Valentine's Day

As of right now, I have absolutely no idea what I am going to write, but I just feel like I'm obligated to write about Valentine's Day. I feel like it's important to write about days like John Ritter's brithday, John's Ritter's death, and other important days that fill my calendar, so why not write about the day that people either love or absolutely despise.

Surprisingly, growing up, Valentine's day was one of my favorite holidays. I have no explanation why, but I really liked it. I don't even think I ever dated anyone on Valentine's day until I met my husband. It was just a day where everyone was always happy and most importantly a day where I would get candy from my teachers in grade school.

One tradition that I love is Valentines. It was only good in elementary school when we were forced to give a Valentine to everyone in the class so that nobody would feel left out. Everyone would always get one, but I remember Julia Erickson always got the pretty homemade ones from certain admirers in the classroom. All the girls knew that every boy had a crush on her, so we weren't jealous at all. We were content with what we got.

I tried to research Valentine's Day online, but then I got really bored after reading the first paragraph on Wikipedia. I'm not really sure why we have V-day, but I remember watching the movie Valentine's Day. You know, the movie with all those celebrities and stuff. I hated that movie. I watched the edited version, got mad at myself for wasting almost 2 hours of my life watching it. Then I watch the last ten minutes unedited once and boy, it became scary. Okay, the point is, don't watch that movie.

Though I don't have any strong feelings towards V-day, I am going to make sugar cookies. I got cookie cutters a long time ago and never used them and I have been waiting for the day that I wasn't too lazy to get off my rear and make them. Today must be the day even though I am procrastinating with my blog writing. I don't have any food coloring, so it's not like I'm going to have nice pink and red cookies. Just white, but I just want sugar in cookie form, so it works perfectly for me.

Oh, but can I tell you the one thing that I do hate about Valentine's Day? I hate it when it is referred to as "Single's Awareness Day". It bugs me like crazy. It bugged me even before I was married, so you single people, don't try to pin the negativity on me. When I was single, I thought every dateless Friday night was Single's Awareness Day and that Valentine's day was just a good reason to chill with my female friends at Cold Stone. That's the reality of it.

Well, Happy Valentine's Day to everyone. Make sugar cookies and stuff your face with chocolate. Even better, go to the store tomorrow morning and get all the chocolate that's half off. If you do that, Valentine's day will be even better tomorrow.