tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9756674.post110747600262923543..comments2023-09-06T03:48:54.640-07:00Comments on The Water Princess: Valentine's Day - part deuxKaiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05191332632083648311noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9756674.post-1107822440483004592005-02-07T16:27:00.000-08:002005-02-07T16:27:00.000-08:00I am really looking forward to Valentine's Day thi...I am really looking forward to Valentine's Day this year, for a variety of reasons. And I think the reason why you hit a nerve is because you're asking questions that some people don't want to answer: if someone cares more about what they were given for a particular holiday than the feeling(s) and/or sentiments behind that gift, then it's pretty clear they don't want to look in the mirror and see what they really are.<br /><br />As a guy, I look forward to enjoying Valentine's Day with my other half; the more restrictions, requirements and demands put on it, though, the less it remains something fun for two people to share and more it emerges as an obligation to be met. When it's shared it's special, and this actually applies to every day we're together, whether it's the middle of February, the end of July or forever. If it's not shared, then there's no reason to bother in the first place.Boogiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636861960548704495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9756674.post-1107625047663410152005-02-05T09:37:00.000-08:002005-02-05T09:37:00.000-08:00Someone trashed you for that? Weird.
You're right...Someone trashed you for that? Weird.<br /><br />You're right, though--as if you needed some Anon to tell ya THAT :) <br /><br />I worked as an assoc. buyer for a big retail organization CoughCoughFederatedCough....<br /><br />They used to send us to corporate training sessions regarding the marketing of seasonal merchandise, and one year, we learned the "whys" of Valentine's Day.<br /><br />It's a holiday that was completely fabricated by retailers in order to stop the first-quarter cash hemorrhage from which most retailers suffer..<br /><br />I mean, if you think about it, I guess it makes sense...after all, what did everyone just get in the mail about two weeks prior, at the end of January? Their credit card bills from Christmas, I guess, right? So that, coupled with folks' New Year's Resolution to "Spend Less Frivolously" (see, I dig yer blog, doll!) makes some overpaid bigwig sweat whilst facing stockholders....<br /><br />Et Voila, Valentine's Day...and the attendant pressure to "prove" you love your significant other by driving corporate retail stock up (huh?) <br /><br />You know you're right....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com