No big plans for Valentines day. We're both broke, so it's a quiet steak dinner in, and a movie. Or teaming up in City of Heroes.

/I'll be buffing him all night long

suziequzie: /I'll be buffing him all night long

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"Are you trying to tell me something, dear?"

It will suck because my loading dock will be packed with flowers, and hten I will have to listen to the couriers piss and moan about not wanting to deliver them. Just like last year.

Somewhat related:

Back about 7-8 years ago I made a Yahoo Personals account.

I never got around to closing it, but for a few years it just sat dormant.

Right around the start of 2008 they seemed to have gone through and turned on the email notifications for everyone and I started getting the emails again with pictures of the ladies.

Now, I'm kinda laid back about spam, and I like a pretty face, so I'd always open them, look at the list, then delete.

But I noticed a pattern. As the economy collapsed, I got a lot more "hits" per email. I also got a lot more "hits" per email as the holidays approached. The "hits" seemed to correspond to how people were adjusting their requirement for automated matches. This continued until Yahoo Personals got sold/bought and the emails stopped altogether.

Just thought it was interesting. I haven't noticed the same thing with the automated OKCupid mails that I've been casually tracking in a similar way.

/CSB

"It's a holiday that strikes fear and dread in men," said author Carole Townsend, who has written about Valentine's Day. "They're so afraid they're going to mess up no matter what they do. Sometimes they'll confuse the costs of the gift with the meaning of the gift, and they think, 'If you don't know what to do, just throw money at it.'"

Gee, I wonder how any guy could ever make that mistake. Considering women really seem to like practical and meaningful homemade gifts like diamonds, gold, expensive dinners out, flowers that have to be grown in a greenhouse this time of year or imported, and that sort of thing.

Wait, why do they have to be employed?
In the worlds of the illustrious carl from ATHF... "homeless women , heh, they'll do anythin' for shelter"

hailin: My husband and I's first Valentine's together he proposed. He said since he wouldn't be able to beat it that he wouldn't try on Valentine's day. Boy he wasn't kidding. Valentine's Day is usually me cooking dinner (lamb or steak) and then our normal nightly routine of playing video games or watching tv. I don't get chocolate, flowers, or gifts of any kind.

I am totally okay with this since I've always hated holidays based solely on commercialism. Christmas is starting to become that way.

Yet you complain about it in a public forum.

/ you sure you are TOTALLY okay with it?
// how YOU doin?

hailin: My husband and I's first Valentine's together he proposed. He said since he wouldn't be able to beat it that he wouldn't try on Valentine's day. Boy he wasn't kidding. Valentine's Day is usually me cooking dinner (lamb or steak) and then our normal nightly routine of playing video games or watching tv. I don't get chocolate, flowers, or gifts of any kind.

I am totally okay with this since I've always hated holidays based solely on commercialism. Christmas is starting to become that way.

You cook and play video games with him and he doesn't have to buy anything?

Does your husband know he's the luckiest SOB in the world?

Job #2 for me is retail, and clearly everyone and their housepet waited til yesterday to shop. The mall was jam-packed, at near- Christmas levels. When I came from from lunch, I had to park on our loading dock because all the spaces were filled, with a car or two loitering on each parking aisle.

It was insane. There are about four other stores who share our loading dock area, and their space was all parked up, too. Wall to wall people in the store, men AND women, all frantically shopping.