Valentine's Day

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How is she boycotting it? If anything, she is celebrating it.

I was wondering the same thing myself. I had to re-read what I wrote in case my delivery fell through.

Thanks for clarifying, zen_mistress.

I wasn't referring to you. I was just making a point regarding the attitude of several posters on WP. Didn't mean I was referring to you. I just quoted you to add my point.

^ The thing is, this holiday does upset some people. It is in the same school of holidays as New Years Eve when you are struggling to find some people to hang out with.

You're welcome.

So, it is 8.26am on the 14th now. There is not a tree-sized bunch of red roses outside, mind you I havent looked, so there could be.

I spent a lot of the night dreaming of trying to take a bubblebath for V day, but I couldnt get the temperature right, or the bubbles in at the right time, then the bath filled up too much and the taps stopped working and I had to let some water out.

Then I couldnt get the plug back in so all the water went down the plughole. Finally with the plug in the taps werent working so I went outside to get the hose, and there were people also wanting to use the hose.

It went on for a bit longer and I never got to have that bath. I hope I will have more luck with it today, in the waking world.

I'm sure America advertises a ton' load of s**t on Valentines day, wouldn't surprise me.
When i was in America, seriously, the mount of damn commercials they put on?
Seriously, i was about to get pissed off.

I luckely enough don't have to deal with constant reminding crap here in Denmark.
But then again i don't watch much tv

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9izC02E6Xk[/youtube]

God has made you one face, you must find another.

Tomorrow's Monday, so I'll be working. It's just a normal Monday for me.

To lessen the pain, I will be attending a job fair tommorow,
which just happens to be on Valentines Day.

Valentines Day can f**k itself.

gonna give my date some nice flowers, take her to a nice restaurant, then give her an orgasm. Women love flowers and nice restaurants!

IIt may be illogical to dislike a holiday celebrated by other people. However it is also illogical to honor as legitimate that which has been steadfastly denied to us. You must remember that these are the same people who just spent the past year snubbing and rejecting us while spitting in our face by developing those same relationships with other people at our expense that they now want us to help them celebrate and honor as legitimate. The coup de grasse is for them to get us to bend over while they issue that final kick in the tail and rub our noses in their rejection of us by wanting us to celebrate their relationships that have always excluded us. I personally have more pride than to do that. I also do not celebrate weddings for the exact same reason and became very angry over it several years ago when close relatives put inordinate pressure on me to attend a wedding. What I plan to do is to skip all sex related tasks tonight then go flying past all those people in the supermarket at warp speed tomorrow to remind them that, hey... in their selfishness they have totally excluded me. It is very non-Aspie like to be so vindictive, but you must force those people to take a look in the mirror from time to time and then they still will not see what they have done. I am feeling especially bitter about it this year as you can see by following my recent post trail.

The difference between this and your Hanukkah / MLK examples is that in those cases the celebrated occasion does not apply to us whether we want to celebrate it or not. If you assume that we do not WANT any social or romantic relationships then you are correct that we have no reason to complain or protest. However for those of us who DO want such relationships and are denied inclusion by all those other people, it is a very different story and it would be self-destructive for us not to feel slighted by and protest over such occasions that are denied to us. I read somewhere one time that this is one of the differences between AS and HFA. Those with AS want very much to be sociable but cannot make it work out, while those with HFA couldn't care less whether they have any social contact or not.

Maybe I will take the time tomorrow to do my taxes for the year. Now that's an idea.

I live in Aus at the moment and I have to say that it is much more toned down here than it was in Canada two weeks ago. Entire aisles of stores were red and pink with boxed chocolates and teddies holding plush hearts. Shops had glittery cardboard hearts hanging in them and the fronts of gas stations have Valentines' cards in their racks. And yes, TV ads reflect it all too. It doesn't annoy me so much as make me roll my eyes: it just feeds the unrealistic-expectation-machine that steamrolls through society these days.

But what does annoy me about Valentines, quite deeply? I really feel like going out to a good restaurant tonight, by myself, as I often do on Mondays. And there is no way in hell I'll get a table anywhere! Oh well....

Soon I will have the bubble bath.

Haagh, I missed my opportunity to ask out my crush, as bad traffic resulted in me almost being late for school, and she was around other people the rest of the day. Maybe I can do it tomorrow... or the day after... or the day after that... one day...

Valentine's Day?

I celebrate February 15th... Discount Chocolate Day

I saw hearts and roses sitting among the meat in a butcher's window. It made me giggle.

After reading your post I was looking for such things when I went to the store today. I saw bouquets of flowers in the produce section between the bagged lettuce and the bathroom. I suppose that the rationale behind it was that if the flowers make you sick to your stomach, then you can either stuff yourself with greens like a dog does when sick or head directly to the bathroom to let it all out... or maybe greens followed by bathroom.