Happy Valentine's Day!

The Spouse showed this to me last night - it's 100% true for us!

You'd think with a name like our's (Love!!) it would be a big thing, but nah. 

He does put a lot of effort into our anniversary, which I think is a lot more important, so Valentine's Day could easily be replaced with a second Halloween!  

Speaking of - this skeleton has been up in my office since Halloween!

It gets decorated according to the holiday / season.  It's still wearing mittens & a scarf, but we took the fuzzy hat & skis off to put the hearts up.

For following up with the Skywatch post about my trip to Arkansas - it was a nice weekend. 

I got to spend some quality time at the Buckstaff Bathhouse! 

I took a pic of the price list that has a little description about each service. 

I'm kind of bummed that they got rid of the needle shower, since it always felt so good to rinse off after sitting in the steam cabinet.  I asked my attendant about it and she said that there's a bacteria that occurs naturally in the hot springs and it's built up in the pipes and is now spitting out levels that are aren't acceptable, so the National Park Service made them shut it down.  Booooo!

This Cadillac cruising down Central Ave.

My mother-in-law follows the LDS / 7th Day Adventist faith so Saturday was very low key due to it being her Sabbath.  But that's OK - it was perfectly nice to just relax in the quiet. 

I came home on Sunday evening - it was much less eventful!  

Once we got away from Little Rock, the skies cleared and it was so pretty all the way home. 

Leaving Chicago with Lake Michigan off to the upper left. 

Then of course on Tuesday (1/28) after I got home, I started to cough.  

Wednesday, I called in sick to work. 

Thursday, I went in to work at 5am to get some stuff done before coworkers came in and then went home and finished the day there.   That evening, I went to the doc with 101.6* temperature and found out I had the Flu and an ear infection! 

Friday, I had a scheduled half day (and worked from home again) because I was supposed to drive to Kalamazoo for the VFW's Mid Winter Conference.  I ended up not going since I felt so lousy and cringed at the thought of driving 2 1/2+ hours.  Plus I was still coughing and fighting an off & on fever, so it was just better to stay home. 

On the plus side - the hotel I had reservations at - refunded my non-refundable stay!  I already assumed I'd lose the $ that I'd paid, but I figured I'd at least I'd let them know I wasn't going to be checking in.  But the lady I talked to was really nice and must have pulled some strings!  I like to think it was because I was nice to her, too.  

Maddie was really starting to miss her human (the Spouse) and was a pain in the ass!

She also closely supervised me working from home. 

So glad he's home so now she doesn't bother me any more!

I'm glad I was feeling better by last weekend because Lapeer County has a fancy gala celebrating the county emergency services every year.  Last year was the first time the search & rescue team was invited.   We got dressed up, had a nice dinner, dancing and a lot of door prizes and a photo booth.  

The table setting was so pretty! 

So now I'm feeling about 95% better.   Which is good since the next couple weekends are full of plans! 

But not tonight - whew! 

The grandkids were enjoying the snow that got dumped on us Wednesday / Thursday!