The Gift of Time
I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day.
Or any other one-sided, artificially created celebration for the purposes of creating financial gain and guilty feelings.
I mean if you don't manage to make someone feel special 364 days of the year, what difference does that one day really make?
I'm especially not a fan of boxed chocolates, diamonds and pink teddy bears.... which doesn't mean they're wrong.
See, the most precious gift you can give to anyone, is your time.
Plain and simple.
Giving someone your time may mean buying your sweety a sway bar for her car that is going to make her day month! A sway bar means you listened, paid attention to what your partner wants and put time and effort into making it a surprise.
Giving someone your time may mean making a custom music CD with all the songs of your time together, or a song from each year you've been together. You having taken time out of your jam-packed schedule to do that for your partner will mean the world.
Heck, even go pick some flowers or draw something and I promise, even if they're nowhere close to a Picasso or FTD bouquet, the undivided focus you spent on it will mean much more.
For more adventurous "time givers", go stomp a heart in the snow outside your house and surprise your honey. Or go with a more traditional gift and try making chocolate truffles. Even if they come out a lumpy mess, it's more precious than what can be bought in any store.
For geek-partners, that are used to you staring at some kind of pixelated screen, give your sweety a technology free evening/day/weekend, or better yet, make your honey "technology free" coupons that can be redeemed whenever shutting the laptop lid/turning off the cell phone and giving some undivided attention is needed.
The only thing left to do is to practice the look in your eyes as you present your "gift of time".
A look that says "you have my undivided attention".
Practice in front of a mirror if you must, just shut your laptop lid and do it!
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Or any other one-sided, artificially created celebration for the purposes of creating financial gain and guilty feelings.
I mean if you don't manage to make someone feel special 364 days of the year, what difference does that one day really make?
I'm especially not a fan of boxed chocolates, diamonds and pink teddy bears.... which doesn't mean they're wrong.
See, the most precious gift you can give to anyone, is your time.
Plain and simple.
Giving someone your time may mean buying your sweety a sway bar for her car that is going to make her day month! A sway bar means you listened, paid attention to what your partner wants and put time and effort into making it a surprise.
Giving someone your time may mean making a custom music CD with all the songs of your time together, or a song from each year you've been together. You having taken time out of your jam-packed schedule to do that for your partner will mean the world.
Heck, even go pick some flowers or draw something and I promise, even if they're nowhere close to a Picasso or FTD bouquet, the undivided focus you spent on it will mean much more.
For more adventurous "time givers", go stomp a heart in the snow outside your house and surprise your honey. Or go with a more traditional gift and try making chocolate truffles. Even if they come out a lumpy mess, it's more precious than what can be bought in any store.
For geek-partners, that are used to you staring at some kind of pixelated screen, give your sweety a technology free evening/day/weekend, or better yet, make your honey "technology free" coupons that can be redeemed whenever shutting the laptop lid/turning off the cell phone and giving some undivided attention is needed.
The only thing left to do is to practice the look in your eyes as you present your "gift of time".
A look that says "you have my undivided attention".
Practice in front of a mirror if you must, just shut your laptop lid and do it!
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For more geek advice write to dr@drfrancie.com. Any submissions will be edited for content and anonymity and may be published on this here blog.
I promise you'll have my undivided attention while we make angel food cake when I visit.
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Oh baby, talk some more "foody" to me
And I have no doubt we'll all be 5lbs heavier by the time you leave again.
But who care and I'm looking forward to getting fat with you
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I can close the laptop lid, but do those "technology free" coupons require me to turn off the BlackBerry, too??? But what if someone important emails? Isn't that what vibrate mode is for?
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"shut your laptop" - is this possible? I have no idea
(coincidentally, my wife is on her computer as well
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Amen!!!!
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Isn't he the best?? He always listens. Mmmmmmmmmm. Foody talk.
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I agree! Time is the most precious gift you can give to you someone so special to you. It’s the best gift anyone could ever have. Every single moment of it is so precious because no one can ever turn back time. So just cherish each and every moment of it.
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I love when simple ingredients yield delicious results Your recipe photos are excellent! Looks gorgeous! And sounds so tasty. Thanks so much for sharing
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Hi...
Wow.. i like gifts... very much..
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