Happy V-Day to Me!

I arrived home from work last night to find little red foil hearts scattered all over the floor by my front door. No, don't get too excited, it wasn't Mr M being overly romantic (perish the thought!) - a parcel had arrived and the packaging had been ripped slightly, letting all these little hearts escape.

I was intrigued as to what might be in the big parcels - there were two of them and then I remembered that Warner Bros were sending me a Valentines Day film package! I hurriedly tore into the first package, a big red box, and found this

A box of goodies including a bag, chocolate, a hand mirror and of course, a veritable feast of movies including Casablanca, The Bodyguard, Valentines Day, Midnight in Paris (have wanted to see this for a while), The Lake House, Going The Distance and-the-one-that-made-me-squeal extremely loudly, Crazy Stupid Love.

I LOVE Crazy Stupid Love, and not just for this

Okay, that may have been one of the first things that attracted me to the film, but aside from Ryan Gosling's six-pack, I just loved this film. So much I saw it at the cinema twice, once with my friend and once with my husband (who also enjoyed it I might add!).   

I laughed, I cried and I thumped my friend in the leg such was the delight.  I never thought of myself as someone with a shoe fetish, but I won't pretend I didn't completely swoon at the sight of Ryan Goslings leather-clad feet in slow motion, and that suit. 

(Okay, yes so perhaps this blogpost is being written purely to upload gratuitous shots of Ryan Gosling).

I loved the storyline of Crazy, Stupid, Love which was both funny and heart-warming at the same time. There are some great actors and actresses in it - the beautiful Emma Stone, the funny Steve Carell, the absolutely stunning Julianne Moore not to mention Kevin Bacon, Josh Groban, Marisa Tomei and rising starts like Analeigh Tiptop and Jonah Bobo. 

If you like a good rom-com then you'll love this and I'm so excited to own a copy. I'm desperate to see it again, so tonight's activities will be eating chocolate and watching Crazy, Stupid, Love.

After all that swooning, I opened the other package to find that the children had not been left out.

Sweets, Scooby Doo DVDs, magazine and toy plus, something Mr M was very enamoured with, an amazing box set of 10 Looney Toons DVDs! My son is a big fan of Looney Toons so he's going to pop when he sees this. It's got all the favourites - Tweety, Roadrunner, Tom & Jerry, Porky Pig, to name but a few and I know he'll get hours of entertainment out of these, just as I did as a child. The old ones are the best!

After all this excitement, Mr M and I went out to dinner. This wasn't a specific V-Day dinner  (we don't normally make a big fuss, as it's never that romantic sitting in a restaurant feeling forced to look lovingly into each others eyes) but last night the children were having a sleepover at my parents due to that old work/childcare/half-term conundrum so we thought we should make the most of not needing a babysitter and go out. This was before I realised it was Valentines Day. Luckily, it dawned on me in the nick of time and I was able to book somewhere! 

Hope you had a lovely Valentines Day whatever you did and BIG BIG thanks to Warner Bros for sending me these goodies! You made my day.