Folks,
Just wondering is anyone thinking outside the box in doing something different for their partner on Valentines Day?
A card and chocolates, jewelry, restaurant, weekend away, etc. is all the normal stuff but does anyone have any other ideas?
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Folks,
Just wondering is anyone thinking outside the box in doing something different for their partner on Valentines Day?
A card and chocolates, jewelry, restaurant, weekend away, etc. is all the normal stuff but does anyone have any other ideas?
might be too far outside the box, take her to see the relics of St Valentine in the Camelite Church on Whitefriar St: http://www.carmelites.ie/ireland/Whi.../valentine.htm
Yeah, i think you're out of your box !! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
probably!Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
you didn't say if you're married or not (or about to be), from the link above
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The feastday of the saint on February 14 is a very popular one and many couples come to the Eucharistic celebrations that day which also includes a Blessing of Rings for those about to be married.
Keep it simple. Don't set dangerous precendents that you'll regret in future years. :)
Otherwise you could book a romantic trip for two.
To Poland.
In June.
Being married for the last 15 years, I need to get back in the box...:p
She'll be lucky if I make her dinner.
I did the St Valentines relics one year and it was lovely. First we went to flower market and bought some flowers, then had a lovely breakfast before going to the relics.2nd nicest Valentines day ever I had.
I thought outside the box last year...
Went to Windsor Park :D
That's all the validation I require!Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
despite years of trying ive never gotten enough "brownie points". Still stuck in the box this lad. Good luck all of you in your efforts and let us know how it goes.
Do the regular stuff like a nite away somewhere, meal, flowers etc but make it personal to her. Personally I am not a fan of roses, prefer purple tulips. Best treat I got was taken to a hotel that meant something to me, room decorated with flowers and candles, taken for a beautiful meal in hotel with wine and presents of a bottle of my favourite wine, a book I wanted, some lovely chocolates and the tulips had been delivered to work the day before. Perfection.
did that particular mystery man get brownie points from you Magicme?
This year I had to get in my good things early. So it was a mini-shopping spree in Next (where they have a major sale on) so I could pick up enough to make myself look like a GBF. Then it was a small gift from Lush. A trip to the Museum of Soviet Video Games got some good vibes, and the whole shebang will be rounded off on Tuesday by a nice lunch. I have to as I leave that evening for a 3 day road trip. All in all, I think I'm doing okay. Better than my worst Valentines when I brought an ex to the theatre, followed by dinner and night tour of London. Her skulling herself on a low hanging lintel (make of some type of stone) didn't bode well, nor did the cut on her forehead that couldn't be staunched. 3 hours waiting in hospital, followed by 4 stitches meant that our relationship disappeared. Though I'm pretty sure, all these years later, that she carries a memory of that perfectly planned night. Shame about the execution though!
Ask him coz he lurks on foot!
...:bulgy:
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Originally Posted by A face
Whatever happened to a manky card of a cat looking longingly at a goldfish in a bowl? A couple of question marks scrawled inside and you're all set.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
http://cdn.epicski.com/e/ed/469x304p...IfSerious.jpegQuote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
Seriously, it's a complete trip into another world. Some odd vibe of nostalgia mixed with insanity.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Get her two Internationals on loan from a big club in Moscow? Maybe a Czech and a Pole? Oh, wait....
What a long-winded attempted murder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
On the subject of V-day. I never do it. In every relationship I've ever been in I make it clear it's a pile of balls and that surely doing nice things throughout the year is better than a night of being in a restaurant full of couples pretending that that's where they want to be.
I'm single this year. :)
Immediately made me think of this - http://theoatmeal.com/blog/valentines_dayQuote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Less complaining. More sexy rumpus.
This is my new mantra.
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/003...rge.jpg?101059
For us singletons! :)
Nothing better to get you in the mood for the day than having an argument with the missus about how invalid the day itself is, the night before valentines day.
Went to bed in a foul mood and I'm left at half 4 on foot.ie. What a night.
I know I'm a hopeless romantic, but as I said in the say anything thread, they pretty much do. Walk in to any bar on Valentine's Night, give a deep sigh and look sad/lonely and its like you've got a magnet in your pants. The later you wait the easier it gets. The price of a few drinks surely beats the hours of planning/agonizing and wads of cash needed to essentially get the same effect if you're in a relationship. Plus it eliminates the sizable risk of you doing/getting them something stupid and ****ing it all up anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
It was almost as long as the wait in casualty. Oddly we kind of broke up a couple of weeks later over some insignificant incident.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
It used to be that because I was on foot.ie I would get into trouble.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
What a pox of a day.
Yeah. It doesn't quite work that way at all in Dublin. I'm too broke to head out tonight though I may knock into the local later and have a look-see.Quote:
Originally Posted by theworm2345
Oh theres that too. "Get off that damn footie site, we're going to be late" is a personal favourite.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Crisis averted though, this smart bas**rd got out of bed early and made breakfast in bed and played it all off as a joke followed by a big surprise. ;P
"Sure I had to make it more surprising for you. Wouldn't have been much of a surprise if you expected me to do something nice".
Damn I'm good.
I love today! :D
No chance of her ever seeing that eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
This will probably come out far meaner than intended, but I bet you're one of those women (and some men) who buys in to the day way too much and is unbearable to be around for the durationQuote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
You would need to seek out the Americans studying abroad or something...the fact they're in a foreign country and alone on Valentine's Day would make it all the easier. Personally, its 9:50 PM and I just got home from class, have a fair amount of reading to do, and am running on reduced sleep so I won't be able to exploit the day myself. :( Actually, its perhaps somewhat ironic that while I am against being in a relationship on Valentine's Day, the past two I couldn't have done anything anyway as I was working until 11 last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Well, romance is alive and well... somewhere, but probably not for Carlton Cole. The BBC lifted this snippet on their football gossip column today:
West Ham striker Carlton Cole has revealed to his Twitter followers his Valentine's Day gifts for his partner - an iron, cleaning products, Oxo cubes and a bottle of champagne.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/gossip/) The full story is in the Daily M**l - if you can bring yourself to read that! Somehow I don't think it his largesse would receive the Magicme Seal of Approval.
(Actually, the snippet below this one is about Aston Villa buying Gee - they must have misunderstood Bonnie's 'squadron' post...)
Wormy, I don't. I really am not about the whistles and bells. I loved yesterday because I got back with the man I love and want to spend the rest of my life with. He had spent almost a year messing me around, breaking my heart but it all got sorted and much to my amazement I even got flowers from the worlds biggest commitmentphobe. That's why I loved it. Now going back to bed to cuddle up to him.:-D
Well if that doesn't keep him from taking the Sligo job, nothing will.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
Oh sweet jesus, of all the things to put into my head on a cold Wednesday night, no, I'm going back to watch Mean Girls, in Russian.
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Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Too late, and now hard to explain. Note to self, should not divulge details of Valentines day on foot.ie. Leave it in the head.
Decided to splash the cash and get her one of these.
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...26728523_n.jpg