Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Valentine’s Day!

I doubt anyone cares. But I’m going to brag regardless.

Jared and I went to Pine Garden for our favorite vegan, Chinese meal for Valentine’s Day. Then we went to see Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 3D.

Since I knew that we were going to see Star Wars, I decided to use that as the theme for his gifts. The top picture shows the dishes I bought for him that matches all of the changes he has been making to the house. Then I got him a glittery Darth Vader heart shaped box and little Yoda and Chewy stuffed animals for him to display with all of his other Star Wars figures in his office.

All of the other pictures are what Jared made for me. He painted 8-3-11 because not only is 831 his lucky number but it’s the day that we started dating (and it was completely unintentional). I love all of his little crafty gifts that always match my room. Then he made me the cutest card ever. It’s a ransom note that reads “We have your heart… Give us 1 million cheek kisses or else”. Then he hand wrote the sweetest note ever on the back that I am saving him from embarrassment by not posting.

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"Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration and this is where I think language came from. I mean, it came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival. Like you know, 'water,' we came up with a sound for that. Or saber tooth tiger right behind you. We came up with a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting I think is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. What is like... frustration? Or what is anger or love? When I say love, the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain through their memories of love or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying and they say yes, they understand. But how do I know they understand? Because words are inert. They're just symbols. They're dead, you know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable. And yet you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected and we think that we're understood I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for."

Shauna Marie
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