Sweet Valentine's Day

And thank goodness, it's about over! It was a very busy day for me, with a lot of work and preparation involved! And since hubby is working til the evening hours, we won't be doing much celebrating for the day. We'll have to do something special another day. Back to the work part - the women's group here at work, of which I am the "leader" - we put on a big, special event for the whole office (which is about 80 people). We decorated the break room with big red cut-out hearts and little red cupids and brought tons of food for them to munch on all day. Our purpose, other than celebrating Valentine's Day, was to use the "heart" theme to promote the annual Heart Walk which will be in April. Our company is big into doing community and charitable things so are pushing for us to have a good number turn out to walk and others to raise money also. It's for the American Heart Association and the funds go to research and development to find cures for heart disease plus on education regarding same. So, Sunday, on the way to church and back (a 30 minute drive each way), I used that hour and my trusty laptop and made several "posters" using my good ol' faithful Print Shop program and we hung them around the room. Last night, after work (and yes, working late) I had to go to the grocery store and get stuff to make my share of "the goods" to bring - I made a huge platter of 7 Layer Dip (w/ equally huge bag of tortilla chips), two cheeseballs (w/ Ritz crackers) and a big pan of butter pecan cheesecake bars (which are quite tasty, I might add). I also brought a meat & cheese platter, but must confess, that I did not make it "from scratch" - I actually bought it "premade!" Gasp, gasp! I know..... that's not like me! :( But I could only do so much in the hours before midnight so I had to cut a corner SOMEWHERE! I also had to come to work on Sunday after church (before going back to church Sun. night) to get started on the workload, since one of my assistants was not going to be here Monday and there's no way I could've even kept my head above water Monday without doing that. Mondays are like getting hit with 3 days work instead of one, since the work keeps coming in steadily throughout the weekend. So, considering that last week consisted of regular work, 2 funerals, one trip to Texas and back, and the weekend consisted of work, church, housework, not to mention last night's marathon in the kitchen, today's "putting on the dog" for the office (67 trips to the break room and back throughout the day to keep things clean and orderly - you know how it is when some slobs come in and drop cake crumbs everywhere and leave them laying! can't have that!)..... well, I am really tired and actually very glad that there are no big fireworks planned for this Valentine evening. I think the extent of my plans will be to stop at the store and get G'dad and cute little decorated Valentine cake (personal size) and take it home to him - he will be very happy with that, then I will call it a day. I can't wait to go get in my pjs and houseshoes and kick back on the couch for some Wheel of Fortune (if I can make it home in time)! Whoopee!!!! What a thing to look forward to! But, man, I do, just because I can RELAX! (You KNOW we have to watch WOF every evening, it's G'dads favorite show! That, and the weather channel, that is!) OK, I realize my posts are extremely long when I read other people's posts and they are .... well, not nearly this long. Am I being verbose?

Have a good one!