Valentines Day?

I never understood Valentines Day... It is such a commercialized holiday I really don't care for it.. I try my best not to make a big deal of it. I buy a card for my husband and tell him not to get me anything. Not that I don't mind chocolates like any normal female out there.. but I would rather him think of buying me my favorite chocolates on his own without having a holiday reminding him I like them. It actually means more to me when he does. I like flowers but would rather have a new plant or rose to plant outside.. cut flowers just don't last and seems such a shame. I guess I'm really not romantic either because I don't care to be taken to a restaurant and treated to a candle lit dinner.. it just seems so cheesy. Take me to our favorite restaurant instead.. the one with my favorite dessert (Tiramisu)...  Because of all the hype and the pressure the kids put on their peers I feel obligated to buy my daughters Valentines presents and send it to school. Your apparently not cool if you don't have this done. I don't remember ever getting a gift sent to school except for one time I was dating one boy and he sent me 2 dozen roses to school. I was shocked and a tad embarrassed... even now thinking back I can't believe someone would waste that much money on some cut flowers. I know I am not the only person out there to feel this way about Valentines Day... and I know I'm not the only woman to say don't get me anything and actually mean it. But those poor men, they were trained from childhood to always get momma, sister, wife, and daughter a gift EVEN and ESPECIALLY if she says 'don't get me anything' because we supposedly don't mean it.. and their are those few women out there that DO say this and actually don't mean it and the guys get in trouble and make it harder on us who actually DO mean it. But when they do we accept it graciously (I hope) and with a loving smile because those sweet clueless men in our lives have tried to make us happy and make us smile. And in their way let us know they think about us and love us still after how ever long its been for you.. for me its been almost 16 years. But you have to admit its those little treats that mean the most. Like when they come home after they know you had a bad day with your favorite root beer float from your favorite place.. or your favorite coffee from Starbucks.. or even your favorite candy just because they were there and seen it and thought of you. THOSE are the times when it really means I love you.. when they didn't have a holiday to remind them to tell us. And now I sit here and wonder.. do I show him I love him in those same small ways... hmm will have to sit and think a while. Until next time.... Happy Valentines Day

Where Have I Been?

I haven't written in a while now.. seems the world hasn't slowed down long enough for me to have a look at what was going on around me. The days have fluctuated between almost cold, cool and are we sure its not still Spring? It is the beginning of February and we haven't had any snow this year.. tho we more than made up for it in rain. Honestly not much HAS been going on I just haven't taken time to think about what to write about. I have read a lot of books between last post and this one.. but none really stand out as being amazingly note worthy. Just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy.. post apocalyptic book that is libel to give me nightmares.. but read it for my book club meeting which is tonight. The Hunger Games movie will be out soon and several other women and I are really looking forward to that movie. Expect a full blog on it when we get out but before that movie is the One For the Money by Janet Evanovich. My book club, my clubs hosting library and I all plan on going to see it together if we can..It should be great. The books were so amazing it shouldn't be too hard to make a movie out of rich text as Evanovich gives us. I have also heard they are making a TV series out of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter books! I am in a romantic readers movie heaven.. I don't watch a lot of TV but will make a huge exception for these. I have gone back and reread my Hunger Games books getting ready for the movies and am currently in a book slump. I need to find me something to read.. new authors maybe try some new genres. Just so long as I get my happy endings! I never understood why people wanted to read depressing books or sad books.. they always made me sad and depressed. Any book ideas let me know... I'm off to the library to do some author searching and maybe come up with a new one. Until next time....