9 decidely unromantic ways to ignore Valentine's Day ... sort of
This article originally appeared on Examiner.com, Feb. 12, 2016. If you've turned on your radio, TV, laptop, iPhone, OR brain over the past couple weeks you've been inundated with, you guessed it, promos for Valentine's Day! As if anyone with a beating heart (woops!) could forget, February 14 is Valentine's Day. Awwww. This reporter remembers many-a memorable Valentine's Day. In reverse chronological order, the maladies included: • the year I dumped my sweet boyfriend for the young hottie I worked with (yes, on Valentine's Day) • the year a boyfriend in LA ate a dinner I made for him, loaned me $100, and lied to me about his marital status • the year I wrote an article about trying to lose weight (again) so I could just gain it back with all the chocolate I would be given. But then, there are the sweet memories, too: • the year my live-in boyfriend picked flowers for me and wrote a poem (the poem may have come later; memory's a bit foggy) • the year my f...