Valentines Day?

[Foofoogal]

[huh] Carlisle had put a photo of shrimp so I am not going nuts people.


Me too. Been married 35 years this coming July God willing and creek don't rise.
Maybe it is harder out there now? [huh]
Emptynesters so it is easier now.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

With all respect page back...:eusa_doh:

 

[HadleyH]

Happy Valentines Day for all The Fedora Lounge, and for everybody, everywhere!!!!!!!!

 

[Viola]

Spending Valentines nine thousand miles from my honey.

Sending him a card and looking forward to 2011.

 

[Harp]

Happy Valentines Day for...

...a la jolie dame australienne


est la Croix du Sud,
Au-dessous de cette Croix ont les coeurs d'hommes ete perdu,
parmi eux aussi le mien.

Padraic Conaught, la Croix du Sud

 

[Foofoogal]

oops. sorry Carlisle. It disappeared yesterday for a time.
Still looks yummy...

 

[Lear]

I'll be spending Valentine's Day all alone. Absolutely alone, without a single living thing to share it with. No dog, cat or mouse. Not even an insect, microbe or hatching larvae... Nothing! Through salty tears of hopelessness and despair, I'll fumble my way to the television, and play Sleepless in Seattle for the hundredth time :cry:

I'll be fine though... sniff...

Lear (the ugly one)

 

[PADDY]

There's always "Fool" to hang out with...

I always thought that "Fool" was there to buoy you up with his double-talk and rather frivolous remarks...(as in King Lear) [huh]

I'll be spending Valentine's Day all alone. Absolutely alone, without a single living thing to share it with. No dog, cat or mouse. Not even an insect, microbe or hatching larvae... Nothing! Through salty tears of hopelessness and despair, I'll fumble my way to the television, and play Sleepless in Seattle for the hundredth time :cry:

I'll be fine though... sniff...

Lear (the ugly one)

 

[Lear]

I always thought that "Fool" was there to buoy you up with his double-talk and rather frivolous remarks...(as in King Lear) [huh]

He serves to ridicule and magnify the emptiness. Merely displays the reasons for my solitude :cry:

Wait... could that be a knock at the door?... No, simply the howling wind...

Lear (the ugly one)

 

[JennyLou]

I have never really liked Valentine's Day and never really celebrated it. I never had any beaux who I celebrated that day with whom are worth mentioning. I would get the typical bouquet of roses from them. I usually celebrate it with my family and would give cards and flowers. I remember my mother would sometimes give me flowers.

This year will be my favorite Valentine's Day. I recently got into papercrafting so I made some really pretty cards for family and friends.

Also, for the first time I have a boyfriend whom I adore and truly love. I have never felt this way about anyone and I want to do something for him. I decided that I will make him a Raspberry Fudge cheesecake, a valentine's day card and crochet two peas in a pod. I'm also wrote a song for him and will sing and play it on my guitar for him when I see him Sunday. Oh, I hope he doesn't read this and ruin the surprise. He is a fellow lounger and we first knew about each other here and were introduced to each other by another lounger.
I think we will be just staying in on Valentine's Day. I usually make him dinner but he will be making me dinner that night. And he says he has a surprise for me. I can't wait!

 

[Avalon]

Stealing Harp's idea for a moment...here's a poem I've always found romantic.

The Crossed Apple

I’ve come to give you fruit from out my orchard,
Of wide report.
I have trees there that bear me many apples.
Of every sort:

Clear, streaked; red and russet; green and golden;
Sour and sweet.
This apple’s from a tree yet unbeholden,
Where two kinds meet, -

So that this side is red without a dapple,
And this side’s hue
Is clear and snowy. It’s a lovely apple.
It is for you.

Within are five black pips as big as peas,
As you will find,
Potent to breed you five great apple trees
Of varying kind:

To breed you wood for fire, leaves for shade,
Apples for sauce.
Oh, this is a good apple for a maid,
It is a cross,

Fine on the finer, so the flesh is tight,
And grained like silk.
Sweet Burning gave the red side, and the white
Is Meadow Milk.

Eat it, and you will taste more than the fruit:
The blossom, too,
The sun, the air, the darkness at the root,
The rain, the dew,

The earth we came to, and the time we flee,
The fire and the breast.
I claim the white part, maiden, that’s for me.
You take the rest.

Louise Bogan

 

[sixties.nut]

RE: Lear !!!!

I'll be fine though... sniff...

And that's the only thing I need, is this. I don't need this or this. Just this ashtray. And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need. And this remote control. The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need. And these matches. The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. The ashtray, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that's all I need. And that's all I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one - I need this. The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches, for sure. And this. And that's all I need. The ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair.

Hey dude, we felt bad for you, so we all got together and chipped in to get you a 'rent a date' . Little word of caution, we only came up with a total of 5.49. So ACT surprised went she comes calling for you. Oh yeah, SMILE a lot, or at least try to to smile a lot ! Goes by the name of Sugar ! Enjoy.


Yer pals at the Lounge!

 

[23SkidooWithYou]

"Here in the Swan River Colony, the Swan River times, publishes its "Book of Lurvvv" on V.D , its twenty pages of messages in the middle of the paper, people pay to declare their love to each other, its all rather bizarre, full of cheesy "Pet" names for each other, and "Inside jokes" I will have to scan it and post, pass me the bucket!

Binkie, Binkie....send the insert to ME! I have a 6 foot high parrot cage and a Macaw who could put those pages to excellent use!

...and no love, I did not grow up to be a swinger. I'm a very boring, true blue, one man gal. (One for Sunday, one for Monday, one for Tuesday...just kidding! )As for my classmates...who knows, it was a Catholic school and I wouldn't be surprised if some are trapped in mid life crisis still looking for a good key party!

 

[23SkidooWithYou]

Well, I feel kind of sorry for all the bitterness in this thread.

I've been married for 38 years and while I don't go overboard on Valentines day I don't ignore it either. Wife says she doesn't care if I do anything or not but I know better than to actually believe that. So she'll get a card and dinner at a nice restaurant and she'll mist up a little (like always).

Oh Jim, rest assured, I'm not really bitter. I'd bet most of us aren't. I'd love a 38 year standing date for V-day! They're just really hard to come by. lol

 

[Darhling]

I'm very excited, this will be the first valentine I celebrate, so I am looking forward to this day of romance.

 

[Smithy]

I think Valentine's Day is an absolute have. Just an excuse for all the florists to bump the price of roses up 200%.

I personally believe that you should attempt to treat your loved one well everyday of the year and not just spoil them on one commercialised and publicised day of the year.

Buy your belle a bloody great bunch of roses or a piece of jewelry or a beautiful romantic dinner out of the blue on any old day and see what happens. She'll appreciate it a darn sight more than doing it on a day when everybody is "supposed" to. Well I know my wife appreciates it more

 

[Apple Annie]

A friend of mine is taking his fair lady on the eurostar to Paris.

Wonder if he'll notice if I lock her up somewhere and turn up wearing a wig...

 

[i_am_the_scruff]

If my boyfriend got me a Valentine's day card i'd make him eat it.

Save it for your anniversary. And I mean ACTUAL anniversaries, not 2 weeks, or 6 months!

Of course to all those who actually care about it, I hope you have a great day

 

[Staredge]

Sixties.nut: Nice avatar!!!!!


Well.....I'm in a Charlie Brown mood this year.

In the middle of ending a 14 year marriage, and not my idea. So......my plans for this year????

 

[Tango Yankee]

Ah, Valentine's Day. The main problem with Valentine's Day for me is the fact that it comes only two weeks before our wedding anniversary! :eusa_doh: It's our 6th, this year. It also, as it happens, comes a few days after the anniversary of her falling into my lap in a bar in Korea in '86.

This year we've kind of said that our V-Day gifts to each other will be the tickets to see Wicked next Saturday. For tomorrow we're considering dinner and a movie. Of course, I don't think it would be wise for me to seriously go with the tickets as being the only gift, so at dinner she'll receive a token sparkly.

The weekend before our anniversary I've booked a room in a B&B north of Columbus for Saturday night. Saturday evening will be dinner at the B&B and another trip to the theater. This time we'll see I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. And of course she'll be getting a not-so-token sparkly at dinner. My wife likes sparklies!lol As much as she indulges me in my hat habit I think it's only fair to indulge her from time to time as well.

And Smithy, while I agree with your sentiment and do indulge in such things from time to time, I still think it's important to not overlook the traditional days in the process.

Cheers,
Tom