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11-02-2010It can’t come quick enough. After weeks of late nights and weekends in work I have a lovely leisurely long weekend ahead of me, Four whole days to be precise, starting at 5.30pm this evening.
It’s a strange feeling, as for the first weekend since many moons before Christmas, I have absolutely nothing planned this weekend, its great! Not that I don’t enjoy seeing friends and family and having a social life, it’s just with all the late nights and weekends spent working coupled with a very very hectic social life has left me in serious need of some relaxation. So that’s exactly what this weekend will be all about.
Not to mention its Valentines.
I am not a huge believer in the ‘lets spend tons of money on each other because hallmark tells us to’ trend that seems to sweep the nation. (Thats not to say I won’t be hoping to get treated a little special on the day itself but there are more ways to do that than throwing money around.) For one, I prefer having dinner cooked for me, a nice romantic meal you can both take your time over and enjoy each others company rather than going to a restaurant where the staff treat the whole process of eating out on valentines like an assembly line. Its one in one out, you have finished your meal move along now, I dont care that you like to take your time over a class of wine after working your way through a meal that will cost in the region of 200 euros, get up, get out, and let the next paying customer in. Not to mention you tend to be surrounded by a million other couples, with a good 50% of the male population in the restaurant on bended knee, fulfilling the ever cheesy cliché of Valentines Day.
You should show someone you love them in the little everyday things you do throughout the year. Yes, it is nice to be treated extra special on this particular day, but if you don’t treat your other half with the love and the respect they deserve the other 364 days of the year (365 if it’s a leap year) then Valentines is pointless. It’s not just the grand gestures that make a great relationship, it’s the little ones as well.
Speaking of relationships and Valentines, I got sent this link in the new google buzz (bit slow on the uptake with that one google) it’s a link to an ‘interesting’ article on how maths can be used to decide when you should get contractually attached to another human being, or in more romantic terms, engaged. Very apt for this time of year. If you want to check it out it’s at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7210017/Formula-for-the-perfect-marriage-proposal-date-revealed.html
It has provided a good giggle in the office and over emails this afternoon. A math formula to determine the best age for you to get engaged, who said romance was dead?
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If you do the calculation make sure to let me know what you got, I might even share mine. Might.
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