The day started out like any other, the morning routine, coffee, breakfast, school run. The King worked late on Thursday night but was still up early because he had his weekly board meeting. We exchanged gifts… I bought him romantic stuff- he bought me lingerie. *sigh* you know where that’s leading.
We joked that he was cooking me dinner (which ALWAYS means steak) and that means the crew were coming over. As it turned out the Spaniards are a romantic lot and sent him home to do his husbandly duty alone.
And so you know what we did when he got home? Wallpapered the rest of the hallway with the brick paper because of course! Who wallpapers on a friday night at 6pm? Who does it on Valentine’s Day? We do but you know that about us already.
By the time we finished it was after 8 and the butcher was closed… bah bah bahmmmmm.. NO STEAK, and so we set about deciding what to eat. It was snowing, it was cold and every other couple in the city were invading our restaurants so we opted for delivery. I’m good with that! You don’t have to dress up for delivery π
But Valentine’s Day is not a time to find new restaurants.
a) they don’t know where you are and so there’s often delivery issues.
b) what if they’re popular and too busy to cook our food?
But The King knew best and decided we were having Italian and he set about ordering. I love italian food and I was pretty hungry. He set the table, with candles and napkins … the whole nine yards in the romance department. And we waited…and waited…and waited.
After an hour we called to find out where the hell our food was. I was ravenous by this time. It was 10pm, on Valentine’s Day! I should have been wined and dined and bedded by now and yet we were still waiting to dine…
The restaurant assured us it was coming and finally at 10:45 we were seated and enjoying our candle lit dinner.
After dinner we watched a movie, we should have gone to bed but we didn’t. Actually, The King watched and I fell asleep as usual. Seriously if I ever get insomnia I just have to put a movie on after 11:00 and boom lights out.
Finally as we settled into bed, I braced myself for what would be a very difficult romp. (It was late and I was really tired, ok) but the King, being the thoughtful caring man that he is said ” I think we should save our Valentine’s sex Β for the morning….” such a thoughtful chap π
I think I was already asleep.
Doesn’t that sound like a dreamy date? Don’t you wish you led a glamorous life like me?
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Ha! Sounds like a great, romantic date, but I could have sworn that was real brick and not just wallpaper.
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I know, doesn’t it look awesome! Not bad for $150 and a few hours work.
It is good to know after years of marriage romance is NOT dead. Mutant cooked me dinner and I spot cleaned the whole house while the kids pretended we were doing nothing. Over the weekend, I got a new toilet seat to add to the new bronze toilet handle. He put in a new bronze faucet and sink for me to compliment the faucet and sink he put in the weekend before for himself.
He did bring me flowers, but I’m more excited about the new sinks, faucets and toilet accessories. Hope is renewed that someday I’ll get my whirlpool bath back.
I would much rather spend my Valentine’s day like that than going out for a fancy meal. But then again I have been told I am weird for that. I think your Valentine’s was just as romantic as the couples’ who decided to do something romantic in public.
Was the food good, at least?
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Yes it was but sheesh! I still love him, and we made up for it in the morning π
I absolutely love that wallpaper. The look of real brick without all the dust and cobweb collecting nooks and crannies.
That wall paper looks SO real. Amazing.
My V-Day wasn’t much different. We went out for pizza but it was still a nice time.
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It really is awesome! We were surprised by the result.
Never been a fan of Valentine’s Day but I can get behind one where you get important stuff done. That is cool.
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Well we’re a get shit done kinda couple π
This sounds like a lovely Valentine’s day. We ended up going to a Youth Valentine’s Dinner at our church. The youth served us dinner. I loved that it wasn’t crowded and we didn’t have to wait a long time to be seated. It was perfect. I love the look of the entire hallway. π
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That sounds like it was nice
Hey how come those bricks don’t match up?
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Ha ha!