Let's Talk About Love

Even though Bubby and Bean is a lifestyle blog that focuses on things like design and fashion, you may have noticed that I talk about love a lot.  A couple of weeks ago, I did a round-up of my favorite heart goodies and shared my thoughts on Valentine's day, where I explained that I love the holiday because any day about celebrating love is fine by me. Yesterday I posted free printable note cards that say "Hi, I love you." Last week, when I posted about loss, I told you guys how I tell those I care about that I love them every single time we speak.  And I'm all excited about tomorrow's post, where I'll be sharing the favorite love-themed quotes and sayings of this month's sponsor team. Yes, I know that everyone is talking about love right now because Valentine's Day is this week and love is in the air and all that stuff.  But I talk about love a lot, year round.  Love is my favorite you guys.  I am admittedly a ridiculous romantic who "feels feelings" and talks about feelings and gets inspired by feelings.  And love is the best feeling to feel, at least in my opinion.  I love my friends, my family, and my husband like crazy. 

I had a different post planned for today, but it was pretty involved.  Robbie had another quick two-day break from winter tour to stop at home, and since we can't be together on Valentine's Day, we had decided to celebrate it yesterday evening/night.  My work day started out crazy, and as the day progressed and things were taking longer than I'd anticipated, I started to feel stressed about our plans.  You see, despite my artistic side that is all emo and full of feelings and wears its heart on its sleeve, I'm also a Type A personality who gets trapped in the cycle of workaholism and has trouble walking away from it.  So I told him that maybe we should postpone until next week when he gets to come home for (gasp!) almost two full weeks before leaving again.  He is so (SO) much more easy going than I am, and definitely not as over-the-top romantic/mushy, and he told me that whatever I needed to do was fine. But as I finished other daily work and started on the blog post I'd originally intended for today, I felt distracted by how lucky I was that I had my husband home for the day, and how much I loved him, and how silly it would be for me to cancel our plans so that I could stay up until midnight trying to scratch more and more off of my "to do" list.  So I put the scheduled post on hold.  And I decided to pour some thoughts onto paper (aka my blog editor), and tell you guys why I love love.  And why love is so important.  That would be my post, and my motivation behind it would be that it would (hopefully) inspire me to step away from work and spend the evening with my love.  And it worked.  Maybe it will inspire some of you too.


So anyway.  I promise this will be the cheesiest post you guys will ever read here on Bubby and Bean.  Okay, so I don't promise.  But still.  I know it's a ramble of sentiment and I'm pretty sure I'd hit delete if I went back right now and read it through.  I've noticed that some of my favorite posts on other blogs are those random ones where the blogger just hits pause on the daily routine, and basically writes a letter to her/his readers sharing feelings with hopes of possibly even inspiring those who read it.  Consider this one of those.  It's a note I passed you in class, that I wrote after too much coffee, in a stream of consciousness, talking about love.  You can write me back if you want in the comments, or you can just fold the note up, put it in your pocket, and we'll talk another time.  Either way, thanks for reading.  And three cheers to love!