One for Me, One for Us

Cheap...I think not. So, this entry doesn't follow the line of "cheap dates". Oh, well. We all deserve a little indulgence every once in a while.

After spending an afternoon with Mom going through old photo albums and scrapbooks (a project that is still in the works and has extended to my own home), I left Charlie with Nana and happily drove off for a date by myself. (Get your mind out of the gutter.) I drove home and asked Kevin to drop me off at Family Nails (bad name, great service). I didn't have to pay for parking...see, saving money and using my head. Over an hour was spent with a massage via a massage chair, leg and foot (my favorite) massage and the hand massage. Kevin still owes me two foot massages (a Mother's Day gift). At the last minute I decided to add a cute little flower to my toes. The funny this is, she painted hibiscus flowers on each big toe. The day before, I was wearing a glass pendant with a hibiscus flower that Kevin had made for me in Hawaii. I tried to explain this to her. I'm not sure how much she understood, but she did understand that I was more than pleased with her choice in flowers. Ok, I just realized how easy it is to "go off on a tangent". One story leads to another that leads to another. I should just stick to the "date part", but it's so much fun to let my memory drift to other wonderful memories and on and on and on. Back to the date...

I called Kevin to pick me up and we headed off to Flavors of India, a fabulous restaurant in our neighborhood. We love the ambiance and I could easily decorate my future home, ok, maybe a room like the restaurant with the jeweled colors and hanging tapestries. We ordered wine and enough food that Kevin will enjoy his lunch today. (Edit) Actually, we ate it for dinner and Charlie decided it was so good that he ate off our plates, as well. I was hoping for a walk, but that damn Bay Area summer fog had rolled in and all I wanted to do was go home and put on PJs and socks. I know, romantic. So, I curled up in a blanket, instead.

Kevin had borrowed Firefly (it was so good that they only made one season and stopped) from his parents on our last visit to Chino Hills. I must say I fell asleep during the first episode, but I finally got hooked. Think Startrek meets The Outlaw Josey Whales (I had to ask Kevin for help on this one) with a little A-Team thrown in. It's your basic space western. It's a little hard to grasp, but two of the women are absolutely stunning to look at...yes, I did say this.

It was a lovely, peaceful evening which ended in bed with a book (Kevin with his Patrick O'Brien and me with my Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest....sorry, no further information to be shared. A typical date night for us, minus the kid, which Kevin started missing at 4:00 in the afternoon, while we were still at Nana's. But our date continues as we sit here at Starbuck's laptop to laptop as I write this and Kevin looks for a job."You are looking for a job, aren't you?"

It's actually kind of sweet, sitting across from my husband "working".

We took two cars here, as I'm leaving shortly to pick up Charlie and have lunch with Papa and Yah, and as I saw him walking toward me I said, "Hey, it looks like we are headed in the same direction. Would you like to join me for a cup of coffee?" I was trying to flirt with this "random" man who looked like he was on his way to a cafe, but he didn't get it. I told him I would hit on someone else who would appreciate it. I think it's somewhere in the cards..."meet somewhere, pretend you don't know each other..." I tried. He was... well... clueless.

Cost of One for Me, One for You:

• Beautiful purple toes and light pink nails: $39.00 ( I tip well)
• Dinner with my love: $46.00 ( I round up)
• Firefly: (future trip to Chino Hills in a few weeks- cost: a hell of a lot of gas, but worth every penny)
• Books: (free: library and Fran (Mema Lopez))
• Stabuck's Coffee: (thank Goddess for the Gold Card. We'll need to add to them next time around)
• Time spent together: priceless. I must say, I really am enjoying this laptop to laptop thing...maybe it's my new foreplay. I love you, Honey Pie!