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February 14, 2006
Valentine's Day
Don and I had a very lovely Valentine's Day. It started after midnight last night when I found a card that Don left by my purse that I believe he intended me to find as I left for work in the morning. It had a Victoria's Secret gift card in it. Yay! And since I found it early, I gave Don his card and presents early.
I gave him an action figure of a Cylon from the original Battlestar Galactica as well as a Viper fighter (which even comes with a tiny little pilot about 1/2 inch tall...hee hee). I also gave him some Star Trek movies and music and five, count 'em FIVE sticks of his Nautica Competition deodorant (which is becoming exceedingly hard to find). I think he was pretty happy.
But then I got to work and as I'm checking my e-mail, I get an e-mail from the receptionist telling me I have flowers at the front desk! I admit I was a little surprised to find that Don had sent me a dozen BEAUTIFUL roses on TOP of the VS gift card he gave me, not to mention we had dinner plans too. What a LOVELY surprise! Don usually doesn't give me flowers, which is ok with me because the cats usually destroy them. I'm usually pretty darned happy with chocolate, but they're really nice to have. So I'm keeping them at work where everyone can be jealous that I have such a perfect husband!
In the evening, we had reservations at the Quarter Bistro for dinner with 4 other couples, mostly dojo people. (I got to wear my red Chinese dress that I got off eBay for 1 cent...that's right 1 cent, plus $13 shipping.) When we got there, I saw other people in the room we had reserved and I was worried that they overbooked. I was going to be very angry if they had, especially since when we booked it, we were the only ones to do so. No one had thought of reserving that room for Valentine's Day at that point. But they were just getting the bill. So we waited in the bar for about a half hour.
We had a very nice dinner, except that the service could have been better. Sue's prime rib came to her cold and the waitress forgot to put Steve's order in. Then when we went to pay the bill, she took our money, then came back and said she'd forgotten to charge us for Steve's steak and that she needed to charge us. Plus she combined the bar bill with the dinner bill without asking permission first (which I think Greg wasn't happy about).
At least she didn't automatically add the tip like most restaurants do. Greg only gave her about 12 1/2 percent and wrote a note on the bill that "service could use improvement." I couldn't have agreed more.
By the end of the dinner, my nylons were driving me absolutely insane. I absolutely CANNOT stand wearing nylons unless I have to (which I did with this dress). They always start itching me after about an hour. Sitting on a hard chair with no cushion didn't help either. I was SOOOOO happy to change out of them when I got home! UGH! Then it was time to watch a little tv and download some more music. I EVEN got the music from the Prince of Persia Sands of Time video game! I don't even know how they could get the music off the game! But it was cool to have.
What did you do for Valentine's Day?
Posted by Amy at February 14, 2006 11:59 PM
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I asked Brian to please not take me out to eat this year for Valentine's Day. I felt like just hanging out and watching TV or a movie. I said I wanted a grinder from Mancino's, so he went a brought me a very tasty pizza one and we watched the Olympics! I was very happy. I had Valentine chocolates for dessert!
Posted by: revjen ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://priori2ude.net/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 20, 2006 12:01 AM
Sounds like a good day.
My day was slightly different. When I got home from work, I took the boy downstairs and proceeded to teach him the fine and subtle art of mosh-pit dancing. I must say, for a 1.7 yr old, he did quite well. The secret is really in the head-banging technique. The boy seemed to prefer Metallica and The Flaming Lips (Yoshima battles the evil pink robots!) as the inspiration for his dance moves.
I figure if we continue to raise him like this, he'll either be the most popular boy in school, or the one that everyone makes fun of. Thankfully, I'm not the only parent so he actually has a chance at the former.
After the kids went down for the night, I did the correct Valentine's day thing and spoiled the wife shamelessly. Vintage cornball stuff. Just to give you perspective, it involved Barry Manilow, so I hope that helps you understand why I'm being brief. And yeah, the wife is an unrepentant Fanilow.
Posted by: Silvermarble at February 17, 2006 08:21 AM
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