I can’t tell you what to get me for Valentine’s Day, but I can tell you what not to get me.
Do not get me a “Vermont Teddy Bear” or “Pajamas in a Bag”.
The holiday is for victims of consumerism.
When I realized this day was approaching I also realized I have had two years to post about this incipient holiday, anything I could say now probably wouldn’t be anything new. So, I checked back just to make sure I hadn’t written anything embarrassing and I’m just going to say that I still stand by my very first Valentine Post as a Blogger and I still do not have a wooden heart – 2006 was actually a much better post.
In case you really don’t care enough to reread old posts and because I don’t care enough for the approaching, or should I say encroaching, holiday to get all creative or pensive on it again, I will leave you with my only quote from the end of my last Valentine’s Day Post.
They say:
Someday love will finally be enough.
I say:
Until that time…………it won’t
The heart is a lonely hunter after all.
I also left you with a little Petty Ditty last time, but it disappeared so hey, this is the best I can
again,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I don’t have a wooden heart.
Do You?
I’m sure you’re worth it but at almost eight bucks a pop it is not likely I will be getting you a stuffed teddy bear from Vermont. If some girl is going to fall all over the place over a stupid piece of mass marketed teddy I don’t want anything to do with her.
I have gotten girls flowers and candy before, the candy is a good thing because I then can eat it.
I liked the old posts and agree.
I do have a wooden heart, yes I do.
God Bless Tom Petty.
I do Valentine’s Day , but I am nice all year round too so that has to count for something. We just try to go out and have a quiet dinner together without our son.
Those bears are pricey and ridiculous; if I bought my wife one of those she might put me in some kind of “facility”.
Loved the post from last year and no I don’t have a wooden heart, but you don’t either. I know these things.
There is much to be said about the heart, it being a lonely hunter is but one. You have me waxing all poetic here.
“Until that time it won’t” – no truer words spoken or blogged.
The indefinite “one” is another source of trouble and is frequently the cause of disagreeable scenes. … What, for example, could be sillier than to write a lady like this: “One loves you and one wonders if you love one.” Such a person is going to get nowhere. “I love you. Do you love me?” is a much simpler and better way to say it, except of course, that there is always the danger here of drifting into a popular ballad of the “Ramona” type.
Some persons use neither the indefinite “one” nor the definite pronoun, but substitute a pet name and get some such result as “Mopsy loves Flopsy and wonders if Flopsy loves Mopsy.” This usage frequently gets into the newspapers and becomes famous, particularly if Flopsy is an ambitious blonde and Mopsy a wealthy mop-handle manufacturer. The fault here, however, is not so much with the nouns of pronouns as with the verb, “to love.” Nothing can be done about the verb “to love.”
James Thurber, Only and One
- from “Ladies and Gentlemens Guide to Modern English Usage”
I still can’t help wondering if one day I might see a (ahem) footnote to this …
I haven’t celebrated V-day since elementary school. It never meant that much to me, and I have never been dating someone in February, so I guess I haven’t missed much. But I do remember how loud my neighbors got last year. We all applauded when they were done
The day after V, however, is rather important.
I’m taking a new girl out for Valentine’s day. What can I say. I go to one of those kind of schools. I am into taking girls out for the night to celebrate even though I don’t like spending money.
I’ve always gotten gifts from girlfriends and vice-versa and even though I know where you are coming from and I know they are sucking us out of our last dime I still participate.
Knowing participation.
asey: I’m worth slightly more than a teddy bear dear boy, but yea I hear you.
I will eat cheap chocolate even but I hate those heart filled boxes of candy.
jacob:
I bet you are nice all year round Jacob and I say better you than me.
I do believe your wife would do that too.
I so love seeing you “wax poetic”.
oc: Indeed you may OC. Indeed you may.
You have not scheduled your appointment yet???
coyote: Yea it is a large rip-off but I never refuse candy. Why is the day after important?
G: You are always taking a girl out for something G so that is not a big surprise there.
I couldn’t agree more.
Just as soon as the merchandising companies find a way to mass market anything they always seem to suck the life out of it like cheerleaders dancing on a grave…That’s not romantic, but I’m not a poet.
I’m sure there is a better way to demonstrate the point
Some day I’ll invent a holiday but I’m not sure about it’s name. It will be a day for when people that realize they’re not so crazy or as insane as the world would like them to believe because they enjoy being an independant thinking…oh wait, we have that…ah, but look what happened to it..hmm..oh well…nevermind.
No you do not have a wooden heart. Although wood has been known to generate healthy healing properties long after it’s been severed so perhaps wood isn’t as bad as some might think.
Sometimes I love my life, sometimes I hate my life…being pissed off, can be a great stepping stone to happieness…Enjoy the next caffeine high..move on…wait for the next joy.., and repeat
At this moment I have good thoughts about Valentines Day because my blog’s back from limbo, but usually….
Read both your old posts and remember last years well. There was snow. A blizzard on Valentines Day would be nice,
Have always measured people by the care they give on the non-holidays. More fun to get a present or a romantic dinner or weekend because just because
It does seem a rather forced holiday.
I think I would be a little bothered if someone I was involved with completely dismissed the day.
Tis my birthday
Bennett: I’m happy to see you are still around. When you invent your holiday let me know.
pia: I wouldn’t mind as long as I have heat.
Yes, it’s how you live and treat people day to day that counts; that is why it is all so silly.
Kait: I think a ” Happy V day” should suffice.
coyote: You made it another year, what can I say. Congratulations.
Your still a baby, don’t worry.
I like my chocolate.
Stone. Mine’s stone.
you haven’t scheduled your appointment yet???
I tried, Cooper, I tried … either I used the wrong address or that’s not what you meant.
We’ll talk OC. We’ll talk.
Would you refuse a gift?
Have you refused a gift?
I’ll be by to wish you a happy day anyway.
i like that…
“until then……it wont”
agreed…..yes, agreed.
But if you have good friends, i think you should always flex the thoughtful part of your being.
Indulge
And
Enjoy