Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day... school, homework, work, lovely. ha. ha.

So I love pinterest... like a lot.. I got this valentines idea from there. http://www.skiptomylou.org/2011/01/25/kids-classroom-valentines/

                                       Adorable right? So I tried it out, not to shabby I'd say.

Mustache lollipops!

 

Britni with a mustache!

Katherine and her 'stache!

So... This is an email my ASL professor (Jan Kelley-King) sent out last night, I find it quite funny, so I had to post it. :) (Warning: it's long, so don't worry about reading it if you don't want to.)

Happy Valentines Day !

I have overheard some of you in class getting all depressed about V-Day, calling it S.A.D. (Single Awareness Day).     So, you don’t have a steady sweetheart, or even an unsteady sweetheart, YET.    You know that in all likelihood, you are going to be married one day and probably it will happen before you are 35 years old.   If all works out, you’ll be married for at least 50 years.   If you are married earlier, you’ll have even more than 50 years of Valentines Days with the man/woman you love.   Given that perspective, these single times you are experiencing are RARE and fleeting moments of freedom.   You have very few Valentines Days left as a free man or woman.   

You will one day soon be sharing a romantic evening with your loved one and a two-year-old who is setting the napkins on fire with the romantic candle you put in the middle of the table for a little ambiance.  Before you know it, you will celebrate Valentines Days with your sweetheart, a six-year-old, a four-year-old AND the two-year-old, watching them have food fights over the romantic candle and yelling the first words of all children born after the first one, “MINE! and I’M TELLING!”.   

Yes, there are babysitters, but it isn’t easy to find an unattached teenager or college student willing to baby sit on Valentines Day, plus it makes you feel kind of horrible leaving your children on a special night, so before you know it, you make Valentines Day a family affair.    If you are smart, you will have at least one Valentines Day that is shared just between you and your significant other prior to marriage and childbirth, and if you are really wise, you’ll have five or six.   Being observant of Utah traditions, however, my guess is that when you find that significant other, you’ll set the wedding date shortly after you meet him or her, get married, and you’ll forget about birth control and have a child within the first year of marriage and one every two years after that.   Being aware of those odds, you should savor these S.A.D. Valentines Days.    As you are savoring, here are a few ideas for how to spend that evening:

• Send some Valentines to others who fall into that “single” category.   Send them anonymously or admit to it.   Do this the old fashioned way – get some construction paper and glue and try to remember how you cut out perfectly-shaped hearts with blunt, child-safe, scissors.

• Make Valentine cookies and deliver them to your neighbors or to the employees who are working the night shift at places like convenience stores, grocery stores and fast food restaurants – I’ll bet even you are having more fun than they are.

• Send a Valentine or “slip” a Valentine to a guy or girl from one of your classes or apt. complex that you think is cool, nice, cute, sweet (insert other descriptors as appropriate).   It will take some planning…slip it into his/her backpack.   Leave it on the lecture podium in one of your classes with his/her name on it and the teacher will have to call him/her up to get it.  Slip it under the door, etc.

• Cut out a ton of hearts from construction paper and go glue them all over someone’s windows and doors or on their car.

• Invite friends over for a movie and popcorn.   Hand out invitations to students in your class, your apt. building or dormitory, inviting them to meet someplace that night and have pot-luck dinner.   Rent a funny movie or even a popular cartoon.   If you invite people in your ASL class, host a silent, signing only, pot-luck dinner.

• Offer to baby sit for someone who has high-maintenance children.

• Make some Valentines and take them to people in an Assisted Living Center or who are in the hospital.   You can ask someone at the front desk of the assisted living center to direct you to those patients who do not have family members that visit often.   Take a balloon, flowers, or a card and visit with them.

• Write a letter to some of your old elementary school or high school teachers,  telling them why they made a difference in your life.   You can probably get on the website of your old school and find their email addresses on the faculty list.

• Make a Valentine for your Sign Language teacher telling her how wonderful she is and remember to include money or chocolate or both.

• Study ahead or finish a project for a class that isn’t due until later in the semester – naaahhh --- you can come up with something better than that.

• Do something absolutely crazy and embarrassing so that you will have good story material for your next assignment.    (ASL I students: You have to sign your most embarrassing moment story soon, ASL II students, you will be signing a joke and another story soon, so there you go!)

See, now aren’t those of you who are “spoken for”  and have dates totally jealous that you are going to miss out on all of this single “S.A.D”  fun??! !