OT: Valentine’s Day - How will you celebrate your MGoSweetheart?
Yeah, so I woke up this morning and completely forgot it’s Valentine’s Day. You know, that annual made-up holiday for spouses to say “I Love You” through cheesy greeting cards, over-priced bouquets of flowers and cheap chocolate.
So as I fend off other guilty and otherwise forgetful significant others at the flower shops during the lunch hour, I’m wondering how others plan to celebrate a day that should be outlawed in all 49 states besides Ohio as I believe Ryan Day needs all the love he can get after losing to Michigan 3x in a row.
First, will you succumb to the pressure of Hallmark, Godiva, and 1-800-Flowers this year?
Or is Valentine’s Day just another day on the calendar in your household?
Lastly, what would you like your Valentine’s Day card or message say to Ryan Day/OSU fanbase? If you can afford it, I hear the team would like something gold as they haven’t received that type of thing in a while…
February 14th, 2024 at 9:16 AM ^
bringing and picking my kids up from youth athletics! Very special day for my wife and I...lol.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:17 AM ^
Taking my son to basketball practice and the wife will take the daughter to volleyball practice. I'll put him to bed before they even get home so... yeah! Real life shit. Despite my wife saying she doesn't like flowers, I'll get her some tomorrow - when they're half price!
February 14th, 2024 at 9:17 AM ^
I plan to celebrate the true meaning of the holiday, namely that the accursed month of February is half over. Probably by avoiding all retail establishments and restaurants like the plague. No money will be spent, a perk of being mgosingle.
Happy Valentines Day to those who celebrate.
February 14th, 2024 at 11:08 AM ^
But February won't be half-over, even at 11:59:59 PM.
Happy Leap Year!
February 14th, 2024 at 9:23 AM ^
My wife and I have our civil wedding anniversary on this day. We will go to dinner at a decent restaurant... she did offer the option of "Valentine nachos" where we stay at home and eat nachos (it's a thing we've done in the past), but it's been a difficult few months so not having to cook for ourselves will be nice....
February 14th, 2024 at 12:28 PM ^
We had Valentine nachos last night! (Though I'm pretty sure they were just leftover red tortilla chips from Christmas)
February 14th, 2024 at 12:50 PM ^
My wife asked for home made shrimp tacos and my daughter asked for the Valentines Day wrapped normal food from Chick-fil-A. I'm sure I'm paying extra for that promo!
Nothing terribly out of the ordinary for Chef MGoGrendel
February 14th, 2024 at 9:24 AM ^
I'll spend the day being extremely thankful that my wife couldn't care less about this holiday.
We had dinner at home last night. She grabbed sushi for an app, and I reverse seared some ny strips.
I love grilling in the winter with a whiskey in hand.
February 14th, 2024 at 11:21 AM ^
"my wife couldn't care less about this holiday"
Is that what she told you?
February 14th, 2024 at 11:54 AM ^
Yes, that's what an 18 year relationship has gotten me, an internet stranger who knows my wife better than me.
February 14th, 2024 at 11:57 AM ^
Nice riposte!
:-) stranger? We're all family here.
February 14th, 2024 at 12:51 PM ^
I totally get it! My wife is practical - she doesn't want cut flowers that die and she cleans them up.
February 14th, 2024 at 12:16 PM ^
Some quiet time with Ms. Michigan.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:26 AM ^
A couple of ribeye's on the grill and probably a board game.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:28 AM ^
Working Overtime, we'll do something Saturday.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:31 AM ^
We will give each other a hug and have a cup of Coffee together in a few minutes here, then go off and Slave away at our jobs
Dear OSU,
Thanks for being a perfectly villainous rival. Your decades of cheating and buying teams inspired us to reach national championship heights. Couldn’t have done it without you!.
Thanks for hiring Ryan Day. May your tuffness stay strong and your beard never fade. Eat shit on this very special day.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:34 AM ^
Every Valentine's Day I give my wife and daughter each a green plant. Sometimes exotic, sometimes native. Not cut flowers that will surely die, but plants that must be nursed, watered, sometimes pruned. They take effort, like our relationships. But the plants seem to work as a reminder that we all need care and attention, even when things are beautiful.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:53 AM ^
User name checks out!
February 14th, 2024 at 10:20 AM ^
Yeah, me, too… or a card.
February 14th, 2024 at 11:26 AM ^
Sounds nice. My family can't keep plants alive. We are forced into being wabi sabi people.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:41 AM ^
How will I celebrate? I don't. It's a manufactured holiday.
We basically we do "Valentine's Day" as a normal part of the relationship after nearly divorcing 3 years ago, all of the romantic stuff is just what we do all throughout the year. Best advice I got during the time we were rebuilding our marriage was: You have to date your wife, if you don't, someone else will.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:41 AM ^
Taking my oldest daughter to lunch and my youngest daughter to dinner.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:42 AM ^
We are playing golf this afternoon then some dinner afterwards.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:43 AM ^
Exchanged cards, eating chocolates, going out to lunch, spending time together without phones and just talking.
Has worked for 32 years of marriage. Looking forward to 32 more.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:46 AM ^
So I woke up this morning, completely forgot it was this day and as my wife leaves for work this morning I get a sarcastic Happy Valentine's Day... Thing is in all the years we've been married we've always agreed that it was a made up bullshit holiday.
So I don't know how to feel.
I guess we'll find out later if I'm still married
February 14th, 2024 at 9:58 AM ^
Hey, at least Saint Valentine was a real person. Unlike, say, Saint Sweetest Day.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:59 AM ^
Sounds like she is mad at you about something else and using your indifference to Valentine's Day as the sword.
Did you forget to delete your Website history?
February 14th, 2024 at 10:03 AM ^
Hey! Good partnering means being aware of and sensitive to each other's feelings and needs. Pay attention, DB! Failing to do so hurts. And don't take wife for granted, ever.
Good luck.
February 14th, 2024 at 10:09 AM ^
Good luck on the dating apps.
February 14th, 2024 at 10:23 AM ^
Have something delivered to her at work. Chicks love getting stuff in front of other chicks
February 14th, 2024 at 11:56 AM ^
Definitely listen to this guy because women also love being called chicks
February 14th, 2024 at 1:44 PM ^
And being stereotyped. As if women (oops I mean chicks) weren't individual people.
February 14th, 2024 at 3:56 PM ^
You two must be fun at parties. I guess my attempt at humor failed here, my bad. No disrespect meant towards women at all. Although I'm not sure how my post suggested that women are not individuals? If a woman said men like football I wouldn't say "Hey! All men are individuals and not every man likes football" haha
February 14th, 2024 at 12:32 PM ^
Chicks also dig the long ball.
February 14th, 2024 at 3:56 PM ^
This guy gets it
February 14th, 2024 at 9:46 AM ^
Remembering that we are dust and to dust we shall return. (It’s Ash Wednesday)
Did Valentines last night.
February 14th, 2024 at 12:02 PM ^
Elrond would be proud, as well as Tolkien
February 14th, 2024 at 9:47 AM ^
I'm lucky enough to have a wife that doesn't really care all that much about Valentine's day
Our wedding anniversary is in a couple of weeks and that has sort of taken over Valentines day in our household.
Dear osu,
Roses are red
National Champions are maize and blue
Thats it, thats the end of the poem
February 14th, 2024 at 9:48 AM ^
I will be interviewing my wife for "Special Teams Coach" for the household. Lots of practice snapping and holding the pigskin properly. knowing what coverages to run during kick off. Surprisingly, letting her know she is not to "block" any "punt" i try to attempt.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:49 AM ^
At my buddy’s house in key west staying in the Cabana. Hoping for a best behavior midnight pool rendezvous with the wifey.
So many ways I could screw this up. Wish me luck.
February 14th, 2024 at 10:00 AM ^
Good luck!
We're heading down to Key West this weekend.....but stopping in Fort Laurderdale tonight and Islamorada tomorrow before getting to Key West on Friday. I hope the weather is good!
February 14th, 2024 at 11:50 AM ^
Pictures or it did not happen...
Please crop out yourself before posting.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:51 AM ^
My imaginary wife left me for her personal trainer, so I'm not doing anything.
February 14th, 2024 at 11:57 AM ^
Not even going to your/their gym?
February 14th, 2024 at 9:56 AM ^
Well...I usually don't care about Valentine's Day much. However, this is my first one with my (relatively) new girlfriend -- my first long-term relationship since my 24-year marriage ended. So...this one means a little to me for the first time in a while.
On tap for tonight: yoga class (something she got me into -- and it's changed my life), a late sushi dinner, and a movie.
BTW: I started dating her on September 1, right before the 2023 Michigan football season kicked off (notably, we haven't lost a game since -- you're welcome, folks!)
February 14th, 2024 at 12:29 PM ^
Thanks for the season, and I hope you SCORE tonight.
February 14th, 2024 at 9:59 AM ^
My wife and I didn't used to celebrate it, but now with the kiddos, we make a bigger deal of it.
Got them each a plushy and book, and my wife a card and chocolates (definitely not cheap ones like the OP states, Sees is like $35/pound now, and the really nice cards are nearly $10!).
February 14th, 2024 at 10:00 AM ^
Going to a coney island and give her a foot long.