{"id":151,"date":"2010-02-17T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2010-02-17T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:13:15","slug":"valentines-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Valentine’s …plant?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Neither Tom nor I are all that big on Valentine’s Day.\u00a0 We’d both rather treat each other well every day, than have to pick one day to show our love.\u00a0 However, even with all of this self awareness, it’s virtually impossible not to be at least somewhat<\/em> effected by the stupid holiday, and to be perfectly honest, I think I would be slightly disappointed if Tom forgot the holiday all together.\u00a0 So in the past, we’ve usually “celebrated” by making a nice dinner at home, or occasionally Tom caves to societal pressure and I’ll discover beautiful roses on the kitchen table on my way to work.\u00a0 This year, I told Tom that I didn’t want flowers, as they just die anyways, and that if he wanted to get me something, I’d like some sort of pretty house plant.\u00a0 Now, around here “plant” is the magic word.\u00a0 If you doubt this, head over to my dear husband’s blog<\/a>.\u00a0 The man loves plants.\u00a0 I mean really LOVES them. To the point that I get jealous of them sometimes.\u00a0 So he was slightly excited to get to pick out yet another plant for us.<\/p>\n

::aside::<\/strong> Last year around this time, we were in Maui.\u00a0 This is painful to remember, as we are not currently in Hawaii, and that is a sad thing.\u00a0 However, when we were in Hawaii, we were given a Giant Protea flower early in our jaunt around the island.\u00a0 It was huge.\u00a0 It became our mascot, went everywhere with us, and eventually came home with us, (how I was able to bring it through the department of agriculture screening is beyond me, but it was strapped to the outside<\/span><\/em> of my backpack, so I wasn’t smuggling the thing or anything).<\/p>\n

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Here's me, with the giant flower!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Fast forward to this year’s Valentine’s Day.\u00a0 Tom came home from running some errands and was SO EXCITED\u00a0 to show me something. It was this beautifully strange plant, which is apparently some type of protea so that we’ll always be reminded of the wonderful time we had in Hawaii together.\u00a0 Awww.\u00a0 The plant has weird tentacle like flowers and its leaves are waxy like a succulent.\u00a0 It’s strange, and so are we.\u00a0 It’s the perfect Valentine’s Day plant.<\/p>\n

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Neither Tom nor I are all that big on Valentine’s Day.\u00a0 We’d both rather treat each other well every day, than have to pick one…<\/p>\n

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