{"id":131,"date":"2008-02-14T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2008\/02\/what-not-to-get-your-valentine.html"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:13:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:13:26","slug":"what-not-to-get-your-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2008\/02\/what-not-to-get-your-valentine.html","title":{"rendered":"What NOT to get your valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the hoopla around Valentine\u2019s Day, it\u2019s hard to bring a coherent thought to the head. The hype around chocolates would make you believe they are a woman\u2019s best friend . They aren\u2019t. But since many around me haven\u2019t a clue, here\u2019s what NOT to get your valentine :<\/p>\n

#1 Teddy bears or plush\/stuffed\/soft toys of any variety<\/span><\/strong> : You don\u2019t know it, but teddy bears are the biggest space hoggers. They don\u2019t squish into little nooks and crannies, and they don\u2019t deflate to make space (No, I don\u2019t want those either)<\/em>. Plus they are extremely unwieldy, and can\u2019t be sorted or put away neatly. And please, teddy bears and home d\u00e9cor (like what\u2019s with the hundreds of teddy bears on beds, shelves and mantelpieces ?) ? Get the thought out of your head ! What do you do with a Teddy Bear anyway ? You can\u2019t wear it, you can\u2019t eat it, and you can\u2019t smell it. Seriously useless.<\/p>\n

#2 Chocolates\/Caramelized popcorn\/Candy of any k<\/span>ind<\/span><\/strong> : No chocolates please \u2013 I have loads of them from past Halloweens, choking up shelf-space. And so does every other female on this planet. And whoever thought of caramelized popcorn had only one thought in mind \u2013 torture. Are there not better things to eat ? I mean, if it has to come down to matters of the stomach.<\/p>\n

#3 Flowers<\/span><\/strong> : The old, clich\u00e9d fall-back. I don\u2019t actually dislike flowers. However they need tending to. I don\u2019t need things to tend to. Au contraire, I need to be tended to !<\/em> There are instructions to be followed, plant food to be fed, and they need to be clipped with garden shears<\/em> before they can be immersed in water. I mean really, what garden shears<\/em> ? What garden ?<\/em> Plus you have to have a vase handy (who does ?) and you have to change the water every three days. Yeah, you heard that right \u2013 every three days. I fill up my desk-water-bottle every three days, you think I\u2019m watering the roses too ?<\/p>\n

Get creative. I know people quail at the mere mention of \u201ccreativity\u201d. But, hey it\u2019s only one day. And while we are on that topic, why only one day to express \u201cTHE LOVE\u201d ? Don\u2019t you love her\/him the rest of the 364 days ?<\/p>\n

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With all the hoopla around Valentine\u2019s Day, it\u2019s hard to bring a coherent thought to the head. The hype around chocolates would make you believe they are a woman\u2019s best friend . They aren\u2019t. But since many around me haven\u2019t a clue, here\u2019s what NOT to get your valentine : #1 Teddy bears or plush\/stuffed\/soft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":2,"uagb_excerpt":"With all the hoopla around Valentine\u2019s Day, it\u2019s hard to bring a coherent thought to the head. The hype around chocolates would make you believe they are a woman\u2019s best friend . They aren\u2019t. But since many around me haven\u2019t a clue, here\u2019s what NOT to get your valentine : #1 Teddy bears or plush\/stuffed\/soft…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}