I'll never forget the year my dad made me wrap all the presents he bought. Including my own. I was told to "act surprised" on Christmas morning. :P

lol, that's messed up! My dad isn't the greatest at wrapping presents, so he usually asks my sister or I to do it. He just doesn't know how to handle the flimsy paper and scissors. But he tries to wrap at least a few presents himself.

The local CVS and Walgreens already have their Valentine's Day displays up and running. I really, really wish they could have held off until at least mid-January before putting me through this. :(

almost as bad as back-to-school stuff in June :cheesegrin:

Oh that's one of the joys of growing old is remembering how awful that used to make you feel seeing those signs reminding you that the summer holidays would be over before you know it. Nowadays it just means that the pesky young folk are going back to their prisons soon!

As for valentine's day, my Cinderella search was called off years ago so now it's kind of like a black joke to me. I feel sorry for my friend (_?) though as he's way too young to have given up. Nothing's as sad as geniunely romantic people, though.

Ugh, yes, holidays are becoming waaaaaaay too commercialized. At my work place, we took all the Christmas decorations down the day after. And what did we put up? Well, not really decorations, but merchandise advertising Valentines Day. It's not even January yet! If I had the choice, I'd wait to put the stuff out until mid January or so, but it's company policy to put them out when corporate tells us to. Another down side is we get customers coming in asking for holiday themed stuff a few days before the holiday, when it's expected for everyone to be getting hyped about it. And we have to tell them "Sorry, but we sold out of them a month ago." It's so dumb, I tell ya. :madbloo:

Aye, Valentines day sucks.

Eh, Valentines day isn't bad for me. I have no "significant other" at the moment, but it doesn't faze me in the least. I like the chocolate. And the red and pink colors everywhere remind me that spring is coming. That usually makes me happy. :D

And for those interested, I joined Live Journal and left a post in "Customer's Suck!" I have a looooott of stories to tell. I plan on posting more as I remember good ones. :P

Being New Years Eve, I'm bracing myself for the inevitable: A band of Jokers to start setting off firecrackers in the wee hours of the mourning.:edmad:

the fact that i almost cant watch anything on youtube without some kind of debate about something that isnt really important to the video going on. :(