Happy Valentine's Day

I'm not going to comment about how long it's been since my last post. It is a non-issue. If this blog got a hit, I would fall over dead from shock. But it is a great place to compile my thoughts.
It's a nice, quiet V-day over here. Butternut squash soup for dinner and now I am working on my lecture for tomorrow. With a quick aside to fish the chewed-up paper towel out of the puppy's mouth. However I DID get up and make my lucky husband a latte and delivered it to him in bed. This is a rarity in the extreme, he is the latte-maker in this house. I was thinking as I was brewing that I probably wasn't authorized to operate that machinery. And he brought me home Godiva truffles. Yum!
I had to stop at Publix for milk and, while standing in line, noticed the wide (huge)variety of people by flowers and little red heart boxes of chocolates for their sweeties. Old, young, quietly happy, radiantly hopeful....the whole range. Even a much older woman buying a bouquet of mylar heart balloons. That one made me wonder who the lucky recipient was?
I agree that Valentine's Day is grossly cammercialized and could do with some toning down. But, sometimes people really do need the reminder to reconnect with their romantic sides. As long as they don't go crazy with the gifts, thinking that it will make up for neglecting their loved ones the remaining 364 days a year, then it's all good.
A whole day devoted to celebrating Love. What's not to like?
Happy Valentine's Day!