My first Valentine’s with a girlfriend and we’re seperated by 900 km. So here I am on Valentine’s eve listening to The Cure and talking to her over MSN. Pretty crappy.
So I sent her roses from a local florist. Thanks to some of the advice that I found in the thread in the Pit. And a letter that probably won’t get there until the end of the week. She sent me a postcard. We’ve been going out for 6 months and I miss the hell out of her right now.
I know. I’m lucky that at least I have someone but I just have this longing to see her.
Any other dopers going through the same thing? And how are you dealing with it.
Yeah, I’m in the same boat. Luckily it’s all I can do to put up with Nunavut Girl’s incessant yammering all the time and I am greatful for the reprieve.
Just kidding!
Acutally, I sent her an emergency kit. Inside was:
-movies
-chocolates
-a nifty pen shaped like a pipette
-a box of toothpicks
-a pocket manual on anaerobic microbiology
-some cds
-4 empty ziploc bags
-1 pair socks
-3 cigarettes(she doesn’t smoke)
-a cd with a song i wrote for her (it sucks)
and I think that’s it. Luckily she thinks my random bullshit is cute. That’s why I love art students!
We don’t have that much distance between us, but I’ll be working from 7:30 AM until about 5:00 PM, and she’ll be working from 5:00 PM until about 1:00 AM.
Yup, by the usual 611 miles… uh… approximately. Not that I think about those things a lot.
We spent Valentine’s Eve discussing some of the many problems that crop up in long-distance relationships and sniffling a lot. (Well, I did, he’s a bit more stoic than that.)
But if things keep going well, I’ll be living in sin with him come this September… about four years after I started getting to know him.
Of course, I may completely lose it and charge the Canadian border on foot going “GAAAAAAAAAAH LET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME IN!” between now and then, so keep watching for news.
Hmm, I’m spending Valentine’s eve and Valentine’s night getting covered in blood and shit and cat piss and listening to my coworkers bitch and moan and snipe at each other. Wanna trade? The Cure and MSN sounds like a pretty big step up to me.
Come to think of it, that’s how I spent last Valentine’s, too. And I spent the one before that watching him sleep. And the three before that watching movies with my girlfriends. And the one before that getting covered in blood and shit and cat piss again.
On the bright side, if I leave late and he gets out early, we might get to wave as we drive past each other tomorrow. And my boss gave me a card. Plus I bet there’s lots of tasty, fattening things I don’t really need to eat at work tomorrow night.
My man is in Italy right now, with no computer access, and I have no address for him and no phone number. He went for a family emergency and I don’t have a way to get a hold of him. So not only am I apart from him, I can’t even talk to him!
900 miles, as is normal. I think I’ve been with him for about two weeks total (composed mostly of weekends here and there) in the six months since we first got together–even when I’m at my parents’ house we’re 3 hours apart.
I saw all the flower delivery trucks today and got a bit misty-eyed…No flowers for me today, as we’ve decided to hold off on officially celebrating our semianniversary (which was yesterday) and Valentine’s Day until we can be together in March. It’ll be nice to feel all special then, but it’s a bitch now.
I’ll spend the night IMing with the Dear Boy, and I guess that’ll tide me over. If only I could snuggle against him instead of a pillow while I’m falling asleep tonight…
Plus, she’s sick right now and her modem at home may not be working, so we haven’t gotten to talk much lately.
Plus, last time we had a really long talk, much of it was about all the reasons why we might NOT work as a couple.
So I’m feeling a bit blue right now.
On the plus side, she’ll be here in three weeks! Woo-hoo!
Me and my wonderful boyfriend are both in Illinois (he’s in the suburbs, I’m farther downstate). I get to see him on Friday. We kind of had an argument last night, so I’ve been feeling terrible all day today. Sigh… I normally don’t care about Valentine’s Day at all, but it was just really hard for me today. Emotions and hormones and all of that.
He wrote me a poem and put it in the RedEye (newspaper put out by the Chicago Tribune). I might or might not have gotten teary-eyed at that.
I am 4,800 miles from my boyfriend this Valentine’s Day. He’s in Oklahoma City and I’m in Amsterdam. We started dating in November (so early days yet!) when I was visiting my father in Oklahoma. I live part of the year in London, part in Oklahoma and I spend a fair bit of time visiting friends in Amsterdam. No immigration hassles, as we’re both American, I suppose that’s something.
So I’m spending V-Day with my ex-husband, in Amssterdam, who is a very good friend, after all these years, but, all in all, despite the pretty covering of snow on the quaint Dutch buildings I can see from his window, I’d much rather be in Oklahoma.
Tis 3am for me - 8pm for him, and we’re on yahoo, chatting away, making plans and missing each other. However, since V-Day officially ended here a few hours ago, I’m going to have to get to bed, as my ex-sister-in-law and niece are expected at 10am.
Long distance relationships are so difficult at times!
I am in Minneapolis and my sweetie is in Bombay, India! I guess this was the crappiest V day in the last 5 years we have been together. Only got to speak to her on the phone for 5 minutes and on msgr for 15.
I sent her some books and a letter and a mix CD. Hope she gets it soon.
Well I promise I will make up for it when I next meet her in December.
I spent my Valentine’s Day evening at a three-hour school board meeting. It was okay. My husband had to work until 8 so we wouldn’t have been able to go out for dinner anyway. He sent me a beautiful plant at work, along with a balloon and a box of chocolates. They had cookies at my meeting, too, so it wasn’t all bad.
Yup, I’m 2,000 miles away from my wife, also. I sent her flowers and a card, timed to get there on V-Day (which they did), and we spent an hour on the phone last night as well.
It’s going to last a few months, too, which sucks, although she’ll be down to visit in a couple of weeks.
