Considering wholesale prices for longstemmed roses can go as low as TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER ROSE (usually grown in Columbia) and the florists charge $75-$100 for a dozen delivered, there is something seriously wrong with the marketing of roses for VD.
This is what I'm saying. Not to mention that the 'forcing' process causes the majority of growing energy to be spent on building those long stems which become so woody that florists use machines to cut them (which causes the embolism -air bubble in the stem- that makes the head drop over the next day) rather than hand cutting them under water...so they really are ruined from the start.
I used to try and sell nice Spring mixes...they are colorful, last much, MUCH longer and cost a third less. Oh NO. I literally had men say "That's not love," in response. Love...brought to you by FTD.
Happy Birthdays, Kristin and Maria!
there are usually cards on v-day sometimes flowers. andwedo dinner,sometimes in ,sometimes out. For us it has becme an excuse not to do anything with other people. andwe need reasons t keep other people out.
happy birthday Kristin and Maria
I was hoping my valentine's day would include a massage, but I have to wait a week for that. Still, I am valentining myself with ice cream and chocolate.
WindSparrow, the tumbled stone necklace idea is quite lovely. I would cherish something like that.
Okay, I'm perennially single and my opinion maybe shouldn't mean much but I have to say if your relationship is ruined by Valentine's Day that maybe it wasn't meant to be in the first place.
That is probably true, but Valentine's Day can bring to a head a string of resentments. If you're with a guy who doesn't remember birthdays or anniversaries, it's particularly annoying that he can't even bring home a card after every commercial and newspaper ad, plus cutesy stories on local news, have been hitting him with the giant Valentine's anvil.
I hate Valentine's Day.
We should be Masterminds. Yes we should. Anyone need something written?
More importantly, buon compleanno, Maria! Happy birthday, Kristin!
(I hope Google was right and that's really happy birthday.)
Well, I just gave my class a little speech on the evils of imported flowers and diamonds. They were sufficiently bummed out, but I think they think I'm just a killjoy. This is pretty much the same group that yesterday called the builders of a small, straw-bale-and-adobe house who were trying to reduce energy consumption "dirty hippies" (not to their faces, you understand. This was a video). And one said he was going to buy his flowers at Wal-Mart, apparently assuming I meant don't order direct from Columbia. But I'm trying.
And I despise all of the jewelry store ads. I swear, they're everywhere. I now hate them all. I would stand there and sip a cup of coffee while watching a Jared store burn to the ground, I hate their commercials so much.
TRIFECTA!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTIN!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIA!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AIMEE'S LITTLE SISTER!!!
