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   I'm Not Old After All!...

So, as many of you are aware, there was a birthday last friday. And someone, who shall remain nameless (though you can probably guess who it is), turned 25, which is an awfully huge number.

However, all depression about such numbers has disappeared in the wake of said person getting carded at the grog shop tonight. (Keep in mind that the legal age for drinking here is 18, and understand my joy.)

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   I'm really not sure about number 8...

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Catherine!

1. You would have to dig through four thousand kilometres of Catherine to reach the earth's core.
2. The number one cause of blindness in the United States is Catherine!
3. It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun's surface to Catherine.
4. Catherine has a memory span of three seconds.
5. There are roughly 10,000 man-made objects the size of Catherine orbiting the Earth.
6. Peanuts and Catherine are beans!
7. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but Catherine can not!
8. The National Heart Foundation recommends eating Catherine at least three times a week.
9. Catherine can only be destroyed by intense heat, and is impermeable even to acid.
10. Catherine is often used in place of milk in food photography, because milk goes soggy more quickly than Catherine!

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   Add substantial spicery to your aliveness!...

Love comes at a hefty price in South Korea.

There are up to 21 anniversaries, special days and celebrations a year for couples to shower each other with affection and gifts, and as a result some relationships are crushed under the weight of festivities.

South Korean companies looked at the wild success of Valentine's Day celebrations in their country and found ways to sell their goods and services through a tie-up with love, marketing officials say.

Thanks to shrewd marketing in a society focused on commerce as well as love and matrimony, there is a special day on the 14th of each month for lovers to celebrate as well as a few other goodies along the way.

For example, January 14 is Diary Day in South Korea when sweethearts are encouraged to buy gifts such as planners and mark all their red-letter days of love.

April 14 is Black Day and is purely Korean. This is a day where those who have not found love mark their status as lonely hearts by eating black food. The dish for the day is Chinese noodles topped with a thick black sauce. Single students at universities order scores of bowls and eat them together in the hope of finding a soul mate over noodles.
- ABC News

The title of this post came from the title of a spam email I received at my old yahoo account the other day. I loved it and was hanging on to it in the hopes of finding something to blog about. Then this story came along.

I definitely don't approve of mass-marketed holidays, and especially not holidays where you are obligated to buy presents of a certain worth or your affection will be doubted. Yes, I spent a bunch on Christmas (who didn't?), but a lot of the presents I bought were cheap and what the person wanted, rather than some obscure statement about how much I spent. For example, I bought my sister a really nice coat, and she flipped out thinking I had spent too much when she had only got me a dvd. I had to explain to her that actually it was bought on sale for only $20 before she would calm down.

It bugs me that the only possible thing to do on february 14 is spend a buttload of money to make sure that the person you are with at that moment still likes you on february 15. Fortunately, James and I have never been that into valentine's day (I think we exchanged small gifts on our first one and have been known to hang out together on the others), but I've seen Heidi flipping out about getting Tony something (and vice versa, actually), and I don't much see the point. Yes, it's an affirmation of your relationship, but does it have to be about spending the money? And yet, that particular rant aside, I like the idea of having a little monthly day of romance, which was why I posted this. Yes, it's just a crass way of getting people to spend lots of money, and you should be nice to your significant other all the time, but sometimes it's just nice to spoil them and feel romantic.

Thus I propose a new holiday: "Hey, I Love You" Day! On this day (the particular date of which is to be determined by the reader) go out and give your significant other a big hug and tell them that you love them. Make it seem to be completely out of the blue, as if you've just realised for the first time just how very much they mean to you, and that every moment before this point was just leading up to that realisation.

You don't have to buy presents to show your affection on this day; no roses or cards are required. All you have to do is make your partner feel appreciated and loved by showering them with affection and lots of big hugs (and maybe a few kisses and possibly even sex if they love you back *grins*). And the best bit about "Hey, I Love You" Day is that you can celebrate it as often as you like whenever you like.

So why not get off the computer and do that now?

And hey, if you're reading this blog post, it means I'm on my new server at James' house. I haven't backdated any of these stories, they've just been sitting on blogger waiting for me to get around to fixing the site.

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