Valentine's Day redux

Valentine's Day is one week away. To celebrate, I'm going to repost an entry from 2008.

Have I ever mentioned how very much I hate Valentine's Day? It is, to quote Joel Barish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, "a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap." The latter part doesn't really apply to me, since I'm happily married. It's the fact that Hallmark, FTD, and Russell Stover all want to dictate when a man gives the woman in his life a little bit of...