Pre-Valentine's Day musings
OK, so I know it's tomorrow...but was in the mood to share some of my more notable V-Day memories. So funny how this one day can stir up so much shit.
2nd grade: For the first time ever a little boy has a crush on me. He gives me a heart filled with chocolates in front of the whole class. The one in the center is wrapped in gold foil and has coconut in the middle. He cries when he finds out that I'm allergic to nuts. I give him a kiss on the cheek and eat all of the other candies. It is the nicest Valentine's Day I will ever have, and I still remember that boy and how cute he was.
12th grade: My best friend gets dumped by her first love on Valentine's Day. I find her outside of her locker, her goth eyeliner running in rivers down her cheeks, her Robert Smith hair even more askew than normal. He is the last man she will ever date. My boyfriend at the time buys flowers for another girl. For years I have suspected that this day is evil, but now I know for sure.
1997: I am sitting on a plane en route to Florida to visit my grandmother. Next to me is a tarty chick who won't stop babbling about the married boyfriend she is going to see. She calls his wife (the mother of his kids) a "cow" about 6 times in one sentence. The flight is turbulent. She flips her hair upside down and sprays the entire row with perfume. Just before we land, I vomit all over her.
2002: DH and my first Valentine's Day as a married couple. I call him before I leave work to tell him that I bought him something really small, and a card. Right after I get home, he pulls into the driveway, runs into the house and shoves a box of Almond Roca in my face (see above where I mention the deadly allergy to nuts). I look up and see two very stoned, bloodshot eyes glaring defiantly into mine.
Needless to say V-Day is pretty low-key around here. I make a nice dinner for my kids and a nice dessert for DH and me. But these are some of my more notable memories...
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nate is always working, so we usually celebrate early or late by going out to dinner. i usually spend vday night with my best friend (she is unattached) and the kiddos and make a candlelit dinner for us. but, tomorrow, nate is taking me out for breakfast!!
best valentine's day - pregnant with #1, separated from nate, living in papua new guinea with my dad, and i spent the day passing out american valentine's (the paper kind complete with cheesy cartoon characters) and m and m's to the locals while trying to explain what the heck i was doing.
worst valentine's day - probably not an entire day, so i'll say worst valentine's day moments - when nate remembers to give me cards that he hasn't even signed. he does this often.
you vomited on her. 
i;m not really a fan of valentine's day. not sure why. i'll get back to this...
An ex boyfriend of mine used a coupon for our dinner date one V-Day. We were going to this great Indian place that I loved but when we got there, he whipped out this coupon and began to tell me what I had to order to make the coupon valid. He bought me lots of other expensive presents so I'm not sure why he bothered with the coupon at dinner. To recoup his losses, perhaps? It was, thankfully, the LAST V-day I spent with him. Every V-day since then has been with DH, who is pretty good about it. Best V-Day? DH set up a little treasure hunt throughout the house for me with little rhymes written on kid's valentine's cards telling me where to look next. Very fun. Oh yeah, and second grade where I got an anonymous card that said 'i love you' with no signature. Never found out who sent it but I probably still have it tucked away somewhere.
I have never had a good valentines day. ever.
I hate it.
I think it's a load of shit and ignore it completely. Although, I do like the cute little cards that I used to get in school. My birthday's the day after so I usually celebrate that.
I think the coupon dinner's hot. So is vomiting on obnoxious people.
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The only way I've been able to salvage the holiday is by using it as an excuse to lavish attention on the non-romantic loves in my life (like my kids and close pals). Your New Guinea story is excellent!
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