he's my valentine

and he does things like make beautiful greek salad, bringing it to me while I work through a pile of books and readers. This one has tomatoes, cucumber slices, olives, and a little feta on greens, with a lemon dressing. It's from Field of Greens, the second Greens restaurant cookbook. So nice and fresh, though it feels like cheating to eat this in winter, as it's definitely a summer salad.

I couldn't help but think, as I failed to even make it through half of this, that Sal probably could have managed it easily.

In thanks, I made sure that he finally got the haircut he's been asking for, even if I had to do it at midnight. It's kind of a low-key romance, but I think these are the things that matter most of all.