Valentine's Day Thought

I am back. This will be short. I said yesterday that I had a memory to share about Valentine's Day past. The year was 1990 and the day also fell on a Wednesday. It was doubly exciting to me as I was supposed to go to Chicago the next day for a weekend visit with a good friend of mine who was in school there. Anyway, it was a typical Wednesday, only it was Valentine's Day.

I have always been uncomfortable on this date. If I was not seeing somebody, it was always sort of thrown in your face with all the advertising and such. It was worse when I was seeing somebody. I never knew what to buy or how to act on this day. I have disappointed too many feminitas on this day. When in doubt, do nothing--should be my motto. And I have paid a price for that one, I will tell you.

Anyway, at the time, I was working and really could not be bothered with Valentine's Day. I know I got the Wife a card, but I had not got her a gift. I thought a picture frame would be nice, but when I gave it to her that evening, I got a lot of shit for that one. It was "thoughtless", which I guess it was. She never knew about my discomfort with this day that continues today.

We fought and made up. Went for dinner and came back to my place. She was going to drive me to the airport the next afternoon, but I got a message from my friend that Chicago had been hit with a wicked snowstorm. We were next, apparently. We were.

I woke up and it was snowing. To make a long story short, numerous calls to the airport later, and my flight was cancelled. I would fly out on the Friday, a day late. The worst part is that my friend was able to get Leaf-Blackhawk hockey tickets for the game in the old Chicago Stadium. Needless to say, I did not make the game and arrived around five (local time) Friday afternoon, after a long delay. It was a fun weekend though.

That one had me drinking too much and eventually puking on Belmont Avenue in Chicag0. I can alos tell you that the texture of the shrimp from the shrimp fajitas we had at El Jardin was the same, going down and coming back up. I guess after 17 years Belmont is now clean to walk on.

Ciao! and Happy Valentine's Day to one and all!