I was in high anticipation Friday night and after rushing through my work, I jetted to my baby's crib to hold him tighter than ever before. We curled up and snored the night away, I woke up on Valentine's Day to his grinning face and sparkling eyes. Talk about a great way to begin my special day!
The Voice and I spent most of the day lying in bed, laughing, joking, talking and simply relaxing. After a few hours of laziness, we went out to pick up a few V-Day gifts for his friends and family. We stopped to grab a bite of food and then made our rounds like Santa on Christmas Eve. We swung by Ladybug's crib and met her sister who was visiting from out of town. J-Dub was by and after a shot or two, everyone was feeling nice (except me).
As we left, I was bit annoyed because the day hadn't gone as I had planned and I didn't get all my V-Day stuff together for The Voice. So we headed on to Hollywood Video and picked up Love Jones with Larenz Tate and Nia Long and then proceeded to the Build-A-Bear Workshop where he let me design my own Valentine bear!
Some of his friends remarked that this idea was a childish but we tuned them out. Subsequently, we observed a guy and his girlfriend picking out and designing a bear so I felt less awkward.
We then made our way back to his crib and I whipped up dinner. Needless to say, it all went downhill.
How you may ask?
"Well ... " (said like Samantha Stevens from Bewitched)
I whipped up some shrimp alfredo and some fish patties for The Voice. His wisdom tooth started aching so he laid down while I popped in Love Jones. I was really getting into the movie and he presented my other gifts. He gave me a card, the Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom DVD, and a framed picture of himself with his original poem (and my favorite) titled The Voice. The most amazing part? On the frame was a quote I had texted him while I was Christmas shopping a few months ago which I thought he had forgotten all about! It read:
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Above: The Voice's gift (he's shy so I had to block out his face!)
So after the movie ended, my stomach started rumbling.
"It's just a little indigestion," I thought.
Well I drifted off to sleep and sometime around 2 AM, I dashed into the bathroom for some one-on-one face time with the toilet bowl. I don't think there's anything worse than puking your guts up on Valentine's night and then having to clean it all up. And of course The Voice couldn't really take care of me because he was still hurting. But my body wasn't finished. I ended up back in there several more times throughout the night. My stomach felt like someone had gut punched me and was twisting my organs inside out ...
Was there any way to save the rest of our wanna-be-romantic weekend?
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3 comments:
Ewww. Ok, um if he still stayed with you after all of that then he is a keeper. I know you aren't feeling so great about this but try to focus on the good points of what happened that day.
I can't wait to hear what happened next.
What do you think made your stomach upset?
@ BPS - Yeah, I'll try to get part II up by next weekend. Oh, I'm very focused on the good! ;o)
@ SS - I thought it was my cooking but The Voice didn't get sick; plus the whole family was sick with the same symptoms and two were on antibiotics. And we weren't even around each other that weekend!
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