Did you spend it alone or with someone special? Did you give a gift, what? Did you get a gift, what? For the single men and women did you love yourself and treat you to something special?
Since this is the first time in 4 years that I've been single, I spent a nice quiet nice to myself. However after breaking up with my ex about a month and a half ago, he sent me an e-mail "Happy v-day babe, I hope you have a good night...". Which suprised me since he was always so cheap on v-day. My mom got me a nice card, and I had class that night too.
Hopefully next year I will have a new boyfriend :)
Mine was mostly good.... When I came home my BF wasn’t home yet although we left work at the same time...I take half hr to get home, he takes 15 minutes. When he came home I found out why he was late...I got flowers. Then we exchanged presents while I had a glass of wine. I got a very nice white gold bracelet with a diamond in the middle of a heart shape. After that we went to dinner at a nice restaurant where we had drinks and food. Then we stopped at the grocery store to get some strawberries and had chocolate fondue when we got home. Watched a movie… Legends (unicorns, fairy’s, devil, tom cruise). The night was great until it was time for bed. After a few more glasses of wine throughout the night I may have been emotional or irrational, but when I surprised my BF with a cute lingerie set and my black high heels with a strap around the ankle, I was not very happy when he said "Do you still own you black boots?". I took it as a personal thing, what I was doing wasn’t good enough, why are u thinking about black boots now??? So yeah i took off my shoes, walked into the other room, took off my lingerie and put on my nice comfy sweat pants, tee shirt, and went down stairs and slept on the couch... Was such a promising night...ended not so well.
We don't celebrate Valentines day, so life went on as normal.
Actually, it was worse than normal because we're renovating and the whole house had filled with masonry dust. DH and I spent the entire night trying to clean up the mess.
Pianoguy spent V-DAY NIGHT entertaining lovers (of all ages) with his piano music. There were about 45 couples...many of whom stopped by to ask for a tune and/or pay a compliment about the music! !
Much to my surprise, there were certain songs that some of our dinner guests brought up that I'd completely forgotten about! Hopefully, my music made them happy?
The toughest part of my 4-hour gig was a momentary flashback! When I realized that once the night was over, I'd have to return to an empty house (aka no spouse or companion aside from my affectionate border collie)...was somewhat disheartening! The thought of having nobody to exchange a hug (or more) with at the end of Valentine's Day made me a little sad.
Unfortunately, MANY MUSICIANS have to deal with this issue. So we do the best we can to make the night special for others...and keep our personal feelings to ourselves!
For Valentine's Day, I actually received lots of calls from friends at work, and then once I got home, I was welcomed by a single red rose from my ex-military supervisor, who had called me at work and asked if he could spend some time with me. With me trying to figure things out about an ex, that hasn't yet given me the boot, but is very distant, I was almost reluctant to a point, but then I said why should I sit and worry what will be his next move; I had to move on, so I welcomed my old supervisor in and we had a very nice time over a candle lit dinner catching up for the past 6 years we lost contact. The ay ended all in all being a very uneventful day, which was good.
I often think that Valentine's day is over-rated because you should show how you feel all year long, not just on this one day.
I agree that true love should be expressed as often as is possible during the rest of the year, but it is nice that we have one day where we can remind the ones we love how special they are to us.
I grew up knowing that handmade things meant the most to my mother. I now save making cards from scratch/by hand for when I want to make others feel special. His was waiting to greet him on the bathroom sink at 4am.
I decided to work from home on the 14th. As is my MO when I work from home, I tried to get out for an hour (gym/grocery), but was asked to stay put to receive car parts from UPS. The parts came all right...underneath a two foot box of roses.
How was it for me? In prior relationships, we'd both given up on making a big deal of the holiday (see comment at top). When realized how lucky we were to have found each other, it was worth resurrecting the meaning of Valentine's Day.
Returned home and found a heart shaped box of chocolates from one of my roommates ( a guy), it was very sweet. Though we are just roommates and both are single. hehe spent the rest of my night working on assgnments, watching reality TV, and complaining about how miserable the V-day made our singles felt with another femal roomate.
He called me from work in the morning and while we were talking he said he was going to get meds on lunch cause his allergies were bothering him. So I stopped on my way to get groceries and brought him meds.
After he got off work and got home for a shower, he came over. I gave him the present I bought him, three pair of boxers - one silky, one with snoopy, and one with grumpy. I didn't expect him to get my anything because we had already talked about the hallmarking of the holiday. BUT....he surprised me with a very simple 10k gold heart necklace with a very small .0005 diamond on it. I was so shocked and touched. (He's never gotten any past gf a gift for Valentines. So this was very special thing for both of us.)
We went to dinner at Olive Garden where our waitress was such a blonde. She messed up the drinks, forgot the appetizer, and almost dumped his entree in his lap. We got out of there just as the rush came. On the way home we rented a movie and while it was playing he gave me a complete massage followed by the most passionate, gentle love making I've ever experienced.
He stayed the night, which he never does during the week due to work.
Since this is the first time in 4 years that I've been single, I spent a nice quiet nice to myself. However after breaking up with my ex about a month and a half ago, he sent me an e-mail "Happy v-day babe, I hope you have a good night...". Which suprised me since he was always so cheap on v-day. My mom got me a nice card, and I had class that night too.
Hopefully next year I will have a new boyfriend :)
We don't celebrate Valentines day, so life went on as normal.
Actually, it was worse than normal because we're renovating and the whole house had filled with masonry dust. DH and I spent the entire night trying to clean up the mess.
Hi cl-bastphilliy!
Pianoguy spent V-DAY NIGHT entertaining lovers (of all ages) with his piano music. There were about 45 couples...many of whom stopped by to ask for a tune and/or pay a compliment about the music! !
Much to my surprise, there were certain songs that some of our dinner guests brought up that I'd completely forgotten about! Hopefully, my music made them happy?
The toughest part of my 4-hour gig was a momentary flashback! When I realized that once the night was over, I'd have to return to an empty house (aka no spouse or companion aside from my affectionate border collie)...was somewhat disheartening! The thought of having nobody to exchange a hug (or more) with at the end of Valentine's Day made me a little sad.
Unfortunately, MANY MUSICIANS have to deal with this issue. So we do the best we can to make the night special for others...and keep our personal feelings to ourselves!
Pianoguy
For Valentine's Day, I actually received lots of calls from friends at work, and then once I got home, I was welcomed by a single red rose from my ex-military supervisor, who had called me at work and asked if he could spend some time with me. With me trying to figure things out about an ex, that hasn't yet given me the boot, but is very distant, I was almost reluctant to a point, but then I said why should I sit and worry what will be his next move; I had to move on, so I welcomed my old supervisor in and we had a very nice time over a candle lit dinner catching up for the past 6 years we lost contact. The ay ended all in all being a very uneventful day, which was good.
I often think that Valentine's day is over-rated because you should show how you feel all year long, not just on this one day.
(Barring the imposing commercialism)
I agree that true love should be expressed as often as is possible during the rest of the year, but it is nice that we have one day where we can remind the ones we love how special they are to us.
I grew up knowing that handmade things meant the most to my mother. I now save making cards from scratch/by hand for when I want to make others feel special. His was waiting to greet him on the bathroom sink at 4am.
I decided to work from home on the 14th. As is my MO when I work from home, I tried to get out for an hour (gym/grocery), but was asked to stay put to receive car parts from UPS. The parts came all right...underneath a two foot box of roses.
How was it for me?
In prior relationships, we'd both given up on making a big deal of the holiday (see comment at top). When realized how lucky we were to have found each other, it was worth resurrecting the meaning of Valentine's Day.
Thank you for asking, bastphilliy.
spent the rest of my night working on assgnments, watching reality TV, and complaining about how miserable the V-day made our singles felt with another femal roomate.
I spent Valentines with J.
He called me from work in the morning and while we were talking he said he was going to get meds on lunch cause his allergies were bothering him. So I stopped on my way to get groceries and brought him meds.
After he got off work and got home for a shower, he came over. I gave him the present I bought him, three pair of boxers - one silky, one with snoopy, and one with grumpy. I didn't expect him to get my anything because we had already talked about the hallmarking of the holiday. BUT....he surprised me with a very simple 10k gold heart necklace with a very small .0005 diamond on it. I was so shocked and touched. (He's never gotten any past gf a gift for Valentines. So this was very special thing for both of us.)
We went to dinner at Olive Garden where our waitress was such a blonde. She messed up the drinks, forgot the appetizer, and almost dumped his entree in his lap. We got out of there just as the rush came. On the way home we rented a movie and while it was playing he gave me a complete massage followed by the most passionate, gentle love making I've ever experienced.
He stayed the night, which he never does during the week due to work.
This was the BEST Valentines day by far.