Yesterday was Valentine's Day and I refrained from posting for the sole reason to give everyone a chance to find out about my contest and enter a "what a soul mate means to me" comment. I have had oh-so-wonderful comments and I want to thank all of you that have commented so far.
The deadline is Friday, Feb. 17, so if you haven't commented yet, click here and do so because two copies of "Romancing the Soul" will be given away when the winners are announced on Monday, Feb. 20!
Now my non-vent...
I call it my non-vent because it's not really a vent, just a heated opinion...well...not really heated...because I'm not mad. Really.
Two days before Valentine's Day, BF and I agreed we wouldn't cave in to commercialism and materialism (such non-conformists, aren't we?) and spend any money on each other just because it was Valentine's Day.
They get us on Christmas when we HAVE to spend every last dollar we own, plus run our credit cards to the max, plus pawn our dog and take a second mortgage out on our house, but we figured we had some control over Valentine's Day. Hallmark wasn't going to sucker us in and neither were those florist commercials.
I was happy with this and BF was, too. After all, not only could we spend what money we would have spent on these commercialized symbols of Valentine's Day, but we could use our money to do something after the fact like take in a movie or a dinner on an ordinary day and not just because it was a holiday.
Everything was hunky dory.
So BF comes in with a slushie maker (for him) and a dog grooming comb (for the dogs) and throws a bag of jelly beans down on the table beside me.
Uh.
Okay, I know we agreed not to buy each other anything, but jelly beans?
After BF made some sort of snow creme looking slushie and tested the dog comb out on the dogs (which didn't work), he grabbed the bag of jelly beans and headed into the bedroom to watch T.V.
Now, it may be me, but, does anyone see anything wrong with this picture?
Like I said, I'm not mad. That's what non-vents are for. I'm not mad...really...I'm not...seriously...I'm not...I didn't like jelly beans anyway...
The Y chromosone strikes again. DH and I don't exchange gifts anymore but at least he didn't come home with something for himself.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is we're a romantic couple all the time - we don't need Valentine's Day to remind us to be. But we did figure it was a great excuse to do our usual thing - plus indulge in some champagne and Godiva. But nobody should feel pressured to do something on that particular day. You choose when you want to be romantic.
ReplyDeleteIf they were plain jelly beans, no big deal. BUT....if they were the special flavor ones then I would at least expect that he would give me the pina coloda ones!
ReplyDeleteare you sure that the jelly beans were intended for you..
ReplyDeletebefore he ate them?
Just posted on your soulmate blog.
ReplyDeleteAs for the jelly beans... Well, to me, that was sort of insulting. At least, I would've been insulted.