Yay new shoes!

I'm not sure I understand, but I'm also not sure I want to raise all the memories - in-school flowers? What are those? Please don't answer unless you have a lovely "hit my friends' head with them" sort of answer or if it brings happy memories, liek Cindy's.

Please don't answer unless you have a lovely "hit my friends' head with them" sort of answer

Heh. Not Valentine's, but at my friend's wedding his new MIL made chocolate roses that were on long plastic stems. Ouch. I think I still have lumps on my head. The bride's family was I think a little shocked at how we went at each other with them. They're a much more straight-laced lot.

We had in school flowers, candy, etc for various holidays, sold by student council. called "grams". As in, "Valentine-grams, Halloween-grams". They were $1 and you got a carnation. They were supposed to be super-secret!.

I had forgotten all about those!

Nilly - at my school, the student council sells carnations, candy and singing telegrams as a fundraiser. Students can order these things in advance and then they are delivered on Valentine's Day. So, throughout the day, people are getting deliveries. By about 1 or 2, all the deliveries will have been made and some girls will be upset that they did not get anything. My highschool did not do this. At college, different groups sold different things, but it was the same idea.

We had some friends over and they asked if we celebrated - and the true answer is in the " well, it is Valentine's day , so I can't do X I have plans with Dh" Which really means it is a good excuse nto to do anything we don't want to do.

forgot about the in-school flowers thing.

DH will not be home tonight- he left at 6. I have taken 2 naps since he left. I am going to walk to the coffee shop and see if walk+ coffee = staying awake.

The candy and flower grams are $2 at Brendon's school. He considered joining in on the "fun" of sending to and from other kids names, but he values his $2 too much. I would guess that at least half of the purchases are jokes.

Which really means it is a good excuse nto to do anything we don't want to do.

Ha! So true. (Except that this year, we are going out with people, because Kristin will be in town. But normally, it's an excuse to stay home and veg.

I think we had all got our carnations delivered during our homeroom period, so at least there wasn't the torturous wait. That must have been awful. I never didn't get any, thanks to that boy. Also, I think my (girl) friends and I used to send them to each other, too. I'm pretty sure that senior year, every girl got a carnation. I don't know if the teachers chipped in, or what. That was more than half my life ago, now.

Thanks for the explanations.

I'm trying to remember if we had anything similar - as in, something that some gets lots of and some may get none. There was the thing before Purim, in which each person brings a package full of goodies to eat, and they're supposed to get exchanged at random (like pulling numbers from a hat), but this meant that each person who brought a package, got somebody else's package. And, of course, not in the least bit connected to anything romantic. Hmm.

We didn't have in-school flowers, thankfully. There were already plenty of opportunities for humiliation.