The World According to Leslie

  Photo by Kaboompics // Karolina from Pexels For most people, today is just Valentine's Day. For me... it's the first day in a really long time I've called in sick to work. I didn't sub today. I didn't work at the daycare today. I got someone to cover the bowling alley tonight. Not only that, but today is the LAST DAY I'm 39! Tomorrow is my birthday! I don't know that I have done a lot this year (since Feb. 2017) except work, but I know that I have lots of things I want to do in the upcoming year! Tony is at work. I'm fighting a sinus infection!  (YUCK!!) I have no idea what we are doing for Valentine's Day..... probably eating at home and watching TV! I know that Tony and I have been on a great journey since we got engaged on Valentine's Day 2000. I can't believe it's been 18 years! A little over a year later, he and I got married in a Valentine's themed wedding in the middle of May! He's put up with a lot o...

Happy Valentine's Day! I can't believe that 13 years ago today Tony proposed to me.  That means that on May 19, I will be married for 12 years!  OMG! That's crazy! :)  I can't believe February is 1/2 over!  Where is 2013 going?  Wasn't it just Christmas?  WOW! I can't believe that tomorrow this time, I will be older.  Tomorrow is my birthday!  Today, I'm going to celebrate the love and relationships in my life.  Tomorrow I will celebrate life! :)  Happy Valentine's Day!

As of yesterday, I have had a cute diamond ring on my finger for 11 years! As of yesterday, Tony and I have been together for 11-and-a-half years! In 2000, on Valentine's Day, Tony and I had been dating for 6 months! (We started dating on August 14, 1999)! That day, I knew we had plans for the evening. I also had plans with my dad to go get my "new to me" car. We got there. I drove it. I started the paperwork. I realized I left the CASH at home for the down payment. We flew home--in the truck! I got the money. We went back and finished the paperwork! The coolest thing about my "new to me" car was that it had a radio! The car I traded in did not have one! So that night, we took my "new to me" car to dinner. After dinner, we were sitting in the parking lot at Ryan's (which they closed down a few years ago in that location) and we were playing with the radio settings. Then all of a sudden Tony knelt down in the floorboard of my car and pul...

So every year on Valentine's Day I get a little nostalgic. Of course, it holds special meaning to me. Why? Well....a couple reasons. 1. Nine years ago today, I bought my first car--from someone NOT in the family! This is the car that sits at my parent's house right now. It doesn't run very well. However when I got it, I was driving the tires off of it! It wasn't new, but it was good. This is also the car that I gave to my sister when she turned 16. Tony and I had a car and a truck; three cars was silly. I decided to give it to Lisa. She drove it until she was 17 or 18 and then she bought a little used car. Then my mom started driving the "little blue bouncy car". Yes, it bounces. No...the heat or air do NOT work. Yes...the windows still work. NO...the defroster doesn't work. BUT....it drives! Of course, that was until about 18 months ago. Then mom had to park it because it needed to have work done. In that time, my parents got used to ...