Valentine's Day

I have always had mixed feelings about Valentine's Day. My like or dislike of this holiday has really never had anything to do with whether or not I happened to have a significant other on this particular day, but mostly because this day revolves around a bunch of things I just really could care less about.

First of all, I do not like chocolate or any other dessert. That being said, I seriously thought I was going to vomit like 4 times today. Every class period, my students just kept bringing in more and more cupcakes and those nasty cookies that have like 8 pounds of frosting on each cookie...yuck. I also received tons of chocolate from my students. I appreciate the thought, but what am I going to do with all this chocolate? So if anyone is in the mood for chocolate, please come over to my house and rid me of it.

Secondly, I do not like anything that revolves around romance. I could quite possibly be the most unromantic person on the face of this earth. Most men are more romantic than I am. I have been giving Jared death threats for about a week now about surprising me with roses and crap at school today. I know that some people love those public displays of romance, but I could not imagine anything more horrifying.

Lastly, I've got much better things that I could be doing with $50 than staring at roses that will be dead in a couple days. In fact, one year for Valentine's Day I told Jared that I would much prefer that he just write me a check for $50 rather than waste the money on flowers. I was being sarcastic of course, but when the holiday rolled around he actually just gave me a card with the check inside. I took that money and bought myself a new pair of shoes...best Valentine's Day ever.

Actually that is a lie, the best Valentine's Day I ever had was the year that Jared gave me his Kappa Sigma lavalier, aww. So I guess that was kind of romantic...actually I can't believe that I just typed that sentence...gag.

While I like to do my fair share of complaining about Valentine's Day, there are some things that I do like about it. In school, Valentine's Day usually meant some sort of art activity that involved coloring, and boy do I love to color :) Plus, I really like decorating for holidays, so any excuse to put up cute decorations makes me happy. I also love the color pink and using excessive amounts of pink during February is perfectly acceptable.

This year for Valentine's Day, not a whole lot is going on around here...just the way I like it :) When Jared gets home from work we are just going to cook dinner over the fire pit and enjoy some wine tonight.

As much as I try to avoid romance, Jared just has to sneak little bits of it in there sometimes. On Saturday, he brought me home flowers early for Valentine's Day. However, he couldn't just get the cliche red roses because he knows that I don't really like roses. Oh no, he had to be his romantic self and put much more effort into it than that. So instead of the traditional Valentine's flowers, he bought me potted tulips. He bought me tulips because they are my favorite flower. He bought them for me in a pot rather than cut or in an arrangement because after Valentine's Day he is going to transplant the tulips into my flower pot outside so that I can enjoy them longer and because he knows I like to have pretty flowers in front of the house. I mean seriously...who puts that much logic and thought into buying flowers? I guess someone trained him well...thanks Gina :)  

Although my students were absolutely crazy today, observing middle schoolers partake in such a holiday is very entertaining. Oh the drama. I love watching my students get all worked up over teddy bears, candy and cards when I know good and well that they aren't going to give a crap about the boy who gave them that balloon by next week. Plus, I bet no one at your work gave you a sweet Justin Bieber or Hannah Montana valentine today, did they? Apparently Justin Bieber says that I am a rock star teacher. Be jealous :)

Happy Valentine's Day! xoxo