Current mood: annoyed
okay, i'm going to say it....FCUK Hallmark holidays! every other radio commercial right now is a blast to buy crap for Valentine's Day. i go to the grocery store and there are red hearts, candy, and those stupid stuffed bears every damn where. why do people buy into this crap?
seriously, why should we designate one day a year to show someone how much we care about them? shouldn't we be doing stuff here and there all year long? just because? oh, but noooo, we have to have a set holiday, where let's be serious, it's all based on consumerism. and it's all about the girl? why on earth is it all about the girl? i had a friend once tell me that she wanted her BF to buy her a Dooney & Burke purse ($400) for Valentine's Day. do i EVER hear my guy friends saying, 'oh yeah, i really want my GF to get me that new PS2 game for v-day?' nope.
so here we have one day that is slanted in one direction, you are bombarded by reminders from the second that Christmas ends, you have to have your dinner reservations by the middle of January otherwise you're SCREWED! and even if you do have reservations, you're still dealing with a 2 hour wait! and if you try and go somewhere nice, you don't get the full menu, no, you get a limited menu of stuff that you may or may not want to eat because the kitchen is so slammed cranking out meals.
you become, on february 14th, nothing but a cog in the wheel of consumerism. and for all the people who don't want to get sucked into the joke of a holiday (which i swear, Hallmark made this all up) you can't go out to dinner if you want to, and if you stay home, then you get to watch Dr. Phil on primetime talking to Paula Abdul about her love life. gee. makes you want to just make reservations so you don't get stuck with THAT. i personally intend to celebrate Ground Hog's Day this year in lieu of V-Day.