That date is close at hand again.

Yes folks it's that time of year again, Valentines Day is upon us and and the world has exploded in tiny paper hearts and ghastly looking paper roses. For the totally un-romantics out there, the season of vomiting has begun. Why this one day a year to show some one you love them? Shouldn't you do that every day? Tell someone you love them or show that some one that you love them more than one day a year? I will tell you what I will get this Valentines Day: I will get a box of candy, a stuffed something or other, or nothing at all. The love of my life thinks Valentine's Day is the cheesiest of all holidays and only celebrates it begrudgingly. I can barely get him to say those three little words on a normal day, why should Valentine's Day be so stinking special? Besides that, the romantic simpletons of the world can lament the fact the this year Valentine's Day fall on the same day as the Daytona 500. Simply put, I will be abandoned in order for a bunch of men to gather around a television, swill beer, and watch a bunch of cars make only left turns for five and a half hours. How exciting! I'll be perfectly happy with Feb. 15th rolls around and all the little paper cupids have gotten hypothermia and died and the candy goes to 75% off. If you enjoy this holiday, fine, but remember, it's just an excuse to jack up the prices of jewelry, candy, roses, dinner specials, and the rest of the "romantic" claptrap.