Valentine's Day Experiences Thread

[vampiredust]

Share your experiences about Valentine's Day '06 here and don't skimp on the details, either. The weirder, the worst, the better. I was alone on Valentine's Day and need cheering up, so make me laugh.

Take care, y'all

 

[sophia jane]

I got a Valentine from my eight year old. Nice notes from a couple of friends and one ecard from my dad.
That's about it.

 

[CharleyH]

I got a Valentine from my eight year old. Nice notes from a couple of friends and one ecard from my dad.
That's about it.

Dunno, there is really nothing I do on this day that I would not any other for my loves, but I get flowers - sigh and get asked to dinner - sigh, like V-day is more special than any other day? I prefer love every day than the one that tells you you have to?

 

[sophia jane]

Dunno, there is really nothing I do on this day that I would not any other for my loves, but I get flowers - sigh and get asked to dinner - sigh, like V-day is more special than any other day? I prefer love every day than the one that tells you you have to?

Yes, I agree. I think VDay is just harder on singles because it's a reminder that we don't have that love all the other days either.

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

I don't particularly care for Valentine's Day. It isn't something I actively celebrate. However my kids did get me a card.

 

[fieryjen]

So far, I got a Valentine's card from my boyfriend's mother (very sweet, although she must have looked for hours until she found the corniest thing in the store), and an anonymous someone put a big-heart shaped sticker on my folder.

My boyfriend is a work and he's also broke, so I don't expect much except for the single red rose he knows I love and have deemed obligatory. He doesn't get back until ten tonight, and I have class at 7:45 tomorrow morning so... we won't spend all that much time together today. We'll probably make up for it at a later date though.

 

[SeaCat]

My wife and I, who haven't had a day off in two weeks, finally had today off.

She had a friend go out and get a card so she could give it to me.

Me? passing by the Gift Shop in the hospital I saw a glass rose which I picked up for her. (I even managed to bring it home in my work bag without breaking it.) She found it on the bathroom counter, alongside a full cup of coffee when she stepped out of the shower this morning.

We had the day off so we slept in.

I made dinner tonight, her favorites. (okay so we had to save up for this and it wasn't a surprise.)

Rented Wallace and Gromit, the Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

We'll be attempting to once again break some furniture in a little bit. (Nothing new there. )

Hope all of you had a good Valentines Day.

Cat

 

[fieryjen]

My wife and I, who haven't had a day off in two weeks, finally had today off.

She had a friend go out and get a card so she could give it to me.

Me? passing by the Gift Shop in the hospital I saw a glass rose which I picked up for her. (I even managed to bring it home in my work bag without breaking it.) She found it on the bathroom counter, alongside a full cup of coffee when she stepped out of the shower this morning.

We had the day off so we slept in.

I made dinner tonight, her favorites. (okay so we had to save up for this and it wasn't a surprise.)

Rented Wallace and Gromit, the Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

We'll be attempting to once again break some furniture in a little bit. (Nothing new there. )

Hope all of you had a good Valentines Day.

Cat

It does sound very cute Have fun with the furniture breaking part!

 

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[English Lady]

I got a card,a website and a heart shaped tin filled with orgasm chocolates from my husband and a lovely card from my daughter for valentines's day.

My hubby and I had plenty of time to ourselves, but as both of us are snuffly with a cold, lots of just snuggling happened *chuckles* Well save the other up for another day

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

The day itself sucked and started out with my youngest throwing up. Had two or three arguments with my husband (what little time we did spend together... he worked most of the day). I did get some candy and a card though.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Not used to having much to do on Valentine's Day, so this was a change. Let me see. My slave got me a card (I got her one the day before, along with a book and some chocolate). Then we went out to dinner at a cantina, where we had enchiladas. We also got a nice thing of flowers as a friendly gesture to our landlady. She said that it "made her day". Damn, the thing only cost about $10.00, but it really made her happy!

The rest of the evening, I played a video game, while my slave went on-line, until we decided to take a bath together. She read a while from her new book (the one that I bought) after the bath, while I watched TV. We were planning to make love, but her hips started acting up from an old car wreck injury, so we had to take a rain check on that one. Oh, and a late meal break in the middle of the game and PC time consisted of the "to-go box" from the cantina: more enchiladas.

 

[entitled]

Nothing worth mentioning until after dance class last night. Then i went to a *cough* friend's *cough* house.

When i got there he had a fire going, candles lit, glasses out and waiting for beverages of choice, and was asleep on the couch. And chocolate. He ended up calling in today. i got home at about 11 this morning. We rather enjoyed ourselves.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

My boyfriend's working a lot and is exhausted, so I made him a nice dinner and we exchanged cards. He got me some really pretty roses. Sadly, he fell asleep on my lap before we could watch a movie together. It was nice though, snuggling on the sofa, like we used to do before we had two tv's in our house.

 

[Lovepotion69]

Nothing special on the 14th. Send an e-card to my friends. Received one back from a friend. That's about it.

Was supposed to have a lunch date today, but he cancelled last minute because work called him in. We're meeting on Friday instead. I guess that's my belated V-day date.

I did ask him at one point if I would get a rose/flower. He said "Sure, what do I get?". He wanted a kiss. Then he said he wanted 12 kisses. I'm yet to decide if he'll receive any...(although I think we're both curious what it'd be like!)

Oh, and hello to all of you who I know from before, and hello to all the new people! Haven't been around in ages!

 

[fieryjen]

I just needed to bump this thread a bit to post this - did I mention that I didn't expect my boyfriend to buy me a thing? A day late, because of technical difficulties apparently, he gives me a gift - and it's a silver/gold bracelet with Amethysts and Diamonds. Holy hell. I'm not used to gifts like that. I mean, I'm not rich. He's poor. I thought a rose and a backrub would be about it and I was content with that... but this? Damn. Just damn.





He's getting the best BJ ever tonight.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Makes me wonder what the Roman virgins would have said about their "Lupercalia"- the ones selected in the Roman virgin lottery, that is (and, yes, there was such a thing- the virgin spent a year servicing a man, good idea for a story, eh).

 

[Selena_Kitt]

He's getting the best BJ ever tonight.

Isn't is amazing how jewelry always leads to swallowing? <grin>

 

[logophile]

I didn't want to post this on Valentine's Day cause I didn't want to be a downer, but here's my blog from 2-14...



Hrrm...
Current mood: pensive

I knew I wouldn't get through the day without someone mentioning it. It turned out it was my 10 year old. After I gave them their chocolate hearts and Valentine's pencils and coloring books, while we were sitting at the breakfast table, she looked up at me. "I know it's a happy day, cause it's a holiday. But it's a sad day, too."

"Why's that, Sugar?"

"It's the two year anniversary of the day you and Dad separated."

And then, there it was. Sitting on the table, in front of us. Making it hard to swallow the cereal in my mouth. Making it hard to look at my kids, to acknowledge the pain I'd inflicted on them by moving out of his house two years ago. Yes, I was saving myself, allowing myself to be the thing that was growing inside me and was undenyable anymore. But it hurt them. It hurt him. Actually, truth be told, I hurt a lot of people in those months where I was losing my mind and finding myself.

It hurt me.

Still does sometimes.

Like when I remember the way all three kids would run for the door as soon as his headlights came up the street - it burns inside me to know that now it's different. I offered to move into a duplex with him at the time. Because of that moment. The one where the kids pounced him when he came in the door. The one where he wrapped them up in a hug and somehow magically carried all three of them to the couch for tickles and "I-love-you's." I didn't want any of us to lose that.

Quite understandably, he turned down my offer. He didn't want to have to see me everyday if I didn't want to be his wife anymore. It hurt him so bad. And me too.

It's hard for me to remind him about his child support when it's a few days late. Because I'm the one that left. If I hadn't done that, he'd still be happily living in his house with his family all around him. I took it from him. And I did it with gusto - on my way out to become something different. Something that needed to be free of that life. And so when the third or the fourth of the month rolls around and I don't have the check, I feel bad asking him to pay for a life he never wanted.

I love him, you know? He's not a bad man. He wasn't a good husband, but he's not a bad man. And he deserves happiness with someone who won't be restless like I was. Maybe I really was too young. Or he was too old. Or too set in his ways. Maybe I liked my freedom too much.

I don't ever ever ever want to go back to that life. But I do mourn the vow that I broke when I stepped away from my marriage. I wanted to be the couple that proved everyone wrong. I was so righteous about the whole thing. And to know that I broke a promise and broke several hearts along the way is so much to bear sometimes.

 

[fieryjen]

Isn't is amazing how jewelry always leads to swallowing? <grin>

And I have no problem with that whatsoever.

Reminds me of the family guy jewelry commercial that ends with the woman on her knees and the phrase "She'll pretty much have to."

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Making it hard to swallow the cereal in my mouth. Making it hard to look at my kids, to acknowledge the pain I'd inflicted on them by moving out of his house two years ago.

it fades over time, Logo... this too shall pass...
forgiveness is all we got... start with you, sweetie

 

[NoJo]

Share your experiences about Valentine's Day '06 here and don't skimp on the details, either. The weirder, the worst, the better. I was alone on Valentine's Day and need cheering up, so make me laugh.

Take care, y'all

I had fun, and it didn't cost me a cent.

 

[sophia jane]

I didn't want to post this on Valentine's Day cause I didn't want to be a downer, but here's my blog from 2-14...

Big *hugs* L. I can relate to alot of this because I know you and your story, and because of my own recent separation. I have seen my kids light up when their dad comes, I have seen them cry over little things because it's just not the same anymore.
But for me, I'm on the other side of it. It wasn't my idea to have a new life, and I'm trying to make a way for myself in a life I didn't choose. So, in many ways I understand both sides of it. And I can tell you what I've told my ex- forgive yourself.

 

[Aurora Black]

I pretty much got the standard flowers, candy and dinner, but it wasn't clichéd at all. We had a great time, and it was refreshing because it had been a while since we've had that kind of time away from the house. The only fly in the ointment was that we had a houseguest that night (and still do), so we couldn't celebrate Valentine's as well as we wanted.

X 12 to everyone.

 

[Liar]

Spent the day reading books on linguistics. Went out to do some grocery shopping in the afternoon, and saw in the frontpage of some newspaper that it was Valentine's. So I bought some fancy chocolate and a bottle of Kaluha and stirred up a Black Russian when I got back, which I handed my lady with a "Happy Valentine's"

"Is that silly thing today? Ok. Cheers, then." was the reply.

Other than that, it was a totally uneventful day.