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Valentine's Day
We all know it is a dumb manufactured holiday
that it is heteronormative and materialistic
that its color scheme is obnoxious
and that St. Valentine was shot with arrows til he died
every year my old man gives me a rant about compulsory heteronormative monogamy and its enforcement by the greeting card industry, which then devolves into a general discourse on capitalism. I look forward to this rant because it's how I mark the passage of time, and I like watching my old man's mouth move while he yells about corporate america. This year, though, he's in France! I'M NOT GETTING ANYTHING FOR VALENTINES DAY!!!!!
What are your thoughts on this stupidest of holidays?
Remember V Day in grade school when everyone had to give everyone else a valentine so nobody got their feelings hurt? And remember spending hours poring over the valentine your crush gave you, trying to see if there was any hidden information about how secretly he really did love you even though he showed no signs of this in real life? The one I particularly remember was from my decade-long crush, Patrick, and it was a Pizza Hut brand valentine that showed a piece of pizza being lifted from out of a Pizza Hut brand pizza pan, and the legend read: "You're a slice above the rest!" on the back he had written "PAT." I clutched this valentine for days, obsessing over it, trying to read clues in his handwriting, trying to figure out which other girl(s) in class had received the same valentine (you know they were just sheets of perforated cards you ripped off, there would be like 4 or 5 designs repeated again and again) and what that meant.
It turned out it didn't mean anything. Remember designing your valentine box that you hung on your desk? And then some people's crazy mothers had baked cupcakes for every student with hearts on them or whatever? And you thought "WHAT A WEIRDO" even as you stuffed cupcake in your mouth
Hey people with grade school aged children, is this still a thing? compulsory valentines? I remember it was like homework, your mom would nag you to do your valentines and you'd be like "UGHHHHH." Spending hours on the ones to your friends and then just writing your name on the ones to the lame-os. I remember it was so humiliating to have to give valentines to the girls in class who were mean to me
that it is heteronormative and materialistic
that its color scheme is obnoxious
and that St. Valentine was shot with arrows til he died
every year my old man gives me a rant about compulsory heteronormative monogamy and its enforcement by the greeting card industry, which then devolves into a general discourse on capitalism. I look forward to this rant because it's how I mark the passage of time, and I like watching my old man's mouth move while he yells about corporate america. This year, though, he's in France! I'M NOT GETTING ANYTHING FOR VALENTINES DAY!!!!!
What are your thoughts on this stupidest of holidays?
Remember V Day in grade school when everyone had to give everyone else a valentine so nobody got their feelings hurt? And remember spending hours poring over the valentine your crush gave you, trying to see if there was any hidden information about how secretly he really did love you even though he showed no signs of this in real life? The one I particularly remember was from my decade-long crush, Patrick, and it was a Pizza Hut brand valentine that showed a piece of pizza being lifted from out of a Pizza Hut brand pizza pan, and the legend read: "You're a slice above the rest!" on the back he had written "PAT." I clutched this valentine for days, obsessing over it, trying to read clues in his handwriting, trying to figure out which other girl(s) in class had received the same valentine (you know they were just sheets of perforated cards you ripped off, there would be like 4 or 5 designs repeated again and again) and what that meant.
It turned out it didn't mean anything. Remember designing your valentine box that you hung on your desk? And then some people's crazy mothers had baked cupcakes for every student with hearts on them or whatever? And you thought "WHAT A WEIRDO" even as you stuffed cupcake in your mouth
Hey people with grade school aged children, is this still a thing? compulsory valentines? I remember it was like homework, your mom would nag you to do your valentines and you'd be like "UGHHHHH." Spending hours on the ones to your friends and then just writing your name on the ones to the lame-os. I remember it was so humiliating to have to give valentines to the girls in class who were mean to me
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http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bella/2012/02/the_10010_engagement_from_pizz.php
when we came back home... the cat took one lick off the top of each strawberry cake!!
TIGGER!!!!
those babies got frosted and served to mine friends and enemies
Also, we decided this morning to opt out of any perhaps-extant compulsory Valentine's action for Calvin. For gods sake, he's two. Those kids couldn't care less. But I'll probably feel like a shit if everyone else then gives him a Valentine and he doesn't. Am I supposed to get his teachers something? Ugh.
I'd love to skip it but my students would hate me and I'd get a Grinch teacher rep. I don't want to be the Grinch!
No, ex-boyfriend, I do not want to take you up on your offer to go together. it would be too confusing
Most holidays make me anxious about not doing them right. VD is no exception.
I still like the part about candy hearts with phrases printed on them.
I also love YTruly's story about a Valentine's Day ruined by Paris.
Josie was asked to make 20 Valentines for her first grade homework this weekend.
I came to endorse this exercise.
She was assigned to compose Valentine acrostics from the names of kids in her class. Acrostics are when you put a word vertically and then use each of its letters to start across, like Scrabble. (I don't think I knew that.)
It pushed spelling, sociality, observation and vocabulary.
I was down and Josie seemed into it.
She likes to sort and rank her buddies.
(Maybe a little too much. Maybe?)
First grade.
http://www.romantichorizons.com/enchanted_evening.htm
I made a chocolate-avocado-nougat pie for the division meeting ^_^
Found it again on the Twitter profile of neo-Nazi, excuse me, 'White Nationalist" Hunter Wallace.
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