Is either the one of the best days in the world or the most dreaded day. Discuss.
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Is either the one of the best days in the world or the most dreaded day. Discuss.
Brice already started a Valentine's Day thread.
His was a Happy Valentine's day thread, though. :)
Yeah, I fail to see what is so happy about valentines.
You're either:
a) single and miserable
or
b) in a relationship which requires you to spend unnecessary money just because.
Not necessarily. DBF and I have been together 7 years, and we don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It's a "Hallmark Holiday" anyway, designed by retailers to make a buck. We're going to the bar to watch the Avs play. :lol:
Or maybe you guys are just cheap :P
During our staff meeting, they gave the history of Valentines Day.
When they were about to execute St. Valentine because he would not convert religion, he sent a message to a woman he had cured of blindness through a miracle.
He signed the card "your Valentine"
We celebrate it and I love having a day where Dora and I can sit for a minute and appreciate our love for each other. :wub:
I love St.Valentine because I love all our Catholic Saints
and, of course, I love any pretext for celebrating and giving little presents and all that stuff that is fun to do! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k2...ear_flower.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k2...ear_flower.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k2...ear_flower.gif
One could say "it could be done on any other day, why follow that commercial trend" etc, etc, but why should anyone treat it so seriously? It's a game, like many other things in life, and it's only up to ourselves to make it a game that is fun to play.
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I agree with Jean. I like Valentine's Day and have ever since I was a little kid. It was so exciting to go to school, having made out your little cards to each person in the class and walk around handing them out. It made everyone so happy.
Darrin and I didn't do anything special this year, we just went out to eat a few days ago to celebrate.
I'm not ignorant. I went to a very small private elementary school where everyone was friends with everyone else, inside and outside of school. So yes, everyone was happy on Valentine's Day, at least in my case.
We normally just have a romantic dinner at home with a bottle of wine (or 3 - motherfucker of a headache today) or go to a restaurant in one of the cafe-bar-restaurant nightlife areas in the city.
No offense to anyone who regularly buys / receives bunches of flowers on Valentines, but I tend to believe that paying double the usual price on a day where you're prompted by Advertising debases the meaning of the gesture. If you're going to buy flowers, make it a complete surprise.
I like Valentine's as it's the one day a year I can wear my red tuxedo shirt out to dinner.
:wub:
emmy understood the stupid puns on her valentines today and cackled with glee reading them to me. her laughter was precious.
that being said, my only valentine was from a complete stranger on facebook. :(
I agree with daggers here. I try to treat my love with tender kindness every single day. Not a day goes by that she doesn't hear me tell her I love her, and more than once. Every now and again I buy her gifts "just because" and celebrate with her our "dating" anniversary as well as our marriage anniversary.
I don't need Wal-Mart to tell me when to celebrate our love.
Hubby and I don't really celebrate Valentine's Day... I called him a bunch of times and always said Happy Valentine's Day which was me just being goofy.
I gave our girls some candy hearts, but that's about it.
I DO agree about flowers on V-Day, ZoNe... especially roses. Really expensive and overrated. I would much prefer getting flowers "just because" rather than on a specific day from my man.
i guess I'm alright then.
while we have a busy thread, anyone want to play hold em, i'll be in the game.
I'm there
we're playing people, but it'd be funner with more joining us!
more!
I tend to dislike Valentine's Day on the grounds that I don't think people should need a day to make some grand gesture of love when they should be doing that on a day to day basis, and on the grounds taht it is horribly commercialized, but if I am completely honest with myself, I tend to not mind that stuff as much when I have a girlfriend. I guess I am just a bitter single person, at least to some degree. I had quite a good time V-Day before last, which was the last one that I was actually dating someone(Erin, actually. haha.)