I know it’s a commercialized holiday with little “real” tradition, but since traditions are barely real anyway, I still like having a vaild excuse to take my significant one out to dinner and give her pleasant things and all that. I try to do it anyway, but it’s nice to have a time when it’s extra-appropriate.

I was in class this morning, and the GF was in lab when I got back to the apartment and then I was off on a job when she got back, so our first amount of significant time together was a trip to a chain sit-down resturant. As in any relationship of substance, there are times when you forget why you do what you do with the person you’re with, but tonight was not one of those nights. I remembered all the things I liked most of all.