Between you and me, I think Valentine's Day is a smarmy holiday. It invites a manipulation between the sexes that is unhealthy. I especially feel sorry for men. How can they possibly get it right?
And how grateful do women need to be for a bouquet of overpriced flowers and chocolates?
If I want flowers, I buy them. The same goes with chocolate.
Sentimentality makes me cross.
What I really want to say is that 50 years ago today, on a Saturday night, Tom and I got engaged, and I've always been grateful that it WASN'T Valentine's Day. It was the day after.
Tom has been a tad sad that we didn't celebrate properly. Stuff got in the way. He is a romantic if ever there was one. I think we began our marriage with me as the romantic and he as the--what is the opposite of romantic? Rational? Unconscious? Serious?
I don't know. Today I needed to fret about my Relief Society lesson, which is tomorrow. After that, I will make it up to him. I'll sing to him and nuzzle behind his ear.
That works.
And he's going to hold you to it, I'll bet.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! I love this story. Good on holding her to it Tom. Demand a dozen of those flowers (since she likes to buy them) and a box of her favorite chocolates as well.
ReplyDeleteI love Valentine's Day!
ReplyDeleteBut not the traditional flowers/chocolate/be-still-my-heart jewels. I'm right there with you on all that.
I love the PINK! (It sure beats the Judith Karmen PINK! of breast cancer, no?) I love the silly poems. I love the lacy hearts. And the songs. Ah, the songs - Gershwins, Beatles, Cole Porter ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAO8vlvPS88
I tell my husband not to get flowers and chocolates. I just want him to write me a love note. That's all. Instead he always goes for the obligatory flowers and skips the love note. Unconscious is probably a good word because buying flowers on Valentines Day is not rational and is hardly romantic.
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