Well, today is Valentine’s Day. There are pink heart decorations everywhere. All of the major retail outlets have a couple of aisles dedicated to candy, flowers, and love-stuff. Hallmark’s CEO is watching the revenue pile in by the minute. Millions of flowers are being delivered all over the country. Everyone is scrambling to get that perfect Valentine’s Day gift for their special someone.
Kinda makes you want to vomit, doesn’t it?
As much as I hate to be negative, I think Valentine’s Day is a stupid holiday. I’m sorry… but I do. Call me Scrooge if you wish, but I truly feel it’s a load of crap. Why, you ask?
Valentine’s Day is a day set aside that you’re supposed to show your significant other how much they mean to you. My thoughts on the matter? If you truly love someone, I hope to God that you go out of your way to show them more than one day a year.
I have to chuckle at the guys who are scrambling at the last minute to find that “perfect gift” for their lady-friend. The ones who sputter, “If I don’t get her exactly what she wants, she’s going to break up with me!”
Yeah? Well then your girlfriend is probably a bitch, and you’d be better off anyway.
That’s what irritates me as well. The holiday isn’t really about love anymore either. It’s become commercialized, just like most of the rest of them. It’s about buying people stuff to keep them appeased.
Now… let’s turn our attention to MY beautiful fiancee.
I love Julia more than anything in the world. She’s beautiful. She’s smart. She’s determined. She is one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met. She puts up with me, which is a feat in itself. She would do pretty much anything in the world for me. She has an amazing smile. She’s not materialistic. She’s a hard worker. She’s made me a much better person. …I could go on.
Every day, I tell her she’s beautiful. Every day, I tell her I love her. You know why? Because that’s how I feel, and I don’t need a retail holiday to tell me to do so.
Neither one of us are doing anything for Valentine’s Day. Julia’s suggestion? “I say we just get Chinese and hang out.”
Now… a friend of mine did make a very valid point. There is one cool thing about Valentine’s Day. The price of candy sinks like a rock at the end of February.
That’s also why I’m about 20 pounds heavier than I used to be… :-/
I am in complete agreeance with you. Why is it tellingme agreeance isn’t a word? I’m pretty sure it is. I’m not changing it! Take THAT little squiggly red lines!
Minorly (really?? minorly isn’t a word either? I hereby dub ‘minorly’ a word. I also need to take the red squigglies off. WHAT THE CRAP? squigglies isn’t a word either? this is stupid. Spell check on this sucks.)
anyway…..MINORLY defending the women….there are a LOT of guys out there who don’t express their love/feelings towards their significant other. SOME girls get excited about v-day because the guy doesn’t do anything nice on any other day.
Luckily, I have YOU, and you tell me all the time how you think I’m beautiful but weird. (paraphrasing, of course). I don’t need V-day . Though I feel that I should have gotten you some bobby pins. I think that would have made you happy.
I remember you mentioning Jules on your blog before you started dating. And then I remember when you officially began dating. And then I remember thinking, “He’s head-over-heels for her!” And then you got engaged! I was so happy for both of you! And it doesn’t surprise me at all that you know the importance of showing her every day how much you love her and not caving in to this commercial holiday. I totally agree with you about that. Except that my husband did totally out-do himself this year and bought me an Ipod Touch for Valentine’s Day and totally shocked me and I was so happy! So I can’t really complain.