- Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel.
I'm Hanna and we're just gonna be a bit more PG today.
Still gonna be talking about relationships
but it's Valentine's Day soon and maybe
you need some ideas.
Maybe you hate it and so these are just gonna be
slightly alternative ideas for how to spend
your Valentine's Day and maybe we can all get through
the weekend and the day and everything
and with our heads held on high
and our hearts in tact.
That would be great.
So I've come up with a list of alternative things
that you can do on Valentine's Day
that isn't like a date, date.
Like traditional Valentine's activities
and you can do these no matter
what your relationship status is.
So all of these activities,
actually I've not double checked,
so most of these activities,
may be all of them, can either be done by yourself,
with one other person, whoever that other person is
or with a group of mates.
So we've got lots of options here,
lots of different ways that you can spend
your Valentine's Day and I hope that this inspires you.
I know that Valentine's Day can cause a lot of stress
for some people either because you are in a relationship
or you're just dating someone and you're just like
do we celebrate it, do we not,
what is the etiquette here.
Or you know that your partner is someone
that holds Valentine's Day in like high regard
and it's important to them and so that might add
some pressure on figuring out what to do,
what to buy them, what to say, I don't know.
But maybe we can all agree that
things have gone too far.
And we just need to chill out.
And also if you're single it might be
a really tough time, especially if like
you are in an unrequited love situation.
That might be especially hard,
that's not fun for anyone, is it.
So a lot of people have negative feelings
towards Valentine's Day and that is totally understandable.
I think I have like neutral feelings towards it.
Most of my Valentine's Days with Dan have been spent
just as a normal day and there's been like, oh,
happy Valentine's Day.
I think one of them, I think our first Valentine's Day
together I was visiting him where he used to live
and we went out for dinner.
But we would've done that no matter what day it was
'cause it was like special for me
to go visit him instead of the other way around.
But, here is my list.
I have eight ideas for you and hopefully
you find something fun to do on the day,
no matter what it is.
So number one, do what I'm doing.
This thing that I'm doing actually
we're doing it on the Saturday.
So Saturday the 15th, but to me
it's still very Valentine's Day in spirit.
And by we, I do not mean me and Dan,
I mean me and my friend Lena.
We are doing something
that we've been meaning to do forever.
Which is do a movie marathon of the "Before" trilogy.
Now what is this trilogy, you might be asking.
It is the three films, "Before Sunrise,"
"Before Sunset" and "Before Midnight."
Lena and I are obsessed with these movies.
I don't know about her but I've only ever seen each one once
and I'm ready to like marathon it and like do it.
The general premise is that each film is set
like nine-ish years apart and it's all filmed
with the same actors and it's the same characters
so you like follow their journey over the course
of like 18 years.
The first film, these two strangers meet.
They have like one night in Vienna together
and they talk about love and relationships
and philosophise about it all and then they part ways.
And then the second movie is them reuniting
and doing the same thing.
Talking about love and all of that stuff
and the third film, spoilers, they are in a relationships
and they have kids and it's them
like basically having an argument for the entire film.
Each film is just pure dialogue.
It's just two people talking about love
and relationships and it's amazing.
Would recommend.
That's what Lena and I will be doing
on Saturday the 15th.
Number two, this is more for actual Valentine's Day.
Just do what you'd normally do that day.
Just pretend, well don't just pretend,
like because actually it is.
Just act like it is what it is which is just any other day.
So this year, Valentine's Day is on a Friday.
So maybe you get up, you go to work,
you go to the pub after work or uni, whatever it is you do.
And then you come home, you get Chinese takeaway,
watch a movie, you go to bed.
Wham bam, thank you ma'am.
There's your day, you're welcome.
That is actually probably quite similar
to what I will do on actual Valentine's Day.
Number three we're getting into more
activity-based things now.
Karaoke with friends.
Karaoke's just always up there, for me,
I love it, so much.
But I've added a twist to this one.
It's karaoke but the challenge is
you can't sing any songs about love.
I think it'll be harder than you think it is.
I'm actually tempted to maybe try and do this myself.
Also you do not have to necessarily spend money
or leave your home to do karaoke, oh no.
Dan and I do this quite a lot and we've done it
with friends as well where we just play
karakoke YouTube videos on our TV
and we're just like dancing and singing
around the living room, that's all you need.
All you need is an internet connection and YouTube.
Don't need microphones, don't need anything like that.
You just like search in YouTube, (speaks gibberish)
song, karakoke and there is your entire night of fun,
sorted it out for you.
Number four, do the one thing
that you've always said you want to do.
So basically just like using Valentine's Day
as an excuse to do something
that you really want to do and just keep putting off.
I think Valentine's Day can potentially
be a really great excuse to do that.
As long is it's not like mega busy
and crowded, the thing that you wanna do.
So this might be trying out a new restaurant
although I wouldn't recommend doing restaurants
on Valentine's Day but maybe over the weekend.
A museum, a particular event or activity.
So I have a list on my phone
which is like date ideas with Dan.
And anytime I come up with something like,
oh, that would be really cool or even if it's not
like a date idea with Dan it's just like oh,
this is a cool thing that's happening in London
at the moment, I really want to go to that exhibition
or I really want to see this thing.
I just like add it in my phone
and then when I have a spare weekend I'm like,
I wanna go do this thing.
So this is what is currently on my list.
Some of these are specific to Dan as well
because I'm like he would enjoy that.
A brewery tour, we both like beer.
The Imperial War Museum.
I've been to the Imperial War Museum in Manchester
many times, I've never been to the one in London.
The London Transport Museum currently has
an exhibition called "Hidden London"
which is all about the mysteries and intrigue
of the London underground.
And that sounds great.
An art night.
I did like a gifted evening with art night,
as part of this thing, and you get to do
some painting and they gave me a voucher
for another one so I'm like
I wanna go and do another art night and do some painting.
A cooking class, who knows what that will be.
And there's an exhibition at the Welcome Collection
at the moment called "Play".
All about playing.
And I wanna go to that.
I don't know when it ends.
Oh don't wanna miss it.
See this is the thing, I just keep creating this list.
And I'm like I want to go to all of these things.
So yeah, maybe you have a similar list
that's not a physical list that is maybe just in your head.
But do one of those things that you have always wanted to do
and again remember, you can do these on your own,
with other person or a group of people.
And maybe you'll take inspiration from my list.
Number five, do nothing.
I mean this is kind of similar to the like,
you just spend it as you normally would.
However, if you actually do want
to celebrate Valentine's Day like in a traditional sense,
maybe don't do anything on Valentine's Day
and wait until afterwards, discounted flowers,
discounted chocolate.
The restaurants are much emptier.
There you go.
Number six, do something non-fancy.
Like just complete other end of like what
you think of like a romantic, fancy Valentine's date
and just kind of go to the other extreme.
So this might be you go to McDonald's together
or you go to Ikea together.
Or even better, you go to Ikea,
buy the frozen meatballs from the freezer
kitchen section and then bring them home
and cook Ikea meatballs at home
although why would you do that.
I really want to be taken on a date to Ikea for lunch.
Oh my god, now I'm hungry, ah.
Number seven, go on a pub crawl.
Pub crawls are a great way to get to know your local area.
And if you don't drink, you don't have to drink.
You can still go and experience the pubs
if you like pubs and you know,
get to know your way around.
I love a good pub crawl.
Dan and I don't have many pubs around near where we live.
There's like two that we go to.
But maybe if we like walked further
or like went to the area next to us
then maybe we'll find some more pubs that we like.
Yeah, that might be a fun activity that you do.
Granted, depending on where you live
that might be a really expensive activity.
And number eight which is kind of similar
to one of the ones before.
Like do something that you've always wanted to do.
But this is like do an activity that is always fun.
No matter what day you do it on,
it is always fun but just use Valentine's Day
as an actual excuse to get your ass into gear
and book the thing.
So this might be a comedy night.
The theatre, a music gig.
Go see a film, like go to the movies.
This stuff is available all of the time
but we don't always like take the opportunities
that are there for us and maybe
we just need a little Valentine's Day
to be like oh, let's go out for a comedy night
and see like five different standup comics
in one night and it'll probably be terrible
but there might be one good person there.
And it will be fun.
So yeah, those are some ideas from my brain
to you on how to spend Valentine's Day
if you are not interested in doing anything traditional
or you just need something to do
to forget that it is Valentine's Day.
I will probably be tweeting along on the 15th
of the Before trilogy marathon that we're doing.
So you are more than welcome to join in with that.
The running time of all three films is only five hours.
So it is completely doable in one afternoon.
And Dan is not invited to the trilogy marathon.
He will be very much in his office, on his computer,
playing League whilst Lena and I watch all the movies.
On actual Valentine's Day I imagine I will just be
working and then Dan will come home
and then we will eat dinner together.
Maybe we'll go to the pub.
Who knows, maybe we'll get takeaway, I don't know.
Probably find out on the day.
Dan also hates cards so we won't be doing cards.
Maybe chocolate, we both like chocolate.
So that'd be nice.
Maybe I'll bake brownies.
See this is the thing.
I like baking, Dan hates cakes,
but he likes brownies, so the one thing
that I can actually bake is brownies.
And he likes the brownies that I bake
which is a Daniel J Layton recipe.
Maybe I'll just use Valentine's Day
as an excuse to bake some more brownies.
There we go, what a great time.
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what your Valentine's Day plans are
if you have any other ideas for ways
to spend the day, slash weekend
doing what you want to do
and not feeling overwhelmed by like
all of the messaging of love and happiness around you.
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