Addicted

I am hopelessly addicted to face book games....I don't have a the faintest clue as to why because they are irritating little games that wont let you do much on them daily!!! GGRRR.......None the less I play roughly 8 of them daily( the count is probably much higher). Now the problem I have encountered is that on my Pet Society game (currently my fave next to PetVille and Tiki Farm as well as My City Life....... ya ya I already told you im hoplessly addicted) is that by accident i made my pet male instead of female, however i cant bring my self to make it dress like a boy, so now my pet is a cross dresser.....a pretty cross dresser. He laughs like a twat though, I wonder what others in the game must think of my eccentric pet? OK i really don't care.


Between Facebook and Paltalk I have some semblance of a social life I guess. Your wondering why I don't just go into the world and make friends? Why on earth would I wanna go out there every one is crazy!! Pulse I'm to damned lazy to get off my ass.




There are some boots I really really want and have wanted for over a year!!! (there not made of real leather)

And
Boy ain't they pretty?


Getting back to being addicted, you know what I have given up most other addictions I used to have, caffeine, alcohol,nicotine, meat, ( ya I know most don't consider meat an addiction but you would if you stoped eating it long enough and realised what it was your doing). So I guess being addicted to face book games is probably a result of my profound boredom.

St. Valentine's Day

Valentine day is today being celebrated throughout the world with love and affection between intimate companions. The day named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery and sending greeting cards.

Older tradition

The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America, where many Valentine cards are now general greeting cards rather than declarations of love, was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States. It's considered one of the Hallmark holidays.

The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas. The association estimates tha

t, in the US, men spend

on average twice as much money as women.

Modern times

In 1797, a British publisher issued The Young Man’s Valentine Writer, which contained scores of suggested sentimental verses for the young lover unable to compose his own. Printers had already begun producing a limited number of cards with verses and sketches, called “mechanical valentines,” a

nd a

reduction in postal rates in the nex

t century ushered in the less personal but easier practice of mailing valentines. That, in turn, made it possibl

e for the first time to exchange cards anonymously, which is taken as the reason for the sudden appearance of racy verse in an era otherwise prudishly Victorian.^[31]

Paper Valentines being so popular in England in the early 1800s, Valentines began to be assembled in factories. Fancy Valentines were made with real lace and ribbons, with paper lace introduced in the mid 1800's.^[32] In the UK, just under half the population spend money on their Valentines and around 1.3 billion pounds is spent yearly on cards, flowers, chocolates and other gifts, with an estimated 25 million cards being sent.^[33] The reinvention of Saint Valent

ine's Day in the 1840s has been traced by Leigh Eric Schmidt.^[34] As a writer in Graham's American Monthly observed in 1849, "Saint Valentine's Day... is becoming, nay it has become, a national holyday."^[35] In the United States, the first mass-produced valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold shortly after 1847 by Esther Howland (1828-1904) of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Her father operated a large book and stationery store, but Howland took her inspiration from an English valentine she had received, so clearly the practice of sending Valentine's cards had existed in England before it became popular in North America. The English practice of sending Valentine's cards appears in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mr. Harrison's Confessions (published 1851). Since 2001, the Greeting Card Association has been giving an annual "Esther Howland Award for a Greeting Card Visionary." The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association estimates that, in the US, men spend in average twice as much money as women.

Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards. The mid-nineteenth century Valentine's Day trade was a harbinger of further commercialized holidays in the United States to follow.

In the second half of the twentieth century, the practice of exchanging cards was extended to all manner of gifts in the United States, usually from a man to a woman.Such gifts typically include roses and chocolates packed in a red satin, heart-shaped box. In the 1980s, the diamond industry began to promote Valentine's Day as an occasion for giving jewelry. The day has come to be associated with a generic platonic greeting of "Happy Valentine's Day." As a joke, Valentine's Day is also referred to as "Singles Awareness Day." In some North American elementary schools, children decorate classrooms, exchange cards, and eat sweets. The greeting cards of these students sometimes mention what they appreciate about each other.

The rise of Internet popularity at the turn of the millennium is creating new traditions. Millions of people use, every year, digital means of creating and sending Valentine's Day greeting messages such as e-cards, love coupons or printable greeting cards.

There are some families, however, who choose to find other means of honoring Saint Valentine on Valentines Day. Many of these traditions involve bonfires, for fire is said to represent passion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day