Warning: contains hearts and cheap chocolate

Traditionally, I mark Valentine's Day by publicly refusing to celebrate Valentine's Day. Which kinda-sorta makes the anti-celebration refusal to mark the day moot, but --whatever-- I do it anyway.  This also explains why I like this article from last week's Time so much: A Day to Forget. 

I would anti-celebrate the "Singles Awareness Day" Nancy Gibbs mentions too, but as half of a committed couple, this kinda-sorta would result in further hypocrisy.  So I'll just eye neat-looking books like Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After (thanks, feministing, for hosting Not Oprah's Book Club) and move on, trying to figure out whether there is a way to stop being jealous of my single friends without actually dumping CK.

I would also plead that if you must, must, absolutely MUST mark today with some sign of goopiness for someone(s), be they animal, vegetable, or mineral, at least do it creatively, and without spending money on so-called Valentine's items like personalized M & M's or roses that die a week later.  If Not Martha can do it, so can you.  But considering we just bought Leah a jumbo box of Spongebob valentines, that would make me yet again a hypocrite.

So instead of floundering about and trying to figure out how to anti-celebrate Valentine's Day, I will just throw my hands up in the air and wish y'all a very happy Thursday.

Erm... Happy Thursday.

Comments

[Josh]

Happy Thursday back to you too! I must admit I succumbed to the hype - but didn't buy anything (yet). Instead, I made / printed out scrapbook-like pages with photos of ourselves (one somewhat risque) and sappy sayings, and scattered them around the bathroom and kitchen. Barry has found one of them so far. Five more to go (two for the kids) ...

[Sarah]

Haha, same here.........I don't care for V-day, but I celebrate it anyway, w-h-a-t-e-v-a. Happy Thursday! (Remember exchanging valentine cards when we were Leah's age?)

[tate]

happy vday!

[Lara]

I used to wear all back, or in more recent years, my shirt that says "I hate you" then decided that it would be better to just not aknowledge it. Which I haven't. And it's SO much better that Im not in high school where everything is pink and red and flowers are floating around. *yuck*