Def worth having them checked out!

I don’t know. Leaks in our apt roof and a dead TV made us have to rearrange our plans. Since we now need to budget for a new TV, a fancy dinner out just didn’t seem right. So Hubby bought steaks. I made potatoes.

This past week with all the frustration of an unresponsive landlord/no TV/etc has given us time to just sit and talk. I am thankful that we have been able to connect again, just like you and TH. If that deeper connection and a new TV is the only good thing we get out of this situation, I can be happy with that.

So glad your V-Day was better than ours.

we went out for dinner the day before valentine’s day. that might be something that we start doing every year b/c it’s nice to avoid the crowds and the inflated prices. something we just decided on this year was that each of us was going to take turns being the event organizer each valentine’s day.

Happy Valentine’s Day to you and TH!

We celebrated last night at a yummy restaurant where I had (vegetarian) sushi (I miss the real stuff!) and a movie on the couch. Today we’re hanging out together and will probably take Kodiak for a long walk. It’s the simple stuff, you know?

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Year 2 : Same as above

Year 3: a few days before V-day I got an other “no we can’t hire you because you don’t have the right visa” so he came home with a teddy bear and a bouquet. It made my da.
On V-day, well he made spaghetti. I was upset because I felt he could have cooked something more special or a least put candles on the table.
I had no job and no money so I gave him home-made coupons for” a dinner of his choice”. “a massage”, “a special evening” he loved it.

Year 4: Still no job. I made homemade chocolate covered candied orange.
He brought me cookies from work.

Year 5: He showed up a work on the 13th with a bouquet in his hands. I didn’t recognize him at first and though the flowers were for my colleague, until I looked at this face properly.

This year. Well to be honest, working in hospitality makes me think of all the V-day cliche + we both work.
I’d like us to make a homemade sushi meal together sometimes this week to celebrate though.
He also made me a martini last night and we went on a really nice walk today. All the quality time we had makes it a wonderful V-day weekend for me.

Cooking together is one of our favorite things to do, even if all one of us is doing is fixing a salad or doing/putting away dishes or stirring the pot.

We don’t have any traditions really. My boyfriend isn’t huge into romance but knows I am so we decided to trade years. It’s his this year so I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see. Last year I surprised him with chocolate fondue. It came in a heart-shaped ceramic bowl & I served pineapple, strawberries & walnuts with it – very tasty! We live with his parents so we ate it at the dining room table w/ people all around. Not very private but we still had fun.

This year we went out to eat last night, sort of for V-day, but mostly because we just needed to get out after a week of being snowbound. The food was literally inedible, so we’re making lasagna tomorrow to purge the memory.

Really we just try to do something a little special in the general vicinity of V-day/anniversary, it doesn’t really matter what it is or when it happens. Maybe when we have kids we’ll do some sort of fun traditions, but for now I’m happy with our token observation.