If your looking for a Valentine’s day idea for your sweetheart, but don’t want to get the usual V-day stuff, try this. If your wife or girlfriend loves chocolate covered strawberries, like Tammy does, here’s an easy way to show her how much you care. Remember when you were little and would make a bunch of useless stuff for your mom each holiday, like pictures or homemade cards? She would always love it and proudly display it on the refrigerator, no matter how horrible it was, right?

Well your wife is probably the same way. Most woman love stuff that we make for them. They like to see that we put some thought and time in to it. Of course they also love if you go and buy them jewelry or a new BMW also! I think that most of us are not going to be shopping for a new Lexus or BMW this Valentine’s day though, right?

My wife had one of those jewelry parties the other night. (Before we got pounded with all of the snow!) Well one of the things that she made to eat had to do with melting chocolate and dripping it all over a bunch of stuff. As I saw how she did it, I thought how easy it would be to buy some big, juicy strawberries and melt some of that same chocolate and dip the strawberries in to it. I just tried it a little bit ago while she was out and it actually worked great!

I got regular chocolate and white chocolate and threw it in the microwave to melt it. I dunked them babies in to the regular chocolate, drizzled the white chocolate on them once the regular chocolate got hard, and now I look like a hero! Not only do they look great, they cost me close to nothing! Have you ever bought chocolate covered strawberries at a specialty store around Valentines Day? You could easily spend close to $50 for hardly any strawberries. By doing it this way, you save money that you can use to buy her something else, plus she will love that you took the time to do it yourself.

As an added touch, I put them on a platter and dripped the word”Love” with white chocolate.

I couldn’t wait and had to give them to her today. She loved it! Wait till she gets her package from Victoria Secrets tomorrow! I believe in gifts that both of us can enjoy! I may be a big wuss, but remember guys, “A happy wife is a happy life!”

This is a funny video that shows a creative way to pick up girls. It’s not really practical, but still funny though. After watching this and seeing the extremes that guys will go to just to get a date, I find myself appreciating my wife and marriage even more. After being married for a few years right out of high school, me and Tammy split up for over five years. I was forced in to the dating scene and wow, did it suck!

From a guys point of view that never wanted to get divorced in the first place, it was amazing the whack jobs that I met out there. (The funny thing is that there is probably a girl from my past saying the same thing to herself as she thinks back about me!) People always say that the grass is always greener on the other side, well take it from someone that has been through it, that’s rarely true!

Check out this guy’s game!
I wouldn’t have the nads to do this and thank god I don’t have to.

To really know what makes me the person that I am today, you need to meet my soulmate. Her name is Tammy. She has been and always will be my one true thing. She was my high school sweetheart and stole my heart way back in 1984, when I was only 15. We dated through high school, although we went to different high schools, and soon married after we both graduated.

I’d like to tell you that it was all marital bliss ever since. It wasn’t. In fact it wasn’t even close. We had our first son and stayed married for around two and a half years. On Christmas Eve in 1989, she decided that she wanted out and figured that this would be a good time to fill me in on this latest development. It wasn’t a good time, although there isn’t a good time to find out that your wife is leaving you and taking your son with her. Read the rest of this entry »