BS: How will you celebrate Valentines Day ??

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 12:19 AM

I've already celebrated! Rog totally knocked my socks off tonight when he came home. He'd stopped at the grocery store and while there decided he should bring me something special. Instead of flowers which would "just dry up and be dead", as he put it, he found a bouquet of Hypericum (St. John's Wort) berries, extra large size from Ecuador! They are just beautiful and will dry nicely. Hasn't done anything like that in years, so something must be gettin' better!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Noreen
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 12:11 AM

Maybe, Mattie- and maybe you'll sing 'Little Willow' and we'll all have a little sniffle...

Noreen

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Matt_R
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 11:48 PM

oh yes! Maybe Ella will be my valentine?

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 11:39 PM

Coming down to Portland, Bonnie?*BG*

Yeah that sounds fine, Noreen....

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Noreen
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 11:35 PM

With a friendly get-together in PalTalk?? Would be very nice for those of us without the real thing...

Noreen

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 11:20 PM

I will buy myself a pound of Godiva chocolates.
Buy my sister some flowers.
Send valentines out to people I love.
Oh, and wear red thongs.

Little Neo

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 11:15 PM

I have always made a point of ignoring Valentine's Day, except once when I had a very traditional girlfriend, and then there was no way I could ignore it...without repercussions more hideous than anything Dante ever dreamed of. 5 years of sheer blithering hell.

Well, it had some good moments too...but they got to be fewer as time went by. Sigh.

I'd rather not label the one day in that fashion, but just show some love every day if at all possible.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 11:00 PM

OOOOOOh...guest ...too bad you didn't tell who you are! I will spend Valentine's Day remembering a special moment shared with a special "someone" not too long ago, sing a few love songs to myself and wish you all a happy day! Lyrical Lady

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Deckman
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 10:45 PM

I'll start tommorrow by giving beautiful bride Judy a very warm and long hug. Then I'll kiss her right on the tip of her nose. Then I'll tell her, again, just how much I love her and how lucky I feel. Then I'll go scrape the ice off her car. Then I'll go build another damned deck. It'll be a day tommorrow just like every day in our house ... CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 10:34 PM

Envying those of you in loving relationships, empathizing with those of you who aren't, remembering and being thankful for past relationships where love and romance were real, and hoping to have that magic in my life again.

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 10:22 PM

Talk about spelling problems on celebrate like we had above, I told this true one awhile back...........

Reminds me of a Roadhouse just outside of Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, just north of Chattanooga on 27. Someone new came along in the early eighties and reopened this dive with a fresh coat of paint and a huge new professional looking sign out front. They called the place "Celebrate".......Sadly, the sign painter must have been paid ahead in trade, because one side was missing the "R".......still spelled wrong (Celebate)....... but somehow you just KNEW you weren't going to get any action in that dive!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 10:06 PM

Gee Matt, I don't think you mentioned you were buying a new car...................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 10:04 PM

Actually, the dogs don't sound like a bad idea, assuming none of them have ShitBum..........which mine have had for a week. Seem better tonite tho.

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: wdyat12
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 10:04 PM

I will spend Valentine's day observing 600 Chinese shipbuilders in an American shipyard begin the task of installing cranes on a drydock that should have been built by American Workers. wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Matt_R
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 09:53 PM

Nathan....my thoughts EXACTLY.

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 08:58 PM

Well, let's see....I'll go to town and hopefully come back with a better car than the piece of shit I got....I need a better car as I drive an hour just to get work everyday....then, I think I'll do something really special by sitting in front of my computer all day, and then when I get tired I'll go to a bed where my three dogs await....fuck valentine's day...

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 06:18 PM

I've been celebrating Valentine's day with the same woman for 53 years. That's a celebration unto its self. I'm pretty lucky.

Spud

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 06:17 PM

When dat Spaw am serious, de boy he make good sense!

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 05:58 PM

Aw Spaw, how nice!

I think we might to out to eat since my Mom sent us some money for that. I have also bought a "special garment" (who watched West Wing a couple weeks ago?) ;)

I sent a few cards to some family members and friends. Mister's card is handmade - only really special people get those! I tried buying him a nice meerschaum pipe but my order got lost. He is going to have to settle for the special garment...

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: hesperis
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 05:53 PM

Cleaning my apartment by friday, so that the landlord can rent it to someone else, so that we can move to a better, bigger, more beautiful, apartment! YAY!

And then we'll "sleep in"... *g*

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: annamill
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 05:52 PM

Waitaminit!!! We have a day to celebrate the one we love and you hate it!! Sour mushy old farts! ;-)

Now Honey and I love every day and we show it to each other all the time, (It makes our friends sick) but here's an opportunity to make a point of it.

Like Christmas, commercialized, yes, but still wonderful. I love going and looking for just the right card and thinking hard what I could give to him to thank him for being him. I love the smile I get back and the warm hug and kisses.

Created by Hallmark, or not, it's a wonderful idea! Now, what can I get for him?? besides the card I mean.

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: GUEST,bflat
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 05:33 PM

I will have a lesson in classical guitar. Write a few greeting cards to loved ones and see what developes. It used to be my busiest,exhausting work day of the year but I'm unemployed right now and it feels pretty good. **BG**

Ellen

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 05:32 PM

See bert? I'm not alone, although spaw, Zeb and Elle put it slightly better than I did. Although a haircut seems like a good idea, but I ALWAYS hate my hair right after a cut.......

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: JenEllen
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 05:29 PM

Thanks Spaw. You summed it up perfectly. Ain't it grand?

If the mister brought home flowers and chocolates, he'd be strung up in short order. Luckly for him he knows exactly how I feel about that sort of comercialized pressure to 'perform' on Valentine's Day. I'd rather have him brushing the snow off of my car and making me a cup of tea all for a little nuzzle under the chin, than to live ignorant of each other and try to make it up all on one day of the year.

I wish you all a little bit of love every day. You've more than likely got it already, you just need to know where to look.

~Jen

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: wdyat12
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 05:26 PM

You're doing better than me Naemanson! wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Zebedee
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 05:25 PM

I really hate Valentines Day, for the same reason that I hate New Year's Eve.

I prefer to celebrate, give gifts, have a party etc at a time of my choosing, rather than on the a particular day that tradition / commerce has chosen.

However, I'm meeting my girlfriend for lunch tomorrow, and I'll bring a bunch of flowers. She'll be pleased, but I'd prefer to give here flowers on any other day.

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 05:14 PM

Getting my hair trimmed; it's a treat to myself, having someone else wash it, comb it out, trim and style it.

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Naemanson
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 04:55 PM

There are no typo's in my last post.

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Naemanson
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 04:54 PM

I will celibate Valentine's Day by going off to a friend's house to rehearse for a coffeehouse performance. Then I'll go home to a cold and lonely bed and hope that next year I can celebRate the holiday.

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 04:40 PM

We have Valentine's Day everyday. Nothing special this year, but we are two lucky people and especially me. The "greatest thing to happen in my life" makes me the most fortunate man alive and I try to tell her somehow each day in thoughts, words, and actions, how much I love her and how much she means to me. A few good hugs from her, a warm embrace..........nothin' like it!

I wish everyone the same.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Blackcatter
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 04:37 PM

As far as I'm concerned Valentine's Day sucks.

& Dave - while what you'll be doing may not be fun, it's a heck of a lot more interesting than my entire week.

Take care and stay safe all

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: wdyat12
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 04:32 PM

Sorcha,

That would make some relationships a lot better. Now if we could only take the commercializm out of the rest of the holidays too and just give each other kindness and love and things that won't die or be discarded.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 04:32 PM

Directing four boats one helicopter and one C130 hercules aircraft in a SAR exercise five miles offshore in cold weather. All day!!! Oooohhhh lots of fun... Ha Ha Ha.. real romantic aint I? Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 04:21 PM

Well, you know I do appreciate that, bert, and so does my family love me, but these shmaltzy holidays just don't do it for me. I would rather they cooked me dinner once in a while, or picked up their socks, or vacumed.....instead of spending money on flowers that will die.

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Pseudolus
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 04:14 PM

I think a nice candlelight dinner, some romantic music, some wine.....geez this sounds like fun, I'll hafta make sure my wife's there!!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Bert
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 04:12 PM

Aw Sorcha, - WE love you!

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 04:08 PM

Hopefully, by ignoring the whole thing.

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: wdyat12
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:58 PM

grump al,

"Ceibacy is the Salt of Life!"

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Wesley S
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:56 PM

OOPS - that's "celebrate" - not celibrate.

And remember - you don't have to have a "special someone" to celebrate Valentines. Friends - family members - teachers ?

And NOT celebrating is valid too.

Subject: RE: BS: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: grumpy al
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:53 PM

Celibacy! sad isn't it?

Subject: How will you celibrate Valentines Day ??
From: Wesley S
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:44 PM

You don't have to be in a "relationship" currently - everyone loves SOMEBODY. How do you plan to share that with them ? Are any of you sending valentines anonymously this year? Or is everything out in the open ??

For me it will be a quiet night at home { assuming that Brendan - our 2 month old son - allows it to be a quiet night }. I'll be fixing dinner and will give my wife some Godiva chocolates, a book , and a Victoria's Secret gift certificate. That way she'll wear what she gets. Not to mention a mooshy card and a few songs by candlelight. Then maybe a bubblebath later and then - who knows ??

How about you ?? Hmmmmm???? Share your secrets.