Jon had been threatening to drive up and bring me flowers on Valentine’s Day but didn’t know if it would be allowed and he ended up replacing the tires on my car instead.

So… yesterday I was up at my desk and someone announces over the PA system that I have someone downstairs waiting for me.Â? My thought was: “Ohmigosh… he didn’t…”Â? Well… he did.Â? Jon was downstairs at the front desk with a pot of hyacinths for me.Â? (I also just HAD to show him and the flowers off to various people.)

It was awesome that he drove up to see me (especially since the drive is 60 miles each way) but the hyacinths were just perfect on two levels.Â? One: it’s a joke related to “Keeping Up Appearances” that I’d get a “hyacinth bouqueeeeeeet”.Â? Two (which he didn’t know): one of the things that makes me miss California is the smell of the hyacinths — my mom grows them and I remember late February and early March when they’d be in bloom in her garden and just the most fragrantly beautiful air in the early morning during high school and when I was home from college for orthodontist appointments.

So… I’m keeping him for awhile longer.Â? 🙂