I Suck At Giving Valentine Presents

on this eve of valentine's day, known to some this year as "black thursday", i was talking with my friend jen during lunch. (she probably prefers the term "hot" jen so as to compete with "hot" amy). anyway, she was curious if i had gotten anything for karen. naturally, i said no because i suck at giving valentine presents. my father is even better at giving valentine's day presents than me. he gave my mother a diamond necklace today. he was very giddy about giving my mom the present. it was very cute to watch him. i love my dad.

anyway, in my defense, karen and i don't exchange valentine's day presents and we haven't exchanged presents in quite some time. instead, our valentine's day traditional revolves around having bananas fosters for dessert, which we already had on sunday after dim sum. when i told jen that i had not gotten anything for karen, jen was surprised and started brainstorming ideas. (jen... er... "hot" jen is chock full of ideas. she should have a blog about each idea she has because they are very interesting ideas. either that, or she should blog about bathrooms.)

at first, jen suggested at least a valentine card for karen. i've never been a big fan of cards, so i turned that idea down saying that karen would just recycle the card shortly after opening it. jen then wondered why there are a bunch of christmas cards sitting on our mantle, to which i added that the only reason why those cards are still around is because those cards are picture cards, primarily of my friends and their children. that led to jen's suggestion of putting a picture of myself on the valentine card.

from there, jen came up with a cute idea. she suggested that i make a video saying "i heart karen" and give it karen tomorrow. although i've never liked getting my picture taken or being in a video, i actually liked that idea. so here is the video that i'm going to send to karen tomorrow. yeah, it's lame. so, wish me luck!