Cards? Check.  Two from Builder, one each from Cyclone and Spousal Unit.  They were all very funny.  I am not big on mushy sentiment on a day dedicated to filling out my thighs with quality Godiva chocolate.

Candy? Check. Well. Okay.  So.  I got my self a small bar of quality Godiva Chocolate. Dark. With Raspberries.

Flowers? Nope. This year, Spousal Unit was going to buy me a lovely bouquet. I SAW it at Costco. I was with him and it was beautiful and smelled amazing and was all things fluffy.  (Roses, to me, are vastly overdone. I prefer variety.)  I saw this lovely bouquet and…

…

And I asked for a gift of equal value. A bag of shelled pistachios.

YES!

I really like pistachios.  And, in honor of the day, they’re HEART HEALTHY!  Go on, click the link and find out.

I really do believe in heart-healthiness. I try to eat a low-fat diet (really, most of the time, yes) and I eat more than 3gm of soluble fiber daily (oatmeal is really good) and even though they do have fats, I like to have nuts. Not peanuts, they’re not good, but nuts. Like almonds and PISTACHIOS.

The problem for pistachios is that they are often so hard to pry out of their near-ceramic shells.  Yikes.  But buying them already free, so to speak, can be expensive.

Which was why I never asked for any before.  Until yesterday. The cost of the bouquet and the cost of the pistachios were almost the same. The nuts being, perhaps, a cent less or more. ONE PENNY.

I can work with that.

So today I have a small bar of chocolate.  I have cards from my guys.  I have on a red top and a white lacy cami that peeks out demurely in honor of the whole “frill factor” that is Valentine’s Day.

And I have nuts.

Life is good.  Happy Valentine’s day!

Tags: health, valentines