The dark day of Valentines Day is upon us...

[Puckrox]

Candy = best part of Valentine's Day.

 

[Drtooth]

Actually (again, Easter has far superior candy), the BEST thing about Valentines day? It's like the halfway point of winter. Which of course means our air temperatures can only get warmer at this point! And after this year, I think that's something we can ALL be cheerful about!

 

[frogboy4]

NEVER turn down European chocolates (unless it has something to do with an allergy or something). Do you know the purity standards they got there? They can't even use vegetable shortening to stretch the chocolate instead of cocoa fats. Even just British candy bars takes better. You haven't lived until you had a Lion Bar.

Again, that is if you're not allergic. But it's like going to Italy and refusing to eat anything covered in red sauce.

I get your point. They were okay, but I'm one of those few people out there who are totally not a foodie. I can appreciate a good meal, but that along with travel and clothes impress 99% of other people. It's always the little things with me and that only takes one date to figure out. My gift to him that holiday season was very sweet and personal so receiving expensive confections was an indicator that this person obviously didn't use our time together to get to know me. Still a friend, but that's the extent of it.

 

[CensoredAlso]

My friend from Europe once brought chocolates over with her, definitely a treat! But I also love Hershey, especially after staying at The Hershey Hotel, lol. They gave us Hershey bars at the check out desk and Hershey's kisses after the maids cleaned our room, hehe! : D

 

[Drtooth]

I get your point. They were okay, but I'm one of those few people out there who are totally not a foodie. I can appreciate a good meal, but that along with travel and clothes impress 99% of other people. It's always the little things with me and that only takes one date to figure out. My gift to him that holiday season was very sweet and personal so receiving expensive confections was an indicator that this person obviously didn't use our time together to get to know me. Still a friend, but that's the extent of it.

Me? I still give everyone DVD's and toys. Even if they're well too old for it.

But MAAAAAN... If they weren't so expensive, I'd go to European import places and get British candy bars ALL the time. Even the chocolate in Kinder Surprise eggs... something specifically for children... has so much of a full bodied flavor to it. Yeah, I'm not much of a foodie, and I have very simple tastes myself... but GOOD chocolate drives me wild.

Really, Kinder surprise eggs... only thing better than high quality candy is a toy SURROUNDED by it. My Asterix figure I got out of one 3 years ago is a prized position. Too bad they're so hard to find here. Even the import places don't have them all the time.

Seriously, though... the fact the atmosphere is warming up makes me super duper happy. I HATE wearing layers, and I hate breaking my ankles climbing mountains of snow people are too blasted lazy to clear any of it.

 

[D'Snowth]

Actually (again, Easter has far superior candy), the BEST thing about Valentines day? It's like the halfway point of winter. Which of course means our air temperatures can only get warmer at this point! And after this year, I think that's something we can ALL be cheerful about!

Are you kitten me? After last summer where h e l l had risen to the earth? I'm BASKING in our current winter season! I've never experienced cold to this extreme before, it's given me quite a rush! I DO NOT function well in heat... and down here in the Volunteer State, it's hot nine out of twelve months down here, and hearing that Phil the Groundhog DIDN'T see his shadow this year, I ain't cheerful about nothin'.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Are you kitten me? After last summer where h e l l had risen to the earth? I'm BASKING in our current winter season! I've never experienced cold to this extreme before, it's given me quite a rush!

A Church near me has on its sign "Whoever is praying for snow, please stop." Is it you?

 

[D'Snowth]

A Church near me has on its sign "Whoever is praying for snow, please stop." Is it you?

Lol, no... but I HAVE been giving thanks for the wonderful weather we've been having this season.

We may not have gotten tons and tons of snow like the north, who are always hogging it every year anyway (why hog it all, then complain about it?), the most we've had has been about three inches or so, but just crisp, refreshing, clean air has been a WELCOME change from the stuffy, muggy, unbreathable, smoggy air that smothers us spring and summer after spring and summer.

Even this past fall was hot, it didn't start getting cool and fall-like until NOVEMBER.

 

[Drtooth]

Are you kitten me? After last summer where h e l l had risen to the earth? I'm BASKING in our current winter season! I've never experienced cold to this extreme before, it's given me quite a rush! I DO NOT function well in heat... and down here in the Volunteer State, it's hot nine out of twelve months down here, and hearing that Phil the Groundhog DIDN'T see his shadow this year, I ain't cheerful about nothin'.

Did you get 70+ inches of snow with most of it permanently frozen to the ground because you haven't had a week of consecutive temperatures above freezing since December?

I'm not even talking 90's or any of that. Fifties would be great. Heck, Forties at this point seems refreshing. It's TERRIBLE over in my end. We've had a major snowstorm every week in January... we even got 3 big storms last week. Only reason we don't have one this week (though it did ran and snow leaving less than a coating, the least we've seen all year) is because the arctic cold is FINALLY pulling its weight around here and pushing this massive fatso of a storm off shore. otherwise, we'd have another foot on top of 5 foot snow drifts. Seriously, I'm glad we haven't seen a foot of snow in almost a week. There's NO WHERE to put it. It's dangerous around here.

And on top of it, it was ALWAYS heavy wet stuff that brought in arctic air as soon as it left, refreezing it. That's not the funnest thing in the world to dig out of. And it's all that grey/brown icy stuff too. Ugly to look at, dangerous to jump into to avoid traffic when crossing the street. I haven't been able to walk on a side walk since early January.

 

[CensoredAlso]

We may not have gotten tons and tons of snow like the north, who are always hogging it every year anyway (why hog it all, then complain about it?), the most we've had has been about three inches or so, but just crisp, refreshing, clean air has been a WELCOME change from the stuffy, muggy, unbreathable, smoggy air that smothers us spring and summer after spring and summer.

Even this past fall was hot, it didn't start getting cool and fall-like until NOVEMBER.

Yeah I can see how warmer climates would savor snow a bit more. It's not that I don't like snow, I enjoy it, it's just that we're running out of places to put it and it's starting to get dangerous, heh!