Sucker's Day

So I have decided that I will now refer to this day that most of our society calls Valentine's Day as Sucker's Day. I say this not from a place of bitterness (if you haven't read it before, I am married). Since before I was married I began to look at this holiday differently.

First I hated it because I was frequently single and bitter about it. Then I spent years working as a server then manager at a restaurant. First off, it is hard to see the romance in the holiday after you have watched it from the 'other side' for a while. There is nothing romantic about all of the pressure that couples put on each other to be romantic and special and find just the right gift and make the right reservations and so on and so forth. It is just more stress. Then there is the fact that it isn't romantic to do the same thing as every other couple (or person trying to get laid) out there on the same day that they do it! Just not romantic.

Now that being said, I do love all of the cute stuff that they sell for the holiday, I can't help it, it gets me! So I buy the stuff before and after the holiday and give it to hubby when the mood strikes, to show him that I love him and am thinking about him, not to show him that I can read the calendar or that the Hallmark commercials have gotten through to me.

So..... Happy Sucker's Day!!!!!!!!