Valentine's Day

On this day for celebrating love... and for reminding everyone without someone special how lame they are... I'm going to recount my favorite Valentine's Days (since today is destined to suck).



Okay.. lets go ALL the way back to my Sophomore year of High School :)
(Keep in mind, I was a sophomore in high school, so everything seemed WAY cool... and I was still romantic back then.. hehe)

I got to school that morning and Mason (my high school sweet <3) bust into my classroom with a big bag of Hershey's kisses and a card that said "I'd give you a bag of my kisses.. but you can't confine love." Or something equally cheesy. hehe

Then.. after my first period class I went to my locker and found a cute pink teddy bear with a card that said something like "You are the 'bear' essentials in my life, babe."

THEN.. during my 3rd period class I got called to the office to pick something up... He'd gotten me a dozen roses and he'd written I Love You on it in about 5 different languages and something like "No matter how you say it, it still means my heart belongs to you."

Oh Mason, ever the romantic...

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Okay- Good V-Day #2

This was junior year of high school. Mason and I had broken up (again.. we probably got back together at some point after this.. lol), and I was dating Nathan.

It was either a weekend, or I skipped school, because Nathan showed up at my house w/ supplies.

He brought a 12 pack of Dr. B (I think- in any case, it was a Dr. Pepper substitute) and strawberries and chocolate, and chocolate chip cookie dough.

We tried to melt the chocolate and make chocolate covered strawberries*, but it didn't work quite right lol... then we baked the cookie's- only we made one giant heart shaped cookie instead of lots of cookies. I remember him saying "We're baking our own cookies and no one can tell us how to do it. Lets bake one HUGE cookie!!!" He was so excited... it was cute.


*I don't like chocolate covered strawberries, but he was so cute I couldn't tell him. On the next valentine's day he got me a big thing of chocolate covered strawberries- because that's what we'd done on our first V-Day! Haha, I still couldn't tell him, I gave them to my mom and pretended I'd loved them! A few years later, having forgotten that Nathan might still read my facebook I included the phrase "I hate Chocolate Covered Strawberries" in my "About Me" section. Of course, he found it.. lol It was quite funny.

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Last year Josh and I ate at a cute little Italian restaurant.. got all dressed up and got a little tipsy off the wine. It was a great Valentine's Day just because he was great... :)

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Anyway, since Valentine's Day is just depressing this year, I was trying to come up with a holiday that I'd actually like.

I ran this idea by Josh and we came up with Smart People Day!

It would be held in a multi-level club and to get to the next level you'd have to answer a question/puzzle. Of course the questions would get harder the higher you got. And when you finally got to the top....... there'd be a HUGE nerd orgy. hehe ;)

ha!

On another note, does anyone find it disturbing that this day originates from a man getting stoned to death?
Anyway, I hope your Valentine's Day Rocks (no pun intended) - do something exciting! Woot!