Trace a thirty-foot heart on the ice when ice skating.
Heart-shaped place mats.
A silk tie with hearts on it.
A heart-shaped chunk of cheese.
A mug with hearts on it.
A heart-shaped mug.
A heart-shaped door mat.
Socks with heart designs on them.
Heart-shaped doilies.
Heart-shaped eyeglasses.
A front-yard flag with hearts on it.
Poke holes in a heart-shape in the crust of a freshly baked pie.
Make heart-shaped chocolate chip cookies.
Heart-shaped confetti.
The classic heart-shaped box of chocolates.
Heart-shaped chocolate treats.
Carve a heart-with your initials in it-in a tree.
Get a heart-shaped tattoo with her initials in it.
Greeting cards with heart.
Fold the dinner napkins into heart shapes.
Silk boxer shorts with a heart motif.
Draw hearts on the bathroom mirror with lipstick.
Use only Love Stamps with heart shapes on them.
Find a wine with a heart motif on the label.
Heart-shaped rubber stamps.
Heart-shaped cakes.
Heart designs in icing on a cake.
Heart-shaped candles.
Heart-shaped appetizers.
Heart-shaped picture frames.
Heart-shaped wreaths.
Heart-shaped ice cubes.
A heart-shaped rug.
Find a heart-shaped Jell-O mold.
Cut banana slices into heart shapes and put them in Jell-O.
Shape pancakes into heart shapes.
Cut toast into heart shapes.
Cut a heart shape out of toast and fry an egg in the center.
Heart-shaped Rice Krispies Treats.
Slice strawberries into heart-shapes.
A heart-shaped pendant.
A heart-shaped pin.
Heart-shaped earrings.
Heart-shaped pasta.
Heart-shaped red balloons.
Heart-shaped cookie cutters.
Heart-shaped key rings.
Heart-shaped candy conversation hearts.
Cut the lawn to the shape of a giant heart.
Make a heart-shaped kite together.
Get a humongous heart-shaped box of Valentine candy.
Heart-shaped shrubbery/topiary.
A big, heart-shaped ice sculpture.
Send an envelope filled with heart-shaped glitter.
While tanning, place a small, heart-shaped piece of cardboard on your body.
Cut a piece of paper into a heart shape, then write a love letter on it.
Scrape the ice off his windshield-in the shape of a heart.
Heart-shaped beds (in the Poconos).
Chapter Theme Song:.
"In a Heartbeat," Deena Carter Do you remember how to make perfectly symmetrical hearts from grade school? (You fold the paper in half, then draw half a heart against the folded edge. Then cut it out and voila!)
IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.
988 In my humble opinion, relationships start to go bad at the point when couples stop being romantic. Most couples allow their A+ Relationships to slide into mediocre C- Relationships.
How do you regain your A+ status? By taking creative action based on this wise observation: "Sometimes progress is going back to where you first went wrong."
-C.S. Lewis 989 In my humble opinion, every couple should, at some time in their life together: Go skinny-dipping. Take a moonlit stroll on a beach in the Caribbean. Sing silly love songs to one another. Get giddy on champagne. Stay up all night talking and making love and talking and making love and eating and making love and watching old movies and making love and making love. Ride in a Tunnel of Love. Go gambling in Las Vegas. See your favorite singer live in concert. Make a baby. Watch falling stars.
990 In my humble opinion, half of all love advice is erroneous at best, and harmful at worst; three-quarters of all relationship books are simplistic formulas dressed up in psychobabble to impress you.
I am a very positive, optimistic person, but-I'm very wary of big promises and simple answers. I don't believe you can turn a D- Relationship into an A+. (People just don't work that way.) You can turn a C- into a B+. You can turn a B- into a solid A. And that's good enough, don't you think?
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love."
-Sophocles Love without action is not love. At best it is a wish; at worst an imposter.
MY PERSONAL FAVORITES.
991 The Perpetual Bouquet. You give your lover one flower a day, placing it in a small vase. Every day you bring one different kind of flower. In a week you'll have a complete bouquet. Keep doing this for three months-every day you remove one wilted flower and replace it with a new one. Your lover will have an ever-changing, always fresh reminder of your love and support for him or her.
992 One of my rituals with Karyn is a changing-of-the-seasons ceremony which uses framed covers from New Yorker magazines. We have several covers for each season that hang in our living room. (FYI, we celebrate five seasons.) At the start of each season we go through this little ritual: We set the mood with seasonal music; we fill two brandy snifters with Baileys Irish Cream for the seasonal toast; we bring out the ritual screwdrivers; we open each frame and slide in the new magazine cover; we rehang each frame; then sit back, toast one another, reminisce about the past season, and look forward to the coming season.
Here are our current seasonal musical selections: Winter: Antarctica by Vangelis Spring: A Winter's Solstice, a Windham Hill collection Summer: The Sacred Fire by Nicholas Gunn Autumn: Autumn by George Winston Christmas: A Charlie Brown Christmas, by The Vince Guaraldi Trio Sometimes, depending on our mood, we'll play the appropriate selection from Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
My personal favorites: Song: "I Won't Last a Day Without You," by Paul Williams Rock group: The Moody Blues Book: Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein Story: "The Artist of the Beautiful," by Nathaniel Hawthorne TV show: Babylon 5 Bed & breakfast: The Victorian Inn, Martha's Vineyard. 508-627-4784, www.thevic.com.
Comic Strip: Calvin and Hobbes Quote: "We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other."-Luciano de Crescenzo Woman: Karyn Lynn Godek
BEST OF THE BEST.
993.
Best romantic gift: the gift of time Best romantic present: your own presence Best romantic car: Triumph Spitfire Most romantic comic strip: Rose Is Rose Best romantic TV show ever: Mad About You Most romantic city (in the world): Verona, Italy Most romantic city (in the United States): San Francisco, California Best romantic color: Red/PMS #1795 CVU Most romantic Broadway musical: Phantom of the Opera Best romantic movie: Casablanca Best romantic actress: Greta Garbo Best romantic actor: Clark Gable Best romantic hotel: The Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island Best romantic voice (male): Barry White Best romantic voice (female): Sade Best romantic song: "You are So Beautiful (To Me)," by Joe Cocker Do you agree? Disagree? Voice your opinion at www.1001waystoberomantic.com.
BEST BRIEF ADVICE.
994 Gals: You want more romance? Give him more sex. (Try having sex every night-night after night after night after night-until he begs you to stop! Just try it as a little experiment. It just might transform your ho-hum relationship into a raging love affair!) No, I'm not joking.
995 Guys: You want more sex? Give her more romance. (Romance her like Don Juan. Like Romeo. Like Clark Gable. Romance her every day in every way. Romance her using every single idea in this book-and then think up one thousand and one more ways to be romantic. And she'll give you all the sex you could ever dream of.) 996 Best way to create more time in your life: shoot your TV.
997 Use gifts and presents to express love and appreciation. Don't use them to apologize after a fight or make up for some dumb thing you've done. This strategy eventually backfires.