Happy V Day ((Long))

Happy Heart Day fellow bloggers.

I am currently sipping a mocha nut fudge coffee attempting to soothe my nerves. I was driving to work trying to remember about Valentines Days past to post about when I almost got into an accident. I hate that feeling because then for the rest of the commute your nerves are frazzled. I heard traffic was bad my normal route so I decided to take a cut through road to route 1. It is a very windy road with lots of conservation land, a beautiful farm and a bird sanctuary. Well apparently it was also a bit icy. I came over a hill slowly and saw that two fellow motorists had been in separate accidents. One car was up a hill the other off the road into a large rock. The car in front of me slowed and so did I and that is when I started to slide. I turned my car into the snowy side of the road barely missing the car in front of me and the one already crash into a rock. I asked the woman if she was ok and if she needed me to call anyone. She was fine and police were on their way so I slowly made my way out to route 1 and then onto miserable 128 to work. I blame a large percentage of the reason why I don't blog as often on terrible traffic. It is killing my mood almost daily.

Back to my previously scheduled post....Valentines Days of Old.


When I was a child my dad would go to the local candy shop and buy my sister and I each a chocolate heart-shaped lollipop, one milk chocolate and one white chocolate. He would buy my mom a box of white almond bark and some penuche fudge. It was a tradition until I got into highschool. This will be my first valentine's day without my dad. I had intended to head over to the same candy shop to buy something for my mom but schedules have not allowed. I sent her flowers instead.

When I was in grade school giving out Valentine’s Day cards was the tradition. We would be sent home with a class list. My mom would buy boxes of valentine's and I would write one out for each student in my class. On the day we would deliver our notes to construction paper made mailboxes on each desk. I remember that in 4th of 5th grade a certain popular girl only gave out valentines to people she "liked" and not the whole class. I had always thought it was sort of the rule that everyone got one so although she had given one to me I asked her why not everyone else. She said "because I don't have to if I don't want to"...Well let me tell you this girl went on to become one of the more popular girls in my graduating class and became more of a bitch with each passing year.


In Junior high we got to send chocolate lollipops for some fundraiser around to our friends. My girlfriends and I sent them to each other. My freshmen year a guy named Kevin sent me one. It was my first an only highschool lollipop from a male. We became very close friends for the rest of highschool. The week of my 17th birthday (my senior year) I had been complaining all week that my boyfriend was blowing off my birthday to go to a Van Halen concert. Kevin showed up at my house after school the day of my birthday with a dozen of the most beautiful roses I have ever received. He was a really sweet guy and a good friend.

In highschool Valentine's Day meant roses being sent around either by a secret admirer or by your friends. The choices were pink or red and they were delivered during home room on the 14th. All the girls and guys would walk around all day with their bunches conspicuously sticking out of their book bags in plain sight for everyone to see how popular they were. Most people I know sent them to themselves…. It is pretty funny to think back on it.

When I was in my 20's and teaching a fellow instructor and I became really good friends. He was like a pimp among our company but I was taken so we were just good buds. I would get to hear about all his adventures in dating and believe me when you date women who work together it is an adventure. I remember him telling me that he planned to buy an extra Valentine’s Day card for his lady of the moment to save and give to her in July. Because in his opinion what is more thoughtful than giving a Valentine’s Day card when it is unexpected. Well I thought wow that is a really clever idea until I found out he purchased a bunch of the "same" cards and gave them to different women all with the same sentiment written in them. I can only shake my head at this memory......

As for all the other valentine's days I do not have really any major memories. Last year my then soon to be husband surprised me a couple of days beforehand by cooking a fantastic fancy dinner complete with music and candlelight. It was a great Valentine’s Day surprise before hand :)

This year was the first I could by a "For My Husband" card. I left it for him with a burned copy of the Ben Folds song "The Luckiest" as it says all I would in its Lyrics. I hope he likes it. I think we are going to grab a low key dinner and then hit up "Definitely Maybe" because that was my request.

Anyone else have good plans??