Box of Chocolates!

Valentine's Day: the one day of the year people either love or hate. If you have a valentine, you're happy and excited, if it's 'just you again' this year, you pray the day goes quickly and no one asks you the awful question of when you're going to finally meet someone. Like you actually have control over when you meet the 'right one'.

Love it or hate it, the day will surely come every year along with gifts of flowers, teddy bears, or that horrible chocolate that comes in the heart shaped box wrapped in red cellophane. The nemesis of the entire day resides in that box. You find it when you bite into that cute little square of 'chocolate' only to have the most disgusting, gooey, red gel squirt out at you and run down your chin. Cherry-filled ickiness.

But you smile, ooh and ah over the display of love, then offer your valentine a piece of chocolate. If you're lucky, they'll find that other little demon, the one with coconut. Blech! One of these days Reese's Peanut Butter Cups will experience a surge in sales after they start wrapping their deliciousness in heart-shaped cardboard boxes. Their marketing director needs a good talking to.

Even with its quirks, Valentine's Day is a needed reminder to show others how much we care about them. And if you plan on showing that care with chocolate, please steer clear of the red cellophane. You'll thank me later.

Until next time.