We’ve had a couple of unhappy threads about this, but what about those who had a pleasant day today and enjoyed the holiday?
Today the weather was inclimate and one of our cars gave up the ghost this afternoon, so my True Love and I weren’t able to do our traditional gift exchange. Every year, we go out to the same store together, seperate and buy each other a small gift. Silly, I know, but being in the same store and having to “hide” from each other trying to preserve the surprise until we get home adds to the fun. I was a little dissapointed we couldn’t do it today, but we’ll go out tomorrow or sometime soon.
My husband made me a card instead: a comic strip using photos of our dogs with funny captions. He asked me a while ago if I had a nice Valentine’s Day and I said yes, because we’re together. I don’t need anything else.
So, the rest of you who had a pleasant time today, share what made you happy.
I had quite a good Valentines Day. Work is going extremely well, I’m getting fitter, I’m actually happy, and I’m looking forward to good things in the future. This is the best single Valentine’s Day I have ever had… and all of my Valentine’s Days have been single.
It had nothing to do with Valentine’s day, since my husband and I ignore it by choice, but we both got the day off due to the weather - that was nice. So it was bonus together time in the middle of the week.
It actually was nice, though I don’t really celebrate the holiday itself. The ol’ man and I haven’t seen much of each other lately, but we were both off work today and spent some time together playing video games
Lovely thank you. I’m on holidays in Perth. Last night I went to a performance of a new Australian opera, called the Love of the Nightingale, and it was fantastic.
The day started with our upstairs shower leaking and the water dripping through our smoke alarm downstairs. It’s going to cost several hundred which is still substantial but nowhere as high as we had feared.
Then my fiance emailed from work to say he’d found the stick figures and “I love j00” that I had drawn on his juice. About 5:30 he came home and we had dinner and watched Heroes. And played Diablo 2.
I’m not really getting all the Valentine’s Day hating that’s going on. :dubious:
We had a good day! We went out to eat last night to avoid the crowds. We bought stuff to cook at home for Valentine’s Day. We had amberjack with lemon thyme seasoning, cooked kale, roasted asparagus, and chocolate frosted brownies for dessert. I got some flowers (which I didn’t expect) and a card. Right now, we have wine coolers, and hubby gets to get caught up with the Heroes and BSG episodes that he missed, so the evening isn’t over yet.
The SO and I are having a wonderful time. We’re spending a week at his parent’s house before we leave for our backpacking trip through Asia. His parents got us each boxes of chocolates so while they were at work today, we made them homemade cards. We spent about 2 hours on the cards even though we could have dropped by the grocery store for a generic card in 20 minutes. That’s ok, the homemadeness made my MIL really happy. I bet once my FIL gets home he’ll get a kick out of his.
For dinner we had leftover pizza and now we’re diving into one of the boxes of chocolates that his parents gave to us. Life is pretty good right now.
Newly single, somewhat still broken-hearted but on the mend, and talking to someone new. Worked at an annex office today, so we 3 employees there today got a huge chocolate cake, a huge pan of brownies topped with pecans, caramel, and chocolate, a box of chocolates, 7-layer bean dip, and Tostitos. What is normally a very hectic and crazy workday was calm, quiet, and relaxed, and I left early from there for a change.
Did my annual tradition of sending my 3 pubescent sons all VD cards through the mail, pouring my heart out in them about how much I love and admire them. That makes them feel good, and makes me feel good, which is really what it’s all about.
Tonight I will talk to Mr. Prospective, maybe even on the phone. It’s the beginning stages, and he lives 2 hours away.
A good day, yes. Much better than I was expecting it to be.
Same here:). We got an extra day with Baby B (who has been a total ham all day - you can finally see the one tooth he has when he smiles, so that’s cracked us up every time he laughs), although poor ElzaHub ended up shoveling our driveway again (he did it last night), as well as his dad’s.
We did exchange cards for V-Day, and he brought me some flowers from the supermarket (red gerber daisies, no roses, which is more than fine with me :D), and our ‘special meal’ ended up being Italian meatloaf and mashed potatoes. That’s about the extent of our V-Day celebrations.
Surprisingly pleasant day, even though I didn’t get a snow day. Work was relaxed and I got a bunch of stuff done that I’d been meaning to get to for ages.
I’m relaxing at home watching Remington Steele and admiring all the valentines on my mantel. (I highly recommend the SDMB valentine exchange!)
So far, so good and things are looking toward a swell evening. Drachillix is making sushi rolls and we’re drinking champagne and Chambord. Since we both have to work tomorrow, we’re skipping the dinner out.
No kids, just us—it’s looking to be a swell evening!
We grown-ups don’t do the V-day, since our first date anniversary is in two weeks and we do that. But the kids have a great time. We made large glittery doily-covered cards, baked pineapple-upside-down cakes in adorable little heart-shaped muffin tins, and used up the rest of the tins on heart-shaped cherry muffins. Somehow we avoided zillions of boxes of Sweethearts, which is a good thing.
Excellent day here as well and glad to see so many other folks have had nice days too!
Here in cajun country Valentines day has sort of blended with Mardi Gras celebrating and it was so fun to see the children at work today having fun with both! The therapists transformed one the children’s vehicles into a mini parade float and they made the rounds of the office tossing beads to all of the desk drones and accepting Valentines candy in trade. Got to listen to the Mardi Gras Mambo about 50 times in a row
Mr. Adoptamom went all out this year for Valentines Day, which we normally don’t celebrate much, and surprised me with a beautiful new watch. This was AdoptaDaughter’s first Valentines Day with a boyfriend. She stayed up late last night making him cupcakes and a card, both homemade and from scratch! He gave her a cute stuffed puppy (puppy lurve …ahhh how cute ) and she came home glowing.
We had a very nice day, thanks. We talked on the phone at work, and sent a mushy e-mail to each other. I had planned to ask my boss for a ride to the store to get a card, but he got tied up in other events and didn’t come in. So in true silliness mode, I drew on a yellow post-it note these pictograms: <eye> <heart> <ewe> (it was a sheep, saying “baa” in a bubble), signed it, then folded it over and drew the reverse like an envelope. I gave it to her in the car when she picked me up after work. She laughed so hard she nearly cried. She said she’ll keep it in her wallet, and when she’s feeling sad, she’ll take it out and look at it and laugh again. I got a nice card from her. Then, we went for gourmet pizza at our favorite Italian restaurant.
