I am a notoriously untidy person but today (maybe influenced by my family's spring cleaning craze) I managed to clean up my room. This is no small task I can assure you but I finally made it. I decided to include this in the blog just to keep track how many times I'm going to say this till the end of the year. My guess is not more than another 2 times.

This morning I finally brought a bouquet of roses for my better half. I've been meaning to do this for about a year but never managed to arrive to the local florist. Flowers are a little bit like chocolates, once they're finished they're forgotten and that keeps me back from getting too much of them. They're also rather expensive for something so temporary. On the other side I doubt how many other presents can be as romantic as flowers which makes them very appealing for this time of the year. While I was getting the flowers I picked up a small conversation with the salesman and he told me that the price of roses is determined by the length of the stem. This is because a rose with a longer stem is of higher quality.

Flowers mean different things to different people and browsing through the web I found a couple of lists describing different flowers. Obviously these are subjective definitions so they shouldn't be taken so seriously, after all the meaning to your recipient should finally dictate which flowers to buy.

• Anemone - Anticipation
• Bird of Paradise - Joyfulness
• Carnation - Pride and beauty
• Daffodil - Chivalry
• Freesia - Innocence
• Iris - My compliments
• Rose - Love
• Sunflower - Pure thoughts
• Tulip - Declaration of love

I'll finish off this post with some quotes about flowers:-