Thank you, lovely goats! Ah, I can well remember your story of the Valentine's Day climb and ski-down from a few years ago. I thought it was the best date I've ever heard of! Well, times - they are a-changing. But not to worry - a couple of years from now you will be able to take the mountain kid with you and resume climbing en famille.
Our date was of the far more sedate type - dinner at a new restaurant (new for us), preceded by chocolate truffles thoughtfully ordered well in advance from my favorite store by mine own darling. I told him, "You're one of the luckiest guys in this country. Your wife neither remembers nor cares about Valentine's Day (I really don't). You could get away scot-free with no planning and no buying. Yet here you are, planning and buying anyway." Then I gave him several heartfelt kisses and - come to think of it, mine own darling knew what he was doing all along! :-)
I don't necessarily have traditional Valentine's Day expectations, but I do enjoy it as a holiday. I've never been bent on it being only about *romantic love* though. I like celebrating it equally amongst friends and family, too. I failed to make it over to my bff's mailbox with a book like I'd planned, but I did manage to send her a text.
Sure, it's commercialized all to hell, but so's every other holiday. Modern day Christmas is about wrapping up an overabundance of material gifts and chucking them under a tree and calling that religion.
While I'm posting about... um... wool, your very tiny and overdue birthday gift is giving me some, er, problems...
Yes, all holidays are commercialized. But there are some I ignore more than others, b/c I didn't grow up with them. The most prominent of these are Thanksgiving, Halloween and Valentine's Day. I'd never heard of them until I came to the US, so I tend to ignore them.
You can't tease me about a gift and not give me any more hints. What on earth are you making?
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Our date was of the far more sedate type - dinner at a new restaurant (new for us), preceded by chocolate truffles thoughtfully ordered well in advance from my favorite store by mine own darling. I told him, "You're one of the luckiest guys in this country. Your wife neither remembers nor cares about Valentine's Day (I really don't). You could get away scot-free with no planning and no buying. Yet here you are, planning and buying anyway." Then I gave him several heartfelt kisses and - come to think of it, mine own darling knew what he was doing all along! :-)
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I don't necessarily have traditional Valentine's Day expectations, but I do enjoy it as a holiday. I've never been bent on it being only about *romantic love* though. I like celebrating it equally amongst friends and family, too. I failed to make it over to my bff's mailbox with a book like I'd planned, but I did manage to send her a text.
Sure, it's commercialized all to hell, but so's every other holiday. Modern day Christmas is about wrapping up an overabundance of material gifts and chucking them under a tree and calling that religion.
While I'm posting about... um... wool, your very tiny and overdue birthday gift is giving me some, er, problems...
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Yes, all holidays are commercialized. But there are some I ignore more than others, b/c I didn't grow up with them. The most prominent of these are Thanksgiving, Halloween and Valentine's Day. I'd never heard of them until I came to the US, so I tend to ignore them.
You can't tease me about a gift and not give me any more hints. What on earth are you making?
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Here's hoping you get an adventure of your own very soon.
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