day 20: Valentine’s Day

My life is one big countdown to the weekend. I miss school when you had some sort of termination point to look forward to– end of a semester, end of the school year, spring break. Now all I can do is wait patiently for the weekend. I had been looking forward to this particular weekend because today is a holiday (Family Day) and Sunday should be a holiday (Valentine’s Day). I have always loved Valentine’s Day, even when I spent it alone. I love it for the chocolates and I love it for the valentines cards.

Do you remember how much time you would put in to analyzing the phrases on those boxed valentine’s day cards making sure the right message got to the right person? “Be Mine” went to the secret crush, “You’re great, Valentine!” went to the weird nose-picker in the corner who had a crush on you– it was important not to give him any ideas.

I would so look forward to getting those little foil wrapped chocolate hearts from the other kids in my class! Especially the ones that were filled with caramel or, better yet, peanut butter.

Okay, so I still spend a lot of time wandering the aisle at Hallmark picking out the perfect Valentine’s Day card. But, my tastebuds have refined and foil wrapped chocolate doesn’t cut it anymore. Can you even call that industrial mix chocolate?

Matt and I decided to spend our Valentine’s night sampling some good quality dark chocolate while sipping wine and watching Chocolat. Cheesy? Very. (but also chocolatey, and that’s the important thing).

The chocolate: Lindt Excellence Chili, Lindt Excellence Madagascar (65%), Laura Secord with Cacao Nibs (70%), and Cote D’or Noir (86%).

The verdict: I liked the nuttiness of Cote D’or, but our favourites by far were the both Lindt bars. Lindt makes phenomenal chocolate.

Today being a holiday, I’m home ALL DAY. Yay! My plan is to bake bread, and to head to the gym, and hopefully not “graze” on food while I’m home all day.

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