"all anyone could ever want is a co-pilot,
someone to leave this town and up and start a secret.
and when you sleep at night
i'll kiss you right between your eyes."

I'm not exactly one to be obsessed with elaborate romantic gestures, but I can appreciate something nice every once in awhile. I was talking with my good, good friend Noelle tonight and somehow dug up a memory I had with my last boyfriend. It was the night before either Valentine's Day or one of our anniversaries and we planned a dinner. We went to Wal-Mart around midnight and picked out a delicious Asian stir-fry out of the frozen dinner section. Then next day after school he came over and we cooked the 'meal' together. As he put the finishing touches on our gourmet treat I went downstairs (which was being remodeled at the time, so it was a construction zone complete with sawdust, 2x4s, and power tools strewn about the floor) and set up a card table with wine glasses filled with milk and juicy juice and I plugged in a stereo and tuned in a country music station. I'm also pretty sure I adorned the table with some type of tacky heart decorations. He brought our dinner down and we sat there listening to the music and raving over what we had just created together. It was one of my favorite dates we shared, to most others it would have been just plain tacky, but we loved it.

I also love heart-felt presents, who doesn't right? Another one of my past boyfriends (actually, my only other past boyfriend) and I seemed to share some of the best gifts. On Valentine's Day, I teamed up with the two boys I baby-sat and made an entire box of various sized heart shaped brownies wrapped in a gift box with red and pink tissue paper. My boyfriend also happened to bake for me, I got a box of delicious cookies that I'm pretty sure I ate on the way to the restaurant :) And on Christmas I got him the Billy Joel boxed set he had been wanting and my mom bought him a Rocky action figure. He bought me my favorite movie's two soundtracks (Elizabethtown, I highly reccommend listening to them.)

I really didn't mean for this to ramble on as long as it did, but I guess I'm realizing more and more how precious memories like these can be. And that, no matter how things end in a relationship, there are memories that will always linger so we should never, ever regret the relationships we form with others, be it romantic or platonic.