Halls of the Dark Muse

I am not one of those people who are really bitter about valentines day, or anti-valentines day really, but I am also not that into it. My biggest problem is I am really not into the type of typical commercial gifts that are touted off as they romantic valentines day gifts that you should get.

First of all, how thoughtful is it really just to buy a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolates for Valentines Day? It is a completely impersonal gift and everyone else is doing it, it is what you are told you are suppose to do.

Not so surprisingly I have a tendency to be unconventional. I do not have any particular desire to have flowers, in fact I am not actually a huge fan of fresh-cut flowers. They are like these living things that are dying slowly for your personal pleasure. On the flip side, I am a huge fan of dried flowers. My room is filled with dead bouquets.

I like my flowers to either still be alive attached to their plant, and growing living things, or to already be dead, but I am not a huge fan of the in between stage.

I am not a huge fan of chocolates. I do not dislike them but they do not make me particularly excited and I am picky I am not really that into boxed chocolates because most of the time I do not like the filling that comes inside the chocolates. If I have any kind of boxed chocolates I always cut the chocolates in half to see what is inside of them before I will eat it.

I really do not like flashy, fancy jewelry. I do not do gold at all, for me it has to be sterling silver, and I am not into precious gems, don't like diamonds at all. They do not appeal to me in the least and I in general I do not like jewelry store jewelry. Pretty much every piece of jewelry I own came from a kiosk somewhere. From some kind of street faire, Arts and Crafts show, Ren.Faire. Something of that nature. It is not high fluent expensive jewelry, but it reflects my personal tastes and jewelry from jewelry stores as too much of a commercialized look to it.

And I don't see the point of cards, they are just a waste of paper and trees. You read it, and you say oh that is nice, and maybe you will have it on display for a while, but then it ends up in the trash or in a drawer somewhere, but it serves no real purpose.

So now that I have put the cynics touch on this holiday of love, I will explain my point.

If I were to receive something for Valentines Day, I would want it to be something quirky, off the wall, something not stereotypically romantic, but something that makes me think "oh hey, you actually considered my personality when you bought this" Or something hand-crafted would be nice.

If I was going to actually celebrate Valentines Day with my matey, I would just want to do something that was unique in someway and perhaps something a little more low key, not some big expensive tradaa, something personal and kind of rustic I guess you would say.

The kind of thing I would do, would be like to order Chinese take out and then go on a picnic somewhere out within nature.