Valentine's Day

Shannacore · #1 02-05-2014, 03:00 PM

What are you and your significant other doing for Valentine's Day? Is Valentine's Day even relevant for those of you who are older / have been married a while?

mudvayne1812 · #2 02-05-2014, 03:44 PM

We have reservations for dinner where we went on our first date. Isn't that just precious? <3 <3 and then she gets stuff and i'll spend the rest of my evening doing things i don't want to.

Nocsucow · #3 02-05-2014, 03:45 PM

my wife gets the double D .... dinner and dick

Nocsucow · #4 02-05-2014, 03:46 PM

oh and hair did nails did ... new outfit and every year i get her heavenly angels from VS

Tenlaar · #5 02-05-2014, 03:50 PM

I'm doing the same stuff I do any other night, and she'll be wishing I was "romantic."

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While some believe that Valentine's Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine's death or burial--which probably occurred around A.D. 270--others claim that the Christian church may have decided to place St. Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to "Christianize" the pagan celebration of Lupercalia. Celebrated at the ides of February, or February 15, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.

To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at a sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification. They would then strip the goat's hide into strips, dip them into the sacrificial blood and take to the streets, gently slapping both women and crop fields with the goat hide. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed the touch of the hides because it was believed to make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city's bachelors would each choose a name and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage.

Sidelle · #6 02-05-2014, 04:18 PM

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Nocte · #7 02-05-2014, 04:21 PM

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What are you and your significant other doing for Valentine's Day? Is Valentine's Day even relevant for those of you who are older / have been married a while?

Dinner reservations. She's pretty sentimental, so the relevancy of VDay probably won't wear off for her.

Nocsucow · #8 02-05-2014, 04:22 PM

oh and why my wife kinda gets alot on Vday is because we got married on the 16TH i gotta pay double

Sidelle · #9 02-05-2014, 04:36 PM

Do you guys have Valentine's Day plans, Tralina?

Kayso · #10 02-05-2014, 04:39 PM

Make an agreement that you will go out the Thursday night after Valentines day. Make it your "special" tradition.

No prix fixe menu. You get the weekend staff without the weekend crowd. If they over-bought champagne for Valentines proper, you might get a deal.

Not to mention flowers, which mysteriously increase in price around February 1st, seem to go back to the regular price.

We sit at home on the 14th, watch a movie, and talk shit about how we're going to get a much better meal at a much better price next week.