I've always been of the school of thought that valentines is a day to spend time, not money. It's not present day! And I don't understand why couples feel the need to lavish each other with gifts. Yes, it's always nice to recieve nice gifts from your partner. But it's not necessary. Buying me something expensive doesn't show me you love me, it shows me you have money. Hey, good for you, but I don't care. I'd rather thoughtfulness. All I ever really want is a card with something nice written in it. Though if it was something thoughtful and expensive ... well then I guess I wouldn't complain!
So, in my relationship the general rule is no presents, or at the most only little presents. Me and Drew* both have birthdays at the end of the year, then Christmas, then Vday, so that would be a lot of presents in only a few months. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather use that money we would have spent on presents to go out to dinner instead. Or better yet, screw spending money at all and organise a cute little picnic.
This year we went out to dinner; the only real option when you've had to work all day long. It was a cute little place which is all I really cared about when finding somewhere to go, and yes I'm well aware of how blatantly that means I was 'judging a book by it's cover' but I actually do that often. And my present was perfect. It was a personalised 'saveasaurus' - you might have seen them around in Thingz or Wild or some other gift shop, it's a dinosaur money box. Now, sure, this might seem like an odd present but it had meaning. See, Drew has always been fond of dinosaurs, he wanted to be a paleontologist as a kid and there's been many references to dinosaurs throughout our relationship. Mostly this involves me calling him a dinosaur or buying him silly little dinosaur related presents. And I had always wanted to buy a saveasaurus for him, but they don't have his name. And I also got a lovely card! So basically, I couldn't have been happier with my little gift or the person who gave it to me :)
*Originally I never planned on using Drew's name in this blog (hence why you won't have seen it up until this point and if you don't know us, you may be wondering, who is this 'Drew' person? ... Or maybe not because I think it's pretty obvious in my writing). The reason I didn't plan to use his name is because it didn't seem fair when it's my life I'm sharing and he just happens to be apart of it. But, then again, when I decided on that we were no longer together and I didn't think I'd be referring to him that often. Now that I am, it's getting annoying constantly saying 'my boyfriend' and frankly I dislike using those words anyway because it's so impersonal. And since this is a somewhat personal blog, I'm just going to go ahead and start using his real name!
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