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Post by turnstiles on Feb 2, 2009 10:24:02 GMT -5
Anybody got any extra special plans? Plans to win anyone over, cute date ideas? I'm probably bringing a lady friend to go see the smoking popes and bob nanna at U of I on the 13th and then a nice dinner, possibly homemade on the 14th. Doesn't it just make you so positively warm inside?
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Post by theblondette on Feb 2, 2009 10:26:40 GMT -5
My other half is cooking Japanese food for me. Woot! It's better than going out to dinner since all the restaurants hike their prices for Valentine's Day. Plus he's a good cook, and I don't have to leave the house!
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Post by kim on Feb 2, 2009 10:32:49 GMT -5
I keep trying to convince someone that we should go see Fucked Up, since he really really wants to. Either way, the Sushi For Two platter at Kabuki is definitely in the plans.
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Post by Jersey on Feb 2, 2009 10:39:20 GMT -5
Hookers and blow always makes for a nice, cozy evening.
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Post by selbyandgriggs on Feb 2, 2009 10:47:32 GMT -5
Hookers and Blow are playing in Jersey on VD?
Valentine's Day was my first date with misterselby. It was also the day we got married the first time.
We are likely to stay home and make Steak Frites and drink red wine.
I also do something fun on Valentines Day -- I put the big box of candy on my nightstand and when we wake up on Valentine morning we eat chocolates.
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Post by 212margarita on Feb 2, 2009 11:08:53 GMT -5
I am taking the girlfriend out to a fancy dinner and asking her to marry me! It's kind of a big day for me.
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Post by hoodrat on Feb 2, 2009 11:11:56 GMT -5
the fella and i are going for hike and dinner. i'm assuming there will be chocolate involved somewhere. mmmmm. I am taking the girlfriend out to a fancy dinner and asking her to marry me! It's kind of a big day for me. this is best.
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Post by 212margarita on Feb 2, 2009 11:14:34 GMT -5
the fella and i are going for hike and dinner. i'm assuming there will be chocolate involved somewhere. mmmmm. I am taking the girlfriend out to a fancy dinner and asking her to marry me! It's kind of a big day for me. this is best. awww, thanks. i have a feeling she knows something is up, but either way it will be excellent we both have the following monday off so we will have a nice long engagement weekend.
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Post by heidivandernice, nice on Feb 2, 2009 11:15:02 GMT -5
oh jesus i hate this holiday.
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Post by breukelen on Feb 2, 2009 11:42:50 GMT -5
The Mister & I are not fans of Valentine's Day as a general concept. We take a sunny vacation most winters, and often end up in another country on Valentine's Day, which thrills Mr. Breukelen to no end -- as he can skip the whole flowers-to-the-office scenario. We may not care for the holiday, but I worked in an All Lady office, and he was most adamant that I not be societally shamed by lack of spouse-sent flowers on Valentine's Day. He can be adorably old-fashioned sometimes.
Of course, now I am not in that office anymore, so it's all a moot point! I shall be snorkeling in Tobago instead. Suck it, haters!
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Post by theblondette on Feb 2, 2009 11:53:09 GMT -5
Tobago?! Jealous!
I don't care that much about Valentine's Day, and I would hate to get a teddy bear or red underwear or any of that crap. But I don't think there's anything wrong with having a day about celebrating love. Though if that's the only time you do it, something's wrong. Last year K bought me BPAL perfume & stuff from Lush, and I got him 300 and Casino Royale on dvd! Very romantic.
I received my first Valentine's card in 1998. It was from a boy called Alex. He was a year and a half older than me, and a foot taller, and was something of a dashing Eastern European. Major kudos points for teen-blondette. He sent me one of those fancy handmade cards you can buy, rather than a flimsy card. That gave him more points. It flopped through the letterbox, and my parents both called my name up the stairs and smiled at me knowingly. I snatched it and fled upstairs with my heart pounding.
And here is something I wrote last year about the holiday.
I am sure Valentine (or Valentinus) is pretty perplexed about why he has become associated with a day of romance, when he was either a priest of Rome, a bishop of Terni, or a martyr in Tunisia. Moreover, "That the creation of the feast for such dimly conceived figures may have been an attempt to supersede the pagan holiday of Lupercalia that was still being celebrated in fifth-century Rome, on February 15 is apparently a figment of the English eighteenth-century antiquarian Alban Butler, embellished by Francis Douce, as Jack Oruch conclusively demonstrated in 1981." It seems instead that medieval people had a hand in creating the feast, as the first mention of it is in Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Foules. The first giving of a Valentine that I know of is Margery Brews' addressing of John Paston as her "well beloved Valentine" in the late fifteenth century.
The actual St Valentine probably died in the later half of the third century, and very little is known about him. Jacobus of Voraigne, who wrote the Golden Legend, which was extremely popular in the middle ages, expanded on the story a little, having Valentine refusing to deny Christ in front of the emperor Claudius Gothicus (no doubt a made up detail to add verisilimitude), and curing his jailer's daughter's sight before he was executed. This gives us no sense of who Valentine was.
So, in some ways, St Valentine is as "fake" as his festival. There's something quite artificial about a day set up to send love to your partner, just as Valentine's mythology sounds awkwardly put together. In the end, probably all we can say is: he was a man who died for his faith. It is bald, and stripped of glamour. Just one of the thousands, many unnamed, who died for their love of God, because to them that love was more precious than life.
Perhaps he is not such a bad patron of the day, after all.
However, if you're still feeling bitter, I suggest you declare this day not V-Day, but U-Day! Do whatever you want. Celebrate yourselves! And don't forget to tell other people you love them. The modern world has made romantic love the apex of all love relationships, but it's not true, of course. A lot of us know that there are other types of love that outlast that. So go on, share the love around!
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Post by victorias on Feb 2, 2009 12:10:36 GMT -5
oh jesus i hate this holiday. You and me both. I don't celebrate it. When I was coupled up, my ex always broke me down and we'd do something, like dinner and a movie or something. I have to admit I do like getting candy for cheap the next day.
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Post by WhiskeyDaisy on Feb 2, 2009 13:29:14 GMT -5
Errrr - receiving things at my office would embarrass me to no end.
Plus, how special is the same bouquet/candy assortment/etc. that's thousands of other people are getting?
We were going to go to my friends' resturant, but they're having some jazz guy play that night. Uh, no thanks.
I have no idea what we're gonna do.
XO WD
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Post by breukelen on Feb 2, 2009 13:35:16 GMT -5
Errrr - receiving things at my office would embarrass me to no end. Plus, how special is the same bouquet/candy assortment/etc. that's thousands of other people are getting? Well, since Mr. Breukelen is actually somewhat clever and thoughtful, they weren't the same bouquets that everyone else was getting. But that idea in general is why I don't like the day much -- I think the forced gesture of it all is kind of pointless and actually takes away from the expression of real love.
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Post by lilhan on Feb 2, 2009 14:24:58 GMT -5
oh jesus i hate this holiday. you and me both. i ignore it with all my ignoring powers.
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Post by kim on Feb 2, 2009 14:28:48 GMT -5
oh jesus i hate this holiday. you and me both. i ignore it with all my ignoring powers. I hate it too. And I kinda hate that I'm excited for it this year.
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Post by wealdstone on Feb 2, 2009 14:43:31 GMT -5
I'll be going to football.
and when did this become a holiday?
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Post by selbyandgriggs on Feb 2, 2009 15:38:02 GMT -5
I am taking the girlfriend out to a fancy dinner and asking her to marry me! It's kind of a big day for me. I am so, so thrilled for this. So happy for you. Many many congratulations. Being engaged is a notice to the world that you are happy!
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Post by missalabamanobody on Feb 2, 2009 16:04:04 GMT -5
oh jesus i hate this holiday. you and me both. i ignore it with all my ignoring powers. You two want to go out with me that night? We can all ignore it together.
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Post by stevedave on Feb 2, 2009 16:14:01 GMT -5
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Post by red on Feb 2, 2009 23:06:51 GMT -5
I'll be at home home for the first time in three months. Two of my dear friends (the greatest couple I know) are hosting a 'sad bastard' party for myself and a few others (all us single folks). Red wine, cold beer and The Last Waltz. There's talk of honey slides. I'm excited.
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Post by stephanie on Feb 2, 2009 23:44:59 GMT -5
Oh man, I want honey slides!
I know it's not cool. And I do honestly hate the hyperbolic deification of pairing off and crass commercialization of matters of the heart as much as the next gal. But seriously, from the bottom of my heart, I have been waiting to get one (1) bouquet of flowers from a boy for twenty-odd years. Snapdragons, specifically. What does a girl have to do to get some goddamned snapdragons? I don't care about chocolates or jewelry or dinner or anything else of the sort. Just want some flowers. Or a mix CD with "The Weather" by Built to Spill as the closing track.
Congratulations to 212 and his to-be betrothed!
I'm with Heidi, Han, and Miss Alabama. <3
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Post by lilhan on Feb 3, 2009 6:50:46 GMT -5
you and me both. i ignore it with all my ignoring powers. You two want to go out with me that night? We can all ignore it together. i'm down with that!!
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Post by toastie on Feb 3, 2009 6:56:48 GMT -5
Relationships are overrated. I'm just cynical and single.
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Post by deadelectromix on Feb 3, 2009 9:01:18 GMT -5
At most times when you're 16, this holiday sucks.
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