Haley McLeod

The Starbucks that I used to stop by in the morning has closed. I was shocked. There was no notice – they just moved everything out and turned out the lights.

I drove up this morning wanted my cappucino and the sign was not lit. That bothered me a little, but I thought that maybe the clerk who opened the store this morning got busy and forget to flip the switch. So I drove up anyway and the menu board was not lit, either. That was a bad omen for getting my coffee. No one was even inside moving about.

I gave up and went to work without the good coffee and had to drink the nasty brown stuff from our break room this morning. OMG! I can’t drink this stuff – not even with added sugar and added creamer. I have to find a different Starbucks for my morning quickstart.

I do not have any tattoos but more and more of my friends are getting one – or more.

I don’t want one just to join the crowd, but wouldn’t it be romantic to find the right guy that you know you will love forever, and then go get matching tats? Something special to the two of you that would be permanent and show your devotion to the world. That would be such a personal level of commitment – I bet some people would take that more seriously than even marriage vows.

I don’t know why Valentine’s Day made me think of that. Maybe because I have never had that deep feeling yet of head over heels love. But I know it will happen some day when I find the right guy.