Friends of mine are having a 'comfort food ' Potluck on valentines day. While most of us our married we are mostly 'old married couples' but there will be singles, some kids , and some grandkids. In other words, love in many facets will be celebrated.

Goodn luck, askye.

Valentine's Day is annoying. In my 32 (dear lord, wait, am I 32? 31? Shit, I don't even know how OLD I am? Fuck, I AM 32! When did I turn 32? SHIT, I got old and didn't realize it? That means I'll be 33 this year?? CRAP) Um. Digression. Point being, I've only ever been dating someone twice on V-Day. And both times were really a bust. Useless. And the rest of the times were ass.

Askye, yay for getting shit done, but sorry it sounds like it all has to be so darn COMPLICATED.

I went contra dancing tonight! And now my ankle really hurts. Or more the muscles right above my ankle in my lower leg. Ouch.

That means I'll be 33 this year??

Soon you'll be older than Jesus ever was.

ya, I'll trade ya Ms. 32. Signed. Mr. 38.

I was in a real relationship for one v-day, and it was cool. Spoiled her rotten. Apparently I was the first fella to give her flowers. Blew her away.

Happy birthdays!!!!

And yay for contra dancing! Did you enjoy it? Were there people under 60?

I got a totally awesome vday card in the mail today from my dad. While i am wholy against the "holiday" i do love my dad an awful lot.

O_a, was Jeff seriously bugging single you about not participating in workplace-inappropriate card exchanging? Seems very very wrong. Even at a theatre.

I feel the ankle pain. Finally got out of the air cast and but four days later wonked my ankle but good using all those muscles again for the first time in months. *sigh*

ya, he was busting my chops.

Oh, yeah, erin, there were plenty of younger people! (Including two little tiny babies! One who must've only been a month old, and one who was probably four months old, who was enjoying the heck out of being danced around--she was actually in a front pack on her mom, dancing the whole time! The other one was just sleeping/watching). But my friend Otr has organized a once-a-month queer ...not takeover, but just "lots of queers come so you don't feel so weird if you're dancing the part that's not your gender" thing. So there were probably 20 of us, and the crowd itself, while there were a lot of older folks, had some younger too.

Omnis, I would really want to find an awesome comeback to anybody who work-pressured me about participating in Valentine's Day, how awful! But I'd never come up with it in time.

It's not just how old I actually am, but that I seriously didn't REMEMBER! I had to think about it! I thought I was younger! eep.

I'd probably just get those perforated paper ones we used in fourth grade. Do they still make them?

If we're going to act like this is grammar school let's just embrace it.

You shouldn't have to even thing about it, much less go out and buy more crap to go in landfills (that plastic-coated cardstock crap doesn't recycle). I don't think it's OK for any workplace to force employees to participate in any holiday based around a single religion. Plus many folks don't like to have their noses rubbed in their single-ness. VD is the cruelest holiday of the year IMHO.

I'm glad that Nico is sitting on me, but not happy that he stepped on my bad foot in order to sit on my shin. Ow.

Valentine's Day is pretty secular I think.

I'm not saying mine is a grand solution, its just five bucks worth of not having to deal with it (which includes not having to discuss my least favorite holiday). Don't they have those paper things anymore? [link] No plastic coating, just goofy quotes where you pick the second most affectionate one for the nine year old you dig (because if you give him the MOST affectionate one he'll KNOW you dig him... I'd probably go with 'just my speed' for David Pelaia because he thinks cars are cool but its not a lie either just in CASE he has begun loving me since we did this in third grade)