Friday, February 11, 2011
It’s been extremely slow at Macy’s. Part of it is the weather. Part of it is the time of year. Part of it is that I work the evening shift and most of the furniture sales happen during the day shift.
That’s ok. I’ve been using the time to get ready for Valentine’s Day.
While it’s slow, I’ve been searching websites for creative Valentine’s Day ideas and I’ve found some great stuff. I don’t want to do the usual card, flowers and go out to dinner this year. I want to do something in keeping with the changes in our lives and our marriage.
I want to show my love to my wife in a deeply personal way, that touches her soul. I don’t want to just do the obligatory, “It’s Valentine’s Day, so I have to try to impress her with what I buy,” I want to give her a gift of myself. I want to make a memory this year.
One site I found is www.theromantic.com. This is Michael Webb’s website, and I found him through Mort Fertel. He has all kinds of great romantic ideas, not only for Valentine’s Day, but for any day of the year. He also has a number of ebooks for sale, and I bought and downloaded some.
One of them tells specifically how to give a full body relaxation massage. One of them is a collection of romantic coupons that can be “redeemed” throughout the upcoming year. I sweet talked a lady in the jewelry department of of one of the little metal watch boxes that say, “you and me” with hearts on the sides of them. You’re supposed to get one when you buy a certain kind of watch, but I got one to put the coupons in.
I printed them off on some red, pink, and white sheets of paper and cut them out. I took the leftover parts of the paper and made some confetti out of it. The best part, though, is the idea I found of serving her with an “official notice.”
On a heavier stock piece of paper, I typed “Official Notice” in large, bold print at the top. I then tried to make it look like a legal summons by stating, “in the matter of the marriage of…” and starting each paragraph with “whereas.” Each of those paragraphs was actually a declaration of one of the many reasons why I love her.
Valentine’s Day is on a Monday this year, so we’re going to mainly celebrate it on Sunday, instead. We don’t like to fight the crowded restaurants and we love to cook, and Ceecee has asked me to make her a seafood dinner this year. We are also going to a theater production of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” on sunday afternoon at our local University. It’s my wife’s favorite Disney movie, so the timing is perfect!
The Restoration Tour 