Oh Spring, come quickly!

Good afternoon lovely readers! I just looked at my thermometer, which had a fantabulous (if slightly incorrect) reading: +35 C. I shrieked with pleasure and ran outside, only to find out that it's more like +5 with some serious sunshine. Either way, it beats - anything, and it made me think of spring and all the beautiful things that come with it.

Ok, so maybe Tiger Lilies are more of a mid-late summer kinda flower, but they are my favorite and therefore I think they should symbolize Spring. Spring just happens to be my favorite season. It's all about renewal, and it's the end of the horror of Winter. I'm just not a fan of Winter. In Spring, animals have all sorts of babies, the snow goes back to Hell (where it actually comes from), plants start to wake up from their Winter sleep, trees get their leaves back, and life is just generally most beautiful. I think it would make more sense to make resolutions in Spring, rather than at New Years. Sure January 1st is the beginning of a calendar year, but Spring is the real beginning of a year. Ok...I just realized that my love of Spring might seem a bit intense...let's move along.

Now, on to the bitching. So uhh, Valentine's Day is coming...or as I like to call it: Single Awareness Day. It's truly the only day of the year when I feel like a complete failure because I haven't found someone with whom I'd like to spend copious amounts of my precious time. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't such a HUGE deal. People who say that it doesn't mean that much to them are most likely not single. If they are single, they are most likely lying. I realize it's just a huge Hallmark holiday, and it generates a gigantic amount of cash for companies who like to make people think that their love for another person can be measured by the size of the gift and the sappiness of the card, but dammit, I want a giant card and the pink singing Hippo too!! *Le sigh* I can't wait until the 15th of February.