Valentine's Day.

Yesterday was Valentine's Day, as I am sure many were aware of. Was Valentine's Day not originally an American thing? I may be wrong.. but where and whatever its origins it has spread all over the world. It is a big thing in Slovakia, and according to one of my classmates it is an even bigger thing in Japan. I have witnessed it gradually creeping into the cultural environment of Iceland too.

Last night Bratislava was crowded with couples holding hands. Everywhere. To the left of me, to the right of me. Above me and below me. How lovely.. however, I didn't see even ONE gay couple walking down any street hand-to-hand. Made me.. sad. Only a little though. I recovered quickly. I'm a big metropolitan boy, and big metropolitan boys don't cry. So, ...
I got drunk instead - along with many others mind you! And we had a great time. It was supposed to be an anti-Valentine's party.. and it started out as such. By the end of the night some sort of a hazy romance had settled in though. Lovesickness. Fantasies. For some of us more real than for others..

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I didn't expect it, when I woke up yesterday morning, that I would enjoy any sort of romance during the course of the day. Life has a cute way of sneaking up on you sometimes, and pleasantly surprising you. Usually when you least expect it, and I always wonder how life knows when you are least expectant..

I ended up enjoying a very romantic make-believe Valentine's morning through cyberspace. It was a lovely morning, breakfast in bed and all. Absolutely lovely! A cuddly sleep-in, including omelettes and fruit salad that we prepared together. Can't get much better than that.
On Valentine's night we went out to dinner, at a very nice restaurant that I recently discovered in Reykjavik. Delicious food and posh wine. Back home we foreplayed to amazing lengths, then devoured each other with insatiable appetites.. and then we slept in this morning, lazily cuddling past lunch and tea-time.

All in all, for me, a fantastic Valentine's day. And to enjoy the day like that, in different ways in different dimensions, is not commonly achieved.

Lovesickly/contently,
..kH