Hearts and Daggers
Feb. 14th, 2006 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Valentine's Day is a peculiar holiday: if you're in *luv* it's more wonderful than your birthday and New Years and the 4th of July combined; if you're single, it's like being Jewish at Christmas: excluded through no choice of your own and pounded by ads, events and celebrations that have nothing to do with you.
It's easy to be bitter when you're single this time of the year: the media and advertising blitz all seem to be pointing their collective fingers at you and saying (in a perfect Nelson voice), "Haaaa-haaaa!" Still, I'm a hopeless romantic and know that at -some- point I'll be hooked up again and be able to release all that pent-up mushiness. As fine a companion a dog can be, they have no appreciation for mushy cards, jewelry and romantic getaways: Rondo would be just as happy with a long walk by a city dump and a new cow-hoof (plus he's a boy!). Granted, he's a lot cheaper (so was Frieda), but that's not the point...
Until that time comes again (gu-ril-furend-o!), I console myself by avoiding restaurants (like Clam Humper's 4-hour wait tonight) and remembering the "Oh, yeah." part of having an S.O. (accountability, teh-krazy, etc. of not-so-good relationships). And getting Rondo a new cow-hoof.
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Date: 2006-02-14 04:48 pm (UTC)While yes, romance is a great thing, why let it culminate on one day? Bit of a stressor. Life in total should be lived with romance n passion.
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But then again, candy is good ^.^
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Date: 2006-02-14 05:28 pm (UTC)And candy -is- good. And cheaper the day after!
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Date: 2006-02-14 04:52 pm (UTC)Let me know if you want to get lunch or dinner today ... I can give you your generator back (thanks!), and I had some dog-yes, valentines-no related questions to pick your brain about anyway.
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Date: 2006-02-14 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-14 05:50 pm (UTC)Rondo is a great Valentine, even though he is a guy! ^__^
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Date: 2006-02-14 05:58 pm (UTC)Anyways, for what it's worth, happy Valentine's Day.
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Date: 2006-02-14 08:37 pm (UTC)Yeah-- marketing goons are taking the fun out of any event/holiday that they can sell. Look at all the "buy your loved one a car for Xmas" ads. Although...Halloween has been commercialized to the better (IMO): far better quality of costumes and props. You can't have too many life-sized werewolf props on sale...
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Date: 2006-02-14 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-14 06:36 pm (UTC)Cuz everyone knows that card companies and chocolate companies sell more stuff at this time of year than nearly any other ;)
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Date: 2006-02-14 08:56 pm (UTC)He's also the patron saint of lovers, beekeepers and plague!
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Date: 2006-02-15 07:05 am (UTC)Note that I'm too lazy tonight to even google for a more authoritative answer.
Tonight I went to a talk at the Computer History Museum on Social Computing.
Holidays? There's important stuff to talk about!
Like computers and dogs!
Why not get a whole cow for Rondo and just dole out pieces slowly?
Lulu Bell would like that.
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Date: 2006-02-15 08:28 am (UTC)Coincidentally, the 14th was also the day of a Roman "love lottery" (boys, girls, sex-- usual Roman thing). As they did with holidays like Christmas and Easter, some pastors slapped Valentine's day on the 14th to annex that holiday and celebration (you can guess that it was pretty popular).
Valentine is also the patron saint of epilepsy and unhappy lovers (I guess this latter patronage covers the rest of us w/o SO's).
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Date: 2006-02-14 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-14 06:49 pm (UTC)Yay, cow hooves! Hey, you can't knock "puppy love". I'm taking my pack for a nice long walk and giving them a pig ear each tonight. (although Jez, Fen and Rogue are all on diets because 'someone' has been paying more attention to pleading puppy eyes than to the ability to feel ribs and see a waistline). And yeah, doing something with my human sweeties too, maybe.
your collie is lovely, btw. :)
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Date: 2006-02-14 08:59 pm (UTC)From a gal in love
Date: 2006-02-14 06:56 pm (UTC)If you as the sweetie gauge your love on what you get from a store or how expensive the dinner is, you should be ashamed.
I'd prefer a walk in th place that houses those beautiful flowers you posted.
Re: From a gal in love
Date: 2006-02-14 09:04 pm (UTC)The bleeding hearts were at the Rhododendron Species Foundation and Botanical Garden (http://www.rhodygarden.org/page/page/1083572.htm) just outside Seattle, WA. Beautiful set of gardens, with flowers blooming almost year-round.
That gives me an idea
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Date: 2006-02-14 09:16 pm (UTC)Cow hoofs, eh? How does Rondo feel about pig's ears?
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Date: 2006-02-14 09:37 pm (UTC)Rondo likes pig ears but they give him the Awful Wind.
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Date: 2006-02-15 01:26 am (UTC)I hope today has gone well for you despite it being -that- day :)
I like to choose to remember the holiday for the origin of it anyway when I do think about it. Ahh, nothing more romantic than the death of a saint. *chuckle*
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