It's typical & predictable to give flowers & chocolates for Valentine's Day, so I thought I'd share my 2 cents about REALLY showing love this <3 holiday.
1. Make fitness a team effort. It's a fantastic way to bond, not just for V-day, but many "sweaty" days together in your future (wink, wink). Bring your honey for free this coming Monday, Valentine's Day! Whether it's Ari's EvoCore & Cross Training with the TRX or his Cardio Drill class with stations, Lisa's spin workout, or willPower & Grace with Tracy, sometimes the best gift can be a hot experience together.
2. Feel like a kid again & carve out some arts & crafts time. Make your own Valentine's card! Pull out some magazines, construction paper, get scissors & glue. Sit down on the floor (my favorite) or at a table (if you still want to feel like an adult) with lots of space & go to it! Tear out messages & images that mean something to you & your honey. Make it a riddle & paste images together to create a story. Handmade cards can be so much fun to create & ones they'll want to keep. They can be funny, or sentimental. The cool thing is, you get to create it from your hands & mind to his/her heart.
3. Sit down & plan your next getaway together. Even if it's not until the end of the year. Make it a point to get away from the every-day & plan the escape! Decide your budget, figure out a 4-day weekend & start surfing the net. Its amazing the hot deals that are available to travelers these days. The planning & dreaming can be romantic & fun. Once you decide, print out a couple pictures of your destination & hang it up in your office or your fridge as a constant reminder of something to look forward to, something you are doing together inspired by Valentine's Day.
4. As the book title goes Love is a Mix Tape. One of our members suggested this book to me, so it's on my list of reads for this year. Inspired by the theme of this book, here's another Non-Food love task: Create a playlist of the songs you know your honey will love - even if you don't. What songs do you hear, that make you think of when you first met? or a time you took a road trip together? or maybe even the lyrics that express how you feel in such a way that makes you wonder, "why give a card when this song says it all?" Another movie I love that inspires this idea of expressing your love through music is High Fidelity with John Cusack. Check it out if you haven't seen it.
5. Send each other sexy & fun-loving texts all day. This is especially fun since Valentine's Day lands on a hum-drum Monday this year. So, when you're stuck at your 9-5 all day trying to catch up on emails, mix it up by sending out love messages every hour or so. It's exciting to await their reply. Then hold off... keep 'em waiting... and send another one. As it builds throughout the day, you'll look forward to seeing each other later on. It'll be easy to remember why you fell in love - it'll all come back after a bit of teasing & taunting thru texting.
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