Valentine Smellentine

This was the first year for a long time that we were both single for valentines day. We were hoping for lots of love but we were pretty disappointed. We thought we would come home from work to see our letterbox overflowing with messages of love, we expected our phones to be ringing off the hook, we thought we would be strugling to find the front door with all the flowers and presents that would be there....we didn;t do quite that well. Mop scored a sympathy message from Scotty "Happy Valentine's Day in case you dont get a real one," Suzie got about 20 Valentines day cards (most of which were from the kids she teaches), we got a card in the mail that said "Either one will do, from you know who" haha. And that's about it. No chocolates, no flowers, no roses or any type of thorny plant for that matter.

BUT...then we discovered "The Book of Love." This is a liftout in the West Australian newspaper that people write messages to their loved one in. We soon discovered that all of our admirers used this way of confessing their feelings to us. It was also great to discover some of the nicknames that people give us... like batgirl, babes, sweetheart etc. Suzie was pretty stoked with her personalised message from Scott (Scott is obviously a code name for Smith, the hot guy on sex and the city)....it was something like.... Suzanne, you are beautiful like a butterfly and i will love you forever. But maybe it was even better....

To try and deal with the pain of being unloved on Valentines Day we invited Shendelle over and decided to make dinner. But it was too hot and dinner take so much effort so instead we let KFC do the cooking and we had the ULTIMATE TEAM FEED or whatever it was called while we watched more episodes of sex and the city.

After Shendelle went home we decided it might be a god idea to go for a walk to burn off all the deep fried fat. But then we decided it was too hot so we bought ice cream from Baskin and Robbins instead. Turns out that Baskin & Robbins is couple central. bah. We decided to go and eat our ice cream at the beach but turns out that the beach is an equally romantic valentines day destination. Couples everywhere...in cars, in sand dunes, on picnic blankets...a voyeur's dream really.

We stood in the carpark to eat our ice-cream. at one stage suz offered mop a taste of her Love Potion 31 flavour and then fed it to mop on a spoon. Thats about as romantic as it got....

So...all in all, we still decided that being single on valentines day was not so bad, certainly better than being in a relationship for the occasion (and the other 364 days)