Love

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

And oh, what a happy Valentine's Day it is... I'm celebrating it with a take-home Statistics midterm. Yay! Nothing says romance like an analysis of variance ;-).

Everyone's complaining (or sympathizing) about what a bummer it is to have a statistics midterm ruining Valentine's Day. Doesn't really bother me. I told John months ago that we didn't have to do anything for the occasion (assuming, of course, that he didn't get sick of me by now, which doesn't seem to have happened =D). This is for several reasons. One of them, of course, is that Valentine's Day is a completely capitalist holiday these days. What's romantic in being forced by society to celebrate love and your beloved? And how exactly do chocolates and flowers accomplish that goal? (Ok, maybe chocolates do =D. But really, everyone should always be showering me with chocolates... As to flowers, I hate getting flowers. If you ever happen to be dating me, never get me flowers.) This relates to another reason why I'm granting him a reprieve from Valentine's Day. This one is entirely self serving. Basically, I don't want the stress of having to find a thoughtful, romantic gift for him. Christmas wasn't really that long ago, and I haven't had a chance to recover yet. Boys are seriously hard to shop for.

But the real reason for no Valentine's Day is that our anniversary is exactly one week from today. I know! I can't believe it either! Everyone gets sick of me before a year is out! So considering that I think Valentine's Day and Christmas are too close for comfort, being only a week separated, Valentine's Day and our anniversary add up to my worst nightmare =). So we're opting to observe our anniversary, since it potentially is more meaningful than a Hallmark holiday (although we're being pretty relaxed about even that).

Everyone I've told this to, however, is shocked and claims that the love has left our relationship. Well, that's an easy comment to reply to.... "What love? There's never been any love!" =D And everyone John's talked to about it has been highly skeptical and warned John incessantly about us females. "Oh John... You know when they say they don't want anything for Valentine's Day they're lying. You'd better have something planned!" But I'm actually being truthful this time. Please, no Valentines.

How 'bout the rest of you? Any smoochfests? =D