i pulled an all-nighter over valentine's day. i say this without any malice or regret. don't believe in vday, don't practice it either and there was work to be done. simple as that. but what i did enjoy was dinner with the manfriend. we were working at the same firm then and despite our general "no lunching" policy (more about that later!), we did manage to have the odd dinner or two together. and valentine's so happened to be one of them. we ambled down to l'operetta, one of our favourite places. rocked up so late that we didn't have appetite nor time for the elaborate set dinner but the a la carte pizza i ordered arrived in a heart shape. remember grumbling that it was smaller than if it had been round then having a good laugh about the cheesiness of the situation. the manfriend is one for elaborate, over the top romantic gestures, just not when everyone and their mother is being lomantic too. after dinner, it was back to the office but stolen minutes in between were nice. i call these our "bookmark dinners", for obvious reasons.
and about our loose "no lunching" policy, we didn't want to be that couple who's joint at the hip, each subsumed by the other. we agreed that lunch time was for friends, and dinner was for lovers. big believers in actively maintaining friendships and lunch was the catch up i'd look forward to every day. it's not like we went out of our way to avoid each other, it just so happened that we'd lunch with other people. so in the six months we were colleagues, we'd lunch together all of two times; once with friends and once when it was just us. this emotional low-maintenance is something that's served us well all these months long distance.
that said, can't wait till he visits next week :)
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