[Ansteorra] St Valentine day lovers or love

[Susan McMahill]

Wrong, wrong, WRONG!!!! 
 
Sorry, having spent a lot of years in singlehood, I can tell you from experience, this is the wrong way to spend this day. Treat yourself like the princess you are! Get a spa treatment if you can (take a lovely bubble bath or something like that if you can't), go to a movie or museum or something else that you would like to see....preferably NOT a romantic comedy, and take yourself out to, or prepare for yourself a sumptuous decadent dinner and/or dessert. Have a good wine to go with it and celebrate yourself. Unless you love yourself first....it's very hard or impossible to love anyone else.
 
When I lived in Oregon, it was a day that I would typically go walking on the beach, have a nice lunch out, and then go to the store and get the best steak I could afford and a good wine and fix myself a special dinner. It was a small town and didn't have much for entertainment options.
 
When love found me, I was no longer looking or even expecting to find it anymore, but I was comfortable with the idea of spending time in my own company. As it is, I am spending a second Valentine's day with my special Valentine.
 
BTW, the St Valentine's Day Massacre occurred in the 20th century. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/valmassacre1.html
 
Love to all my SCA friends and family,
 
Lyneya
 
Well-behaved women Seldom make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich



> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:15:45 -0600> From: eblackthorne at gmail.com> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] St Valentine day lovers or love> > I have no legends about this day. I have always thought it was a day of> romantic love, however I remember hearing something about a> massacre...anyway since I am single, I will spend today griping about all> men being scum and stuffing myself with a box of good chocolates I bought> for myself, watching romantic movies that make me cry and feel incomplete> without a man, guess I am a martyr too.> > Elizabeth> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:38 PM, willowdewisp at juno.com <> willowdewisp at juno.com> wrote:> > > I was wondering what legends of St Valentine day each one of you hold by.> > I was told the story by my priest when I was a little girl that St.> > Valentine was a martyr that wrote notes of christian love on leaves and> > passed them through his cell window. I was told it really was a day to> > celebrate our love for our fellow man.> > In keeping with that spirit I wish you all a wonderful day surrounded by> > family and Friends.> > willow de wisp> >> > -- > Plant a tree...We have more paperwork!> _______________________________________________> Ansteorra mailing list> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org