valentines day flowers her - Coupon Corner: Save now on items for the holidays

The gifts have been unwrapped — some may have been returned — the trees are beginning to come down and the stockings are being repacked. This is the perfect time to buy new Christmas decorations and other holiday-themed items.

Stores often have a larger stock of these items than they sold before the holiday. These leftover items begin to be discounted the day after Christmas. It usually starts around 15 percent, grows to 30, 50, 75 and finally 90 percent off. Today is Dec. 30, so we are five days past Christmas and are at, or nearing, the peak of the discounts. Most stores want these items cleared out before 2012.valentines day flowers her

Christmas ornaments, stockings and lights can be purchased inexpensively this year, stored and used for Christmas 2012. While everyone else is searching next year for reasonably priced lights or decorations, you can relax knowing that you saved a great deal on them last year.

Some of these holiday items can be repurposed for everyday uses. One year, I found a beautifully shaped stocking hook. After I added a little spray paint and removed the small metal hook, it turned into a beautiful decoration for my fireplace mantle. I paid $1.49 for the $14.99 stocking hook. Now we enjoy it 365 days a year.

Even items like disposable tableware can be purchased at great discounts. Nice, plain disposable plates, cups and tablecloths can be purchased and used for any occasion. The red plates and other tableware are perfect for a Valentine’s party. The green-themed items are great for St. Patrick’s Day or even just a summer-time barbeque. At 90 percent off, that $2.99 package of plates is just 29 cents. At that price, does it really matter what color they are?

The same plates will be going on sale again in a few weeks, back at the regular price of $2.99. The only difference is that the tiny Santas have been replaced with tiny pink hearts for Valentine’s Day.

Candy is another item where ignoring the packaging can save a lot of money. Candy manufacturers will package their products in different bags for each holiday. Sometimes, the bags will include candy with themed colors. But the red and green m&ms taste the same as the blue and yellow.

My kids get just as excited about decorating gingerbread houses in January as they do in December. The idea of valentines day flowers her before you need it applies to more than just pasta and rice. Saving 90 percent now is much better than paying 100 percent next year.

valentines day flowers her - Anatomy of a Senior Thesis, Part VI: Autoethnography of Le Love Life

This piece might be better suited for the Valentine’s Day issue next spring, but there’s something in the air that makes me think winter is also a good season to talk about love, or to consider writing and performing ethnography on love lives, valentines day flowers her anyway.
For my senior thesis, I’m writing an autoethnography—assembling together anecdotes from my life up until now and organizing them by the thread of similar thematic elements. Afterward, I plan to create and perform a one-woman show about my work and share these stories with the community on campus.
Since the thesis makes it necessary for me to constantly dive into my pool of memories and pick out the fragments that mean the most to me, I’ve begun honing my powers of observation.  I’ve found myself reflecting over significant moments and milestones through the lens of my younger self, my present self, and the others involved in my experiences over time.
Last night, I went out to dinner and drinks with some good friends at Border Café. As we sipped margaritas from salt-rimmed glasses and munched on warm, crunchy nachos, one of the guys talked about his interaction with a woman at a grocery store. He had taken over for the cashier during the afternoon and since the woman in line was purchasing alcohol, he had to ask for identification. She looked about 45 years old, he told us—but when she flashed her driver’s license, he realized that she was actually well over 60. He couldn’t help but ask her how she managed to look nearly 20 years younger than her age, and instead of displaying obvious offense or self-injury at his bold query, she leaned over conspiratorially and shared her secret.
“As long as you have love in your life, you’ll be forever young.”
Chuckling at this point in the story, he revealed to us in an (admittedly cute) self-deprecating manner that he was single at the moment, and he then went on to recount how he’d told her that he currently had no love in his life.
As he talks, I begin to trace over the love lines in my life. I don’t believe they’ve run too extraordinarily deep—when it comes to boys, guys, men, dudes, etc., I’ve never really experienced anything too profound.
There was a time in third grade when I wrote and distributed handmade Valentine’s to everyone in my class. I’d designed a special one for my crush at the time, writing in my loopy cursive, “Dear Vincent. I like you. A lot. Love, Sanyee.” Within five minutes of passing out my cards, Vincent’s best friend, David, had marched over to my table and waving the flimsy card in hand, asked in a demanding tone, “Do you really like Vincent? Because it says here in the card you gave him that you do.”
Instead of feeling mortified, I felt liberated. My sister calls it “the admitting-fest,” which is the moment in which you reveal to someone that you like him or her. After my admitting-fest for Vincent, I realized that I actually didn’t like him so much anymore. It had just been fun to crush on someone and now the excitement was over.
Following Vincent, there was Ben in middle school. Nothing but constant gossiping, plastic promise rings, and long insubstantial phone conversations were exchanged.
Then there was the First Boyfriend in senior year of high school, who was my host brother during my stay with a host family in California while I was competing in California’s Junior Miss. It was a perfect example of the proximity principle in relationship psychology.
After him, there was the First Dating Experience, consisting of actually going out with a guy who I’d known since middle school but had never gotten to know. My energy and enthusiasm rapidly expended soon after the time spent watching plays and attending dances together. Plus, it was time for college applications.
I moved into the virtual realm of relationships with the Facebook Pen Pal, a guy with whom I shared an epic wall-to-wall but did not meet in person until three months after our continual correspondence. Everyone’s got to have at least one cyber-relationship in his or her lifetime, right?
Two summers ago came the First Real Relationship, combined with the First Long-Distance Experience. Coupled with highs and lows, we started with a storybook romance, living next door to each other on our summer program in Cambridge, UK. Europe became the backdrop for us as we explored the Eiffel Tower together, ate gelato side by side in Italy, and took midnight strolls along the Tower Bridge in London. But, as in true Taylor Swiftian fashion, the lighthearted, sunny summer dissipated as the cold, unforgiving winter descended and our level of compatibility dwindled as we spent more time apart.
“Are you going to finish that?”
One of my friends at the table points at my dark red sangria, with the fine orange wedge glistening at the edge of the glass. I’m jolted back to the present, surrounded by my friends, plates of Tex-Mex cuisine, and strains of inaudible country music.
I smile back at him. “valentines day flowers her”
The friend with the grocery store story asks for a sip too. It becomes a communal drink and I can’t help but marvel at how I haven’t felt this happy and carefree in months. This is the kind of love and companionship I’d prefer any day: having friends to go out with so we can laugh over our adventures and embark on even crazier ones.
Maybe this is the kind of love I should write about for my thesis.

Valentines Day Flowers Her - Lovers Welcome, Says Empress Garden In Pune

Pune:  At a time when many public gardens are cracking down hard on lovers lost in each other while sitting under trees or occupying park benches, the 175-year-old Empress Garden is backing such young couples and promising to stand by them.

The new motto for 73-year-old garden secretary Suresh Pingale is: "Love birds don't worry, come and sit on our branches." It seems the garden, which some time ago took a decision to disallow marriage functions on its sprawling premises, is all right with the courting that comes before marriage; Pingale is happy to allow young lovers on the garden's 40-acre valentines day flowers her. 

"Protecting these couples from any social evil is the need of our time and that is what I am doing," Pingle said. "These couples need some privacy to interact with each other. What is wrong in allowing them to love each other?" Pingale said he was moved by the predicament faced by young lovers, who do not find a safe place to be with each other in and around the city.

"I have a deep concern for these young couples. We read in the newspapers that such couples have been robbed at remote places like NDA road and Dehu Road.  These couples are looted at knifepoint, which is really tragic," he said. "As Pune is already becoming a metro city, lovers find it difficult to find a private place to sit and chat with each other. Therefore, I am with these couples to support and even protect them whenever it is required."

Pingale said even married couples sought the refuge of the Empress Garden to spend time with each other. "Young married couples from slums also come to the garden for some privacy and we should allow them the small pleasures of life as they don't have space (at home)," he said. Pingale said he was aware that other citizens might not like his stand.

"Sometimes these lovers cross their limits and are spotted hugging and kissing each other. This is certainly embarrassing for the senior citizens and children who visit the garden," he said. "I believe in decent love. Also, I want to invite those who fell in love at the Empress Garden and subsequently got married to come forward with their names."

Ulhas Shedge, treasurer of the Empress Botanical Garden, supported Pingale. "If a young couple wants to meet, the lovers have to spend Rs. 200 to sit at a dhaba on the outskirts and this is expensive. This is wrong," he said. "Anybody can come to the garden and sit with his or her spouse by spending Rs. 5 each by way of entrance charges."

Moral police

Police Inspector Sushama Chavan from the Cantonment police station disagreed with the stand taken by the garden. "Any garden is a public place and such things affect public life. We book about 40 to 50 such couples under the Section 294 of the IPC (engaging in obscene acts in public view)," she said. "If the lovers are very young, we hand them over to their respective parents."

Sandeep Khardekar, a BJP activist who has played the role of cultural police in the city, said: "In true Indian culture, love is not for display at a public place or garden. Hugging and kissing at a public place is not our culture and therefore we are also opposing Valentine's Day. If love is real, you do not glorify it by kissing each other at a public place, but you do it within confined space of four walls,"

No weddings

The Empress Garden management had announced the availability of the place for marriage functions, but after just 10 weddings the decision was withdrawn as it was found that the functions had made the garden dirty and there had been much noise pollution. "All over the world people like to get married in big gardens, but it was impractical at the Empress Garden. And therefore, we banned marriages on the premises," Pingale said.

Flower exhibition

A Special valentines day flowers her decoration show has been organised by the Agri-Horticultural Society of Western India on the Empress Garden premises on January 20, 21 and 22. The garden, which has a huge palm tree section with 150 species, recently planted 125 local but rare species.