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)
I know some folks here are big Amazing Race fans, and have talked about doing the show...well, if you can't get on the show, there's opportunities to so something similar. Costs money, but if you win, you basically get your money back and a bit more! :) You're not on TV, but OTOH, you don't have to (a) make it on TV and (b) make a fool of yourself on TV! :)
It's a holiday based on (one or more) Catholic Saint(s).
Imma gonna go with only as secular as hallmark and the diamond industry has made it but still utterly based on one group's religious persecution complex. Right up there with christmas, albeit far more sugar-saturated. Not that i'm against february holiday - the month needs more of them, especially ones involving chocolate. Just not with the tormented St., pls.
If my employer tried to make me participate in exchanging paper cards, you can bet i would end up with a human skull decorated with flowers outside my cubicle as a "mailbox" for said misery.
(ok, maybe a ceramic human skull, people do get antsy about actual remains.) (and not that i have a cublic. Or even a desk. Or a workplace that would encourage such a thing. I'm pretty sure it would lead to many infractions against the codified "anti-bullying handbook.")
Skipping 150 posts. It's been about three days of migraines and overwork and exhaustion and now I am in bed having a pyjama extended-morning with the internet and sitcoms on the DVD player AIFG.
The Girl and I don't really bother with Valentine's Day. She's making dinner, but then she usually does! We're going away for a bit of a break in a little cottage in the countryside next week, though. But that is not related to any kind of holiday.
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
I had much the same reaction to 31 last year. I expect this year to be even more WTF-worthy.
I am working on a blog for my research profile and sociology-related thoughts. The idea of a non-anonymous, public page on the internet is weird. *twitch* *twitchtwitch*
Not that i'm against february holiday - the month needs more of them, especially ones involving chocolate. Just not with the tormented St., pls.
Rename it Cupid's Day? And put up lots of posters of Jeremy Piven, of course.
Hrm, i like the poster idea, but not the idealizing an underdeveloped boy wearing diapers and shooting innocent passerbys. Even with arrows.
Piven's Cupid would agree. He hated the cartooning of his... job.
Great. I just tried to watch TV, and I've got no cable signal.
