Meaningless holiday
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
Especially to you Hallmark.
I don’t really put much stock in the whole Valentine’s Day commercial hullabaloo. I buy little gifts for my wife fairly frequently. We know we love each other (usually). We eat out fairly often. We get chocolate on a regular basis. I just don’t see the point in a specific day having to be a day to show that you can be romantic by spending a fortune on flowers that will die in a week or candies that your significant other will just regret eating later on.
I think it’s fine to use it as an excuse for doing something particularly nice if you want to, but I don’t see why that can’t happen any day of the year. Or, now brace yourselves for this one, multiple days during the year. There’s no need to wait till winter (or summer for you Aussies and Kiwis) to get your groove on and stoke the mojo with some nice gift or dinner.
I’ve heard the argument that Valentine’s Day is more important to a girl than her birthday because during her birthday she has family and friends to celebrate with. On V-Day, she has only her husband/boyfriend/fiancee/sex_buddy/girlfriend/life_partner/wife to share it with. Well that may be true but only if you make it true. And only if you force February 14th into a holiday with meaning when it’s not needed.
Of course, that’s just my opinion. What’s yours? Shout it out in the comments.
it is a hallmark holiday. that is all.
i never regret eating chocolates.
I love to get flowers. I get them a lot. I got flowers today (well, yesterday, but I was OOO yesterday). I prefer NOT to go out to dinner on Valentine’s Day, simply because it’s so crowded, restaurants often have special or limited menus, service sucks and the food seems to lack the quality it has on non V-day nights.
All that said, I always find it funny that Valentine’s Day always brings out the Anti-Valentine’s Day justification posts. This is not a criticism, just an observation.
I agree. But don’t tell my wife. She’s all about the stupid holiday.
“husband/boyfriend/fiancee/sex_buddy/girlfriend/life_partner/wife” How about all of the above? Wooo wee, talk about a party!
Yeah. Hallmark holiday. You did say the key words… that you and your wife show your love frequently through out the year. That’s what’s important.
He show me love alright. But in the strangest ways.
I love cut flowers, especially living in HK where there are the most GORGEOUS cut flowers and they are cheap…BUT I want to be the one that picks an arrangement.
I love chocolate, but GOOD chocolate that isn’t available everyday and a small quantity of good quality chocolate is preferred. That way I get all the rush of eating the chocolate and my pants still fit the next day, week, etc.
I hate crowded restaurants on VDay, I would rather eat in. This year I made the surf and turf special. Steak, scallops, baked potato for Cybr, sweet potato for me, and baked asparagus…mmmm…delicious.
We each got the other the same thing this year. Card? Check. M&M’s? Check. The only difference was his were with almonds and mine were wild cherry flavor.
I prefer a low key, no frills VDay personally. But I do expect Cybr to do silly, nice things for me like scoop the poop on a weekend morning when I am in the shower. Or bring home a Hello Kitty with a guitar trinket that he saw at a 7-Eleven. We are a really sappy couple, can’t you tell? Classy, too. Don’t forget it. Nothing says love like scooping poop.
I took a long bath, and then made myself a huge bowl of pesto linguine. It was a perfect V-Day for me.
What the heck are Wild Cherry MmMs????
I agree about the poop; my husband cleans the litter box, even though they are my cats…
Wild Cherry M&M’s taste exactly like a chocolate covered cherry, but without the nasty goo in the center.
They are pretty good, but mint are still my fave.