Apartment 5

In my first two semesters in KYUEM, I was hardly ever in my assigned room. I was always bunking in one chalet or the other, curled into bean bags and living out of a suitcase, but oh boy it was so fun. All my closest friends welcomed me in and it was a hugeee plus point that the chalets were so much nearer to the acad blocks then the apartments were. It took me half the effort, half the time, half the everything to get to my classes; the apartments were literally on the other side of the world and I dreaded it. 

Coming into senior year all my closest friends had finished their time in KY, flew off to pursue their degrees and left me chalet-less. I had no choice but to settle for the apartment the administration had assigned me to ( accommodation is first come first serve during registration day, and my batch was too big to allow for every girl to be moved into a chalet during her senior year). I decorated my room to the absolute max to make up for it, but after a while, my room turned out to be the best apartment everrrr and its all thanks to Aisyah, Kas and Farr, my roommates.

Farr and I were good friends since TKC times. She's kinda loud and a little bit crazy, but whenever Im sick she literally wipes down my body and feeds me and babies me like the softie mat settle she is. Aisyah I met in KY, we have all the same classes (well, I took econs and she took psychology but we both dropped it after AS) and the system kind of forced us to be together all the time. She has a resting bitch face (and she knows it) + she's more of the quiet kind so I used to be pretty intimidated by her (hi Aisyah, its true, please don't use this against me). But guys she's honestly so kind. She's the only one with a fridge and lets us all come into her room to borrow it and to just hang. Like, we just hang out in her room, its like the relaxation hub, and she's never chased any of us out or anything like that, so most of our great roommate moments were in her room (I miss it almost as much as I miss my own room tbh). And then we have Kas, oh Kassy-ku. Kasthuri, well, she's from Kedah and when I first met her she was a scared little indian girl who just came to the city type. She's cute and talkative and friendly, and we just love teaching her things that would make any naive little indian girl blush. But she's like so sporting, and I've witnessed her grow soooo much. 

Occasionally (read : often) people will come to our room to study, or to hang out. Anisah and Fie we're always just popping in and out (and we'd always know when Fie was coming cause she'd SLAM the door on her way in). Towards the end of it, Adriana was in our room pretty much the whole day, except when she needed to sleep or mandi or things like that. She set up a port at our common room table didn't leave if she didn't absolutely have to. All these people helped make the room cheery and fun.

The way our apartment works is that we pretty much do our own stuff, and let each other have the space to do whatever it is that we want to do. We're pretty different people inherently, but we all respect and learn from each other. In our last semester we were pretty much just studying in our own rooms most of the time. Once in a while, after doing a paper or when we get stressed, one person will walk into Aisyahs room and plonk herself on the bed. Slowly another person joins in, and another, and another. Then everyone forgets the fact that we actually are supposed to be studying and the conversation quickly turns to religion or gossip or sex, you know, the usual 20- something topics. When I get to stressed I'll attempt to twerk and we'd google tutorials on how to do that because its harder than it looks guys! Someone would come in and just randomly ask, 'Kas do you know what oral is?' and we'd have to teach her and watch her eyes bulge out of her head and have a good old laugh in the process.

Most of the stories and pictures we have are way too X rated or personal to be shared so publicly, we were in close quarters so we've literally seen and smelt it all. We weren't always seen with each other stuck like glue outside of our room, but within apartment 5, Id like to say we were pretty damn close. We shared our different views and became wiser after every session, assured each other that you did not have to be fair skinned, big boobed or flat stomach to be beautiful. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't think I could ever have gotten more blessed in the roommate department. We balanced each other out, and though we weren't very openly affectionate with each other ( in fact there were some very strong love-hate sentimenta sometimes), I love my roommates. 

I hope everyone reading has the pleasure of meeting people who may not have the same viewpoint as you and learn from them. It makes for lovely friendships, you can take my word for it.

Love, 

Mirr

Im through with A2!

I am a truly happy child.

Currently I'm on my roommates (Aisyah's) bed, because my room has been cleared out and I hateeee the empty walls. In an hour or so I'll be on the way, if not already, at home. I'm the first one in my apartment to go home for good, and I'm that in that typical bitter sweet mood that comes with goodbyes. 

A levels was tough man, I'll tell you that. I guess I've always had it easy in my studies, putting in minimal effort and getting by fine, but for A levels, I had to grind (and I mean grind - my closest friends were kind of shocked to see me care so much). But it has come and it has gone, I'm grateful to say that I think I couldn't have done my papers any better, so even if things ultimately don't go my way, I've done my absolute best and thats the best place I can be. 

A handful of people have been asking me whats next. And the honest answer is, I get to be an absolute bum again and not feel guilty about it, the joy! I have a few months off before I'll even know for sure whats next in my education path. A levels results come out sometime in August, and IF I meet my sponsors and university requirements, then insyaAllah, Ill be pursuing Pharmacy in UCL, London. Thats a bigggg if ( and that one chem paper was pretty tough....) but if I don't get to execute my plan A, I've got backup plans (Murni Midwife Service, anyone?)

But in the mean time, I want pursue things thats been on my to do list for absolute ages. I wanna learn how to sew, start cooking again, and basically do everything I've been putting off since my A levels grind started. In relation to that, I'm planning on selling off my textbooks, other useful books and some of my clothes/stuff for quite cheap ( A levels textbooks burn multiple holes in you pockets believe me), but I'm not sure what medium is best, so I'll set up a poll by my sidebar so you can vote. If you do know anybody who will be taking A levels, and is planning on doing Chemistry, Biology and Maths (+ taking statistics), you can tell them to contact me! But anyway, something really exciting ( I feel) is that I have a ten day countdown to my 20th birthday ( YES, 20!!! ) so I want write one blogpost everyday up till the 28th of May. You can expect a post every 9.30 pm, or maybe slightly earlier, but Ill try make that 9.30 deadline for all you readers!

I'm honestly filled with so much emotion right now. KY is a place where I did a lotttt of growing up, and a lot of learning. My first two sems I discovered the most supportive network of friends ever, and my second two, I learned to grow and be completely true to my self. Also, I loveeee my apartment mates. We have this ongoing joke that our lives together can be turned into a sitcom, and its not even half false. As far as roommates go, I don't think I could've gotten luckier. I'll write about my crazy little apartment 5 in an exclusive post later! The thing is, I've gotten attached to my room a lot, as in, my personal room not the apartment we share. I don't have a room thats exclusively mine at home ( and I don't mind it one bit) but I really did turn my room into my space, had a whole wall full of pictures, I was in complete control over how I wanted it to be like. But now that I'm leaving, I just had to take down all my photos and pack up my candle corner, and damn, it feels so different. Un-making the room mine was so weird, and thats when i realised that as much as Im dying to live my life out of this jungle-bound campus, I truly will miss it here.

Till tomorrow darlings.

Love,

Mirr

17.04.16 | Updates and approaching A2 !

Hiii!

How have you been? Its already mid- April, and the year has just gone by so quickly! I hope you're at peace with wherever you are in life, and that your first quarter of 2016 was good :)

I've been okayyy (in case you were wondering hahahahah). Just finished trials and stuff, which means A2 is literally around the corner *gasp* How well I do will determine where I go to do my degree, where I live for the next few years, my career path, my lifestyle, my whatever else I need to be worrying about as a 20 year old so yeah....

no pressure right?

Except pressure, lol. But oh wells, part and parcel of life and all that.

My days have been pretty, routine like. I go to classes on weekdays. Teachers have pretty much stopped teaching new things, and we just go to class, do our own work and then ciao, which is pretty pointless to me ? I'd be doing the same amount of work if I was at home or in my room but now with the added time and energy of walking alll the way to the academic block, sheeeessssshhhh. I like being in KY a lot, but their compulsory attendance system gets me frustrated so much, and I don't have the guts to skip either! Its so ughhhh *insert Mira stomping ground in frustration emoji* 

Okay rant aside, my days have been pretty mundane; I go to class, I revise, I watch parks & rec. I go home every weekend now because I do just as much studying if I were to stay in college + I get to spend time with family and friends so thats nice. Also, recently my grandfather passed away, and my Wan needs extra love now. I've come to terms with his passing, I miss him a lot because he was such an active grandfather figure but it got really bad for him in the end, so I'm sort of relieved the suffering ended. I want to write about him, and my other late atuk that passed last year. Writing helps me, sometimes I just have a lot to say but I can't say it, and I don't know. I grew up with all 4 grandparents and now I only have grandmothers left so its been a new (albeit necessary) experience for me.
While we're at it, Al- Fatihah  to both my atuks, I hope they both are in better places now.

So what else can I tell you? I try to go to Hot yoga once a week. It makes me sweat like a dumpling but it makes me feel so good! I'll write a post about it soon.

But not too soon. Basically just wanted to tell anyone who checks in on this page that I'll be taking a little hiatus from blogging until my exams are over. I know, I've not been so ever present anyway, but I just wanted to tell you people. If you want to find me you can look up my instagram (@ilmiramurni)  and thats pretty much the only thing I'll be updating until end of May.

Before I sign off, I just wanna extend my sincerest apologies for anything that I've done that may have caused you distress/anger/frustration. I hope you find it in your hearts to forgive me for my shortcomings (and irregular posting despite always saying I wanna blog more hehe). If there are anyyy unresolved issues, I hope we can talk it out ? My email is ilmiramurni@yahoo.com if there really is anything. And thank you, for taking you time to read my random ramblings. And if you have space and time in your doa's and prayers for me, I'd be forever grateful!!!!

I wish you luck in whatever you are going to pursue in this next month or so, and anyone taking A2, lets not do so good do the graph will go down bit ????? please????? hahahaha jokes, good luck to A2 people especially! Just a little bit more guys.

See you around End of May, till then, tata!

Love,
Mirr

March Favourites

Hey guys!

I know its been agesss since I've last posted here, and I'm so sorry! With A2 and trials and just life happening, I could never find the time. But that aside, I've put together  list of things for this months favourites, though, I've been loving some things on here since January. First-3-months-of-the-year favourites maybe ? In any case, its my first favourites post so let's just cut to the chase. I have quite a few items so bear with me.

 1.  Herbalism, LUSH

Now, I kind of have bad skin. Not the worst, but I do always have the odd bump and a few pimples on my skin and I have a lot of problems with scarring. Never really have had clear clear skin (and starting to accept that maybe I never will?) I used to have major major oily skin problems, but its went down a little now, so just your average amount of oil. But anyway, I heard Lush was good so I went on into the store while I was in New Zealand and told the sales assistant all this, and she recommended Herbalism to me. I didn't watch any reviews prior to coming into Lush so I really just bought whatever it is she told me lol, but I was very very pleased with my purchase. Herbalism is a facial cleanser. I've used it all up so I can't show you, but its a green paste, and smells kind of like bread and herbs. Its not a foaming cleanser like I'm normally used to, and you're supposed to pinch a little off, work it into a paste with water and then pretty much just massage it in like a normal cleanser. 

When I started using this, I noticed I broke out much less often, and a lot of my usual redness was gone. Its quite gritty in texture, so I guess it must have had a sort of exfoliating effect, cause my skin looked less dull and more glow-y too. And I got so many compliments! 2 people purchased Herbalism online after I told them I was using it. My skin just got so so much better. It did everything the sales person told me it would, prevent breakouts, clear up redness, help with oil and grease, and it didn't sting to use like harsh cleansers or make my skin feel super dry after washing. I'm definitely repurchasing this. The only thing is, since all Lush products are made fresh, it is best used immediately. If you're not used to Lush, then you have to take note of the expiry date on the side on the pot, and stick to it. Two days before the expiry date my product started smelling bad, and I was breaking out a little around that time but I don't know if thats was because I was at the break out part of my menstrual cycle, or because of the product. I threw it out, but there was only a day's use left anyway. I daresay this is the best facial cleanser I've used, so if you have mildly oily problematic skin, I'd highly recommend this product to you. My 100g pot lasted me over 2 months, and if you are interested, you can visit lushxmalaysia on instagram (they're a reseller!)

2. Olay Regenerist revitalising hydration cream with SPF 15

 Next on my list is a moisturiser. Growing up, I never moisturised. I had oily skin and I was one of those ' Why would I add more oil on my oil?!?!?!' kind of people. But eventually I got out of those dark days (lol) and learned that oily skin is a negative feedback reaction cause your skin is not hydrated enough and all that. It made sense, but I never ever found a moisturiser that worked for me. Everything felt really greasy and to me, it made my acne scarring more prominent. I discovered Olay's Regenerist line because I'm in a boarding college, and I hate transporting my own stuff back and forth so I steal my moms skin care products all the time. She was using the whole Regenerist line, because it actually is an anti-aging line (lol, I'm 20 trying to anti age myself to 4) but it really worked for me! Like the whole line works for me, but I finally grew up and bought my very own pot of cream, and it was this day one with SPF. I love moisturisers with SPF, so I love this. The formula is non-greasy, even though it is your usual creamy- cream as you can see from the picture above. It didn't clog my pores and felt very lightweight, and did its job at keeping my skin hydrated. My cheeks even felt supple! Also, it smells reeallllyyyy good, and I've noticed helps with my makeup application. Just makes it smoother, ya know.

You can get the whole Regenerist line from pretty much any pharmacy. It's reasonably priced, if I'm not mistaken, its around RM 50 and I've had mine for over a month and there's still plenty left, like more than half kind of plenty, so its good value for money too. Apparently all the women on my moms side grew up using Oil of Olay, and they all have really smooth, fair skin (don't know where I got my breakout genes from tbh..) so I believe in Olay as a brand. Try out their stuff guys!

3. The Body Shop : Olive Beautifying Oil

This next item I got from my close friend AJ ( visit her blog here guys!) Soon after I started believing in moisturising, I tried my hand in using oils before bedtime. I tried Josie Maran's pure Argan Oil, and although argan oil does a lot for AJ, it didn't really do much for me. But anyway, AJ had a bottle of this olive oil she purchased which she found out she was allergic to, and handed it to me. I use it as my night moisturiser, and again, this one smells good, like delicious. For an oil, its very lightweight. I can go out and get food and not look like an oil slick, because it absorbs very well. When I wake up, I've noticed, my skin looks the absolute best, and I don't know if its the oil working (I don't use any night serums or anything) or just the way my skin works, but this oil does great stuff. Sometimes when my hair is dry I'll run this through my hair too. It claims to  ' Moisturise, smooth and illuminate'  which might be stretching it a little, but I'd second it. It makes me glow, which is a good thing in my books.

4. Safi Shayla; Smooth & Manageable Shampoo

 I don't have a picture of this one sorry, but its because its another one of my stealing-from-my-mother finds. Guyssss, omg this product, spend all your money on it seriously!!!!! Its SOOO good. It markets itself as 'Syampu wanita bertudung' but damn it works. It smells good, and the smell transfers to your hair. I can whip my hair a little a my boyfriend smiles extra big and he doesn't know it, but ITS THE SHAMPOO. One day, I used it before attending a birthday lunch, and I didn't blow-dry my hair or anything because who has the time for that but 3 people asked if I went to the saloon before hand. My mom gets the pink bottle for shampoo, which is the smooth and manageable one, and the purple one for conditioner. It hydrates, it tames flyaway hairs, it is the best shampoo ever lah. I love this, I will bring a suitcase of this to the UK when and if (insyaAllah) I go because I don't want to live without it. So impressed with Safi for this product, and its super cheap? So go go, go get yourself a bottle, your hair will thank you.

4. Coconut Lime Candle, Typo

I picked up my dad's love for scents early on, so I have a candle corner in my room hehe. But my most recent find is this candle from Typo (of all places!!!). I found it tucked away and discounted to 20 ringgit, so I kind of bought it because it was so cheap for a candle. But I fell in love with the smell! I didn't use to be a big coconut kind of girl but this candle changed that for me. Now I have coconut toppings on everything, I have coconut oil in my hair as we speak, and my favourite candle is this coconut lime one. I normally settle for Lavender and more, spicy herby almost christmas-y scents, so coconut is way out there for me. Im really sad because I have a feeling this isn't in permanent production for Typo, I mean, they aren't known for their candles, but I hope I find another one tucked away when I finish this one. I have to admit, the scent got much weaker the more I used it, but still enough to smell, you know? Will look for more coconut candles, hate the ones from Bath & Body works, so if you know any, please let me know!

5. Baby Powder reed diffuser

My house is littered with reed diffusers. My dad always gets them. He had a dinner recently, and gave away these diffusers as gift bags, and they were from some unknown brand (apparently he got them from some home tech store in mitsui?) but I love it! I used to scoff at reed diffusers, but I have one on all the time in my room now. And this one smells of BABY POWDER. Oh my, baby powder! So fresh so clean so adorable. I find scents like these really work in rooms where I have to be more productive, and its got me sprinkling Baby Johnsons on my pillow to intensify the smell when I sleep you know. I loveeee babies, and now my whole room smells of baby powder (and uh, coconut) and I am a happy happy happy girl.

6. Chia seeds

The last one on my list is a food one. I've gotten into adding chia seeds into my drinks, my oatmeal, my anything I can really. They're pockets of omega-3, and you can leave them into water to soak. They're one of those super foods that are supposed to reduce the likeliness of heart related diseases and a bunch of other things. They give off a slightttttly nutty taste, but its hardly noticeable. But anyway, they look like biji selasih once they've soaked up water, but I googled, their two different things. They have a lot of protein, veryyy good for hydration, so if you're like me and have trouble drinking your 8 cups a day, these would help! I like them because well, they sort of make me less hungry, if Im hungry but its not lunch or dinner yet I add this to some water and my hunger goes away a little. I've also noticed my scarring is reducing, and I did read that it helps with your skin, so I guess it could be an effect. It also gives a nice crunch you know. I got my jar from MBG, and I take about 1-3 tablespoons worth when I feel like it. Got pretty much my whole family on it now, so heres to healthy living!

So thats all for this post. I'm in the middle of my trials exams, and have approximately a month left of A levels! Time is moving so so so fast. I really do hope to write more, but I can promise you, once I got my exams out of the way, I should have so much more time to write. Also, I'll be going to the UK to do my degree soon InsyaAllah and my oh my does time fly. AND IM TURNING 20 SOON TOO?!?! okay like a month and more away but its huge. My life is taking me by storm guys, and I hope to share it all occasionally with all of you. Thanks for tuning in.

Love,

Mirr

My feels : 230216

Lonely is a pit I get too comfortable in,

Laze does not feel as good as it used to,

Good feels like having a break you earned,

Realization is like getting all the wind knocked out of your lungs,

Its like getting a chance to breathe all over again.

Forgiveness sometimes feels like I am betraying myself,

Dread is hoping forgiveness felt like being set free,

Truth means I am not as forgiving as I aspire to be,

Hunger is, well its normal, it shouldn't be ignored,

And a full tummy begs for a nap,

Stroking a cat feels like stroking nice hair feels like stroking a fluffy carpet feels like redemption,

Love is different, 

Sweet nothings are nothing and love knows that now,

 Love is sunday morning lay ins and slow dancing in plain clothes,

Love has never felt more real.

Get to know me tag!

Hello lovelies!

I’m staying back in KY this weekend, but my body and mind doesn’t seem to want to get down to work just yet ( you know sometimes, you just can’t get yourself to cooperate). I thought I’d be fun to do the ‘Get to know me tag’ to give myself a little break.

So here we go,

    1.  Are you named after anyone?

Yes I am actually, sort of, kind of? My dad wanted to name me something along the lines of Mira, but it was a really popular name around my age and he didn’t want to name me ‘Amirah’ cause he figured there would be many people with that sort of name. He was also really into Munirah and Maisarah (can you imagine me as a Munirah? Or a Maisarah? I cant!) Long story short, a week before I was born they crowned Miss Russia, Ilmira Bagautdinova as best dressed in Miss Universe. Ilmira is quite a popular name in Russia, Ive come to learned after -admittedly- Googling myself (everyone does it right ?!?!?! #keepitreal #noshame) I like to think I’m meant to be a model or something. Murni is just wordplay on Munirah. Quite pleased with the name my parents gave me

    2.     When was the last time you cried?

Last night actually. I was missing all my friends in the UK, and I’m quite the secret crybaby

   3.     Do you have kids?

        Nopesss.

    4.     If you were another person, would you be friends with yourself?

        I wanna say yes, but then again who would say no. Yeah, I’d like to be friends with Mirr.

    5.     Do you use sarcasm a lot?

       No, but I wouldn’t say I never use it either.

    6.     Will you ever bungee jump?

       Done it! I was at Sunway Lagoon with my family, cousins and everything, and I snuck off to do it without telling anyone hahahaha. Came back with a cert and they thought I was a little cray.

    7.     What’s your favourite cereal?

       UUUUU, I have two! I like that Nestle Golden Honey flakes, its like cornflakes but covered in some sweet golden honey thing. Lovely with fresh milk. And I love Fitness K’s Banana Nut Crunch, great with Vanilla Almond milk!

   8.     What’s the first thing you notice about people?

        Hm, tricky one. I guess like, either their smile, their voice or what their wearing.

   9.     What’s your eye color?

Really dark brown. I’d say black but scientist says eyes are never really just black so…..

   10.  Scary movie or happy endings?

      I love both! I guess, happy endings make it to my top movie lists, but I’d choose to watch a scary movie over a not scary movie if I wanna let off steam. I love jumpscares!

    11.  Favorite smells?

      I really like the smell of coconut. I have this candle that’s the scent of coconut and lime and its my favorite!!! It’s a really cheap one I found hidden in Typo though, RM 20 and I’m so sad that it was the only one L I also really like the way my boyfriend smells hahaha, and my friends Mire and Datin (Ersya Farzana) have distinct smells that I’ve grown to associate with love and comfort. Oh and peach! I loooovee the smell of peaches

     12.  Summer or winter?

       Hands down summer. I love sitting in the sun (even in Malaysia, yes) and hate getting cold.

    13.  Computer or television ?

Computer. Theres TV on computers now….

    14.  What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from home?

      I’ve been to boarding schools? I think by travel time TKC in Seremban is further than  KY in Lembah Beringin. I lived a year in the UK, but I had a house and everything there so is it even counted?

   15.  Do you have any special talents?

I have a few weird things, that Im a littttle too embarrassed to admit over the Internet huhu. I guess I can talk relatively well in public, and I’m not afraid of picking up insects and stuff. My friends in KY and my family make me remove cockroaches/frogs/the like all the time and I just do it with my hands. With plastic if it might be dangerous.

    16.  Where were you born?

       Malaysia truly Asiaaaa

    17.  What are your hobbies?

I like, um, decorating and designing and stuff, but its not like you have a space to deco, a cake to ice or a dress to make all the time so its not really a hobby (a passion, maybe?) I really like to just sit down and talk, and also just laze in bed. Nothing too interesting really, except I guess, doing like extreme sports ish stuff. Oh and Candy Crush! I just got into Candy Crush and some people in KY call me candy crush girl now. Its really a compliment to me at this point.

   18.  Do you have any pets?

My parents hate the idea of fur in the house, but we have this black cat Midnight who we feed all the time and play with all the time and its always outside the house and Imran and I sneak him in sometimes. So yeah, my baby Midnight. He’s huge and smelly and I lovee him.

    19.  Favorite movie?

SOOO HARD TO PICK DON’T MAKE ME. My fav like okay, Ill choose 5 okay, Forrest Gump, A beautiful mind, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Imitation game and Id have to say Ola Bola. Ola Bola was an amazing movie, and Im so proud that Malaysia produced something like that. 

    20.  Do you have any siblings?

Yeahp, two younger ones, Ildina Murni and Imran Hakim aka IMMY / dettolsoap

    21.  What do you wanna be when you grow up?

Happy (cliché right?) But really. My ultimate goal is to have kids and with that I’d love to have a great relationship with my husband and an extended family that has dinner together once a week, and be working either in a hospital or in a zoo. If I get really lucky, I’d open a reading café that has a florist at the front, cause I love flowers and I’d like to be a florist one day too. My family would all help out, theres something for everyone to do and it’d give my parents some thing to do with their time too ya know! If they wanna. That’d be the dream.

So that’s it, 21 questions! Hope y’all enjoyed the read, and have a great, productive weekend everybody.

Love,

Mirr

Valentines Day ?

Approaching our first Valentines together, Naim asked me multiple times if I'd make a fuss about celebrating the occasion. And I told him that I wouldn't; I've never celebrated Valentines day, its a Sunday so I'm headed back to college, anddddd I wanna celebrate my relationship everyday *hehe*

So, we decided not to do anything fancy, we both had plans anyway and on Sundays I have family over.

But ya know, I painted him a little something in secret.

I asked him to drop by to say goodbye before I went back to College, and when he did, I had a sleepy Ayden (my baby cousin) who didn't want to be put down. I walked out of the house, baby in hand, beaming with pride that I made him something when I told him I wasn't going to be doing anything, ready to be like, Surpriseeeeee, #1 girlfriend, right ?

But Naim, the great guy that he is, had a bouquet of my favourite flowers for me! I ran back in and asked someone else to take over Ayden, cause lets face it, I'd drop him with all that was happening.

So much for not doing anything for Valentines huh. And the hydrangeas aren't even wilted, where did he get these from ?!?!?!

But in all seriousness, I think you shouldn't HAVE to do anything for anyone on the 14th of February. Flowers, chocolates and cards are nice, but its more important to create a relationship that you can be proud of on even the most normal, uneventful days.  

Ayden just asked who gave me the flowers. He's so intelligent, he understands and gets it guys!

Okay scratch that, he just wanted me to play with him.

Gotta go, got some serious train tracks to construct.

Happy Valentines Day everybody !

Love,

Mira