valentine's day and other thoughts...

So Valentine's Day has come and gone. Mari and I celebrated at home. I made her a candlelight dinner and we attempted to drink a bottle of wine. I say attempted because we quit drinking it after the first glass. My first wine experience was disappointing to say the least. We had a $15 bottle of Merlot and it tasted like crap. Oh well we had some back-up lingonberry sparkler in the fridge to save the day. Nothing like drinking something from the motherland (Sweden, that is). Mari was a sweetheart and she bought me a new wallet since my old one was falling apart (it was tearing at the seams from all those fat wads of cash I carry around!) Ha, that makes me laugh!
Anyway now I'm looking ahead to Mari's birthday. She turns 21 on Wednesday. I'm taking her to the Olive Garden to celebrate with our merry old gang of friends here in Lawrence. I spent the majority of this afternoon recording a song for her. It was a song I wrote for her for Valentine's Day 2003. It was probably one of the most satisfying recording experiences I've had in awhile. I'm starting to enjoy recording with just Adam. We don't always see eye-to-eye, but I feel like we come up with some really interesting ideas of things to do on songs, plus he really pushes me to sing better and get my guitar parts down. I'm putting the song at the end of a compilation CD of love songs that I made for her. I miss the old-fashioned mixtape. It was more of a labor of love. You had to craft each side and determine just how much time you had to fill before it cut off on you. Oh well...
Well, I think that about does it.