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Valentine's Day - I Choo Choo Choose You!
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...and there's a picture of a train!!
Ok so Valentine's Day is a pretty terrible holiday, right? Why do we need a special holiday to say "I love you" to our loved ones? Man can't you buy your girl flowers any old day?
Sure, but here's a day that's giving you an excuse to do that kind of sappy romantic stuff you normally don't think of, or put off, or forget, or whatever. And if you aren't in a relationship or whatever, why not use it as an excuse to send a card to your mom, or your friends, or whomever?
Or just don't worry about it and enjoy the chocolate sales the day afterward like VC does.
This thread is for:
This thread is not for:
If you want to remove the holiday aspect of it, this is a thread about ROMANCE and how it plays out in our relationships. I'm sorry if you don't have a relationship that involves romance right now. I hope you have one soon.
In conclusion:
Ok so Valentine's Day is a pretty terrible holiday, right? Why do we need a special holiday to say "I love you" to our loved ones? Man can't you buy your girl flowers any old day?
Sure, but here's a day that's giving you an excuse to do that kind of sappy romantic stuff you normally don't think of, or put off, or forget, or whatever. And if you aren't in a relationship or whatever, why not use it as an excuse to send a card to your mom, or your friends, or whomever?
Or just don't worry about it and enjoy the chocolate sales the day afterward like VC does.
This thread is for:
- Funny romantic stories
- Tales of elementary school when you had to bring valentines for everyone! Even the stinky kids
- Sexy times that were procured through Valentine's Day shenanigans or romantic shenanigans (if you are down with sharing sexy times without explicit details we don't need to hear THANKS)
- Ranting about how chocolate is awesome
This thread is not for:
- Boo hoo this holiday is dumb (WE KNOW IT IS ALREADY)
- Stupid, pointless, angst about your romantic life
If you want to remove the holiday aspect of it, this is a thread about ROMANCE and how it plays out in our relationships. I'm sorry if you don't have a relationship that involves romance right now. I hope you have one soon.
In conclusion:
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One of the nicest V-day things that Mr. DG ever did for me was back in college when I was teaching a college chemistry lab. My lab ran from 7-10 PM, which ruled out any V-day dinner or date; so, since Mr. DG's huge groupwork project for his chemical engineering course was due that morning, he was going to go with his classmates on a huge-ass bar crawl.
So I was pretty surprised when I got home at 10:25 and there was a little picnic set up in my living room! He had gotten a checkered cloth from somewhere, set up candles, bought me fancy wine glasses as a present, and rigged up a bottle of red wine and (store-bought; the boy cannot cook to save his life) tiramisu. (He'd left the bar-crawl way early and our good friend drove him around to run tiramisu-related errands.)
He was pretty tipsy still and fell asleep while I was chowing down on tiramisu, though. With tiramisu-goo on his face.
anyway, this Valentine's Day I have the interesting situation of having two separate special ladies. my plan is thus:
Lady A and I are going to a nice hotel this weekend. Originally I had planned to schedule it for the day before Valentine's Day, but it turned out this was more convienent.
I am taking Lady B to a pretty nice restaurant (not like, super super fancy, but nice) on v-day, and I am getting her flowers (sunflowers are her favorite) and chocolates (from Moonstruck, if you're familiar).
I've tried really hard to balance the things. On the one hand, technically I will be spending more money on Lady A -- the hotel room is like 250 dollars, it has a really nice big soaking tub, it's just generally kick ass. It's at the Hotel Vintage Plaza in Portland, if anyone is familiar.
On the other hand, I will be spending more time on the actual day itself with Lady B, and I will be getting her prezzies and things like that. I will probably pick up some roses for Lady A on the day of, also, and hang out with her for a while, but we'll see.
Anyway, Valentine's Day might go horribly wrong for me, but I'm trying my hardest to make it work.
Edit: I hope I don't sound like an asshole in this post. I don't mean to say that my time is worth x amount of money, or that someone spending more money on someone means you like them more. It's mainly that I'm trying to craft different experiences for the two people involved but not make it seem unbalanced. *shrug*
Also I would like to point out that the Cadbury chocolate eggs (the ones with the candied shell) are so goddamn good, like god DAMN.
Think I might give my weeaboo friends pictures of trucks with M&M packets stapled to them or something.
^^ by somebody else ^^
My girlfriend made me promise to get nothing big for her (check, I'm broke right now). She's totally the creative one. On one of our month anniversaries (six maybe?) she gave me a binder that she made into a book called 100 reasons I love you.
See, I can't come up with ideas like that. This year though I have to be creative. Anyone have some good suggestions for a direction or place to start? If someone knows of The Office themed stuff a la the Law and Order: SVU valentines in the OP, that would totally rock.
If nothing else, she will giggle.
I have to say, though, I get a little miffed when people are like "Oh Valentines day is such a retarded Hallmark conspiracy." What's wrong with setting aside a day to celebrate someone you love? Because God knows that you're only human, and are thus likely to take someone special for granted, just because you're together all the time. The only reason people don't say the same thing about Mother's Day is because it's not fashionable.
Oh yeah, once I got a blank hand-made journal and some glitter pens and made my boyfriend a love-coupon book. He used one of the "Take out the trash" coupons to make me take out the trash in the snow :P
That's not a bad idea!
Holy crap I did that too! Not on Valentine's Day, although kind of close to it.
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Hand made stuff is always great. If you can't find Office-themed valentines, just make some yourself!
Edit: Or maybe not heckle people, probably just get trashed.
Can I rave about the lack of it?
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yes.
But you must also post a funny valentine picture.
It's kind of simple and nerdy, but then, that's what we are so it all works out in the end.
Now that we're at different colleges I won't be able to do that, and unless something changes radically in the next few days, I won't have anybody to spend V-Day with. I don't mind though. I still enjoy the day, though I'm not sure whether it's because deep down I'm a hopeless romantic or because I just love chocolate SO MUCH. And you never know, there's always a chance someone has their eye on you (even if they don't know it yet ;-)).
Hell, if my V-Day consists of sitting down with a shitload of food and watching Casablanca, I won't consider it a total loss.
Collage?
When I was still single and horribly bitter I went out with a friend of mine for a "still single" valentine's day brunch. Although the next month I started a now 3 year long relationship so huh
all the hookers are booked for V day too
I've heard that the real chefs out there and what not all use beets, but you'd never know it by the recipes available, which tend to just pour on the food coloring in massive quantities. :P
Who would have figured out these
I don't feel like talking about it because it shows that I did something very dumb one day and reacted in a stupid way to a question
The annual San Francisco pillow fight! Over 1,000 people showed up to last year's.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Look you have to make reservations early ok?
Just like at a fine dining establishment
Valentine's Day is not a day set aside to celebrate someone you love. That's a misconception. It's a day set aside for emotionally scarred single people to find another broken single person to have angry, drunken, mediocre sex with; and then the next day, after crawling out of bed and calling in sick with a severe hangover, you drag yourself to the supermarket to buy out their stock of 75% off chocolate candies and gorge yourself sick. Because sex, like chocolate, is still good even when it's slightly bitter.
That is the true meaning of Valentine's Day.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It was AWESOME!
Candy isn't 75% off at Safeway every day.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Awwww!
* Boo hoo this holiday is dumb (WE KNOW IT IS ALREADY)
* Stupid, pointless, angst about your romantic life
Well that's rude. I did come up with an awesome gift idea though.