<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/monipal/5415815310/sizes/m/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4034" title="5415815310_44fbcf75de" src="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/5415815310_44fbcf75de1-300x214.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="214" /></a>Day 141 was Valentine's Day.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2011/02/14/day-137-be-mine/" target="_blank"><strong>As I mentioned on Day 137, I decided to focus on love this year rather than the lack thereof.</strong></a></p>

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<p>And what better way to manifest love than to whip up a little bit of hocus pocus?</p>

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<p>A couple of Christmases ago, my mother stuffed my stocking with <em><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Turn-Your-Ex-Boyfriend-into-Toad/dp/0732257093" target="_blank">How to Turn Your Ex-Boyfriend into a Toad &amp; Other Spells</a></strong></em>.  She's always been an eclectic gift-giver.</p>

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<p>I'm not the type of woman who is going to perform voodoo hexes on her exes because that is just baaaaaaad karma, peeps.</p>

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<p>Luckily, this book also contains good spells such as The Simply Irresistible Spell, The Kiss Me Quick Spell, and The Perfect Soulmate Spell.</p>

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<p>I opted for The Perfect Soulmate because tell me what woman isn't thinking about HIM on Valentine's Day???</p>

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<p>I asked Kim C. if she wanted to join me.</p>

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<p>My friends, God bless  them, find me entertaining and enjoy the comic relief that I bring to their lives. Therefore, they simply nod and say "yes" when I proposition them with whacky ideas.</p>

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<p>The spell turned out to be more detailed than I anticipated.  There were specific and explicit instructions.</p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Specific and explicit instruction #1:</span></strong> Perform this Spell on a clear night of the New Moon.</p>

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<p>Okaaaayyyyy.</p>

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<p>It's a waxing full moon.  It's also Valentine's Day, and I'm not waiting.  Rules are made to be broken. Next!</p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Specific and explicit instruction #2:</span></strong><strong> </strong>Begin by taking a bath or a shower.  Dress in white clothes.</p>

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<p>Wow.  This is a lot of work!  But I guess love is a lot of work as well.  It's worth it.  Next!</p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Specific and explicit instruction #3:</span></strong><strong> </strong>Take gold glitter and a wooden stick outside under the stars.</p>

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<p>When you are a former educator of young children, you just so happen to have gold glitter (and every other color of glitter) and wooden sticks hanging around in a closet upstairs.  What luck!</p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Specific and explicit instruction #4:</span></strong><strong> </strong>Look up into the night sky.  Find a star that appeals to you.  Dip your stick into the gold glitter.  Make a sexual innuendo and make your friend laugh.</p>

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<p>Okay, okay.  So I added that last part.  I couldn't help myself.  This was kind of silly, after all.</p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Specific and explicit instruction #5:</span></strong><strong> </strong>Attempt to chant the magic spell.  When you are both laughing so hard that you snort, try to calm your mind and start over.</p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Specific and explicit instruction #6:</span></strong><strong> </strong>Sprinkle some of the magically energized gold glitter on your front doorstep and wonder what your cleaning lady is going to think when she shows up on Thursday.</p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Optional instructions #1:</span></strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"> </span>Stage a goofy photo shoot for your blog.  Laugh like deranged women once again.</p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Optional instruction #2:</span></strong> Between this evening's silliness and laughter, and this morning's Tattoo Valentine Exchange, you realize that this is the most fun you've had on Valentine's Day in over a decade.  How cool is THAT!  Maybe there's something to this 365 Days of Living Curiously stuff!  :-D</p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Optional instruction #3:</span></strong> Always, always, always...BELIEVE.   <a href="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/P2140189.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4035" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" src="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/P2140189-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>

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