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Title: valentine's day
Post by: anne on February 15, 2007, 01:34:01 am
So does anyone around here do much for Hallmark and See's favorite holiday? My B/F and I lament that commercialism has seized this one so thoroughly.......be he still got new PJ's and I got chocolate covered strawberries. We keep it very mellow. Dinner of leftover sushi and shrimp with a bottle of wine in front of reruns of Southpark. So romantic.
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: Chad on February 15, 2007, 02:05:16 am
I didn't have a Valentine this year. :'(

My best friend's dad from grade school owns 4 Hallmarks in my area. He does very well. He used to always say how much he loved Valentine's Day. So I'm guessing that was his most profitable holiday.
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: Tman122 on February 15, 2007, 04:11:17 am
Whats a Valentine?
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: Chad on February 15, 2007, 06:14:33 am
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Whats a Valentine?
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r165/tileman_photos/Valentine-Brothers-4.jpg)
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: wmccall on February 15, 2007, 07:33:07 am
Normally I hate this holiday, but its our first as empty nesters so we went to an ultra fancy steak house, then home to the spa and primetime TV.
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: Brewman on February 15, 2007, 07:34:57 am
I didn't even see my wife yesterday.  I leave for work before she gets up, and when I got home, she was still at work.  She worked late, so I went to bed before she got home.  A couple people where she worked called in sick, so they asked her to stay.
 The annoying thing is that they weren't really sick.  They wanted the evening off, and were denied.  Hope they get their cabooses reamed when they show up this morning.  And they better stay out of Mrs. B's way........ >:(
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: tony on February 15, 2007, 07:37:35 am
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So does anyone around here do much for Hallmark and See's favorite holiday? My B/F and I lament that commercialism has seized this one so thoroughly.......be he still got new PJ's and I got chocolate covered strawberries. We keep it very mellow. Dinner of leftover sushi and shrimp with a bottle of wine in front of reruns of Southpark. So romantic.

I completely agree...not only Valentine's Day, but also other holidays.  Some are worse than others, but V Day is right at the top.

My boys (twin 17 year olds) had their girl friends over to watch a movie and have take out.  Still did the card and gift for my wife.  It was low key and a nice night with the wind blowing and the temps dropping.
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: glfahlc on February 15, 2007, 09:35:21 am
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Normally I hate this holiday, but its our first as empty nesters so we went to an ultra fancy steak house, then home to the spa and primetime TV.
we're new empty nesters too. just enjoyed the serenity and each others company... got her a cuople CDs and just layed in each others arms and watched tv...
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: drewstar on February 15, 2007, 09:39:31 am
My wife and I hardly acknowledge Valentines day. Like most guys, even though you found the love of your life, V-Day is a comercial, high presure pain in the butt.  My wife get's annoyed at the price gouging.  ($80 for a doz roses? $35 for chocolate? $6 for a card?  and resturants? Forget it. they are a zoo.)

We celebrated one V-day when we first met, and since then she has been very outpsoken about not doing anything special.  I protested (I think it was "oblilgitory that I did at least protest even if I to thought  it was a sham..."But honey! I WANT to show how much I love  you.....).  Nope. She hates it.

Yesterday was actually a nice day. We each took a snow day, slept in. had coffee and bagels in the late morning.  relaxed all day and then took care of the shoveling while she cooked a nice dinner.

 We lit a fire in the upstairs living room, and pulled the two new chairs we just bought up close to fire place, listened to some music and had a bottle of wine.  I just picked up Harry Conik Jr's ne CD  NOLA and really enjoyed it. Nice background music. We just talked and watched the fire.  We had forgotten it was valentines day, when I reminded her.  "Happy Valentine's day" I said.

"oh yea. I forgot."  she smiled.  

Then I wandered out to the tub for a long overdue  soak in the snowy night and ease my back from the shoveling.

 :)

Life is good.
Very good.  8-)
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: East_TX_Spa on February 15, 2007, 10:22:11 am
I guess I'm the Valentine Pooper....I gave Ol' Meanness this box of candy I used as a prop at the recent home show.  It was about 2/3rds full.  I gave my daughter the bear, then I took them out for the buffet at Pizza Hut.  I did give Ol' Meanness a $100 bill so she could buy me a present.  She didn't.

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b206/EastTexasSpa/valentinepooh.jpg)

Terminator
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: wmccall on February 15, 2007, 12:20:28 pm
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We lit a fire in the upstairs living room,
8-)


Please tell me you have a fireplace there!  

Sorry, Chas and Spatech have been ripping apart my posts, so I seized this chance to fire back.
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: drewstar on February 15, 2007, 12:45:30 pm
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Please tell me you have a fireplace there!  

Sorry, Chas and Spatech have been ripping apart my posts, so I seized this chance to fire back.


No, by fire I mean.., sweet sweet monkey love.

Ok. I have a fireplace ;)
 
 :D

Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: Brookenstein on February 15, 2007, 03:06:11 pm
Nothing.  Aboslutely nothing.  I didn't even get special occasion sex.  It's New Years Eve all over again.  
 :'(

Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: thearm on February 15, 2007, 03:23:15 pm
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Nothing.  Aboslutely nothing.  I didn't even get special occasion sex.  It's New Years Eve all over again.  
 :'(


Thats a shame Brook. At the very least he should perform his Manly duties. I think he is giving all men a bad name by that performance. I bought the lovely Mrs. a dollar store card with a little bear in a basket for 2.00. Stayed home with a great steak and salad and enjoyed the pellet stove before shoveling for the 3rd time. Came in for some hot lovin and unlike you wasn't disappointed! ;) ;)

PS: Are you married? They say married couples get more lovin than singles. :o :o
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: anne on February 16, 2007, 03:57:57 am
I was pretty lucky as a kid and teen that Valentine's day was a different thing to me. My wonderful grandfather would buy all of the ladies in his life a box See's chocolates. Even as a little kid I got a small decorative heart shaped box and he'd ask very sincerely "Will you be my Valentine?"  So as a teen, pretty much always single, I never cared about the conventional VTD  and all of the silliness around me since to me it was my Grandpa's day. Even when I was away for college, he'd send something, which that first year in the dorms, was a godsend for a slightly homesick 18 year old. He's been gone almost 10 years, but he's my only real Valentine.  
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: drewstar on February 16, 2007, 09:23:21 am
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Thats a shame Brook. At the very least he should perform his Manly duties. I think he is giving all men a bad name by that performance. I bought the lovely Mrs. a dollar store card with a little bear in a basket for 2.00. Stayed home with a great steak and salad and enjoyed the pellet stove before shoveling for the 3rd time. Came in for some hot lovin and unlike you wasn't disappointed! ;) ;)

PS: Are you married? They say married couples get more lovin than singles. :o :o

No!!! He's making me look good! Not giving all men a bad name.  It's all relative.
 
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: Brookenstein on February 16, 2007, 10:32:29 am
For the record, my DH has never been big on getting stuff for hallmark holidays and I am okay with that.  I typically buy my own birthday and christmas presents then wrap them from him.  This year he shocked the crap out of me by buying me new pots and pans for Christmas.  I had already bought myself a board game, lol.  Valentines and anniversaries we don't usually do anything for besides me cooking a favorite dinner and adding dessert.  I do normally by myself some chocolate for VTD.  This year I waited till the day after so I could get it 50% off.

I was just dissapointed I didn't get any loving.   :(  Granted he does have a broken collar bone and is in a bit of pain, but come on suck it upand put out already.
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: cooltoy2000 on February 16, 2007, 11:03:44 am
I played hockey.


I tell my wife that I love her every single day, so I do not need a special day for that.
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: East_TX_Spa on February 16, 2007, 11:31:16 am
My grandpa would put his cigars out on my arm and make me wring chickens' necks for sport.  He said Valentine's Day was for sissies and massacres.  Thanksgiving was of the devil.

Term
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: anne on February 16, 2007, 03:43:55 pm
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My grandpa would put his cigars out on my arm and make me wring chickens' necks for sport.  He said Valentine's Day was for sissies and massacres.  Thanksgiving was of the devil.

Term
That ok Term, I already knew that my Papa was way cooler than yours. ;)
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: East_TX_Spa on February 16, 2007, 04:18:25 pm
I wish your Peepaw would have been mine, too.  Then we'd be family and I could come and visit and stay.

Terminator (longing for a family to love)
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: Chas on February 17, 2007, 01:39:12 pm
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Please tell me you have a fireplace there!  

Sorry, Chas and Spatech have been ripping apart my posts, so I seized this chance to fire back.

Actually, that was a fine post Bill. The humor was subtle, almost understated, yet funny. "Fire back" was very close to a pun, but I will assume it was a simple error and not meant as an attempt at piling on humor upon humor.

Your grammar was surprisingly good, your form was clean and appealing. I would say word choice was spot-on, and the meaning came through clearly. I don't usually support the use of exclamation points, as I feel such punctuation marks are a sign of a weak verbal communication, which needs amplification. However, in this case it was bearable, if not completely needed.

Now, let's discuss your use of sentence fragments. I know how hard it is in this day and age to find time to put together a complete thought, let alone write out a complete sentence. But please, for the sake of the language; let's try, shall we? I know you had quoted the original post, so the rest of your sentence can safely be assumed. But what, dear moderator, are we teaching our young posters by this reckless dismissal of the very rules upon which our modern language has its foundation?

Other than that, it was a fine effort. I give you a B+



 8-)
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: galen on February 17, 2007, 07:11:02 pm
And all this time, I thought you had some sort of skin disease Term. VTD is actually my true birthday. Really! Count 9 months...November 15. I ask my mother about this development that I figured out some time ago. She just said: Hehehe. Thanks Russell Stover, I'm forever indebted :)
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: Chad on February 17, 2007, 07:48:16 pm
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And all this time, I thought you had some sort of skin disease Term. VTD is actually my true birthday. Really! Count 9 months...November 15. I ask my mother about this development that I figured out some time ago. She just said: Hehehe. Thanks Russell Stover, I'm forever indebted :)

I wonder if I was conceived on VTD as well. My B-day is Nov. 20th. I'll have to ask my dad. I doubt he remembers but it couldn't hurt to ask.

Galen, you know what they say about Scorpios?
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: galen on February 17, 2007, 08:23:01 pm
Yes, I do. ;) Brook wouldn't have any trouble getting layed if she had a scorpio in the house.
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: MostlyLurkingGal on February 17, 2007, 08:39:45 pm
Scorpion? What about Scorpions? Do I just need to go buy a Scorpion??
Oh wait....that was Scorpio......... :-[
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: Chad on February 17, 2007, 08:41:44 pm
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Yes, I do. ;) Brook wouldn't have any trouble getting layed if she had a scorpio in the house.

 ;D
Exactly! :)
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: Brookenstein on February 17, 2007, 10:48:02 pm
LMAO!!!!  You guys are too funny.

In defense of my man... since getting the hot tub he had done quite well keeping up with me until his motorcycle accident.  He will have A LOT of making up to do when he is better and off all the darn drugs.  

I wish I woulda known about the Scorpio thing 12 years ago....  ;)
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: East_TX_Spa on February 20, 2007, 09:37:04 am
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And all this time, I thought you had some sort of skin disease Term.

Just for posterity's sake, I should state for the record that my Grandpa was the best example of a man anyone could ever hope to emulate.  He taught me and my friends how to drive in his old pickup, he came to every one of my ballgames, track meets, and school plays, and every time I got a new girlfriend, I would take her to his house where he and Grandma would cook us a steak dinner, twice baked potato, and blueberry delight while entertaining the young lady with tales full of wit and good humor.  My dates usually ended up liking my grandparents better than me.  I don't blame them.

He and my father are the only two people I ever knew that didn't lie, without exception.

Term
Title: Re: valentine's day
Post by: Bonibelle on February 20, 2007, 05:02:05 pm
I know...Valentine's Day is long over..but I have to tell you all about the Valentine Robes that my hubby got at Walmart for almost nothing..He bought plush RED hooded robes that were left over from Valentine's for $3.00 each. They are great for the tub and if we have guests, we have plenty ...I have to admit when he tried one one last night...he looked pretty funny!  I think I will sew red horns on the hood, that might make it more Masculine ..  looking!  ;D He'll look like he stepped out of a Viagra commercial! ;D ;D Hey I couldn't buy the material to make the robes for $3.00 :o