Valentines Day

[Windmill]

So that time of the year is coming up!!! This will be my first year having someone to celebrate it with!

What are YOU going to do? I'm looking for some ideas!

My SO isn't exactly the most romantic person in the world in terms of dates/presents etc. Neither am I really, but I'm more so than him. We haven't celebrated one of our annaversaries (we've been dating 6 months) so this will be our first celebration as a couple!

Though I think I'm going to have to organise something. It'll have to be pretty cheap and low-key, but special too

 

[tessas212]

Eh, I'm not a high maintenance person at all. I'm simply hoping t see him that day(though the day really matters little - I'd love to see him every day).

 

[gailygirl]

My boyfriend isn't very romantic, either, but I know he went all out last year for the girl he was dating, so I'm expecting something. I did ask if I could cook dinner for him, because I want to help him save money and I know he would feel like he has to take me out! So we'll probably spend the evening at my house and have dinner, but I don't know what else.

 

[Blank123]

i'm not really expecting anything either. we're LDR so there's no chance of celebrating together. last year we didn't do anything, we didn't even get on the phone because we were both working. sooo yeah we'll see.. i'm sending him a card but beyond that i don't see much happening

 

[none the wiser]

i'm not really expecting anything either. we're LDR so there's no chance of celebrating together. last year we didn't do anything, we didn't even get on the phone because we were both working. sooo yeah we'll see.. i'm sending him a card but beyond that i don't see much happening

^ Yup, ditto. Maybe this is why I find Christmas more romantic than Valentine's Day...we always spend Christmas together

We're probably gonna exchange gifts.

 

[puddleoffaith]

I have no idea...my very first Valentine's day with a bf...what do most people do?
darn, I actually liked being single on V-day. Now I'm nervous. lol.

 

[Windmill]

Well, I myself have an idea. I'm thinking of making chinese at home, because we both have chinese if at all possible for our trips out to town or whatever. Its really nice. I'm making it because to buy it for him would be too expensive for me. Plus, this would be way healthier.

So I'll make a healthy chinese dinner. Then I'd put it in a chilly bin or something, and then we'd spend the day together (I'd bring it to school of course and probably dump it in the canteen) and then have it for a picnic lunch somewhere, then head off home. My extremely small present (I'm right now not earning much money and my parents can't give me any- this he knows) will be actually an icecream.

See, one day we were talking about the icecream "Bubble O bill". Well he said he tried it once and didn't like it that much (I was shocked because as a kid I LOVED it) and said he wanted a "Bubble O Ben" (he's called Ben) we laughed and moved on however I think it'd be cool to make a Bubble O Ben and top it with his favourite stuff to make it look like him.

Right now though I'm trying to figure out just how to do that for under $5

But my problem is simply- what do we do between school and dinner? I don't want to take him back to my house or me go to his. We do have some free movie tickets we could use up, but there are no good movies on. I suppose we could just talk. But it'd still be 4 hours, it'd be nice to have something to do.

 

[The Julikenz]

But my problem is simply- what do we do between school and dinner? I don't want to take him back to my house or me go to his. We do have some free movie tickets we could use up, but there are no good movies on. I suppose we could just talk. But it'd still be 4 hours, it'd be nice to have something to do.

Battleship. Monopoly. Games like that involving extensive chance, planning, and game tactics... four hours GONE.

One of my friends is having a trail of lolliers to a table with battleship set up, with paper decorations of love hearts and chains set up.The winner is treating the loser to reruns of startrek. /my idea

 

[ladyinwaiting16]

dont know what we are going to do I would like to do something special for my sweetheart, we will be together a year.

 

[Windmill]

Well I think I've figured it out

I will make the dinner. It will be a healthy chinese dish with plenty of rice (he loves rice) and desert will be a small fruit salad of mango, manderines and sour apples (those are probably his most favourite foods EVER)

After school I will take him to the bus exchange and blindfold him. I will get us on the bus to a little seaside town just outside the city. That is where we went once for a day and totally enjoyed ourselves- it was probably our only real date.

By the time it takes us to walk to the bus exchange and by the time it takes for the bus to get to the city I'm hoping it'll be near tea time. We can mess around for a little, then head to this track which we climbed there that was super steep. At the top is where we'll have dinner. We'll exchange gifts there too. I think what I'll get him will be a little memento (very cheap) from a gift shop at the little town if there is one, so he can have it to remember the day. Then we can head back down and maybe get a GIANT ice cream if we feel like it we discovered them there- they're just massive for $2. Then we can bus home. The whole evening, food bus fares and present should hopefully not cost more than $20. I'm thinking $5 for bus, $5 for present and $10 for food.

I think its cool that some of you guys aren't doing anything special too though Or anything too special. It is just another day. However I am personally a closet romantic and like to do romantic things, even if I don't do them very often, so doing this will bring me a lot of happiness

 

[Missy Baby]

This year I won't be doing anything for V day

Its 2 days before the wedding so my fiance has allowed my girlfriends/bridesmaids to take me out for the night to enjoy ourselves before the wedding... It has been months since I've seen them so he said that since we are getting married 2 days later and will be spending the rest of our lives together I should spend time with the girls...

I'm sad about it but i know he means well...

So I guess for V day i will be hanging out with my bridesmaids...

 

[somethingBEAUTIFUL]

Well I think I've figured it out

I will make the dinner. It will be a healthy chinese dish with plenty of rice (he loves rice) and desert will be a small fruit salad of mango, manderines and sour apples (those are probably his most favourite foods EVER)

After school I will take him to the bus exchange and blindfold him. I will get us on the bus to a little seaside town just outside the city. That is where we went once for a day and totally enjoyed ourselves- it was probably our only real date.

By the time it takes us to walk to the bus exchange and by the time it takes for the bus to get to the city I'm hoping it'll be near tea time. We can mess around for a little, then head to this track which we climbed there that was super steep. At the top is where we'll have dinner. We'll exchange gifts there too. I think what I'll get him will be a little memento (very cheap) from a gift shop at the little town if there is one, so he can have it to remember the day. Then we can head back down and maybe get a GIANT ice cream if we feel like it we discovered them there- they're just massive for $2. Then we can bus home. The whole evening, food bus fares and present should hopefully not cost more than $20. I'm thinking $5 for bus, $5 for present and $10 for food.

I think its cool that some of you guys aren't doing anything special too though Or anything too special. It is just another day. However I am personally a closet romantic and like to do romantic things, even if I don't do them very often, so doing this will bring me a lot of happiness

Windmill, I know you put a lot of thought into that, and it shows. Sounds wonderful, I hope ya'll have a great time!

My boyfriend and I both enjoy romantic things, but on the smaller scale. Nothing huge or extravegant. I've already gotten him THE most perfect card, short and simple, but very much adequately describes how I feel about him and us. Then I bought him some cologne which smells wonderful and that I think he'll like; plus he's running out of his current kind. He told me he would probably make me something because he doesn't have too much extra money. Most likely he'll write me a poem or pour his heart out on a piece of paper too...he does this every now and then, and I cherish it, because I 've never had a boyfriend who would do that before, and it means so much. We're actually going to celebrate Valentine's Day on Friday night though, the day after, by going to his house where he said he'd cook for me (he's a wonderful cook), and we'll have the house to ourselves for a time while his parents and brothers leave to go somewhere. I'm really looking forward to celebrating our first Valentine's together!

 

[InvisibleViolet]

I'm looking forward to Valentines day. I'm still getting his gift all planned out.

 

[Gods4me]

last year we had only been going out 2 months but we went out for dinner and then went to the pictures we had a great night and this year i think it will be the same. but we both love the pictures it is what we done for a first date it almost like reliving it. lol.

 

[Manda_24]

I have absolutely know idea what to do for my boyfriend for valentines day, we haven't talked about anything yet though I've been trying to think of something to maybe do. Neither one of us are very romantic and I don't really care about getting gifts. I'm awful at coming up with stuff for gifts, he's better at that than I am.
I know our college group is doing a guys cook for the girls thing so we will probably go to that then just hang out together afterwards like we usually do.

 

[The Julikenz]

I'm not expecting anything for Valentines day. In the space of 3 days my SO received the only two fines he's ever had in his life (which are about $400 in total) and he's his work has been closed for renovations. I'll probably get him something lame that he'll love, but truth be told, nothing is planned yet.

 

[Starcradle]

At this point, we are uncertain regarding specifics. My Sweetie is very romantic and I know that we will be exchanging gifts and going out to dinner. We are simply debating what restaurant to visit, as we would like for it to be at least somewhat romantic in atmosphere. We are customarily content with going to places like Wing Basket, where you sit at wobbly tables and need a mountain of napkins to eat their barbeque chicken wings. (In all honesty, his company makes any place romantic.)

Although we have been in a courtship for two years, this will be our first Valentine's Day together (we were previously long distance--he moved here almost four months ago.) I am greatly looking forward to it! (On a side note, this will be the first occasion in my nearly 32 years of life that I've a date on Valentine's Day.) I praise God that it will be with my beloved fiance!