Valentine's Day

[Anelia]

In my country St Valentine's coincides with another holiday: it's the wine and wine makers' day. The tradition is to go to the vineyard to trim the vines and of course to drink wine. Most of the Bulgarians are orthodox and many people disregard St Val. as something "foreign", as something that comes to threaten our traditions. Still, a lot of people celebrate both holidays: we buy wine AND chocolate/love card and celebrate with the beloved ones.
If you are curious about our holiday: here's a video clip with dances, song and the traditional trimming.

[malkin]

We're not big observers of Valentine's Day.
This year may turn out to be the funniest 'date' ever, though. As part of a technical certification course that he teaches, Brewer takes the clients out to dinner. This week's course has only one student, and he feels too awkward to take her out on Valentine's Day, so I will be joining them.

[shootingstar]

In my country St Valentine's coincides with another holiday: it's the wine and wine makers' day. The tradition is to go to the vineyard to trim the vines and of course to drink wine. Most of the Bulgarians are orthodox and many people disregard St Val. as something "foreign", as something that comes to threaten our traditions. Still, a lot of people celebrate both holidays: we buy wine AND chocolate/love card and celebrate with the beloved ones.
If you are curious about our holiday: here's a video clip with dances, song and the traditional trimming.

Interesting!
Here in the workplace on our floor, tomorrow there's going to be an internal Valentine's bake sale at lunch...raise money for our work social club events but chance to socialize. I work in a business area that is evenly split among men and women across 120 employees (at least) at our location. Some of the men bring in stuff from stores, bakeries or bake cookies, etc. The function of our area is engineering, geospatial e-mapping, project management, etc. People do buy and it's very casual. It's become a minor annual event. But really just an excuse for us to socialize if we want.

[Veronica]

In my class if you are bringing in Valentines you need to bring one for everyone. Home baked treats are not allowed by the district and my school adopted a policy of no treats, unless planned by the teacher this year. We had so much disruption with parents wanting to celebrate their kid's birthday at school. It was definitely getting out of hand. I would say a good third of my class is overweight. I'm not a doctor, but I don't think rolls of fat at your belly is healthy in a ten year old.

Veronica

[OakLeaf]

Saw some of these on FB and thought of this thread:

http://www.collegehumor.com/article/...ines-day-cards

[VeganBikeChick]

This is the first Valentines Day ever I'm spending as part of a couple. My boyfriend is totally not romantic; in fact we joked that we're going to break up today & get back together on the 15th so we can avoid the holiday and its consumerism altogether. That being said, I am going to make him some cookies, just a small gesture; and I have to admit it's nice to not be alone on the holiday that every other year has reminded me just how alone I was.