I bought a flower (a single rose) to my wife so that she can't bitch I am not romantic and shit, and then I played some Team Fortress 2 and Fallout Tactics the rest of the day.

Nah man, I get bored with minecraft way too quickly, and it doesn't have nearly as much charm for me. I mean look at this awesome pirate theme promo from the 80s. For building cool things in a game I'd rather play Terraria.

And as for the health hazards, no problem! I've acquired the necessary survival skills to set up and survive a lego environment over many childhood years! Other people? They will have to file paperwork and formally apply to enter my lego room of wonders one day.

edit:: oops not that seems to be a new video. Though the original pirate theme is from the 80s I think.

We don't celebrate this day so it was a standard we-enjoye-each-others-company day :)

I used to have lots of LEGO sets as a kid too, but I never spent much time "playing" with them. Just built whatever building or vehicle was in the manual, and then they would gather dust once completed. They're a pain to take apart, anyway. ( Especially with all those sharp edges! ) Minecraft ( or similar games ) are a good alternative, I think, for various reasons.

I can see it now, you'll end up in the newspapers, because dozens of people are going to die painfully in your deathtrap of pointy plastic chunks. XD
I don't consider that to be standard. Sounds like a rare exception. :P

Oh no I took almost everything apart and threw into this big crate, then I used to throw a blanket open in front of the tv and emptied the crate onto it. Then I would whatever, and when I was done fold up the blanket and put it back in the crate. Good times :)

And yeah people might die, but only if they mess with my creations, like that stupid kid in the lego movie!

Yep, Lego is awesome. But I think it's much more fun to build your own stuff rather than the pre-made sets. How about ? With [url=http://i.imgur.com/sEQBKIw.jpg]Smaug and everything. Or Orthank?

And I agree, no computer game could replace it, at least not for me. Besides, I spend enough time in front of my computer, so it's good to do something else.

Awesome, are those yours? The themes I'm really interested in are the regular city theme, the old castle theme (looks like you have a few of those), the pirate theme and the Star Wars theme. A few of the old space themes were also really cool, like the mtron faction.
I also used to build my own stuff, but I always built the sets first. Eventually I always got desperate enough for more pieces which lead to total disassembly. But I never had enough pieces to really go nuts. What I'd like is to one day have enough pieces so that I can use the various sets as inspiration and build cool stuff like this. I have some major plans :)

Pre-made [url=https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=10237-1#T=S&O={}]Tower of Orthanc[/url] is actually pretty great.

I actually liked 1992-1993 pirates sets better (and I'm not saying that just because [url=http://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6286-1#T=S&O={}]6286[/url] is the only really valuable set that I own and keep on display ;-)). I actually have a lot of castle sets as well, including Dragon Knights and Wolf Pack (both of which were surprisingly unpopular for some reason).

Yes. I have not build anything out of lego for years and years, but a few month back I got a small, tiny set as a sort of joke-gift, and had plenty of fun with it, so I pulled out all of my old stuff to see started building.

I actually had a lot of those :D You can see that a lot of the figures, and the dragon obviously, came from the medieval sets, and some of the pieces I used for Orthank probably too. And I had quite a few of the pirate sets, including the pirate ship, I still remember how happy I was to get it when I was a kid :D

When I started building stuff again those few months back I went to a lego store, and frankly was very dissappointed with what they had there, plenty of licensed stuff, Star Wars, Batman, Marvel... I guess kids love, but I can't help feeling that it's not what lego should be. The whole point is to build that stuff yourself I think. I like those old "generic" sets much better, because they are much better suited to being reused to build whatever you feel like.

Oh, some of those pre-made sets do llok fantastic. I just mean that it's more fun to put it together on your own, because then it's like a puzzle, you have no instructions to follow, no pieces specially made to look like what you are trying to build. You need to actually get creative. The end result will obviously not look as good, will not be as close to the real thing as the pre-made set, but putting it together is more fun (for me at least).

Is it an actual holiday where you are?
Just another working day here in the UK.

As for the OP, it's only sad, if you have a partner.
If you're single, and happy being so, no better way to spend any day, than having fun.
Whatever's fun, for you, if it's no fun, then it's sad.

Cool, I had the [url=https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6271-1#T=S&O={}]Imperial Flagship[/url], but what I really also wanted, but never got :(, was the [url=https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=10040-1#T=S&O={}]Barracuda[/url]. It looked so massive back then!

Aw man please tell me you didn't get the Barracuda! If you did I hate you :D

Yeah there are a lot of themes I don't really care about. There's even a Minecraft theme! Of the new themes I only really like the Star Wars one. But even though a lot of pieces have unique bits, I think mostly it is still standard bricks that can be reused. At least for the city series and most of the Star Wars series. In that fire station set for example: except for a few pieces, I recognize every single piece from my childhood days. The only piece that's really unique in that, and that might not find much use elsewhere is the ladder on the fire engine. And in the 3 star wars sets I bought, I don't think any contained even one non-standard brick.

The last sets I bought:

When I was in high school, my best friend's little brother broke his jaw (bike accident, IIRC) and the docs wired it shut to heal. He could only eat liquids for quite a while---one night he decided to try putting pizza + cola through a blender. It didn't end too well.

Damn that brings back memories :D
We had the castle stuff, and some slightly newer ones I think (I don't think the dragons were from that set were they?), the M-Tron space stuff (and some other space ones, not sure which though Edit: oh, [url=https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6190-1#T=S&O={}]underwater [url=https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6442-1#T=S&O={}]stuff[/url].

Ditto. I use the fact that EVERY day spent with me is Valentine's Day XD

Every once in a while she doesn't roll her eyes.

I spent much of the afternoon in the kitchen making one of our favorite meals, carnitas and pico de gallo. Greeted her at the door with a shot of Don Julio 1942, our special-occasion go-to sipper. Watched Adventureland and several episodes of Archer Season 4.

That might be considered a sad Valentine's Day by married-people standards.