Valentine's Weekend...

Finally, for once in my damn crazy busy life, I might have some down time. Don't get too excited, its only momentarily... until I start working on GE stuff later on today. But I figured since I had these few moments of freedom, I would write a little blog. I say little, but who really knows the extent to which the length may turn out to be.

Today is Valentine's Day. And yes, I know, there are many of you out there who despise the so-called "holiday", but for the sake of my blog entry today, suck it up and pretend to enjoy the holiday. At least a little.

I spent this entire weekend in a sort of Valentine's Day celebration, starting with Friday evening. After a crazy busy week at school, I finally got to enjoy a little down time Friday evening with Alex for Valentine's Day. We had purchased tickets to the Cincinnati Ballet's performance of "Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare a month or so ago, with plans to use it as our little date night for Valentine's Day. We started the evening off with a lovely dinner at Palominos downtown. I had an absolutely spectacular mojito with my pasta bolognese for dinner. Extremely good food. I was a little disappointed I wouldn't be able to take my leftovers home with me (ballet's fault!)   After Palominos, Alex and I walked a few blocks away to the Aronoff where we saw the ballet. This was Alex's very first ever ballet, so I'm not sure how thrilled he was... But he was an excellent sport about the whole thing. There was very  little commentary to the show, but the dancing and music were superb, in my opinion.

After the ballet, Alex and I weren't ready to go home yet, but didn't feel like spending more money, so we just drove around for a while and talked. Just spent quality time together. I showed him some really pretty historic houses in Covington, and we walked around for a few minutes along the water. I wish I had my camera with me this weekend, because I would have totally taken pictures on our adventures. The skyline was gorgeous that night. Crystal clear skies, beautifully lit buildings, the works. At the end of the night, we went back to his place (and Katie's!) and snuggled in for the night. It felt so insanely relieving to finally be done with my stressful week and to be in the arms of the man I love. Cheesy, I know. But whatever!

Saturday I spent some quality time meeting up with Derek and some potential wedding photography clients. We spent a few hours discussing our current/past photography work and our ideas for the future, improvements, etc. Needless to say, I'm pretty sure we snagged those clients right up. If so, that will make 4 confirmed weddings for the 2011 year. We have a few more potentials though, so that would be nice for sure. I just can't wait until I don't have school getting in the way of my photography anymore. It makes it hard when you have school all day, and homework all night... there's no time to photograph OR edit photographs with that kind of schedule. I am looking forward to just having GE work (normal M-F hours...) so that way I can devote my nights and weekends back to photography. My real love, not engineering homework.

Yesterday Alex came over to my parents with a beautiful bouquet of roses for me for Valentine's Day... They are on my counter now in Louisville and blooming wonderfully. He and I went out to lunch and to see a movie after he got to my parents, since he didn't wind up getting called into work. For Christmas Alex had bought my parents a Belterra gift card, and as a result, Belterra sent him two free night vouchers to use on hotel rooms. So we used one last night for a little Valentine's Day part II... We had a very nice cozy room with an amazing bathroom (shower, jacuzzi tub, marble countertops... etc). We have stayed at Belterra before, so we knew what to expect. We had dinner and then had some dessert and drinks at Jeff Ruby's... A very relaxing but intimate evening just talking and catching up. Much needed since our lives have been very busy lately. I definitely must admit that it is amazing to finally have him living near me... We finally get to do all the things that we've been wanting to do for two years... Spend weekends together and nights together and holidays together... etc. I have no complaints right now :)

Our dessert from Jeff Ruby's - Cup was 100% chocolate :)

Bathroom at Belterra - With my Roses on the sink :)

This morning we ate some awesome breakfast, compliments of room service, and then headed our separate ways... Alex back north to work today, and me down to Louisville for class. So far, even though it is only Monday, this week doesn't appear to be near as terrible as my last two, but is definitely still going to be busy. In fact, I should definitely hop off of this blog and start getting some GE time under my belt so that I am not stuck trying to work 8-12 hours in on a Saturday, for the third week in a row. Yuck.

Hopefully now that things appear a little slower, I will be able to post a bit more frequently, but don't hold me to it.

I hope your Valentine's Day is as special and romantic as possible...


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