P.S. I know I've been doing lots of lists lately, I hope that's ok. If its not, stop reading my blog.
10. Pink-frosted, heart-shaped sugar cookies. Why is the tastiness enhanced by the heart-shapedness of these tasty confections? I think it is another of love's great mysteries.
9. The day-after sale when all pink-wrapped versions of your favorite candy are suddenly sold for 1/3 the regular price.
8. TJ and Ashley's wedding. Awesome. What a beautiful celebration of true love.
7. Those chalky, heart-shaped candies that have stuff printed on them. Sure, they're pretty much just smaller, harder Tums tablets, and millennia of evolutionally-acquired instincts are telling me not to eat things with ink on them, but they're just so cute. The bitter after-taste that makes me think that they're actually poisonous? Don't worry about it, that's only tasted by those who are single on Valentine's day.
6. Walking around campus and seeing every freshman girl wearing pink. That's nice of them to color coordinate themselves like that so the recent RMs know which ones are the easy prey.
5. The opportunity to celebrate St. Valentine's Day as it was truly meant to be celebrated: To begin the festival, members an order of Roman priests, would gather at the sacred cave. The priests would then sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification.The boys then sliced the goat's hide into strips, dipped them in the sacrificial blood and took to the streets, gently slapping both women and fields of crops with the goathide strips. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed being touched with the hides because it was believed the strips would make them more fertile in the coming year. Don't worry random girl in the Wilk, I'll slap you gently with this strip of raw goat flesh!
4. The fact that this is the last observed holiday before its springtime again! (Sorry, Presidents. We know we get school off, but I don't know anyone who does anything special but sleep in on your holiday)
3. For one day, it is acceptable to admit your secret love of such things as the Power Rangers, the Little Mermaid and other sundry friends from our childhood in the form of tiny, custom-made notes.
2. New sheets.
1. The opportunity to celebrate the date of the formation of the original (post-restoration) Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Also, in the same vein, the fact that it's on a Sunday this year relieves me of a lot of social pressure. Obviously, God loves me.
