Running With Scissors.(Formerly HippoRastaPotamus): Hippo Valentine's Day.

My hubby left me this cute pink hippo plush toy (I named Valentina for Valentine's Day...get it?)and chocolate rose for Valentine's Day before he left for BC yesterday and also Kinder chocolates, even though I don't like those because they also have white chocolate I think is gross. I debated if I was actually supposed to eat the chocolate rose or not since it's so pretty or whether I was supposed to save it and just keep it as a decoration but then logic tells me it's chocolate and chocolate is for eating and if I don't eat it( and just put it up on a shelf somewhere) then the mice will so I ate it, only yesterday, a day early, because today is also Ash Wednesday, a fasting day, which also means no chocolate today! So I just re-wrapped the foil back up and re-did the rose only without the chocolate. He also sent me an e-mail card that was waiting for me this morning, shown below.

I also decided I wanted sunflowers, so I checked the local florists(because I need it delivered) and no one had an actual bouquet of just sunflowers(as it's out of season and they'd have to be imported) and the best they had was a bouquet of other flowers with just 2-3 sunflowers in it.....starting at 200$ !

What the f*ck?

Seriously?

In the summer I can get a bouquet of 5-6 sunflowers at the Farmer's Market or even at Wal-Mart or the grocery store for just 10$! What an utter rip-off! No way!!

It's also sooo cold now it feels like -20 C and so windy the windows kept rattling so I had to have my little space heater on during the night; f*ck what my hubby says; I'm NOT going to freeze to death during the night because he's cheap, and with him and the 16 YR old away I can even smoke weed inside now,too, without anyone here to complain about the stink although generally for the most part I don't mind having to smoke outside; I enjoy being outdoors and getting fresh air, just not when it's really freezing cold out there!

I'm also loving the nice peace and quiet we're having with just Buddy and I here home alone all day. It's so peaceful, and to think we have 9 days of this.I get a holiday,too, and I don't even have to go away.

Nice.

I also think dying is similar to being born; you still exist and have self-awareness of a sort, just in a different way and in a different environment. Before birth you exist in your mother's womb(and even before that, in the spirit realm) and then once born you still exist only in another environment; the "outside" world, and when you die it's the same; you still continue to exist, at least your spirit does, only transition in another way and in another environment.