" and I had no idea what he meant. He took out two cheeses and gave them to me. I said "Oh! I thought I bought those and forgot about them."

You know you have a cheese problem when you see random cheese and assume you bought it and just forgot.

I have another present coming though. Years ago, when I worked at a nice upscale restaurant, we had this family meal and wine tasting before every dinner. It was really great. Anyway, we sampled a sparkling dry red wine and I fell in love with it. No place carried it, but we got a store to order it for us. I'd go back there every so often and there would be a couple bottles there. Then, they stopped carrying it.

I never found it again anywhere else and I kept trying poor substitutes. My husband bought me one a few days ago and it wasn't bad but still a little sweeter than I like. So today he tells me he looked high and low for any place that carries it and couldn't find any but found one store that orders it from North Carolina or something and is one of the companies that is allowed to ship it to MA. MA is one of the states that allows alcohol deliveries to homes but apparently there is a certain number of companies that are allowed to and this place is one of them. So I will be getting my shipment soon :D

I ordered Universal Yums for us too. We get something called MunchPak now which is pretty good but is about to run out and I heard Universal Yums was good.

Kind of weird that I don't have a tag for valentine's day yet...I seem to remember my husband was sort of hit or miss about the presents in previous years. Although I did tell him to stop buying me cheese, lol.