Valentines.... is it good or bad?

Now I am a hopeless romantic, I always have been and always will be. When it comes to Valentines Day I love to have someone to spend the days with, to do things together, to spoil them and be spoilt but to be honest it doesn't bother me that much.
If I don't have someone to spend Valentines Day with then to me it is just another ordinary day. The only different between February 14th and every other day is the price of chocolate, restaurants and other things that are associated with the day.

This year I've got someone to spend the day with, well sort of. I'm stuck in Hull for the time being and my OH is in Darlington, both of us are at work so we're not going to see each other until the weekend.

We did our day on Saturday 11th February; well we sort of did. All we did was exchange cards.

On the inside of the card he made an effort even if the card itself wasn't romantic. The interior consisted of our little private joke so he did think about it.

I don't like spending an excessive amount of money on one day when I could save that money and spend it on something a bit more special, a weekend away, concert tickets or a night out for us both.

I can understand why people like the day, and why they buy each other expensive gifts, especially considering men tend to forget this day but to me it's a bit over the top. I tell my OH I love him every day. Out of the blue he buys me gifts and I think this in itself is more special that celebrating the one day of the year we are told to celebrate and get loved up for.

I love my OH and tell him all the time and this isn't going to change, so I for one will not be celebrating Valentines Day even if the rest of the world is.
I would like to say though, the single people would stop moaning about people enjoying the day. This isn't fair for the people trying to enjoy it.

Facing up to the truth

Stuart Gilson, someone I have never met but lives in the same city as me is missing. He has been missing now for 13 days and his family are worried sick about him, and so are his friends. There is a community on Facebook that has been set up for support for his family, for people to give any information they have and to help to look for Stuart.
He is only my age and from what I have read he is a nice person.
We have all be holding out hope for his safe return but after 13 days missing and in the recent weather conditions I am now facing up to the fact that if he is found then he probably won't be alive. I know it is hard to swallow and not a very nice thing to say, especially if his family read this, so to you I am deeply sorry; but recently the night time temperature has been down to -7 degrees celcius, and the day time temperature hasn't really been much better.
We have had snow on the ground for almost a week now, and recently a man was found dead in a park having frozen to death.
It is horrible that Stuart has gone missing, and everyone hopes he turns up safe but the likelihood after a week the chance is very slim.
According to his family it is not like him to disappear and not tell them where he is going. Not to mention that he left his phone, his passport etc. He needed his passport as he was going away on Sunday of last week.
If anyone sees or hears anything in the Kingston upon Hull area, or even further afield please let me know and I can get in touch with his family. Or dial 101 and contact the police, let them know.

My New Blog

I currently have another blog for my jewellery making hobby/business but thought it may be best if I created another blog for me; in other words, what I want to write about.

I have opinions about everything and I enjoy expressing my opinions so this blog will deal with people I encounter, conversations I've had, food, music, BDSM and will probably be used as a general 'diary' too as I don't like to keep feelings bottled up.

I hope you have fun reading my blogs and I do hope that some of the writings of myself are thought provoking and inspiring.