my funny valentine

[thirty2flavors]

My feelings towards Valentine's Day have always been rather neutral, leaning towards pessimism. As anyone who knows me is aware, I generally laugh at soppy things, think romance is a crock and am typically a cynical bitch. I'm not jadged from past relationships or anything since I haven't had any, I just happen to not be a romantic person. So Valentine's Day usually falls by the wayside and I don't really care; I don't call it "Singles Awareness Day" or generally get upset by it, I just ignore like any other day. Huzzah for the Hallmark Holiday!

Anyway, when I got home from school today an envelope that says "Kali" in, er, romantic pink marker with a fake rose attached was sitting on the ledge by the door. Enclosed was a computer printed piece of paper (in a beautiful cursive font, no less) that reads:

A Red Red Rose

O MY Luve 's like a red, red rose
That 's newly sprung in June:
O my Luve 's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune!

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry:

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only Luve,
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile.

- Robert Burns

Kali,

You deserve a little love this Valentine's Day.

Sincerely,
Someone who thinks you're terrific!

...


...

Wtf. Basically I've just been laughing my ass off since I opened it. I assume it must be one of my friends? Because I can actually not imagine who the hell else it would be, and if I have a "secret admirer" they are seriously so secret it's a little impressive. The only other person I can possibly think of is this guy I went to highschool with, who at seperate times tried to date 2 of my friends (and was shut down), merely because he happens to live near me and he used to talk very "poetically" to them on MSN (which is, of course, the ultimate in ~romance~) which basically was just great lulz for us.

Or possibly my friend Aaron (who - for the record - doesn't even like girls, so it wouldn't be a LOL ILU thing) just because it seems like the sort of thing he'd do and, well, he's not in school, so he'd have time, but I cannot imagine why he wouldn't put his name on it.

Just... wtf. LIRL

ETA- So yeah, judging from a friend's facebook status, I am not the only recipient of this rose/poem combo. Still don't know which friend it happens to be, though.

Comments

[opheliet.livejournal.com]

How very funny! A happy surprise anytime, though, getting mysterious letters :)

And icon lurve!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Jim/Pam is love.

And yes! It made my day, at any rate, lol.

[kirrea.livejournal.com]

Oh, LIRL. I am so amused :D Day before yesterday i was helping with the Rosemantic thing the school was holding and I read some of the cards and one of the was printed instead of handwritten and read:

From: Your Prince Charming

My hands were made to touch you
My eyes were meant to see you
My ears were made to hear you
Because I was made for you, baby!
Happy Valentine's Day.

LIIIIIIRRRRRRLLLLL

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

THAT IS BEAUTIFUL LRIL

Um yeah the poem attached is ... not one I'd choose but whatever! Turns out it was from Joe, my friend and boyfriend of my other friend. He gave one to all of us girls, LIRL, secretly in secret.

[traceria.livejournal.com]

I bet the culprit is getting a kick out of all the mystery, too, if they're as humor-loving as the initial scheme implies. ;D

This reminds me of the one poetry reading our high school actually had...one of the other guys in the creative writing class (where I learned I just did NOT have a knack for that sort of thing) who everyone knew including myself had a crush on me, read a poem in which I was compared to an angel and he a devil...well...something along those lines. I was so mortified by the whole experience I can't say I was paying much attention past the opening lines.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

I imagine he did, though I haven't actually talked to *him* since. We certainly got a kick out of it; a friend called me to ask "Are you someone who thinks I'm terrific?" and we slowly worked out that all seven in our gang of highschool BFFs had gotten one. Turns out the culprit was my one friend's boyfriend of four years, which somehow.. makes perfect sense. Bahah.

HAHAHAHA oh my. I've never actually had poetry written ABOUT me. I think... that is for the best.

[latine.livejournal.com]

KALI HAS A SECRET ADMIRER THAT ISN'T ME. How many others are you going to ask for, woman?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

PSH SHARON YOU AREN'T A ~SECRET~

And I love your icon. I wish I had more room in my icon things so I could have more beautiful Sweeney Todd icons. Helena is such a badass.

[latine.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOLZ *FALUNTS* I still have more space for icons, despite the hundred that I already have (although, there's room for like... three more).

I loved searching for the icons. And the part of the movie from your icon is sosososo good.