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Adamski47
02-11-2006, 01:53 PM
So yesterday my girlfriend met me at my house right after work; I walked in the door with her.

I jumped in the shower real quick, having worked out after work, and she sat down and started doing some work for her Adobe Illustrator class. ANYWAY, on my desk was a list of what I had to do for Valentine's Day and without even thinking about it being there, she saw it.

On the note was written: Song and Flowers. I was going to buy her flowers, take her out for dinner, and am finishing a song that I've been writing for a few days now that I was going to burn to a CD etc etc.

So, what should I do now? Do I go with the original plan or should I think of something new? I would love to come up with something that would really surprise her. We cannot do anything elaborate because we both work Wednesday morning. We've been dating about 2 months but it has been the most intense and special relationship either one of us has been a part of.

I'm usually good with gifts etc and was going the traditional route for V-Day and spicing it up a bit with the CD I was going to make her (insert and all) for her song. Nothing too extravegant.

Got any ideas? If I can think of something fresh and original (not cholocate or a stupid bear) I think I will go with it.

Oh, and since I know it's bound to be asked here is a pic:
http://myspace-836.vo.llnwd.net/00482/63/84/482134836_l.jpg
bbor
02-11-2006, 02:07 PM
Dude...it better be something good......cause she is way over your head:D
DanGarion
02-11-2006, 02:21 PM
Go with your initial choice.
Farrah Whitworth-Rahn
02-11-2006, 02:27 PM
Definetely keep the song as part of the night. Girls are suckers for things like that - songs, poerty, love letters etc. Of course if a guy wrote a poem for me, I'd wonder if he was gay...but songs and love letters are special.
DanGarion
02-11-2006, 02:34 PM
Definetely keep the song as part of the night. Girls are suckers for things like that - songs, poerty, love letters etc. Of course if a guy wrote a poem for me, I'd wonder if he was gay...but songs and love letters are special.
Songs are just poems put to music...
ageofquarrel
02-11-2006, 02:37 PM
name the song you wrote "I Couldn't Afford to Buy You a Present (So I Wrote You This Song)"
Farrah Whitworth-Rahn
02-11-2006, 02:38 PM
Songs are just poems put to music...
True. I guess the added step of adding music doesn't creep me out as much.
DeToxRox
02-11-2006, 02:40 PM
Don't do anything. That'll shake her world.
DeToxRox
02-11-2006, 02:41 PM
.. or take her and a friend bowling.
Celeval
02-11-2006, 02:45 PM
Keep with the original plan.
jbmagic
02-11-2006, 02:46 PM
have you slept with her yet? that can be special :)
Honolulu_Blue
02-11-2006, 02:49 PM
.. or take her and a friend bowling.
... or just take her to Taco Bell, because according to some it's better than oral sex.
bbor
02-11-2006, 02:56 PM
I have a funny V-day story.

As a rule my wife and i don't do valentines day.Why would we love each other more on one day than the others??

Anyways.....i decided i was gonna surprise her with some jewelery one V day.I purchased it with my visa.My wife in 10 years had NEVER opened a Visa bill.Well...guess what....for some reason she opened the one that had the jewelry purchase on it,......$@#$@$#!....i came home to find the envelope open,but she never mentioned anything about it.

I knew she had seen the purchase,so i returned it.............and repurchased it on my American Express card.:D

V-day came and i could tell all day she was expecting something.It was KILLING her not to ask me if i had bought her anything.At about 10 pm the dam broke.She storms into our bedroom asking what i bought at the jewelry store.I played dumb(not a stretch)...whatever would i be in a jewery store for?????

I had her call Visa and they told her that the charges had been reversed.There was no longer a charge from the jewelry store on our bill.

With that settled she climbed unto bed with me........and layed on her new jewelry box:D:D

Surprise!

Needless to say.....she was VERY happy that night....and so was i :)
Eaglesfan27
02-11-2006, 03:16 PM
... or just take her to Taco Bell, because according to some it's better than oral sex.

Well played. :D
DeToxRox
02-11-2006, 03:46 PM
... or just take her to Taco Bell, because according to some it's better than oral sex.

Not always, but believe me, when your dick turns out raw, Burger King can be better then oral sex.
AZSpeechCoach
02-11-2006, 07:12 PM
One year I handmade a book of haiku for Mrs. Speechcoach. These were poems that we had been trading over e-mail (it was a phase we were going through). Imagine my surprise when she had made the same thing for me? Gift of the Magi anyone?
tarcone
02-11-2006, 09:27 PM
V-Day overrated...a holiday made up by hallmark. that being said i bought my wife a string bikini this year that she will wear on our trip to cancun, which was her xmas present....WOO HOO string bikini i cant wait
tarcone
02-11-2006, 09:28 PM
by the way your GF IS waaaayyy over your head
you must have a huge dick
Adamski47
02-11-2006, 11:04 PM
by the way your GF IS waaaayyy over your head

Ha, you guys wish. ;-)

Here's another one for ya:

http://myspace-872.vo.llnwd.net/00482/27/81/482151872_l.jpg

Thanks for the advice, I'm sticking to the original plan.
Pumpy Tudors
02-12-2006, 12:48 AM
You're both pretty hot.

Am I sharing too much?
DaddyTorgo
02-12-2006, 12:50 AM
V-Day overrated...a holiday made up by hallmark. that being said i bought my wife a string bikini this year that she will wear on our trip to cancun, which was her xmas present....WOO HOO string bikini i cant waitpiksplzkthnx
BYU 14
02-12-2006, 09:57 AM
You're both pretty hot.

Am I sharing too much?

I hope you were fully clothed when you typed this....
sterlingice
02-13-2006, 01:40 AM
I hope you were fully clothed when you typed this....Pumpy, you know I love you man, but the nude Pumpy pic is the one I don't want to see.

SI
SackAttack
02-13-2006, 02:24 AM
Pumpy, you know I love you man, but the nude Pumpy pic is the one I don't want to see.

SI

What, you thought "Pumpy" was just a random word choice?
Karlifornia
02-13-2006, 04:43 AM
Adamski....your girlfriend is very hot. If she's cool to boot, don't let her get away too easily :)
Adamski47
02-13-2006, 06:31 AM
Adamski....your girlfriend is very hot. If she's cool to boot, don't let her get away too easily :)

Thank you. She wont be going anywhere.

You know the feeling, when you've worked so hard your whole life to make yourself the person you are today...and then finally someone comes along who makes all of the hard work pay off? That is her to me.

We are very open about our feelings for one another already. She has already told her family (and me) that I am the one for her. I've returned the comments. We've both been in enough other relationships to know when something is truly special (which this truly is, in more ways that I can share) and to know just what we are looking for. I truly feel blessed. She is my best friend, and I've never felt so close, honest (being myself 100% of the time) and comfortable with someone.

I'm hoping a few years from now I'll be posting my engagement thread. My fingers are crossed!
jbmagic
02-13-2006, 08:45 PM
Adamski47

how did you guys meet? what did you say to her when you first saw her?
Pumpy Tudors
02-13-2006, 09:56 PM
I can't speak for Adamski47, but I can show you how I landed my wife:

http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/4308/nowthatsjustsilly5ox.gif
sterlingice
02-13-2006, 10:00 PM
I can't speak for Adamski47, but I can show you how I landed my wife:Oh, we already knew that. ;)

SI
MizzouRah
02-13-2006, 10:00 PM
I can't speak for Adamski47, but I can show you how I landed my wife:

http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/4308/nowthatsjustsilly5ox.gif
LOL! :D
bbor
02-13-2006, 11:02 PM
I can't speak for Adamski47, but I can show you how I landed my wife:

http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/4308/nowthatsjustsilly5ox.gif

Stunt double?:D
Raven
02-13-2006, 11:06 PM
Pumpy, the longer I watch that, the funnier it gets.
Galaxy
02-14-2006, 01:24 PM
LOL!
Airhog
02-14-2006, 05:55 PM
I think pumpy could of had a career as eddie murphy's stunt double
sterlingice
02-14-2006, 06:23 PM
I think pumpy could of had a career as eddie murphy's stunt doubleSo, for instance, it might have been Pumpy we saw for all of Pluto Nash (ok, for the three people who might have seen it)?

SI
Galaxy
02-14-2006, 07:40 PM
Thank you. She wont be going anywhere.

You know the feeling, when you've worked so hard your whole life to make yourself the person you are today...and then finally someone comes along who makes all of the hard work pay off? That is her to me.

We are very open about our feelings for one another already. She has already told her family (and me) that I am the one for her. I've returned the comments. We've both been in enough other relationships to know when something is truly special (which this truly is, in more ways that I can share) and to know just what we are looking for. I truly feel blessed. She is my best friend, and I've never felt so close, honest (being myself 100% of the time) and comfortable with someone.

I'm hoping a few years from now I'll be posting my engagement thread. My fingers are crossed!

Cool..How old are you two?
Galaxy
02-14-2006, 07:41 PM
What did the rest of you guys do/get/give for today?
oliegirl
02-14-2006, 07:52 PM
I got a pretty necklace pendant I had asked for and added it to an existing necklace that I had.

I got radii a new fog free shaving mirror for the shower - I know it's not romantic but when I asked what he wanted this is what he told me - and he likes it :)

Just got home from the Melting Pot and am SO full...love that place!
JeeberD
02-15-2006, 08:46 AM
I got the finacee' roses and a card and I got a couple of cards, some dark chocolate Hersey Kisses, and she cooked me dinner when I got home from work.

We didn't do much this year so we could save up for the wedding.
rkmsuf
02-15-2006, 08:51 AM
Dude, don't take this the wrong way but I'd totally do your girlfriend. Right in front of you if I had to.
FrogMan
02-15-2006, 09:23 AM
What did the rest of you guys do/get/give for today?
As I said in another thread, we didn't do anything special as she was working from 8 last night to 8 this morning :(

She'd dropped the hint that if I wanted to give her something for v-day, it had to be the latest CD from Avenged Sevenfold. Ya, you read right, Avenged Sevenfold, how romantic :D I played dumb when she mentionned it, adding something like "we give each other gifts at v-day now???" but went and bought it this weekend. On Monday evening, I put it in her car's CD player and set it so she'd be listening to "Bat Country" on her way to work on Monday night. She told me it made her night :)

FM
lurker
02-15-2006, 10:27 AM
Ha, you guys wish. ;-)

Here's another one for ya:

http://myspace-872.vo.llnwd.net/00482/27/81/482151872_l.jpg

Thanks for the advice, I'm sticking to the original plan.

I read this thread yesterday and then saw someone that looked just like you two at a grocery store in the city...you weren't at a Dominicks being all googly-eyed at each other last night, were you? That would be so crazy if it was you!
MizzouRah
02-15-2006, 12:09 PM
Oh my what pink and purple tulips will do for you once your wife gets home from work and the kiddies are asleep. I'm worn out. :)
Logan
02-15-2006, 06:58 PM
So did she like it (or did I miss this somewhere)?
Logan
02-15-2006, 07:16 PM
What did the rest of you guys do/get/give for today?

My girlfriend and I have been together for about 5 months. Last weekend, we spent a night in the city, so splitting the hotel room was our present to each other, and I took her out for dinner and drinks. We're both right out of college so we try not to spend too much, but this was a good way for us to have a nice night out together. I consider myself very lucky that I have a girl who doesn't *expect* me to spend money on her, unlike some of my friends' girlfriends.
Galaxy
02-15-2006, 07:32 PM
I consider myself very lucky that I have a girl who doesn't *expect* me to spend money on her, unlike some of my friends' girlfriends.

Kinda why I stay away from a big portion of the girls around here.
sterlingice
02-15-2006, 08:36 PM
I consider myself very lucky that I have a girl who doesn't *expect* me to spend money on her, unlike some of my friends' girlfriends.I'm very lucky as my wife is like that, too

SI
Logan
02-15-2006, 08:46 PM
I'm very lucky as my wife is like that, too

SI

She better be, unless you have some kind of situation going where you guys maintain separate bank accounts. :)