Someone on Team MJ (actually, more than one person) is reading Fifty Shades of Grey.
Book description: When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind – until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.
They say home is where the heart is. The longer my husband and I have been married, the more we find this to be true… especially on Valentine’s Day. When most couples are out on the town, braving the gridlock to go to a special dinner or concert, we’ve found ourselves heading the opposite direction. That means staying in when everyone else is heading out.
We all crave something special, and Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to share that something special with each other. Dinners and concerts are supposed to be special, and they can be. Lately, however, part of me doesn’t feel very special when I see legions of other people doing the exact same thing.
So here’s a proposal: why not stay in and show your home some love? The romance of a “Valentine’s night in” lies in privacy, in intimacy, in something unique that nobody else can share. Our homes are unique, and so are the lives we share within their four walls. Besides, I find there’s absolutely nothing romantic about traffic, so why deal with it at all when you can simply retreat into your own little world?
Valentine’s Day is that one special day we all want to spend with the people we love the most. Of course we want them to feel loved the whole year round, but during Valentine’s, we want to put in more effort because we have an excuse to be mushy!
Good news: It’s just a week away.
Bad news: You haven’t made any plans yet.
Don’t panic — we’ve got you covered. Here are some events, activities and ideas you can use to make this season memorable for you and your loved ones.
Rather than rushing to make reservations, suffering though traffic, and squeezing into packed restaurants, many are planning to celebrate Valentine’s Day by cooking for their significant other. Here are some tips on cooking and still feeling the love.
Tip # 1: Short Stories, Not Novels
You’ll want to spend as much time with your significant other as possible, so it’s best to keep the course count low. An entrée and a dessert, or maybe a three course meal would be more than enough to show that you have worked hard for your Valentine’s Day date. As much as degustation meals are trendy, it’s a mood killer to leave the table to prepare the next course 14 times!
Author Mina V. Esguerra is giving a talk called “Publishing in Pajamas: How I successfully released my books to the world” on 21 January 2012. She will talk about how she self-published her first e-book “Fairy Tale Fail” on Amazon, which sold over 5,000 copies in a year alone and was reviewed by readers in the U.S., Australia, Japan and the Philippines. Mina will also discuss what she learned about e-books, self-publishing, and finding readers at home and abroad.
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, and Richard Linklater are plotting a third movie in their Before Sunrise, Before Sunset series, and in the process put us in a bit of a nostalgic mood. Was it really 16 years ago when we first saw Jesse and Celine together?
Sung Min Woo (Choi Siwon from k-pop group Super Junior) has it all — his career as an actor and sex symbol is at its peak, the money is good, and the first girl he’s ever fallen for has literally just appeared at his doorstep hoping to finally start a relationship. All these distracts from the fact that he’s rather self-centered — plus he can’t actually act. One day, a five-year-old girl is dropped off at his home with nothing but a note saying that she’s his love child from an old flame.
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