Curvy Jones on: Sky’s the Limit When You’re Your Own Valentine

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I’ve never done this before, but I was inspired by a bout of Cabin Fever as a result of ‘OMFG, It’s Snowing in Atlanta And We Don’t Own Any Plows…2010′ .

The weird thing is that on a normal sunny warm Saturday, in which I have the freedom to go anywhere I please, I’m probably not going anywhere. I like being at home. I get my groceries, got my laptop, my Kindle, my writing, my TV and TIVO remote– I’m good. I spend all week getting up and going somewhere. On the weekends, the last thing I want to do is get up and go somewhere some more. But the second you tell me I can’t go anywhere, I suddenly have places to be and things to do.  The Dept of Transportation advised people to stay off the roads due to lots of black ice and snow… so naturally I had to go to CVS.

I do not own an ice scraper. I refuse to buy one. I use the defrost on my car every morning until it’s warm enough to drive. Sometimes I use my AMC discount card, but I am stubborn and don’t want to buy an ice scraper. This situation was ungood yesterday:

So, using my regular old household broom, I dug my car out from a crusted cap of about 4 inches of snow on Saturday morning, and then started it up so it could get warm and traipsed on down to CVS.  I swear, CVS is my favorite store, ever. They almost know me by name there. Whenever I just need two things, I go to CVS.  You know how Target is the $100 store? CVS is the $50 store. I always buy way too many things.

Anyhoo, I walked in and they had a lovely display of fresh flowers for sale. Some lovely Asian lillies, some roses, some mixtures. They were beautiful. Made me wish I was getting some. And then I thought, ‘well I could buy them for myself. That wouldn’t be loser-ish. Would it?’ The more I circled the table and looked at the pretty flowers and smelled them the more I liked the idea of getting some. And then I looked at the price tag. Yeah, I didn’t really want to buy flowers for myself at that price.

What I do love, and what I rarely buy for myself for some reason, are the scented soaps and lotions– you know, the ones you usually get from Bath and Body Works that give people headaches. I recently got a set from B&BW called Moonlit Path because someone gave me a gift card. I wore it last fall when my friends “The Twins” came to Atlanta. One of them kept asking me what I was wearing and said she wanted to jump my bones. I take that as a compliment of the highest order.

I decided to look around and see if I found something I liked and if I did, I’d buy a set and call it my Valentine’s Day present. Giddy– because I really do love smell goods– I walked up and down the aisles looking and sniffing and testing and trying. Putting some in my cart, then changing my mind and putting some back. Spraying some body mist into the air and sniffing it, trying another and yet another. I think I spent about an hour just in the shower gels and fragrant scents aisle.  This is my brand of fun.

I only went to CVS for some toilet paper and maybe a diet pepsi. I spent $60. *SIGH* God, I love that store.

Normally when I buy myself things, I can’t wait to get home and tear it apart and use it. I don’t buy things to stock them up– I buy according to need, so if I bought it, I probably needed it yesterday. But this was special, for a specific day, so I would have something to open, so I got home and put away my booty and didn’t let myself look at it until this morning. I woke up all excited and walked into my dining room to see this:

I wish there was really Lush in that bag, but that place gives me a headache. It was still exciting to see the bag on my countertop.

Inside was some yummy stuff– smell goods and taste goods:

I got myself a set of body wash, lotion, body mist and body butter. The scent is Apple Pomegranate– normally I don’t like to smell like food, but this scent is decadent, and really light. It was love at first sniff. I smelled everything to see if anything else smelled a good as that did. It did not, so I got it. I also got some lip butter but I opened it yesterday….oops… And my favorite cookie in the whole world are Lorna Doone shortbreads. And I also got some gummy hearts. YUM! *clap*

It will be an enjoyable day. The sun is shining, I think it’s above freezing,  and Lionel Richie is on Private Sessions on A&E. *flips my bic…. or turns on my Blackberry and swaaaaaaayyyyss*

My birthday is coming up soon… I can’t wait to see what I get me!

Happy Love Day to everyone!

Curvy Jones is a northerner playing a southerner who is living, working, playing in metro Atlanta.

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