Valentine's Day

As my birthday quickly approaches, I am reminded of my age.  Too big to be just a number but still way under cougar status.  Right?  Wait...what age is cougar status?  Um...I can't remember. (not a good sign)

Ok so all I really know is that Monday will be the sixth anniversary of my 25th birthday.

Now lets stop talking about the birthday before I swallow a bottle of pills in desperate effort to forget how near it is.  Let's talk more about the day it falls on.

For those of you who do not know, (or live in the real world), Monday February 14th is Valentine's Day.  We all know (well most of us) the history of Valentine's day so I shouldn't need to reiterate all of that but for those of you poor dears who are out of touch with...well.. reality here is the Wikipedia link so that you may enlighten yourself.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine's_Day  God Bless Wikipedia!!!!!!

Moving Forward, despite the historical aspects regarding this holiday, I have my own theory.  Bare with me my friends, there is a method to my madness.

I have come to believe that Valentine's Day is merely a scapegoat for the stupid men (husbands) of the world who cant be bothered with remembering an anniversary or birthday.  Let me explain.

I have had to listen to a fair number of my married friends complain that their husband forgot their anniversary or birthday and that those celebrated days were less than celebratory.  Let it be known that my ex-husband was not one of the idiots. He remembered.  Well... ok, how could he not my birthday is on Valentine's Day and our anniversary was on our friend Lisa's birthday.  So maybe he was an idiot, he just had it easier than most.

One trend I have noticed was that not one of them complained about Valentine's Day.  It was the opposite.  They were impressed by how (romantically) wonderful their night was.  Wha??????????

In my mind, anniversaries and birthdays are more important than a shared day of "love" (V Day) and should be treated as such. 

I had this inkling a couple of years ago but no real facts to support my theory so a couple of weeks ago I took to the streets and asked random guys what Valentine's day means to them.

Sadly, their general consensus seems to be...(and I am using a direct quote from one of my poor clueless random men that I questioned.)

"Valentine's day, well if you don't screw it up, you're off the hook for the rest of the year and if you think you might have screwed up with something else all you have to do is remind your lady of that "magical" (my word) evening and everything goes back to normal."  --Stanley X

I managed to capture a couple of amusing quotes which I will share with you as well as you try to rap your head around the first and most incriminating.

"Valentine's Day, is that today!!!?"  --James X (a little freaked out and breathing sighs of relief when I told him he still had a couple of weeks to prepare.)

I usually spend Valentine's Day playing poker with the guys while our wives do the girl thing"  just as I think it can't get worse, he adds "I think they (the wives) like that we give them their own time, it always seems to work out."  --John 

Ok so is it safe to say "CLUELESS" yet?  I would really like to talk to John's wife because being a woman myself I think she may have another point of view.  I will refrain however because I don't want a divorce (other than my own) on my conscience.

Ok, so theory not completely proven but definitely a step in the right direction and my little experiment tells me I might not be far off in my thinking process. 

If only they could figure it out.

I'm done, and all I have left to say is...

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!