Valentines Day Rant

It's February 14th, Valentines Day, again, there is no stopping this holiday so I might as well accept it.  Except...that it irritates the hell out of me. It  just proves to me, yet again, how easily we can all be manipulated by the machine. And what are they really telling us? Ignore your lover all year and make up for it on this one particular day? I'm sorry, call me a cynic but I find Valentines Day a bit lame. "Here you go sweetie, here's a dozen roses, some cheap chocolates and a piece of paper I paid $5.95 for. That proves I love you, now hush up for the rest of the year?"  Please!!!  Give me chocolates on some random Tuesday, just because you were thinking of me.  Send me flowers on May 8th (when they are 1/2 the price they are on February 14th), just to make me smile.  Cook me dinner once in a while, then clean up and let me go read my book, now that says, "I love You!" After all that, I have to say, I have a great husband who "get's" me. For Valentines Day, I got...BOOTS and a Reese's Cup! Sweetie Pie, You Rock!