Valentine's Day

I'm usually not big for V-Day. In the words of Ebineezer Scrooge "It's a poor excuse to pick a man's pocket every 14th of Feb" Luckily I married a Gal who feels the same way about it. It's a cheap holiday invented by Hal mark and continued by jewelry, flower, and chocolate companies.

Now that's off my chest, I decided to give to give this whole thing a shot. Called around for some roses, and laughed after several places told me that a dozen would cost about $80-$100. They're flowers...that die after a couple of days. Luckily when I ran into Harmon's to grab some dinner food, they had roses for $30 a dozen! I was able to put together a little dinner surprise for Lisa and we spent 3 hours sitting around our table talking.

In typical guy fashion, I had to improvise a bit. We didn't have candle holders, so I used some old little glasses and filled them with water dyed red. The center piece is a folded pillow case. I had to rearrange the flowers and get a new vase, and so on.

All in all I have to say I'm pretty impressed with myself. Not bad for a bumbling Neanderthal like myself.