Well, here it is again \u2014 that most romantic of all days. The day when all the retailers convince you that your level of romance is directly proportional to amount of money spent\u2026. and the day it’s impossible to go to dinner, of if you do you have to sit with strangers because the restaurant has added fifty more tables and if you drop your fork, your plate will be gone and the next romantic couple will be sliding into your chairs.<\/p>\n
Like everything else, Valentine\u2019s Day has been commercialized to death, but it\u2019s still a pretty neat day. We probably all remember that in grade school we all got and gave valentines to everyone in our class. We probably didn\u2019t want to give everyone<\/em> in our class a valentine, but our mothers made us. So I hope everyone has a nice Valentine\u2019s Day, and you do something special with that special someone. There\u2019s an old saying that, \u201cLove doesn\u2019t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.\u201d By the way, during my extensive research for this article, I discovered that penicillin, a popular treatment for venereal diseases such as syphilis, was introduced to the world on February 14, 1929. Make of that what you will\u2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, here it is again \u2014 that most romantic of all days. The day when all the retailers convince you that your level of romance is directly proportional to amount of money spent\u2026. and the day it’s impossible to go … Continue reading
\nBut here we are at Valentine\u2019s Day, 2015 and according to something I read, long-stemmed roses cost about 30% more around Valentine\u2019s Day than any other time of the year. More than nine million pet owners will buy their pets valentine gifts. Teachers receive the most valentines, followed by kids, mothers, wives and sweethearts. One billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making it the second largest card-sending holiday of the year \u2014 exceeded only by Christmas.
\nAccording to legend, in the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. This probably led to the current phrase \u201cto wear your heart on your sleeve,\u201d which means being transparent with your affections. The Catholic Church struck St. Valentine\u2019s Dy from its official calendar in 1969.<\/p>\n
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