Valentine's Day Chemo!

I've always been firmly in the anit-Valentine's day camp... with or without a Valentine to share it with.  Back in my single days, I would "celebrate" V-day with a pot of chili and my best buds (gals and guys) and, to be honest, those years trumped many of the years that I actually had someone to spend it with (with the possible exception of the year I received a homemade "Vogi-bear"!)  It just seems like such a "Hallmark Holiday" and so I find it hard to get all gushy about Feb 14. 

Nonetheless, we got into the holiday spirit and baked up a batch of pink and red Valentine's Day cupcakes to take into chemo with us today.  I figure, if you are going to spend Valentine's Day being pumped full of chemo, you might as well get to enjoy a sweet cupcake while you are there!

Seems like the chemo-mixer was also in the V-day spirit, as my chemo came out covered with heart stickers! 

It was actually one of my best chemo visits to date -- I had a great chat with Pat (a woman I've seen probably a dozen times in the "quiet room", but haven't really had an opportunity to talk with) and it made the time fly.  I didn't even have time to break in the new Kindle that Mike gave me for Valentine's Day (despite our oath to not cave in to the hype and buy each other V-day presents, Mike apparently couldn't help himself... while it's just the base model, I've been really impressed with how light and easy it is to read -- can't believe we held off for so long!)

We traipsed to Philly for my "Young Mets Networking Group" (another month of it being just me and the facilitator, but I have high hopes for getting this group off the ground once and for all)! 

All in all, a pretty perfect Valentine's Day, if you ask me!