little celebrations

Lovely flowers from my office in bloom. <3

These coming weeks would be full of little celebrations for me and JB. Tonight, I insisted on a 'trial' celebration - went to my favorite Italian place for dinner where they make fresh pasta from scratch. 

First reason why the trial celebration - I needed some serious stuffing - I've been starving myself without my usual appetite over the last few weeks because of my illness. So I figured it's time for a little carbo-loading. Secondly, JB has been working double with me being sick so I thought he deserved some steak-lovin. And thirdly, hopefully, I am on my way to full recovery and I suppose that's worth celebrating. I also needed to know whether I can go out already; the night before we tried going out for dinner at the local shopping centre but as we were eating I started getting a massive headache so we had to finish up early and head back home. :(

So JB had his Porterhouse and I had my La Festiva Special - fettuccine with mussels and king praws in napoli sauce.

La Festiva Special - I order this every time. 

JB enjoying his steak & veggies

It's the valentine's weekend too. Lots of places will definitely packed, I suppose we'll just be staying at home. I need to get my strength back, and I think JB deserves a lot more lovin this valentine's anyway.

Also in a few days Ill be celebrating my 28th birthday, but I will be at work then (boo-hoo). I was, as every year, planning to take that day off only because I cant stand to be working on my birthday. But with my two week absence from work I am left without a choice.

JB and I were born exactly two weeks apart in the exact same hospital; this story we didn't find out til we were 23 years old and was about to get married and our parents met up for the pamamanhikan in 2006. So JB's birthday will be coming up shortly after mine and three days after that we'll celebrate 12 years of being a couple. Must think of a nice lil gimmick for that.

We're not planning any other grand celebrations this year, we've probably reached our quota of partying for the year when we went to the Philippines a couple of weeks ago for Christmas, New Year, numerous family reunions and of course our Philippine wedding (which reminds me I have to start the frigging wedding log).

So JB keeps on reminding me my birthday's coming up in a few days. This is gonna sound like a 90 year old, but I cannot wish for anything right now other than good health. I've never been this sick before so this is something kind of new to me. A new slr lens to go with good health would be nice too. :)