Valentines Day
Ok, so what is everyone planning for their Valentine? Special getaway, that fabulous dinner?
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I don't believe in people thinking they have to say/show their love on VD.
I'll stay home and love myself (yes, I recognize the double entendre
) if I am not traveling -
home with my laptop.
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armchair_warrior wrote: home with my laptop.
That's what you think. I asked your laptop to go out with me and she accepted. -
raw wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]home with my laptop.
That's what you think. I asked your laptop to go out with me and she accepted.
you bastard. that hussy!!! -
but what are the chances it will last once she sees his hard drive?
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I hate Valentine's Day - I hate all Hallmark forced days. I hate that my single friends must endure walking by store fronts filled with Valentine's Day tchotchka. I hate what a disappointment eating out on Valentine's Day is - too rushed and too expensive and often sometimes simply a rip-off.
I think we ought to rename it Singles Awareness Day and have house parties and invite everyone over and give everybody a hug. -
Livetotravel wrote: I hate Valentine's Day - I hate all Hallmark forced days. I hate that my single friends must endure walking by store fronts filled with Valentine's Day tchotchka. I hate what a disappointment eating out on Valentine's Day is - too rushed and too expensive and often sometimes simply a rip-off.
Why am I not surprised.
I think we ought to rename it Singles Awareness Day and have house parties and invite everyone over and give everybody a hug. -
Livetotravel wrote:
I think we ought to rename it Singles Awareness Day and have house parties and invite everyone over and give everybody a hug.
I'm with you, LTT. I also remember cringing as the recipient of heart-clutching stuffed animals, so it's kinda gross whether you're dating someone or not.
(eggcream, LTT and I are both happily married, from what I gather on this board) -
eggcream wrote: [quote=Livetotravel]I hate Valentine's Day - I hate all Hallmark forced days. I hate that my single friends must endure walking by store fronts filled with Valentine's Day tchotchka. I hate what a disappointment eating out on Valentine's Day is - too rushed and too expensive and often sometimes simply a rip-off.
Why am I not surprised.
I think we ought to rename it Singles Awareness Day and have house parties and invite everyone over and give everybody a hug.
I'm sorry - have we met? -
pitu wrote: [quote=Livetotravel]
I think we ought to rename it Singles Awareness Day and have house parties and invite everyone over and give everybody a hug.
I'm with you, LTT. I also remember cringing as the recipient of heart-clutching stuffed animals, so it's kinda gross whether you're dating someone or not.
(eggcream, LTT and I are both happily married, from what I gather on this board)
pitu - how correct you are - deliriously, happily married and don't need a greeting card company to tell me what day to express my love :roll:
And, my wife agrees totally. -
pitu wrote: I also remember cringing as the recipient of heart-clutching stuffed animals
(Not new, but still delightful) -
Happy VD...
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LydiaBrunch and Livetotravel, those are hysterical!
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I like the concept of VD but the reality is either I am single during it or it creates some sort of conflict. Either one partner thinks it's stupid or something . . .
Its unintentional emotional blackmail. The worst thing is it forces you to declare one way or another "Is this serious?" . . . if you take a girl out that you have been seeing for a very short time, then you are all up in her shit . . . . if you don't then you are a heartless asshole, or you are seeing someone else! Or the girl tells you "I don't care about VD day" and you get pissed because you think it means she doesn't see you as boyfriend material . . . which in that case is prolly true. So that sucks . . .
VD has precipitated many a break-up I find. If you are at all serious about the other person, see them as having potentional, or even want to keep screwing them, better to "suck it up" and at least go through the motions than to poison the well. . . . -
nada
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I don't believe in people thinking they have to say/show their love on VD.
Nice - Well you don't call yourself flexigirl for nothing!!!! :twisted:
I'll stay home and love myself (yes, I recognize the double entendre ) if I am not traveling -
BTW - Valentine's Day (VD) and Singles Awareness Day (SAD) both have unfortunate acronyms, no?
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OK, name change needed immediately...
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Livetotravel wrote: I hate Valentine's Day - I hate all Hallmark forced days. I hate that my single friends must endure walking by store fronts filled with Valentine's Day tchotchka. I hate what a disappointment eating out on Valentine's Day is - too rushed and too expensive and often sometimes simply a rip-off.
I'm indifferent toward Valentine's Day and I'll be working, having spent it either working or with friends regardless of my relationship status.
I think we ought to rename it Singles Awareness Day and have house parties and invite everyone over and give everybody a hug.
But don't you think Singles Awareness Day makes couples feel excluded? (Not that it's such a serious thing but just throwing it out there. Couldn't it be love everyone day?) -
Subject: not a lovely day
I was working by 11:30 pm (that was bad enough) and took a cab home from midtown, and dispite of the time the traffic was aweful. I looked out, and a lot of car were not commercial, with couples--- It took me a lot more time to get back home, and that morment it was not love witch filled my heart. -
Made valentines day cards with my kids to hand out to their classmates. Didn't valentines day USED to be about expressing all kinds of love? Parental, friendship, sibling? When did LOVERS usurp it? I think it is an obnoxious holiday--always thought it was for cheating husbands to assuage their guilt with roses and chocolate (uh oh, my husband bought me chocolate?).
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Uhoh-my husband bought me chocolates too! maybe they are cheating on us with each other! :shock:
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Alternatively, maybe they intend to eat the chocolates themselves... while getting props for giving you the gift.
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How about the idea of extending love beyond the confines of a romantic relationship? I mean, I know that's not encouraged in American society, but still.
That's my inherent problem with Valentines Day.
That being said, I spent mine with a nice glass of wine, some very good chocolate, and "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". It was quite nice, really. -
LittleRedMenance, your valentine sounds certainly better than mine, and actually sounding better than anybody's, at least to me. I love that movie (and I love chocolate, AND I love wine). It'd be so much better than going to a packed restaurant for overpriced dinner with bad service.
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I made a heart-shaped meatloaf (wrapped in bacon) for my carnivorous sweetie. 'Cause we're chic like that at my house.....
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