Is there anyone out there who thinks Valentine's Day is a useful holiday? Anyone who likes the pressure of having to buy the appropriate "love" gift for a significant other? Does anyone like the crass commercialism or the fact that this holiday is a slap in the face to anyone missing a significant other for any multitude of reasons? Anyone enjoy spending 4 hours on an otherwise calm evening frantically cutting card stock into heart shapes and glueing bingo cards and poking holes and cutting cheese into heart shapes for school parties? What's the equivalent of Bah Humbug? Bah-Lovebug?
Then of course, there are roses. Especially when they fill my house with such a pleasant scent, I've got to back off just a little bit. Thank you, DH.
Mare, I'm sure your eagle eye will notice that my picture frame now includes a real picture of my family.
It's hard to see because I am not talented enough to take a good picture of a glass-covered photo. I call them Twenty Cent, by the way.
I'm soliciting suggestions. I've discovered that the missing link to my keeping up with exercise all these years was simply spelled ipod. The best exercise songs I've found so far are Pump It (Black Eyed Peas), Numb (Linkin Park) and Holiday (Green Day). Any other pissed-off sounding, hard driving song suggestions will be duly noted.
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Yeah, V-Day can be annoying, but I try to make it family oriented fun. Like my father did with me, I leave a trinket or two at the breakfast table for the kids (this year new ski socks and some Hershey's kisses). I make some yummy muffins. We'll get some good wine for dinner tonight. And that;s about it.
I gave up on anything homemade for school long ago. If it can't be purchased predone at Target or Trader Joe's, it ain't happening.
You can always boycott Valentine's Day -- that's what we do. Just say no. We try to do something nice for each other during the month of February, but that's it.
It sure is overdone, but I like my little family celebrating it. I liked running the Vday party at school, and I liked putting together the goody bags. I made a giant heart shaped sugar cookie for K's class (didn't have a heart-shaped cookie cutter, so I just pressed the ready-to-go dough into a heart shaped pan I have). That's because I like seeing the kids get all psyched. It's a good day, maybe blown way out of proportion...for sure!!! But St. Valentine was a cool dude._LT
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