tea time no. 44: Heart-Shaped Links

Drinking: Just Coffee’s Fondo Paez. We were out for a while and there is much rejoicing that it’s back in the house!

Listening to: So Post All ‘Em by Yacht from the album – I Believe In You, Your Magic Is Real which may be the best Valentine message of all time.

-If Valentine’s Day is something you have been dreading, take an artist’s date! Julia Cameron writes about these in The Artist’s Way. Time for YOU to do something that fills up the well. If you don’t think you are an Artist, can I gently tell you …actually, you are.

-Longest Married Living Couple Herbert+Zelmyra Fisher, married 82 years, have been taking questions about marriage via Twitter @longestmarried and will answer them tomorrow here on Valentine’s Day (14th).

-Moomah is one of those discoveries that makes me thankful for the interwebs.

-Papa John’s Pizza will deliver heart-shaped pizza to your house upon request. I sent one home to my little girl yesterday and it was a hit.

-Watch and/or record love stories on Drop Everything for Love.com. The graphics on this site are awesome.

-The Crying Wife website that I found via @Soup_Lady is hysterical.

-I pick up film from the developer today for the first time in 10 years. I’m excited.

-Perfect dresses from Shabby Apple which I found via Stephmodo.

-Watching this teacher talk with her class about these paintings made me remember how exciting it can be to both learn and to share what you know.

This one, too…

He doesn’t hold grudges. He loves me, even when it’s really hard to do. He turns off lights when I have a migraine. He never rolls his eyes.

We are no model for greatness. Neither of us is perfect. I hope we stay together forever, but I don’t take for granted that we will. But at least I can say that I am much closer to becoming the person I would like to be because I’ve spent eleven years with him.

When were were planning our trip, we noticed there’s a restaurant in New York called Insieme. Insieme, italian for “together,” is one of those important words for us for reasons that are too dear to share, but sufficed to say, it’s one of two words that we would have had engraved inside our wedding rings, had we sprung for that. When he read to me the review of Insieme from the New York Times, I thought it was the perfect description for our marriage: “Its setting lacks magic, its kitchen can be inconsistent and a few of the dishes fall well short of the others. But when Insieme is good, it’s outstanding.”