Today is supposed to be a giant mushy lovefest. Come people! I'm highly disappointed in LoT right now. There has been no inappropriate lovefest comments made!

LoT is the warm chocolate fondue where I come to dip the crusty French bread of my soul.

A very happy unhate day to you all.

Just to be clear, I didn't take Nephy's O.P. as all that bah-humbug.

I have to agree with her about the crass commercialism ... but it's already tried to ruin Halloween and Christmas, and has been working on craptacularizing Valentine's Day for decades. It's just part of Americanization, and we have to work harder to reduce the commerical aspects and increase the intended spirit of any official celebration that can conceivably turn a buck.


Even though I've got a date tonight ... Valentines' can make me miss my hetero days. Flowers, chocolates, waltzing ... that kind of stuff makes me cringe between two men, and I loved it so much as part of straight-folks romance rituals.


Ah well, in with the new. We have our own, not-quite-Hallmark celebrations in store. For starters, I think I'll wear that cool top I donned for NYE ... ya know the one with the padlocks?


Oh, is that TMI?


Well, mayb so ... but if I do find this an occasion to wear that a second time ... maybe I'll finally change my frelling avatar!


:iSm:

iSm- I love it when you say frell. I am just so happy to be in the company of a Farscape fan!

You've got that backwards. Commercialization of Valentine's Day far predates that of Halloween or Christmas. VD commercialization paved the way for the others.

I got chocolates, taffys, rock candy on a stick, and a couple of kiddy valentines (including a Jack Sparrow one) from....my coworkers.

I had no idea that it was now a "gift your coworkers" holiday. It was only a handful this year, but you just know that it's a snowball rolling downhill.

Very sweet of them, no bitterness here. :)

Leave all of that at work.

No sign of that around here. But then public libraries, like elementary schools, are an environment that tends to be hyperaware of holidays great and small.

And school districts. I've gotten valentines too.