Step into Marrakesh

I had a great Valentine's day this year. Best one ever! I came home to a huge box delivered straight to my door, full of goodies--flowers, teddy bear, card, chocolates--the whole works.


Then I got treated to a seven course dinner at Marrakesh in DC. The food just kept coming. As soon as they took away a plate, another one came full of more scrumptious Moroccan delicacies. And then there was mint tea to top it all off.


The entrance is an ornate golden door that you must knock on to gain entrance and the inside is beautifully decorated. We ended up staying long enough to catch 2 belly dance performances; and I've decided that girl has an awesome job, getting paid to wear beautiful costumes and do ab exercises (my next career? heh heh). Overall, our entire dining experience lasted over 2 and half hours. For Valentine's, a perfect evening.

Love is in the Air

To all of you hopeless romantics out there, today is your day! The one day of year you can ooze with mushy gushy expressions of fairy tale love and warm fuzzy sweetheart cheer. The one day you can prove your dedication for your snookum with the obligatory commercial tokens of true love.


Happy Valentine's Day Sweet Things!

Online Dating

Ever have that friend that wants to hook you up with her best friend's cute guy friend? Or worse, are you that friend? I think everyone has a secret desire to play matchmaker if he/she thinks they have the resources to help others find romantic bliss. Tell me you haven't ever considered individuals you know who might be a match for that person in your life who you've deemed needs a significant other?

We all love to play Cupid, and as Valentine's day approaches, we love it even more. So let me get out my arrows and shoot a few in your direction. If you're single and ready to mingle, try out OkCupid which caters to the young adult crowd in their 20s and 30s. It was [unfortunately?] just bought by match.com for $50 million. So they must have been doing something right. And while you're at it, check out their amazing blog, OkTrends. Internet dating doesn't have the "omg, i'm freakin' desperate" stigma it might have had in the 90s. Everybody is doing it.

And in fact some sources, yeah ok, dating site sources, claim that "17% of couples married in the last 3 years, or 1 in 6, met each other on an online dating site." And, the online dating industry is worth about 1.049 billion dollars a year which surprisingly beats out even the porn industry.

Online dating expands your network for meeting people. It doesn't solve relationship issues or weed out the losers. You still have to do that yourself. It is a tool that lots of people are using to find the type of relationship they want with the type of person they want. I think it is the least talked about (yet most exciting?) form of social networking to transform modern society.

With Valentine's day right around the corner, why not give it a try?

Lovey Dovey Mushy Goosh

Yep, that's about right xkcd.


(And just for fun this one too)

But there won't be any Anti-Valentine's Day Forum for me either. Nope.

Ooo la la, Barack

Hmmmm. The GOP has quite a lovely selection of valentine's cards. At first I thought they were parodies created by democrats to mock republicans, but no. The GOP really has these cards, ready to email on their website. Send one of these to your valentine. He/she will love it!


Nothing says romantic like a card such as that. Hahaha.

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue

Look at my beautiful Valentine's roses. They are so gorgeous, they really budded nicely these past few days.


I love them. They smell like purple, he he. I sniff them as I eat my chocolates. Mmmmm.

Oh, and don't forget to check out Post Secret this week. Today's bunch are especially good.

Be Mine ♥

Happy Valentine's Day!

This year's Valentine's Day looks to be promising. No drowning my sorrows in cookie dough icecream, sweat pants, a box of tissues, and Matthew Mcconaughey movies. Ha ha.

But I just wanted to take this day to give each of my sexy blog readers a big kiss. So mwah!

You are a beautiful special person.

Be Mine

Happy Valentine's Day.
Not as fun when you're single.

I miss those Batman and Barbie Valentines from elementary school. I used to like to get those little boxes of Nerds attached to the card, but hated to get those tart hearts with stupid messages on them. They still taste disgusting even 10 years later. And I remember always picking out the least 'lovey' cards for the yucky boys, since my mom made me write one out for everyone in the whole class. Awwwww.