nice valentines despite being sick

I spent a lot of the day sleeping or resting and could not sustain my attention at the computer, having a headache that also made it hard to get to sleep last night. Around 3:30 mom stopped by with some cheese for a casserole I was planning, and she helped me get the ham in the oven.

For dinner, Bill and I had this ham, which was sent to us by his mother as a valentines day present, jello, which was left over from our party a week ago, and the casserole. We watched Blue crush with dinner and I gave Bill a card and he gave me some hand-picked Fannie May chocolates- mostly dark chocolates with mint filling, plus two turtles. I thought it was very nice of him to pick specific chocolates he thought I would like rather than get a preset assortment. That's the kind of special thing he does that is very thoughtful. We went to bed right after the movie, seeing as how we were both sick, but it was a nice evening.

The casserole was an experimental variation on a recipe from my grandmother.
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in case you're wondering, yes, I woke up very early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep.

that 15 minutes I spent clearing the phlegm out of my throat didn't help.