Valentine’s Day 2017
Yes, you should celebrate and appreciate the people you love every day of the year and yes, Valentine’s Day is so highly commercialized now that its kind of lost its true meaning, but that doesn’t mean its not still a good excuse to take the time to tell the ones you love that you love them and spend some quality time together.
I’ve never been a huge celebrator of Valentine’s Day. To me, buying lots of presents for the person you’re with just because its Valentine’s Day seems a bit strange and I also don’t like that more often than not its women showing off that their partners have bought them expensive things on social media while the men seem to get chocolate and a card if they’re lucky. It just all seems a little unbalanced and sits a little oddly with me, so I request the same thing every year.
My boyfriend and I live in the same uni house (a little different to living together in general I know) so we see a lot of each other. We eat dinner together every night but rarely go out for a meal together and I feel like we sometimes take it for granted that we’re lucky enough to spend so much time together. Because of that, I like Valentine’s Day to be a good excuse to go out for a meal and just spend some time together.
We celebrated a day early this year, purely because we didn’t want to pay for the set menu that was in the restaurant we wanted to go to on Valentine’s Day. I’m at home because its our ‘reading week’ at uni this week (read ‘unofficial half term’ if you’re unfamiliar with the concept) so my boyfriend came to join me and we went to the only place you can get decent pizza in my town.
On Valentine’s Day itself, we spent most of our day lying on the sofa watching Santa Clarita Diet but when that series ended rather abruptly (that’s another story; loved the series, hated the end) we decided to attempt to make a rainbow cake instead. (Watch out for a post on that on Friday, it’ll be a good one!) I definitely underestimated quite how much time they take to make but it was good fun and I enjoyed baking together, something we’d never normally do but used Valentine’s Day as an excuse.
We definitely didn’t do much for Valentine’s Day, but we did what we always do and used it as an excuse to spend time together and do things we wouldn’t normally do together like bake a cake. I wouldn’t want it any other way.
I’m so lucky to get to spend Valentine’s Day with my best friend, so thank you Joseph.
Lucy x