Lilium Stargazer

What a strange holiday. Sometimes I think it brings more sadness than it does love. I have noticed over the last few years that every holiday seems to bring some kind of sad memory back to someone. Today though, just seems to have more of a general “Bah Humbug” about it.

I actually only can remember 4 valentines days that actually stick out. I’m sure there were other times that I did something special, but they just never created a memory. Most of the time I was single on valentines day, or if I wasn’t single there was some circumstance where I didn’t spend the day with the person I was seeing.

Eleven years ago was the first v-day that I can remember. At the time I didn’t even realize it was v-day, but was in a funk and decided to do something crazy. So I went and got my right nipple pierced. It was purely coincidental that I got it done that day, but since I was still bitter about a recent breakup I kind of used that as the reason, after the fact. Then 3 years ago, after my next serious break up, someone asked me why I got pierced and why I only got one done. After telling the story I decided I might as well get the other one done that v-day. I didn’t get them done for any emotional reasons, they just seemed like a fun thing to do, and it gives me a good story to tell. My v-day 6 years ago was the only one of the 4 that was even remotely romantic, but at this point there is no reason to go into detail about that one. 2 years ago was just an awkward situation. I made my first attempt at ending things with a girl I was kinda sorta seeing. All we did was drink and get on each others nerves. I was in a bad place in my life during that time. I felt bad about breaking up with her on v-day but it was a situation I didn’t need or want to be in and my head was definitely still thinking about 6 years ago.

This year I had a blast. My friend Randy is going away next Monday and will be gone for a year, so our friend Diane cooked a ton of food and we had a sort of going away dinner for him. That was the last all of us will get to hang out together for about a year. This area has lots of good places to eat but I am always disappointed that there are no real good mom & pop Italian places like I am used to. Fortunately, having dinner at Diane’s, makes up for all of that. I ended up taking enough leftovers for 7 meals. My grandmother would be proud.

I was going to talk about some of the people I ran into this week that were dreading v-day and how it was bringing them down, but decided against it. There were quite a few, trust me. Instead I figured I would post some relevant and funny quotes I came across while reading the news online. As for the pic, its not v-day flowers but they are flowers I got a few years ago for my b-day and decided I would practice some of the new tricks I'm learning on Photoshop.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

­Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
MAURICE CHEVALIER

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKS

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jiving too.
B.B. KING

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER

Lost in thought and lost in time, While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted. Outside the rain fell dark and slow, While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime. I took a heavenly ride through our silence. I knew the moment had arrived, For killing the past and coming back to life.
PINK FLOYD

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
THE BEATLES