Today Is February 14th

Since no one else is addressing today, I shall. Today is a holiday that we should all be aware of, so...

Happy Saint Valentine's Day Massacre Day. Grab your Tommy gun and your best trilby.

Yeah, I had a friend point that out a few days ago. I responded with the origins of Halloween, to which she said she doesn't celebrate Halloween either. I have a different response when people tell me "Happy Valentine's Day"--I say "Happy chocolate day." There's nothing about romance involved in it. Teachers give students chocolate, my mom sent me an e-card, there's a Midnight Waffle Dinner-thingy going on for those people who don't have dates, I overheard one girl ask another to be her valentine and the other said "Oh, I already have one--but you can be my gay valentine"... I could probably go on. (Pink-iced-red-sprinkled donuts in the campus center. They weren't even that good.) Seriously, how is anything that happens today romantic? I mean, butcher the holiday's original meaning if you want, that's basically all people ever do with history--but could you at least stick with the meaning you came up with?

Eh. Any excuse for chocolate, I suppose.

(I don't celebrate it, either--at its best, it's a terribly unspontaneous over-hyped "romantic" holiday.)

My husband and I exchanged Valentine cards, as we have done for the past twenty years of our relationship. He gave me flowers. As I wasn't well we missed our Valentine's meal out, but had a candlelit meal (soup and rolls) at our kitchen table instead.

We are both in our fifties, just got married last month. Never too old for romance!

Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. We celebrate that.

Do you watch Bones? :D

And a merry (and fertile) Lupercalia, all!