magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

since she's working tomorrow, stef gave me my valentine's day gift today. new green sheets, with irregularly shaped dots. very me. of course, as she's been telling people, they'll be hers too in a few months. but they're still really nice.

this afternoon we started getting ready in earnest for our trip to chicago. an oil change for the car. batteries for the cd player. magazines. new toothbrush. that sort of thing.

i had wanted to go out for a nice dinner, get all dressed up, but i think stef felt constricted by all the other stuff we had to worry about. we did end up having a nice dinner though, italian, next door to the oil change place, so it was convenient. we didn't get dressed up, but i'm glad that we did something more than falafel or pizza or daily bread.

stayed up watching small time crooks, which everyone who we mentioned renting the video to raved about, but we both thought was sort of blah. i enjoyed the first half (which i now remember is pretty much what the reviews said when it came out), i don't stef even liked that all that much.