my gf's birthday is tomorrow so I feel you shin. Taking my gf to a nice seafood/steak place on the beach and got her orchids for today( her favorite flower), and a necklace for tomorrow with some homemade cake.

I've noticed that even if what you do for her doesn't turn out right, it's the thought that counts. If you make her dinner and it makes you both want to lick your toilet, she'll still be happy you tried and you'll laugh about it afterwards.

I hope everyone has a happy valentines day!

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Flowers........$40
Dinner.....$90
Movie........$25
Drinks......$50
Hotel..........$115
The look on his face when you tell him you're on your rag...............Priceless
(My fav thus fare)

At any rate. me and my wife are broke, so im waiting till Saturday after i get paid and we going to get Star Pizza( for all you houston people, its good stuff) and then Ice Cream at Amys Ice Cream(Also good stuff in houston). Also we dont have the child to tag along with us so that also a plus.

other then that im going the easy route. Chocolate. the romantic thing doesnt work on her though. Paper Hearts would just make her mad because we would have to clean it up later

besides, when you have a kid, and you get a break from them, you really dont want to do the romantic thing. you want to go home and take your frustrations that that child presses upon you everyday by.........having angry mommy and daddy time

haha had to change my plans..

she woke up earlier than i did (5:45 am, WTF?) so no wakin up with flowers.

i called in a favor at work and stayed home, baked a two layer cake, shaped it like a heart, added pudding center, strawberry frosting, decorated it, bought some roses

i wrote her a poem that was going to be on a card i was making, but instead i just wrote her a song with some of the stuff from the poem

now were gonna go have dinner. either sushi (bomb sushi, so, so, bomb) or rainforest cafe (i don't prefer it, but she likes it )

hope yall had a fun day with ur valentines

not to toot my own horn but BEEP BEEP my lobster bisque was amazing! :-D

I've never cooked so many things at the same time, it wasnt that hard because my dad installed another oven in my kitchen.

I didn't realize the lobster had to go in the pot with the water,white wine and fish stock while it was still alive, so i was sad when i had to do that... i got over it fast because Larry was delicious.

When i got home from work there were roses all over my room, boxes of candy. There was a note that said, "I love you but your room is messy maybe you should make your bed." Under my pillow was a box with this in it.



Then he did the dishes :-P.

I wish i took a picture of how the table was set it was so pretty with my roses and little heart shaped candles.

She loved the origami hearts I left for her and like last year, I bought her a living plant because I kinda like the idea of giving a plant that will continue making flowers rather than giving flowers that are gonna die. When we moved into our house, she really started wanting a flowering fruit tree, so last year for V-Day I got her a weeping cherry tree (that looks great in our yard and is doing splendidly, I might add!). Yesterday I got her, I don't actually know what the hell it is, some kind of flowering hydrangea-looking plant. She got me a single red rose, a fabulous variety of really good dark chocolate, and took me out for dinner.

But still, if I could have, I'd have done the fabulous-jewelry-under-the-pillow trick. That's awesome. So now I'm just gonna do it at some random, non-holiday time when I can afford it.

got my girlfriend a goldfish! lol different but she liked it

Looks like this fella

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That is beautiful. I love things that really come from the heart.

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and I <3 pets so that is adorable

I am not the jewelry kinda girl so instead I got Video Games for ps3 and dinner..cant forget the beautiful flowers...for him I got him the PS3....I also gave him a puzzle of the world trade center since he lost his aunt 9/11...I should of have had it finished for him but im gonna work on it the next couple of weeks its really big soo it might take some time. I was the most happy that we got to spend some time just the 2 of us.

Tina looks like you had a real romantic evening there...thats awesome...he seems like a keeper!!!!!!!!!

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Dude is she into goldfish? I don't care how nerdy this makes me, but I breed goldfish for a hobby. I have black moor, ryukin, and ranchu. There is a website much like this one for interest in goldfish. kokosgoldfish.com

this had to be my most extravagant valentine's ever....

i got her a "heart cuff's of love" by IDX-change $60 (dunno if you've heard about it but its famous in hollywood and all the celebrities are wearing their jewelry now, check out the press section on the link)
plus the usual card and rose $20

we went to Frenchy's Bistro

check out the menu....we each ordered alternating food to try everything.

Valentine’s Day Celebration
Thursday February 14th, 2008 from 5pm

MENU

First course
Marinated Bulgur & roasted root vegetables
Or
Norwegian smoked fish plate, potato vinaigrette

Soup/Salad
Bouchot Mussels soup with Saffron
Or
Organic greens with goat cheese toast

Main course
Grilled Escolar from Fiji, natural with olive oil & herbs
Or
Roasted Pork prime rib on the bone, Truffle sauce
Dessert

Valentine’s Duo
chocolate timbale and heart shaped marshmallow upon warm chocolate fudge

heres the big nut shrinker............
Sixty-five Dollars per person plus taxes & gratuities.

dinner came out to exactly $165.48. it was so wierd eating fine dining. the first course could only be described as birdseed (Bulgur), i was too afraid to ask for ranch dressing on my salad and had to settle for the light vinaigrette, but the prime rib was to die for. im so glad im not one of those people that do this kind of dining daily, ill stick to sizzlers and chili's thank you very much.

saw "jumper" afterwards. $10 <-cheapest thing hahaha

i guess the best part was that we didnt have to wait for anything. (cept food). we got restaurant reservations ahead of time and got seated right as we walked in. we also picked up movie tickets in the morning so that it wouldn't be sold out. there was a long line at the box office when we arrived so even that was a quick walk in. so many valentine's days have been ruined by waiting hours to get seated or movies being sold out. all in all i think i gave a pretty good pampering

This post has been edited by forkee: Feb 16, 2008 - 4:43 AM

nice forkee

glad yall had a good time

how was the food?

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Hey there.Not reali although Its been something shes been after for a while, that website looks helpfull