Bday/Valentines

So I am one of those fortunate people who's Bday falls right around another gift giving holiday (I'm totally being sarcastic by the way; shout out to niece Kaya, auntie Ann will never jipp you on your Bday or Christmas), Valentines Day. Since my Bday's on the 11th, I can usually count on a mixture of the two. But, when you're married to a sweet handsome boy, as I am, this "killing two birds w/ one stone" mentality actually works to my advantage. To put it simply, it has been my Bday since Wednesday w/ the nearest foreseeable end date being next weekend! Thats an entire week and a half of me being a princess! It all started Wednesday night when my handsome rushed home from work and took me to see Coraline. Uh, only my new favoritest movie ever made in the whole world! You see, Weds was my actual bday which didn't really leave a wholelotta room for celebration, but my handsome was determined to take me out on the actual day, even though he made very clear Saturday was going to be the best day ever and my real celebration. Fast forward to Sat, my handsome started off my B/V Day with purple roses, a white choc iced soy latte and bagel toasted w/ extra crea chee! He's smart because he knows this is the way to my heart. I actually cried, but then realized it was hormones and felt retarded, he felt it was hi-larious and weird. Next, I was to get ready and get my pregnant butt in the car. He would never tell me any of my destinations, so it was quite the thrill never knowing what could happen next. First stop? Melrose Ave! The plan was lunch at the uber trendy Urth Cafe (i always crave their greek salad and he knew I'd want it) and then the best, in his words, " you have 2hrs and 15min to go to as many stores and buy as many things as you can. You have no limit in dollars, only time." Now, I know ladies, what the deuce?! But it's is true, I officially heard the words every woman longs to hear from her man. Now, one would think this is no problem, literally shopping till one drops, but it is! I hadn't given any thought to anything that i wanted or needed and lets face it, being 16 wks pregs doesn't get me all excited to buy a cute new outfit or hot pair of jeans, ya know? So after lunch we hit up our first store, Kitson. I didn't love anything except for the new Chloe perfume, so I bought it! We're off to a good start. We walk and walk and go into some random stores before we slowly start to realize that we may not be on the right part of Melrose, the part where every shop imaginable is located. We start seeing a lot of furniture stores and dry cleaners. We start thinking, did this place change, i coulda sworn it was different a couple of weeks ago? Well, at this point we had maybe 45 min till we had dinner reservations and decided to head back to the car. As we drove down the street a few more blocks, all of a sudden, wouldn't you know it, there's the real Melrose! Dang it! So we pulled into Fred Segal, looked around (mostly at baby clothes) and then had to head off to our dinner. James felt so awful that he said we will extend the shop til I drop to next week, when we would come back to the correct Melrose. Sounds good to me! Next, we pulled up to this restaurant, went inside and it was so beautiful. They had a piano in the middle of our room that actually rotated. The pianist sang and played while we chose our fancy courses. After dinner, I still had another surprise in store. We ended up pulling into the Grove parking lot and it was packed. Packed in a gross fat way. Everyone and their mom was there and we had no idea why. Well, it turned out they were all the for the same reason as we where. My last surprise of the day was to see Confessions of a Shopaholic! I secretly knew thats what it would be but got thrown off that we were at the Grove to see it. Well, it ended up being totally sold out! So we went shopping at Nordstroms instead to kill some time before we headed to a different theater, which James had the next showing time to already, in case this one was sold out. Got to the next theater, sold out again. So, my man was feeling real bad at this point. His whole plan was to make me shop like a mad woman and then go see a movie about shopping w/a little fine dining in between. So sweet! No matter to me, cause the next day, I was taken out to lunch once again and then to my movie, which I loved! So now, I still have a day full of shopping comin to me and inspiration from the movie on what to buy. I win! I win! So, that is why this was the best Bday/Vday combo ever and that is why I am married to the greatest person alive! He knows what this hot lil commodity wants and he delivers. Its the gift that just keeps on givin.