I'm terribly depressed today. I'm trapped by finances and codependency in a relationship I really want to escape from. If that were not bad enough, there is someone else whom I actually do have very strong feelings for, but for the reason above I am not available to him. Although, it's probably all for the best -- for his and my own mental health and for the health of our friendship that we are unable to be a couple at this time. I'm just not the kind of person cut out to be a "partner."

I think the only person who ever celebrated this holiday in the proper spirit was Al Capone.

googled St Valentines & found this:

"Saint Valentine was a martyr... one who endured great suffering and, for many among us,
that's what Valentine's Day is all about.

According to History.com, Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome.

When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men... his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realising the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death."

maybe it is about defiance & love's refusal to be "legislated" too?

(aint all roses & marshmallow hearts in my books either bro)

Nah: Lots of people have gotten into the spirit over the years...

February 14, 1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
February 14, 1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
February 14, 1989 Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
February 14, 1989 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie
February 14, 1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
February 14, 1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
February 14, 1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
February 14, 1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
February 14, 1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
February 14, 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
February 14, 1943 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
February 14, 1931 Spanish Government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
February 14, 1921 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
February 14, 1895 Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
February 14, 1879 Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta
February 14, 1670 Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
February 14, 1556 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
February 14, 1540 Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
February 14, 1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV

You always know just what to say to cheer me up!

David!!! After reading that I'm glad the day is almost over and nothing catastrophic has happened in my little corner of the world.

ROCK ON........Trish

dunno whether to laugh or hide

I like that the list is mostly negative and then in the middle it says the importance of being Earnest opens its not a bad show.

Hey, I just found a big list and edited out the good stuff. (Hope I don't do that with my life!) I kept in Wilde because of VLI's sig file...the only negative there was that Wilde was days away from receiving the card that led to his arrest...

"I'm sure you have many calls to make of a similar nature."

I suddenly really want a cucumber sandwich.

That is so cool MV. I hope I don't edit out the good stuff in my life too.