Showing posts with label Valentines Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentines Day. Show all posts
Valentine's Day has always a holiday I kept to myself. I wasn't like everyone else in Middle and High School that got those Valentine's Day Grams. I think my forever friend CJ was my Valentine for like the last 2 hours of the day once lmao. So it became a holiday that I used to show myself love. It sort of started the whole getting gifts for myself thing I'd do. I do kind of have an ironic Valentine's Day story that I'll probably blog about some time before Feb is over. I don't think I've told anyone about it -- except my brother (my actual biological brother) since he's the one who helped me!
And I was honestly SUPER confused, so I checked the note attached.
Sammie was my best of best friends in high school; we drifted because we dated some shit people who did some shit things. It wasn't until a few years ago we reconnected and especially now since we both now have kids. Austin is super cute and Tums spent a good amount of FaceTime time saying hi to him. I hope they can grow up to be friends!
I absolutely was not expecting this!! I feel SO bad because I didn't send her anything! But I did manage to send her a small xmas gift and one for Austin as well.
I'm super excited to try these Hot Cocoa Bombs just to see what all the hype is about -- as for the Sparkling Cider; we would celebrate the holidays over AOL together (she lived in SF and I lived about 40 mins away, and usually we'd be with "our families") and we'd ALWAYS drink Cider. It was like, tradition.
So last Thanksgiving I forgot to get Cider and she was saying how unacceptable it was so she tried to DoorDash me some lol! For Christmas she tried sending me a bottle but it somehow got lost.
Thank you so much for this gift Sam, it was seriously so freakin thoughtful of you and it made my day!
Normally I'd be SUPER excited for Spring and Valentine's Day; the splashes of pinks and reds everywhere, the fresh Spring air smell (that you get to enjoy in the 3 second gap between getting out of your car and putting on your mask), the feeling of waking up almost.
Except here in Texas, which I've dubbed hell.
Cause it's frozen over.
As I write this it's 7* outside. It's been in the single digits all day. And there's so much snow on my balcony I can literally build a snowman. We were on a severe winter weather warning from Feb 12th to the 15th. But now they're extending it until Thursday. That's damn near the whole week.
AND I LIVE IN TEXAS.
So there's no joy or refresh feelings here just yet. And it kinda sorta sucks.
Still, I wasn't going to not do anything I could to add a splash of pinks and reds (as if I don't already have enough)!
Did a small Bath & Body Works haul last month (did you know PayPal started a payment plan program? Lort. My bank account); I finally managed to snag a Valentine's Day candle that doesn't smell like roses. I want to say I've had the Bee Positive hand soap scent once and didn't like it enough. And the Be You scent is so soft. So soft it's almost like it isn't even there.
Early on in our relationship I made it a point to tell Bubba I wanted to be asked to be his Valentine; I didn't want him to assume that just because we were dating he didn't have to ask.
I don't know why I have this thing besides that I've never really been asked to BE someone's Valentine before. Hell I never really even HAD a Valentine's Day until Bubba came along. I use to use Valentine's Day as a day to spoil myself. My mom would get me gifts every since I was little and flowers every year though so I never really cared if I had a Valentine or not.
Even in the 11 years I was previously married we never really celebrated Valentine's Day. I did have a self tradition of having a Valentine's Day outfit. I figured if I wasn't gonna celebrate it, I might as well wear something nice that day. Plus pink is one of my favorite colors.
This year I randomly came out to the kitchen and saw this set up and Bubba asked me for a third time to be his Valentine ♡.
Although this is Bubba and I's second Valentine's Day together I'm still floored at how much stuff he gets me for holidays; last year I had missed my flight on accident and I was so sad and crushed about it.
Since I wasn't able to spend VDay weekend with him like I had planned I was surprised to see THREE BOXES of gifts for me. I haven't posted about it here but I'll add those photos at the end of this post.
This year I had thought of taking him to Melting Pot since he's never been but then I got to thinking --- he works early the next day and it's probably gonna be all booked up for VDay. Perhaps it would be better if I took him another time.
So instead we just spent the day at home.
He brought over breakfast after work. We exchanged gifts. Had cuddle time (I needed a nap but I couldn't sleep). Then we ordered pizza and watched Zumbo's Dessert Challenge (quickly becoming a fav of mine). Pretty much an average day for us, minus the gift exchange. After the blah week I was having though it was nice to just cuddle and talk.
It seems every year there's a special Limited Edition Lip Smacker Mickey & Minnie Mouse lip balm set for Valentine's Day.
This year it featured Mickey in Marshmallow Hugs & Minnie Mouse in Sweet Candy Kisses.
I had the one from last year as well but I never opened/tried them and I didn't blog about it, though I'm not sure why I didn't.
Minnie has a cute Strawberry themed looking bow between her ears and Mickey is sporting a red heart on his right ear. But that's not all!
CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW CUTE THEIR LITTLE MOUSE BUTTS ARE?!
I loved the design they were dressed in and their little tails made it even better! I don't know, I guess I just assumed it was just the front face part that was designed.
I'm gonna start with my favorite former boss, Mickey.
The thing I've never been a fan of when it came to these TsumTsum lip balms is that they're so dang head heavy! And how small of product you actually get (granted I've never actually finished one of these, but still, roll with it) compared to the size of their cute huge heads!
When I first tried these two out I concluded that Mickey tasted like Magic Kingdom.
The scent and the taste of this lip balm reminded me of a really pretty sunny day walking across Main Street USA and eating my favorite Chocolate Marshmallow's from The Confectionery.
It's that kind of taste/scent. I'd say that he had a pretty heavy spot on taste and scent of marshmallow with a really nice powdered vanilla flavor.
When it came to Minnie, I felt like she tasted like EPCOT.
Like, if you were to take Flower & Garden Festival and wrap it up into one flavor, it would be this Minnie.
She had a really sweet fruity taste/scent to her. I could pick out Strawberries and Watermelon and a hint of what sort of reminded me of lollipops.
The only problem was as good as she tasted when first applied, as it faded it just started to taste/remind me of what a big huge sugary mess would smell like lol. I wasn't a fan of what it would fade into.
The scent/taste and the moisture factor for both of these lip balms lasted a really good amount of time. I didn't find myself reapplying it as much as other lip balms and it wasn't at all drying as it did fade.
I really enjoyed trying these guys out. I collect almost anything TsumTsum and I have a number of these lip balms and I USE to review them. I don't know why I stopped! I had so much fun putting this post together!
I'm curious to know what next years flavors are going to be!
I wish I had taken more photos during this time of year all the years I lived in Florida/Disney World but to be honest I only got to go to the parks once the whole time I lived there and I didn't even get to walk around or really do anything so yeah, that sucked. But I did manage to snap this photo of hearts on the castle, this was back in 2013 by the way.
There was also a time when Candy Cauldron did customized apples, white chocolate with sprinkles were my fav. Last time I went there last April they said they didn't do custom apples anymore. It was a sad sad day.
I don't know what it is about seasonal sprinkles but they seriously make the treat that much more festive and enjoyable!
Overall Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween and Fourth of July treats at Disney are probably my favorite time to see Goofy's Candy Co at Disney Springs just bursting with colors and different treats of all kinds. I do love how around Valentine's Day the Minnie apples and cake pop's come out!
The ones to the right were literally a pain to get a photo of because of the damn glare. But you can see the cutie cake pops next to the apples and I think those are better, personally.
I wish I could remember if we had Valentine's Day themed treats when I worked at Candy Cauldron in 2011, but I honestly don't remember at all. Working at a Disney candy shop though is a special kind of magic and if I'm being honest, my favorite kind of magic besides working in The Tree of Life and in Fantasyland.
I'm also slightly obsessed with Minnie and kind of always have been --- at least since I first worked at Disney in 2011. I love that she wears an oversized bow. I don't know what it is about that but I just love it! And plus she's always decked out in pink and the world girly describes her.
Sadly I didn't get one of these apples the day I snapped this photo and I didn't get to go back as often as I'd like to so I never got to grab one. I was a little hesitant to be honest, as much as I loved my apple sliced I didn't want to mess up the prettyness of this apple and it's not like I could be like, "hey can I take a couple hundred photos of this outside THEN can you slice it?!" okay they WOULD slice it if I had asked and if I had done that, I know I did it for other people. The request really is not that crazy.
Huh, I don't know why I didn't get one!
But next time I'm in the parks around this time of year I'll MAKE SURE to grab one!
And just in case you needed proof --- here's a photo of when I use to prop my hair up so I could pin a bow to it like Minnie does, I don't know how I got my bangs to part so nicely that day or how the heck the Pixie Dust looks like highlights but I freakin love this photo!
I'm also one of those people who stop by Sir Mickey's at Magic Kingdom or the Bibbity Boppity in World of Disney to get covered in Pixie Dust. It's my happiness, what can I say? My first Disney College Program apartment literally had glitter everywhere. It was awesome.
Have you been to the Disney parks around this time of year? What's your favorite thing to do or your favorite treat?
It's been a really long time since I've had a See's Candies near me, first of all.
There wasn't any actually in Florida unless you count the pop up shops/kiosks that would come around but just during the holiday season. And as someone who grew up in California well it was kinda depressing. See's has always kinda been my chocolate of choice. I mean I like Godiva but I've GROWN UP with See's. So when they release their holiday truffles it was kinda sad I wasn't able to try them, though sometimes I'd ask my mom to get me some and ship them to me.
This year they came out with 3 truffles... well 2 1/2 is more like it I guess.
I literally thought both the white and dark chocolate were strawberry filled, I guess I got too excited and misread... whoops. They also came out with the Black Forest truffle. I ended up grabbing all 3.
After realizing that the dark chocolate was indeed NOT strawberry filled I decided to just pop the whole thing in my mouth, sorry. But the chocolate was fluffy and creamy. It wasn't overly sweet and the dark chocolate wasn't at all bitter, it was perfect and comforting!
The strawberry white chocolate was pretty good; it was smooth and creamy and the strawberry flavor was definitely there. It paired so nicely with the white chocolate too! The only thing is I felt there was too much white chocolate, if you know what I mean. While the flavors both worked nicely together I could had used a bit more strawberry filling!
The Black Forest truffle was MY FAVORITE (I'm not sure seeing the inside really does anything but it makes for nice photos, right?)! It's described as dark chocolate with tart cherries and that's EXACTLY what it was! If you're a fan of dark chocolate and cherries I would HIGHLY recommend this!
I'm so tempted to go back and get a whole box of these. They kind of remind me of those holiday cherry chocolates you know with the cream or the clear liquid in the middle BUT BETTER.
I'm obviously really excited about this truffle.
I'm also really excited to try the Easter truffles they come out with every year, there's usually a lemon one that's really good.
What's your favorite chocolate shop between Godiva and See's or is there another one you prefer?
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