Young, broke & fabulous.

Happy Valentines Day to my caring, kind, funny & gorgeous fiance. You make me the happiest I’ve ever been, and more than I ever believed I could be.

We already gave each other our presents (PJs & books!), so tonight we are having a corny movie date. I cannot wait.

How are you celebrating Valentines?

Are there any things in your life, that you absolutely love, that you kind of know you shouldn’t love that much? Like a TV show, a book, a movie? I’ve always been a huge Harry Potter nerd. Always. Rick loves HP too, plus one of my best friends Raquel. So we have our little HP fan club and it’s awesome. So, actually, I don’t feel embarrassed about that because I have people who are equally as in love as I am.

But then… there’s my new obsessions. The Hunger Games. And, Once Upon A Time. You guys… I just love them. The Hunger Games was a series that I saw in the bookstore all the time and ignored because I just “knew” it wasn’t my kind of book. Had an early Morning flight a few weeks ago, wasn’t feeling the book I bought a long with me, so decided to give it a go. Turns out it’s exactly my kind of book. I fell in love so quickly, it was one of those “don’t want to do anything but read, no time for eating or sleeping” kind of books. I read the trilogy non-stop and was so. sad. when I finished the third book. I made Rick read them, I made Raquel read them, and I’ve told all of my other book loving friends to read them as well. The movie is out soon, so I’ve been spending some of my time… fan girl-ing. Looking at stills from the movie, reading about the different actors cast for the characters. Fan girl-ing it UP. I am all about Peeta. The people who have read them so far like them, Rick likes 2 of the books more than 1, but isn’t that excited about the movie. Raquel is though, so again, I don’t have to be too embarrassed because I have her, but there’s only two of us? I need a group! (Or a third person, 2 isn’t okay but 3 people is).

Then… there’s Once Upon A Time. First and foremost - I would like to point out that I am embarrassed about how much I like this show. Even if 40 of my friends liked it too, I’d still be embarrassed. I am so lame about this show, it’s just so embarrassingggg. Anyway, I digress. My sister in law Jessica told me about this show, and I loved it from the very first second. Jessica has since decided she isn’t a fan, and her brother has the same opinion. We don’t watch it together anymore because I actually end up getting mad at him for ripping apart “my show”. A few episodes into the season, and I decided to make Brigitte watch it. It was one of those things, were you go on and on about how good something is, that when you finally get someone else to give it a go, suddenly you are nervous and worried and thinking “what if they don’t like it? They’ll think I’m an idiot!”. Luckily for me, Brig was a fan. Then Scott became a fan. Isobelle, my other sister in law, is also a fan. So I have a little group. AND I’M STILL EMBARRASSED. Because they aren’t the kind of fans I am. Did you know, yesterday, I spent a good 5 hours of my working day reading theories that other fans have come up with on who’s who, and what’s going to happen? Normally I natter away at Rick about these sorts of things, when I’m excited, or annoyed by something, I natter his flippin ears off. But he hates the show. So poor Scott had to endure it. He took it on well though, good lad. And I am unbelievably excited about the day when Alice in Wonderland is included on the show. And I was annoyed, that I didn’t pick up on things that other people have. So annoyed I started watching the series from the beginning again last night. And I’m still not over a certain death in the show. Still. See? Embarrassing.

Thank god for the younger generation who are ALL ABOUT fan-ing it up, so I can pretend, online, that I’m not 24, that my obsession is age appropriate, and that I don’t have to be embarrassed about being a teenage girl at heart still.

I guess I’m just a sucker for fairy-tales and make believe. The Hunger Games doesn’t really fall into either of those categories though, perhaps make believe? Anyway - I ask again, does anyone else have these sorts of obsessions? Come on, make a girl feel better and share! (Also, let’s not pretend we haven’t noticed how long this blog entry is compared to my other entries… man, I haven’t done myself any favours on the embarrassing scale have I?)

I want to go home, make my house freezing cold, rug up under a blanket on the couch and watch movies. Harry Potter, and Monsters Inc specifically. And I want Rigby to behave and do what I want, which is lay next to me sleeping, snoring quietly, with his head resting on my legs in that comforting way I like. And then I want this headache to eff. off.