Valentine's Day 2/14/2012

Normally I spend Valentine's day alone, wallowing in self pity, as I rub in being single watching other couples act cute while roaming the school hallways, and displaying ample amounts of PDA. Usually, it's spent wishing, wanting, waiting for someone to actually do something special for me that year. To find a dozen red roses in my locker when I open it up, or one rose, or, for that matter, any kind of flower - paper or real. To find a note from a secret admirer, or chocolates, just some sign that there was someone special for ME out there and not one that I create from some morbidly depressing fantasy. But each year ended in tragedy as I stayed up till 12 at night waiting for a glimpse of love on the most romantic day of the year, but watching the clock every year turn 12:01 and never getting anything. Well, this year, I actually have someone special in my life. And to make sure I had a good Valentine's day, I told him a week or two before that I wanted something special from HIM. Something that I could wear that would be special to me. Something I could look at and honestly like knowing he bought it with his own money, instead of buying me something from my own money. But this year on Valentine's day, we practically slept all day, as it was one of my very few and rare days off from my dull job. We watched some t.v which, from seeing a commercial for papa murphy's, decided for dinner to get a heart shaped pepperoni pizza called "the heartbaker" which we had to take and bake at home. We also got groceries from our WIC coupons at Safeway, and decided to get chocolates there as well. The chocolates were not good at all. He has bad teeth and over half of the chocolates were hard caramels, and the other half tasted disgusting anyway. But as much of a hopeless romantic as I am, I added another year to my depressing list of Valentine's day where nothing special actually happened. He didn't get me a necklace, or a bracelet, or anything special of any sorts. Yet I had made him a letter file:///C:/Users/alyssagibson/Documents/Valentine.htm and several cute little coupons as well. The kiss ones were my favorite. http://www.hotdateideas.com/gift-ideas/love-coupons-kiss But even though the day was relatively boring, I still got to spend it with the one I love, and that is the whole point of Valentine's day, not getting presents and being treated like they get treated in Hollywood.