Just want to remind all the time on the forum is limited today; Valentine time is well worth the time away from trains (just for today!!). Hope you all have a great day.
- Bob
Delivered roses and chocolates to my beautiful bride of 19-1/2 years. Enjoyed some cuddling and snogging (to cries of “Eeeeeew” from the boys – at which point I reminded them that, if not for “Eeeeew,” they wouldn’t be here!), and enjoyed a lovely dinner with my wife while the kids watched a movie in the other room.
I can spare a few minutes for trains…
Tami works evenings from 2 PM until 11 PM - We celebrated Sunday. I bought the usual heart shaped box of cheap chocolates, a talking card, and flowers. We were both so tired Sunday evening, we stayed home and ordered Pizza! Oh Yeah - I bought her a ‘pink’ Wii controller for her Wii-Fit exercise…
About 10 AM this morning I got a call from Tami while I was at work - She said come out to the lobby. She had a card, cookies, and 5 ‘balloons’ for me(and I got the usual looks as I brought them into my office). Guess I can do my usual ‘play trains in the basement’ until her birthday!
Jim
My (much) better half & I realized long ago, after 21 years of marriage, that we don’t need some artificial manufactured holiday to show our affection for each other. in our house, every day is Valentine’s Day! (awwwww, isn’t that sweet…)
Today is not only Valentines Day but my Wife’s Birthday and Our 19th Wedding Anniversary, I had already ordered the ice cream cake so I took her out for a nice dinner and I gave her a pair of diamond earings. She was so shocked I usualy give her tools or stuff for her art, she was not expecting jewelry. She got me the Dremmel Trio, I had been wanting it and thought that she was going to get it for me last Christmas, it is going to come in so handy on the new layout.
Now we are at home watching “The Cape” .
Hope everyone has had a wonderful Valentines Day, I did.
Ron
We stayed in and got a pizza. She has business in NYC in two weeks, so we’re going to do Valentine’s in NYC. My gift was getting to take Acela for the trip.
Since our wedding anniversary was less than two weeks ago (31 years and she still hasn’t kicked me out), we don’t typically pay much attention to Valentine’s Day.
But, just because the weather was so nice in the Old Pueblo today, I fired up some coals in the barbecue and cooked us up a couple of nice steaks.
If my better half wants any Valentine candy, we’ll buy it tomorrow on clearance.
Valentine´s Day? Oh, that´s the day after my wife´s birthday!
This may be one of the reason´s my wife and I don´t pay any attention to this day. We are married for nearly 27 years now and our love does not need this “reminder”.
Love is …
letting her run your favorite train on your layout!
Another good story. Saturday, we went to the local Home Improvement store for some items I need for the laundry room remodeling. Tami picked up some other stuff, and paid separately for her items. I held back my bag of lag screws and a nut driver set I needed for the project. After Tami paid for her stuff, Roxanne(the clerk) looked at me and said: ‘Jim, I hope that is not what you are getting Tami for Valentines Day!’
Hey, I know to buy the lady something that is not practical(like jewelery) on Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas, or Valentines Day! A new toaster or nut driver set does not make it…
Jim
This year, My Other Half {MOH} and I are in a bit of a financial bind, having just laid out on CC $700 in transmission repairs for one vehicle on top of other CC payments due to other vehicle repairs.
SO, I pointed out that if we each got a card at around $4 each, and I got a box of chocolates-which are usually milk chocolates and we like dark chocolate- at a minimum of $10, and bought the cheapest dozen roses at another $17, and a bottle of champagne at about $10, we could spend $45 to $60 {If I got a bigger box of chocolates} and that could go towards paying off CC bills…
ANd MOH works in the floral Dept. of a local grocery store chain and so automatically would be working hard and long hours all weekend and Valentines day itself…
So we decided that we would have a nice quiet dinner at home the day after valentines, with a beef roast already in the freezer, and would instead put all that money towards paying down the CC bill.
Not to romantic, but we are broke now and cannot afford to celebrate with the usual commercial trappings, and all we really need is our love for each other! And it will mena more to us to reduce our debt than to eat a box of chocolates that we won’t enjoy so much, and for flowers that will die anyway!
I was trying to think of an appropriate special train to run for Valentine’s Day…
That reminded me, my first train was the HONEYMOON EXPRESS. Got it for Christmas when I was two years old. It was like an inch thick disk maybe 7 or 8 inches around, lithographed with a scene, with a slotted track where a tiny train (1/5th N scale?) ran around and around with a clockwork windup motor. A “tunnel” on one side and two bridge trusses supported the middle portion inside the slot.
When I was 2 years old, I didn’t contemplate the “mushy” implications of Honeymoon Express. I just liked the train.
We’ve always considered Valentine’s Day to be a “Hallmark Holiday” anyway. We’re allowed to spend up to $10 on each other. Very easy on the budget.
We don’t need a holiday to celebrate our love, either… but it’s a nice excuse.
I was thinking that you had it bad, but after thinking about it you really have it good.
Every important day for your wife is the same day. And you will have the entire retail industry to remind you in plenty of time.
I spent my money in Atlanta (WGH show) cause I haven’t had anyone to celebrate with since, well. Forever. (never seem to have them around V-day)
Nice, you might be able to get away with cheaping out and getting one thing to cover all of that. lol (not really)
My wife snuck downstairs and found a bare spot of plywood on the layout and made a “heart” shape out of ballast and clump foliage…I may hire her to do some more work…[:-^]
Dude, that’s awesome! My wife would probably take a sabre saw to mine and make it into a heart shape.