By Any Other Name

[plumtreeblossom]

Winston Floral delivered to the office. My boss got an enormous bouquet of pink roses from her wife.

I'm spending the evening at the gym.

:-|

Comments

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

Erm, my recollection was always that you were emphatically anti-Valentine's Day as a specific day for romantic observance; so you always told me, which is why I tended not to do things for you on V-Day when we were dating. As I recall, your distaste had to do with the commercialism and cultural pressure that the holiday embodied to you.

I freely concede that I may be misremembering details here, so feel free to correct. But I think I have the gist of it right.

p.s. That we never agreed on Valentine's Day (or as every store in Japan insists on calling it, St. Valentine's Day) doesn't make you a bad person; none of this is criticism.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I don't like it as a day of obligation in particular. I don't like it as a day to be all sweet while mostly neglecting the rest of the year. I don't like it as a way of getting people to spend lots of money they don't have on mostly empty gestures.

Generally speaking, I do not ignore V-Day entirely, but keep things I do for it inexpensive so as to not buy in. My preference is to show my love every day, and the grand gestures can be on other days. I can enjoy playing with it and being romantic (I know I've told you about a few particulars), but that's just because I really love being all romantic and schmoopy in general.

That I have a million ideas (and a few actually things) with no place to go is hardly particular to this one day, which was my point.