According to the pedia thing, it's probably celebrated on the wrong St Valentine's day anyway.
It's tough to do something nice without setting the bar so high she expects every night to be Boone's Farm and Tremors sequels.
Ooh, this reminds me that I have to renew the holiday truce -- Buck and I usually check in before Valentines Day and confirm that we're both good with pretending it doesn't exist.
It's tough to do something nice without setting the bar so high she expects every night to be Boone's Farm and Tremors sequels.
Go for Thunderbird and Critters sequels?
4: This brought to mind a great aunt and uncle of mine who were notoriously close with their money and would give each other $100 every Christmas. My grandfather would chide them, "Why be cheap? Make it a thousand."
4: My wife and I came to a heretofore binding permanent truce re: Valentine's some years back. However, this year she is far away on an extended bit of yeoman's duty, so I've been toying with the thought of an unannounced unilateral breach. Dangerous territory, but if it includes some good chocolates it might pass muster.
7: I had some really delicious Lindt sea salt dark chocolate the other day. Um, if you're looking for suggestions.
Yeah, it just seems like a no-win proposition to me. I have some friends where the fella would continually try to top himself every Valentine's Day -- sneaking into her office the night before to decorate it with pink hearts, doing the same to their entire house, etc. I think he finally had to throw in the towel, since unless he was prepared to secretly fly her to Abu Dhabi or something, there just wasn't that much more to do.
Charbonnel et Walker is the only way to go on the candy front.
Yeah, it just seems like a no-win proposition to me.
Let's start a nuclear war to check.
Chocolate choices constrained by time and distance, and therefore remote availability; but fortunately her personal chocolate jones is of such a magnitude that she tends not to be that choosy (and given that she is married to me, pretty much by definition her tastes are not as refined as many of you folk).
I have some friends where the fella would continually try to top himself every Valentine's Day
That seems a bit extreme. What's wrong with the canonical response - cry, cry, etc?
I keep asking for Hershey's kisses. I really love them beyond all reason.
By "keep asking" I mean for our anniversary, my birthday, etc. Doesn't stick.
I like the Reese's Hearts. They have a better chocolate/PB ratio than either the real Reese's cups or the small ones or the egg things from Easter.
7: This is only dangerous territory, imho/e, if you then pout that she didn't get you anything.
I keep asking for Hershey's kisses. I really love them beyond all reason.
I'm not worrying about Valentine's Day too much - we'll probably go to a nice-but-not-all-that-out-of-the-way restaurant, and get each other flowers or something, and that will probably be it - partly because I'm not the type to do that but mostly because we're taking a trip to France in a week. If that won't be romantic enough for her, nothing would be. To make things a bit more complicated, we argue a bit about chocolate and similar junk food (not serious arguing, mostly just teasing), and me giving her chocolate would fuel that.
and me giving her chocolate would fuel that.
Too bad they don't sell Swedish Fish in heart shaped boxes.
Holy fucking industrial Valentine's day complex, batman! Most of the nice flower thingies are freaking expensive. And this one would piss the hell out of her: The charming bouquet includes red spray roses, red carnations and gypsophila accented with assorted greenery. Delivered in lidded ceramic dish in the shape of a Hershey's Hugs candy. But no actual chocolate (and you're left with a tacky tchotchke to boot). I'm tempted.
gypsophila
Deprecated. The preferred term is "appreciation of Roma culture and art".
If you work in the mobile phone industry, your partner eventually gets used to our equivalent of CES, NANOG, MacWorld or whatever happening on the 14th every year.
eventually...
I used to think my wife and I had an LB style Valentine's truce, but I discovered recently that it's only me that observes it.
If you work in the mobile phone industry, don't you get an upgraded partner every two years?
25: I hesitate to ask what sort of observance you'd been failing to notice.
If you work in the mobile phone industry, you might be a heterotextual.
re: 27
Oh she'd just like some sort of small floral acknowledgment of the day. For 'flowers are nice, and this is an excuse to bully my fat husband into getting me some' reasons, rather than any commitment to the romance of the day. Fancy gifts though wouldn't be appreciated.
Empirical observation suggests that's helpful, as is wearing a poorly fitting grey suit, and being called Brian. And being British, Swedish, German, or Indian.
Unless you're an Android developer in which case you're considered "wacky". Or you work in "advertising and content", in which case you dress up spiffy to disguise the fact nobody wants what you do in a fit.
What a week this is going to be.
Oh, that's not quite so bad. I was picturing something along the lines of your coming home and wondering "Huh, what on earth are those candles doing on the table? And how come she's all dolled up, on a Tuesday? Eh, she's probably just in a mood," and ignoring it.
re: 31
Valentine's week is also Birthday Week, in my family. Me, my mum, my sister, and my Dad, all within two or three days either side of Valentine's Day, so the present buying wallet is bare.
32: Hey, me too. Thundersnow made me supremely happy by saying something like, "If it's okay by you, we can forgo Valentine's Day; let's just focus on celebrating your birthday instead."
Yes. Let's do that. Focus on meeeeeeee.
Yes. Let's do that. Focus on meeeeeeee.
Heh. My wife bought me a new camera, which I got early, so I've already dubbed this best birthday, ever.
34: Some of those shots you've posted to Flickr are incredible, I'd been meaning to tell you.
Stanley has attractive photo bias.
38: Good one. I'm green with energy.
I don't mean to make you guys all jealous, but I'll be spending Valentine's Day evening in three hours of Surveying class. You wish you were me.
on an extended bit of yeoman's duty
Playing a sport?
ttaM's photos with the new Olympus are making me consider a new camera. Where I could buy his great eye, I'm not sure.
I sent my Valentine* a copy of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. I decided it was somehow appropriate.
*For very loose definitions of "my" and "Valentine," that is.
41: That's still discretionary, isn't it?
The name The Bloody Chamber made me think of that Real World episode where Puck's ex- sent him a pig heart. Oh, that crazy Puck. Always getting into shenanigans.
Let's start a nuclear war to check.
... at the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
That's still discretionary, isn't it?
I think so. I believe the team names are still gendered.
My wife and I have not only a Valentines truce, but share an active loathing of Valentines day. I would be in deep shit if I were to do anything intentionally romantical on Feb. 14.
Buying post-Valentines day candy on the cheap, however, is just fine.
7: I've now procrastinated long enough that no Valentine's Day flowers or candy for you, honey. And a bunch of other people heard it first.
45: Not Puck, but his much cuter doppelganger from the London season. I'm ashamed to know this.
50: Oh, really? Thanks for the correction, Flo. All my RW cred, flushed away.
