<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 energised (the authors are Brits) gold glitter on your front doorstep and wonder what you're 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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