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OK, this usually works for me:
1. Ask her to cook you a surprise for dinner. Tell her to run along, get the ingredients and make you something real nice. While she's out, she could also get a nice romantic DVD, you suggest. Depending on how far to the shops, you've got at least an hour.
2. Get a bottle of Tequilla and a nice bottle of your Mrs' fave beverage. Make a small, non greasy and light meal. And some snacks, such as those funny looking 'chocolate Pringles' thingies.
The devious plot is this: Mrs Greedoniz will not be satiated by her meal. She'll still be hungry. But she'll compliment you on the meal, and its romantic touch.
Pre-show (heheheheh) pour the tequilla into another vessel and fill the tequilla bottle with water and a few granules of instant coffee to make the 'tequilla gold' colour (yes, I used to be in amateur dramatics).
So — you have your 'tequilla' and she has her fave tipple. Pull out a deck of cards, along with the chocolate thingies, and tell her you're going to play a card-drinking-game.
Separate the deck into red and black, and you each decide on a colour—one of you red, one of you black. Shuffle the deck.
Make a big laugh out of it all, btw... and keep her giggly!
Next: take turns in taking 5 cards from the pile. If there are more reds than blacks, red wins, black loses—so black has to drink a 'shot'.
Of course, your tequilla will have no effect.
After 5 or six games, she'll be sound asleep, leaving ample time to watch the DPB. At this point, get the REAL tequilla, order a pizza and turn up the telly so you can't hear her snoring.
Works every time