Sadly, it looks unlikely that we’ll be able to revive any old ILE VD threads this year.
Suicidal impulses and smug statisfaction alike can go here.
seems unlikely that anyone will take pity on me between now and wednesday
We won’t be dining out at any over-priced fancy-schmancy restaurant on Wednesday night, but will be staying home to eat. I am cooking a starter of flaked confit of duck breast sandwiched between lacy potato galettes on a bed of rocket, followed by citrus marinated fillets of monkfish served with a lemon dressing and cinnamon/almond rice, with a baked cheesecake to finish. The cheesecake was supposed to be a Tia Maria concoction but when I started cooking it yesterday I realised I didn’t have any Tia Maria so I sloshed some Kahlua in there instead.
I haf made him a card, and bought him a red-painted terramundi savings pot which has a gold heart on it, and tickets to see Spamalot.
I am going to an event at which Happy Hardcore tracks will be performed on a church organ.
I’ll be watching Rangers v Hapoel Tel Aviv on the telly. No idea what he’ll be doing. We might go out for a meal on Thursday instead, when restaurant prices go back to normal.
I am going to a munch.
You mean giving oral sex, right?
I’ll be working in a restaurant. It isn’t going to be pleasant.
No.
(xpost)
Aah, but you might have some amusing stories about tipping to tell us afterwards.
No, actually, scratch that, you probably won’t.
Oh, CJ...
er, xpost
That image is broken, and I feel strangely pleased.
It is a CAN OF WORMS. Opened.
Not a good thought in proximity to a thread that up until now largely involved restaurants.
I don’t really think you’re one to criticise putting horrible thoughts and images in people’s minds...
You have a point!
what’s a munch?
but big.
I fear this thread has been subverted.
xpost, you’re confusing fearing with wishing there, aren’t you?
A. and I will not be going out Wed. night; we haven’t been able to find a babysitter for the last few weeks. Small gift exchange planned, though.
No! (xpost)
In the spirit of the thread: hopefully I will be taking someone with me!
I just googled “valentine’s day ideas” and found the following list which is making me laugh quite considerably:
1. Leave a small note saying “I LOVE YOU” beside her pillow to make her day begin with some romance in the air.
2. Don’t go to office and spend it with your spouse.
3. Prepare Valentine cake in the shape of HEART.
4. Take her out for a long romantic drive.
5. Send bouquet of Roses with a love note.
6. Leave a small gift hidden in some corner of home with clues to its where about.
7. Don’t buy a card, rather make it yourself (& it works).
8. Go Dancing together.
9. Buy a nice set of lingerie/briefs.
10. Write a sincere, wonderful love letter.
11. Give her/him a nice sensuous message.
12. Kiss and Hug your spouse often.
13. Decorate the house especially for your spouse on Valentine’s Day.
14. Propose your spouse again.
15. Arrange a special Valentine’s dinner for your parents (at least an hours drive from home) and arrange a Valentine bash, for your sweetheart at your house.
16. Play chess
17. List down twenty-five things that you like about your sweetheart and fifty things that you don’t like. (Count yourself lucky if the second list does not exceed ten, but kick yourself in the @#$$ if you manage to list fifty)
18. Confess…
19. Sketch something for your sweetie pie.
20. Cook a special dish (If it’s your first attempt, keep those antacids handy).
21. Just take time out to express your feelings, thoughts, fears and even fantasies to her.
22. Prank: Give your valentine the keys of your new car and then tell her that it’s the only the keys you can afford now.
23. Take a long walk holding each other’s hands.
24. Brush or comb her/his hair
25. Let her sleep while you watch over the children
26. Read out romantic/erotic poetry to your Valentine
27. Start saving for a special holiday fund for the two of you
28. Make New Year resolutions together (though it’s kinda late for that) and try to follow them.
29. Exchange a list containing each other’s likes and dislikes.
30. Visit a place where you’ve always wanted to go, but never got the chance.
31. Just lie on the beach and star gaze.
32. Go bungee jumping.
33. You may try visiting an orphanage and talking to the kids.
34. Have video game competitions at the arcades
35. And finally, whatever you do, just let your hair and your defenses down, and enjoy each other’s company.
I’m rather keen on number 13, myself. The whole house doesn’t need decorating but the hall, stairs and landing could do with another coat of emulsion.
Decorating the walls up the stairs isn’t easy though, so perhaps we could combine it with number 32.
23: both hands?
14. Propose your spouse again.
Haha, if I did this, he’d think I was a menk. Possibly even more that if I suggested visiting an orphanage and talking to the kids.
30. Visit a place where you’ve always wanted to go, but never got the chance.
Just you. Not both of you.
I doubt we’ll be going out as rest. are packed. last night G. was asking what I wanted. I told him this is not like a birthday and gifts should be just a thoughtful expression of your love. His reply, “oh like carmats?” he knows one of his presents. :( I’m afraid his other present, a handmade stuffed adult swim robot giving the finger, won’t be viewed as romantic either. But both are thoughtful and things I think he would enjoy. sigh.
For the record I requested he take me to Dreamgirls.
11. Give her/him a nice sensuous message
Taken from Mills and Boon, perhaps?
33. You may try visiting an orphanage and talking to the kids.
Yes, nothing like some patronising poverty pron to inspire the hron.
i am going to be single and working late
3. Prepare Valentine cake in the shape of HEART.
I think this would be quite the challenge, and a true measure of your devotion.
18. Confess…
“Lovey, I was nineteen when I first murdered a prostitute...”
36. Knife a hobo
29. Exchange a list containing each other’s likes and dislikes.
That’s hott.
33. You may try visiting an orphanage and talking to the kids.
Why limit yourself? Why not an asylum, prison, or other state-run facility of her choosing?
29:
You dislike margarine.
Love, StanM
CJ, do you think he’d mind if I popped ’round for dinner too? I’d hate to spoil the mood but that DOES sound like a good dinner.
I am single and cooking dinner with a roommate in a long distance relationship (I’m going to propose a winter vegetable casserole, cheesy biscuits, and spinach as the menu, yay!). Which is worse: being single, or being in a serious relationship separated by the Atlantic?
Any list with a Thomas Crown Affair reference is a-ok by me.
I think I am going to eat sushi, on Valentine’s Day.
I will be having a baby, if it turns up on time.
A baby is a good Vday present!
GHETTOTECH VALENTINES DAY FOR ME?
hooray Meg!
24. Brush or comb her/his teeth
that list is ridiculous. and poorly written.
For once I am glad I’m single on Valentine’s, bitch would probably talk all the way through L O S T.
Haha!
(also, Sam brings teh stating of obviousness)
Me and Mister Monkey will not be able to have lovely Valentine’s Day together because we have stupid housemates who never go out anywhere. Sigh.
(also, Sam brings teh stating of obviousness)
I do my best Alisa.
45. Watch the live coverage of the Brits.
Am now maybe going to see HIS GIRL FRIDAY tomorrow, which sounds like a perfect Valentine’s.
22. Prank: Give your valentine the keys of your new car and then tell her that it’s the only the keys you can afford now.
eh?
I think I’m going to be swapping clothes with total strangers.
I think maybe that list was written by someone whose first language was not English. I’ve only just worked out that 2. Don’t go to office and spend it with your spouse. actually suggests that you shouldn’t go to work but should stay home with your partner instead. I thought at first it was an order NOT to go to your spouse’s office to spend the day with them there.
I’m cooking. That’s it. There might be wine and the Devil Wears Prada (my choice). I will try not to snore all night. Last of the romantics baby!
I am semi-dreading Valentines Day. Last year a tarte tatin was thrown. We won’t be having that this year.
Really? Wow!
Tarte Tatin frisbee!
Tarte tatin isn’t as aerodynamic as a Frisbee, but it’s stickier. Very difficult to get off things..... and people.
Not if you have a dog.
A dog that’s not afraid of heights....or has a VERY long tongue.
Can I get one before tomorrow evening?
No, but you could probably get a chihuahua and a long ladder by then.
a long romantic drive
= handjob in traffic on the South Circular
Plenty of tarte tatin on the South Circular if you go up there at certain times of the weekend...
Didn’t take much if any notice of Valentine’s Day before now, but Lena’s keen on it, so we’ve sent each other some nice packages with pressies and things, and I’m furiously busy writing up something for CoM so I can post it tomorrow.
Nothing like romance to get me working! ;-)
As I say every year, Valentine’s Day is actually my birthday so it’s a good excuse to a) take my single friends out and get twatted, and b) never feel emo ever. Hooray.
That is pretty great, actually.
I congratulate Matt’s parents on their excellent family planning.
Yeah, it’s near enough my birthday for me not to care. For those of you interested, I shall be announcing my departure from the teen ages live on air this Saturday at 00:00:00.
The merry month of May is greatly underrated.
x-post from or into?
My birthday is in November, so I might have been conceived on Valentine’s Day. There’s a cheery thought.
xpost: very good, 3/10 if I’m feeling generous, which I ain’t.
x-post. Got yr e-mail Marcello, many thanks. Will reply. Sorry for tardiness—I have been ignoring work email until now.
CJ—me too Nov 16th. Dangerous people Scorpios.
x-post “I ain’t”
LOL
I had long-stemmed chocolate covered strawberries yesterday.
Haha, that’s because your boyfriend knows a few things about how to live. And because you deserve them, of course!
Boyfriend?
Oh, do you share a last name with someone else around here? I think I just misattributed yr user name. Sorry!
get twatted
haha I love this, kind of a horrible double entendre
My husband stopped to buy me some flowers on the way back from work once, in a wonderfully spontaneous romantic gesture. Except he was on his motorbike at the time and since he had no panniers, he’d stuck the flowers down the front of his motorbike jacket and on arrival home he flourishingly presented me with a dozen long-stemmed stems.
I am Mary on this board:)
Laurel and Mary: hah!
My Mom sent me a VDay package which included Orange Sponge Candy which made everything infinitely better.
This is spectacularly sappy, but in addition to other terrific presents, she customized a bunch of candy hearts for me with sandpaper and food-coloring markers, and I just think that’s the coolest thing ever.
my sis and i got truffles in the mail from our stepmum!
i got my BF the achewood cookbook
presents received thus far: a liter of grey goose and a bottle of roederer rose champagne
presents given: roky erickson tickets (great bcz it benefits me as well)
I just cannot get my head round the idea of buying Valentine’s Day gifts or cards for anyone other than, well, my valentine. It seems strange.
The Achewood Cookbook rules.
Aww. My momma usually sends a Valentine’s package, it’s sweet.
I always get this fear that I’ll get a valentines card, because I am emo.
My mom likes to send packages with homemade cards whenever a minor holiday arises. She’s the cutest. I always get a box with candy corn in it around Halloween.
he customized a bunch of candy hearts for me with sandpaper and food-coloring markers, and I just think that’s the coolest thing ever.
sandpaper???
I meant to send v-day packages to my nephew and nieces but forgot. :(
To rub off the existing writing!
ah! :)
i’m considering going to that knitting factory diamanda galas performance tomorrow night. by myself. whooooo singlehood etc etc
i love doctoring candy valentine hearts to say things like RIM JOB and BLOW ME and passing them out amongst friends
I always get this fear that I’ll get a valentines card, because I am emo. — jel
emo, eh? i for one ‘ve always been under the impression that you rather are mega’!
i am not doing a single thing... but i get money from my mom and grandpa! (because its a holiday, weird)
I’m going to make this tampon flower bouquet.
And these earrings:
Make a tampon bouquet for Diamanda Galas. She’ll dig that.
This was prompted by a comment on a friend’s LJ poll about Valentine’s Day.
my VD is starting getting stood up for a text messaging date :(
not that I give VD any credence except for conversation hearts and homemade valentines
man, teh suckiness of the sandbox tonight isn’t helping
I forgot to mention: I got a VD card the other day, and I’m baffled. I thought I knew who it might be from, from the writing style of the message; but she denies all knowledge.
Maybe she’s just pretending it’s not from her, to add to the intrigue.
ugghh this day sucks
I left a big bowl of strawberries, rasberries & cream in teh fridge, srounded w/roses petals, for xtra special valentine breakfast for my GF. I even went and bought alphabet fridge magnets and spelled out “YOU GOT BRAKFAST[sic]IN HERE PAWS” on the fridge door, and she still didn’t find them ;_;
So I had to get out of bed and point it out. Woe is me.
There’s a strange burning smell at work today. We looked around for a bit and it comes from the backpack of a female collegue. Turns out her husband programmed their oven last night to bake some croissants for a romantic breakfast in bed this morning, but he somehow made a mistake and they woke up at about 1 AM when they smelled the burning croissants in the kitchen below. No damage done, she still got the flowers and fresh fruit juice in bed this morning, but everything they have (and our office) now smells of burnt bread.
Ah... romance.
i got my BF the achewood cookbook
The gift that keeps on giving! Great choice!
The Achewood Cookbook rules.
Ally OTMFM!!!
I got a text from S.O. It is all good in the hood. This is just like any other day though so why am I getting so stressed about tonight!?
I had to leave the house before anyone else awoke today.
Left something nice though.
unflushed stool?
I expect that my Valentines card from TTH is held up in the mail. International post is notoriously unreliable.
Aw, Kit, yours is cute.
I got an apologetic “I didn’t get you anything for Valentine’s Day” from Mister Monkey when I picked him up from the train yesterday evening, but that’s okay.
someone in the office got a genuine ‘who is this from’ valentine, and one prominent reaction was ‘try to get a police escort home’.
I got my gf flowers...boring I guess but I really hate cards and I got her a CD last year, this year I didn’t want to get a CD for her.
She is upset because she was finishing a job last Friday and they took her out in the afternoon so she didn’t get a chance to post my card until Monday. It’s funny cos I keep saying I’m more upset that she is upset than if my card doesn’t arrive until tomorrow but she is still upset anyway!
Sonned by the Irish post office.
Did you listen to or ignore the advice of the Rt. Hon. Mr Hillary Benn MP?
now they’re talking data protection law.
I wonder if FP is implying that my anecdotes are rubbish, upthread :)?
Those of you who’ve worked in kitchens will greet the news that our clueless new manager has decided to arrange everything in two sittings with a shudder of horror. I’m not anticipating a pleasant evening. I am anticipating 280 well done steaks.
Aw, Kit, yours is cute.
Cute != flawless, unfortunately ;_;
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/189408358_d68100312b.jpg?v=0
i gave these rabbits in heat to my husband
Well, shit, what did I do wrong? :-(
2nd hart brake of teh day, ouch
I am taking my beloved to a performance of happy hardcore tunes played on a church organ. I would be doing this even if today was not Valentine’s Day, as I am a big bundle o’ romantic love all year round.
i am hoping today that a secret admirer reveals himself.
they call it ‘flashing’, i believe.
Flashes at you?
xpost!!
either that, or like, sends me flowers.
No, Matt!
(has anyone else noticed, though, that the Guardian seems to run the *same* “working in a restaurant on Feb 14th is horrible” article every year?)
I woke up to a dozen red roses on my ruined kitchen counter. and a lucy from peanuts card. aww.
It really sucks not to have the image code on the sandbox FAQ.
you mean to put an image in your post?
yes
>img src=<blahblah>/a<
only, um, not
well I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t remember it or is too lazy to use control keys.
i brought guinness-chocolate cupcakes for my co-workers and got one vd card w/ nerds candy! so far, so good!
<img src=“URL”&rt;
obv, &rt; ,basic html.
<img src=“img”>
<img src=“url”>
Morbs, it’s img src=“http://your_url_here.com”
Now put an open pointy bracket at the beginning and a closing pointy bracket at the end. Alternately, visit here: http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/
xp, fuckit i’m posting it anyway :)
I am taking my beloved to a performance of happy hardcore tunes played on a church organ. I would be doing this even if today was not Valentine’s Day, as I am a big bundle o’ romantic love all year round.
I don’t doubt the all year round bit but an organ recital of happy hardcore? Where?! I can only imagine you screaming “CAN YOU FEEL IT” at the top of your lungs whenever possible!
thx!
If you went along, Kev, you would not have to imagine it.
The evening would only be complete if the Vicar was to wear a dress shirt, white tie and tails, but then take his tailcoat off to reveal that he was wearing only the starched front of the dress shirt, and could make big box little box very effectively with his dress gloves.
BIG BOX LITTLE BOX! Has someone been talking to Aussie David? Or is this a running “happy raver” joke that everyone but the Americans already knows?
Not a chance in hell of me going! Have a quiet night in planned.
That get up would seriously bring da voibe! He’d need Rener in the background making ‘woo woo’ noises and a big neon dummy thing as well. GLOWSTIX ALL ROUND!!!
Laurel, have you ever heard of the “Supermarket shop” dance?
I don’t doubt the all year round bit but an organ recital of happy hardcore? Where?! I can only imagine you screaming “CAN YOU FEEL IT” at the top of your lungs whenever possible!
it’s on in Christchurch. At 8.00pm. It is free. You do not need a ticket.
This morning I opened the door for a flower delivery for my roommate. The guy delivering them looked kind of excited to be surprising someone, and may have been disappointed that the wrong person answered and the right person had already left for the lab. (They’re gorgeous flowers, though, big lilies. Her boyfriend has good taste.)
Supermarket Shop, no. David taught us the following:
1. Big box/little box
2. Catching tiny bubbles
3. Doing the ironing
4. Doing the hoovering
5. Mowing the lawn
6. Eating a banana/eating two bananas
...to be combined at will. Hmm, I forget any others.
i got an “i choo-choo-choose you” card!
# Sandbox Valentine’s Day thread (160 new answers, last at 4:02 pm)
# prison rape (75 new answers, last at 4:01 pm)
^^ just wanted to point this out
NU-WALLPAPER
I am taking my beloved to a performance of happy hardcore tunes played on a church organ.
DV, hem hem, “taking”?
GLOWSTIX ALL ROUND!!!
Ah, thanks for the reminder, kv. Being a bit oldskool, I’m bringing white gloves and Vicks.
As for dances, I’m particularly fond of Flossing Your Nose and Italian Pepper Grinder.
valentine’s day takes a 180, from my inbox:
“However, if you decide to come to my show tonight, you can try the delicious pink heart shaped cookies and/or the homemade chocolate cupcakes I made for my fellow improvisers. I will also let you buy me a drink and I will make out with you.”
On St. Valentine’s Day in 1349, roughly 2,000 Jews were burned to death by Christian mobs in Strausbourg. These mobs, led by nobles who owed large sums to Jewish moneylenders (usury being a sin for Christians), blamed the Jews for poisoning the city’s wells and causing the bubonic plague.[9]
VD protests, including burnings, going on in India
Spent Valentine’s Day in bed with a cold (hence non-stop posting to ILE), and watched an episode of Gilmore Girls where they had a dog funeral, and an episode of House with tapeworms. Romantic.
That tapeworm thing spoiled the end of my dinner.
It spoiled the end of our packet of Viscount biscuits as well, let me tell you.
this is possibly the worst valentine’s day i’ve ever had, quite a feat.
Today started buried in stress and deadlines, and ended with lots of sushi. I’m going to sleep so well tonight.
shiv sena is so amazingly non-fun (although I sort of felt like burning stuff today too)
Allyzay OTM
but it was kind of my fault I think, still
Yeah, I’ve been blaming you all day!
sorry
i dont know what got into me
I got emailed the hilarious/cute Link cartoon from VG Cats (you are the last piece—of heart that is... aww hee). And I made us both dinner, which was fancy steak and veggies.
Then we watched our NewsRadio DVD, and Nick tooled around wiht the photo function in the Wii by writing OMG FAG on pictures of peoples Miis.
We so mature.
i actually enjoyed my valentine’s day! i watched trashy tv (top design), an iranian film and went for a drug screening for my new job! fantastic!
i ran a lot of outside errands for work today. in new york. before it stopped snowing.
i am now drinking whiskey and listening to sisters of mercy which is how all valentine’s days should be celebrated
it’s on in Christchurch. At 8.00pm. It is free. You do not need a ticket.
I am sad to have missed this, how was it? Would you let me know if something similar is happening again in future?
rener did he get up and do his thang?
Dinner was a success but I think I snored :(
Sorry that was about my proposed ‘romantic’ efforts for the evening as mentioned upthread.
Laurel, I’ll try and find a link to the supermarket shop. It’s about 8 or 9 moves combined.
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hello, loves