In the spirit of “LOVE” and all, I thought I would share a moment in my life where I thought my dreams where finally going to come true and I would live out my fairy tale dream with my “prince charming”. When in reality I was thrown for a loop and I’m still on my quest to finding “the one”……
Every girl loves getting flowers at work (any girl that says she “hates it” is lying), loves it when their fella’s show them off to their buddies, and yes we all love surprises. So of course you’d think that since me and the ex were dating for quite some time (7 years when this happen) that I wouldn’t expect anything less right. Before moving in with Paco, I decided to live on my own that way I knew I could take care of myself and not have to depend on a man. (best advice every…thanks mom) I guess I have let the whole fairy tales in movies and books I read get the best of me and that’s why I get so hyped about Valentines Day expecting exactly what I’ve seen or read. At the beginning of our little conquest of love Paco was always romantic, do little things like leave a note on my car when he drove by my school, leave flowers in my car just cause he wanted to, or call me at work to tell me that he was thinking about me. So experiencing all that prior to me having a place of my own, I thought for sure he would go all out and do something special for Valentines Day. Like a man…. he literally waited till the last minute to even get me a gift, like he would hand me the gift in the shopping bag he purchased my gift at and leave the receipt in it. I don’t remember what it was but I just remember being so upset and hurt that he didn’t do anything “special”. I mean I took time and had thought about his gift since the day after Christmas, so at dinner I was a bit of a sour puss and just being snippy. Hopefully I got through to him and he would be prepared for the next year.
A year passes and now we are living together, I’m probably the worst when it comes holidays. When I want something that’s all I do is talk about until I see something else I want or until I get it. So of course why would this Valentines Day be any different right? About a week before the day of love Paco had told me that he already purchased my gift and I was shocked because I didn’t even tell him what I wanted so I kept questioning him about it. It got to the point where when he called me at work I got my co-worker Cassie to ask him what he got me and if I would like it or not. (I’m soooo bad) Paco’s way of gift giving is simply buying someone a gift that he wants to give, not what the receiving person wants. So 9 times out of 10 I always got what he wanted to give me. That year I think I wanted a Burberry scarf and aviator sunglasses. I’m such hinter when it comes to what I want, I mean I print off things, leave them in certain spots so I know you will see it hahaha and hopefully I get it or I’ll simply email you what I want. After questioning Paco a million times about what I was getting I simply stop asking him and started asking Cassie, he told her and all she said was “its small and colorful” what the heck?!?!? I didn’t want anything small and colorful, so of course my mind is spinning like propellers and I’m thinking of a million and one things it could be. I of course got sick that weekend and was literally in my death bed, I called into work that weekend and I believe that Monday and Tuesday as well. Valentines Day was that Wednesday so I didn’t want to be off and have my bosses think I was playing hooky because of the “holiday” so I forced myself to go to work…longest day of my life.
I’m on my way home which seems like a never ending drive and I pull up to the house and notice that Paco’s car is in the drive way, it struck me as odd because he kept talking about this presentation he had to do and he was so stressed out about it. I just assumed he would be working late and we have dinner late and I was treading going to a restaurant with ciaos on Valentines Day, the only thing I wanted to do was get in my pj’s and go to sleep. I try to unlock the door and he has the dead bolt locked, as I’m waiting for him to open the door I’m thinking he never locks that what is going on…..the door opens and he has this big mischievous smile and he greets me with a hug. I’m looking at him like what has gotten into you, I then ask him as I’m walking in the door “I thought you had that presentation you had to do today?” then after my question he moves to the side and I’m presented with rose pedals on the floor that lead a path to the rest room and to our bed room. I was standing there in complete shock that I start to cry because that is all I ever wanted him to do, the entire time we were dating. I was literally blown away! I stood there for what seemed like forever just taking in what I was seeing; he then leads to me the bedroom and he actually made the bed with the million pillows we had. On the bed he had made a heart out of the rose pedals and there was card in the middle of it. I open up the card and at the time, not only his own wording but the card itself was spot on in our relationship. Inside the card was my “gift” it ended up being a gift card to Sonic (my favorite fast food place) small and colorful was the best description, it has slushes on the card.
To be honest I was completely please and impressed with just the rose pedals and that card. Come to find out he ran into one of our mutual friends at Target or Wal-Mart and she was trying to save him some money and she suggested he get fake rose pedals and he said “oh heck no, Yvonne would kill me”. So the fact that he went through some thought about this, he did pretty good. After wiping the tears from my face he tells me that he really didn’t want to go to a restaurant since its was going to be crazy busy and I said “I’m a ok with that, what do you wanna eat?” and I thought my Valentines Day surprise was over, NOPE! We walk to the living and I notice that he has the table set, lit with candles, and there’s a bouquet of my favorite flowers in the center. I of course start to cry again because I’m just blown away by everything. He then informs me that he cooked dinner for us, if you know the ex…..the only time he would be in the kitchen is to get his protein shake or to set the mail on the counter. He didn’t get all fancy schmancy with dinner but he did cook spaghetti. I didn’t have an appetite due to me being ill so I felt really bad because I only took like 3 bites but I was starting to feel really sick and just wanted to get out of my work clothes. After dinner I’m resting on the couch and Paco goes to the room to change into his pj’s and I yelled out “babe, can you get me some sweats and a sweatshirt?” I heard him making some noise but he never answered me so I called out to him like 2 more times, of course he doesn’t answer so I take it upon myself to crawl to the computer to grab my sweats, as I’m crawling I look over in our bedroom and I saw Paco place something in the middle of the heart then he tried to hide so I wouldn’t see him and I crawled to bedroom and asked him “what are you doing crazy man?” he then looks at me, then looks at the bed with the cheesy smile on his face. I ask him “what is that?” he says “your gift” I say “my gift? I thought the rose pedals, dinner and the gift card were my gift” his reply “well this is something I wanted to give you”
My heart is racing at this point because the gift that was sitting on the bed was a small jewelry box. I knew it couldn’t be diamond ear rings because he had already gotten me ear rings like 3 Valentines ago, it couldn’t be a bracelet because my wrist are so tiny nothing really fits my wrist, the only thing left is a “ring”. I’m looking at the box and looking at him, still with this smile on his face and I’m thinking this is it; he’s finally going to ask me. On top of the box was a note that read: “this is the gift of all gifts” oh man, my palms were sweating, my heart pounding out of my chest, I’m thinking am I ready for this?! Then I pick up the box and I open it and inside is a picture of the Fendi sunglasses I wanted. He put a picture in there because he had to order them online. I looked at him and said “are you serious right now?” he thought I was super stoked about the sunglasses I mean yes I wanted the glasses but that was not at all what I was expecting to be in that box. He replied with “what? You don’t like them?” I say “Paco read this note and tell me what you thought I was thinking reading this” he read it like 3 times and he looks up at me and says “ooooooooooooooh!! My fault!”
Aside from that, that Valentines took the icing on the cake! I couldn’t have asked for anything better, I finally got what I wanted which was something very romantic and it completely took me by surprise! For those of you that have that special someone……good luck!! Hahaha
