I was busy today doing things around the house, and wanted to spend Valentines Day evening with my girlfriend, so I have but a short, simple post for you on this Sunday.

Today, I…

Played Stardew Valley with breakfast

• Just a small bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats and a glass of water. Today was my first time playing Stardew Valley since the new 1.5 update hit consoles this week. Willy’s new boat looks cool, looking forward to repairing it.
• My dinosaur laid an egg, and I made it into Dinosaur Mayonnaise so I can one day turn the old supermarket into a movie theater. What a sentence.

Showered

• Today’s shower podcast was Threedom, a podcast where comedians Paul F. Tompkins, Lauren Lapkus, and Scott Aukerman talk to each other. Highly recommended.

Exchanged Valentine’s Day gifts with my girlfriend

• My Valentine’s gift to her – an original 17-piece Magic Bullet set, complete with a photo of Mick and Mimi from our favorite infomercial on the box – has not arrived yet. USPS is still having a rough go of it.
• Her Valentine’s gift to me – a framed gouache painting of a banana she made – is outstanding, and will now hang in our bathroom forever.

Ate lunch

• A leftover panini and waffle fries from our local diner. The waffle fries were way too crispy this time. Panini was good, though.

Tried a new flavor of Twix

• My sister made a bodega trip to grab water bottles for the movers she has coming, and picked up the new cookies & cream Twix she’s been getting Instagram ads for.
• It is not as good as it looks. Too sweet, and not enough flavor.

Dusted with our new vacuum

• Yesterday, I installed our new Dyson vacuum – my sister is taking the old one with her – and I love it. These folks make a good vacuum. I am obsessively vacuuming everything.

Opened and installed our new TV

• My sister is taking her old TV with her in the move, so I finally had a reason to upgrade. I very publicly hated that TV because it was tiny, shitty, and only 1366×768 in resolution.
• What the hell kind of resolution is that.
• The new TV is 40″ and 1080p, thank you very much.
• No, I did not look at 4K TVs, no one needs a 4K TV.
• This one is beautiful, and everything looks extremely good on it.

Packed my sister’s TV

• Right in the new TV box, along with the old stand, remote, and some picture frames.

Continued playing Bowser’s Fury, which is really quite good

• Super Mario 3D World, possibly the best Mario game of all time, finally came to the Switch this week, along with a new expansion titled “Bowser’s Fury.”
• It’s sort of an open-ish-world cross between 3D World and Super Mario Odyssey.
• It’s extremely good.

Ordered fancy dinner from a nice local Italian restaurant

• Gnocchi Pomodoro – with their housemade tomato sauce – for myself.
• Gnocchi Bolognese for my girlfriend.
• And 3 of their incredible Chocolate Lava Cakes.

Got the wrong thing, but ate it anyway

• Instead of Gnocchi Pomodoro, they sent me gnocchi in vodka sauce.
• I am not a huge fan of cream sauces.
• This was in addition to being delivered 25 minutes late because it’s Valentine’s Day and I’m sure they were slammed.
• All things considered, it wasn’t bad.

Ate chocolate lava cake together

• This made up for any and all wrongs.
• Just sublime.

Played Super Mario 3D World with my girlfriend

• She’s never played before.
• I played through on WiiU.
• We started a new co-op file together.
• It’s extremely fun.

Wrote this blog

• It’s nothing much, but it’s another post in the can.