Valentines Day question

[LSPoorEeyorick]

We're doing our annual weekend of non-Hallmark-related mush this weekend. On Saturday we're going to do the Micelli's/Lady & the Tramp thing. On Sunday we're venturing out to Santa Monica to see our favorite street guitarists (Seis Cuerdas) and watch the sandpipers dart back and forth along the sealine.

When we're seeking romance, we do stuff more than we buy stuff, so my Valentine advice would be to sweep her off her feet and take her to do something out of the ordinary. And tell her you love her in as many ways as you can.

[Stan4dSteph]

Another vote for pajamas.

[Alex]

Fortunately, neither Lani nor I give a hoot about Valentine's Day and both mean it. And we have an agreement that I am never expected to buy her either clothing (which odds are won't be quite right) nor jewelry (which she doesn't wear). For the most part the only ordained gift giving is for her birthday and is almost always a trip somewhere.

So I'm certainl not an expert about Valentine's Day gift purchasing, but you probably already know the answer to the teddy bear question since you know her better than we do. If you're having enough doubt to ask other people then you probably already know it isn't wouldn't be a hugely successful gift.

If your wife is a pajamas wearer, then I agree that could be a good present (but I've never worn pajamas nor been involved with a woman who wore them so again it is just abstract conjecture). I'd tend towards pawning the kids off overnight, a romantic dinner, a fancy area hotel, and making sure she walks funny the next day.

[Capt Jack]

ok...guess I'll add my dos centavos.

V-Day.
V-day was always taboo to us. Mostly due to a loooong track record of horrors and cluster-f's over time that made us both deathly afraid of it. mega-jinx I think would be a good word for it.

Pretty much any and every time we'd attempt to schedule or get/create/do ANYTHING at all for V-day, it would end up in some horrendous fight or at best, with us not speaking to each other for days.

It got to the point where neither of us would actually say the V-word out loud to each other. For the last decade (alot more actually) on that day we would awake, get dressed, wish each other a good morning and avoid each other like the plague until the horror had passed. No cards, no flowers....no acknowledgement of the day at all (not even eye contact if you could at all avoid it)....lest ye call down the wrath of the gods.

So, my general opinion...

RUN! HIDE! DUCK AND COVER! ITS COMING!!!!!!!!

(but thats just one reporters opinion)

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

It got to the point where neither of us would actually say the V-word out loud to each other. For the last decade (alot more actually) on that day we would awake, get dressed, wish each other a good morning and avoid each other like the plague until the horror had passed. No cards, no flowers....no acknowledgement of the day at all (not even eye contact if you could at all avoid it)....lest ye call down the wrath of the gods.

I find that strangely romantic.

Whenever I hear someone say V-Day I think Vagina Day. When someone says VD, I think venereal disease. I guess I'm weird.

I always really really want to go build a bear. It is so muchy fun picking out the bear and stuffing it and getting it little outfits. But then you are left with this bear. What the heck am I going to do with a bear? Nothing, that's what. And I don't want my house looking like a little old lady lives here, so I'm not about to decorate with them.

I really really really want a pajama gram. If only Michael read this forum! Actually, there are probably a thousand things more useful that I could get than a pajama gram, so I will probably never drop that particular hint.

I would like a teddy bear if it were holding a dvd collection, or a new book, or diamond earrings.

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

I find that strangely romantic.

strange being the operative word, yes?

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Whenever I hear someone say V-Day I think Vagina Day.

yeah, in case I hadnt mentioned it...none of THAT either.

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

I would like a teddy bear if it were holding a dvd collection, or a new book, or diamond earrings.

Now see, my last addition did have a similar use, and he was proudly added to the collection at the head of my bed.
He joined my retro Mickey, and my Marie Snow White. (No, I do not share my bed with anyone. Dont worry about how the man feels about this)

And the build a bear thing? totally cool. My reccomendation? Dont get a 'bear' get something you either want to have around, or that serves a use. I have a reindeer... she likes to come out at Xmas time. (serves a use.. that was silly)

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by Ponine

No, I do not share my bed with anyone.

thats just criminally unjust!

Originally Posted by Ponine

Dont worry about how the man feels about this

perhaps next time he'll dress up like a bear so he can be added to the collection.

[Not Afraid]

Vaginismus!

[innerSpaceman]

Aggrh, set the date already!!!