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Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I hope you have a wonderful day, weather you single, married, dating, excepting, engaged, forever alone, or whatever your relationship status is! I do have to state, my Valentine is a cute little two year old boy, whom I watch every Tuesday night. He is just adorable! Luckily his father, being the wonderful husband he is, is going to surprise his wife with a night out tonight, so I actually get to spend my Valentine's Day with my Valentine. Here are my four quick steps on how to have a fun-fill Singles Awareness/Forever Alone Awareness/Valentine's Day!
1. Work all day, get dropped off early in the morning for my story time and don't leave until 3pm/4pm
2. spend 20 - 30 minutes at home after work.
3. Babysit until late at night
4. Go to bed.
Now onto the history part of this day. Valentine's Day is the feast of Saint Valentine. Now the Catholic religion does not have this feast on their liturgical calendar, because we do not know which Saint Valentine we are feasting for. There are several if you were wondering. Now we don't know which one gets the feast, and we don't really know why today. It is speculated that a Saint Valentine was buried today, so we're feasting on his burial day, but then we go back to the, which Saint Valentine. Maybe we're celebrating all of the Saint Valentines, right? Well no one really knows this answer.
I do have to state that the Eastern Orthodox Church, celebrates the feast of Saint Valentine of Presbyter on July 6th and Hieromartyr Saint Valentine on July 30th. With that said, the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the two names, Valentine (male) and Valentina (female), on February 14th (today!). An interesting fact in the Eastern Orthodox Church there is NO Saint Valentine, but yet they celebrate two Saint Valentines, and celebrate the names. Maybe they're just going along with the whole unknowns of today.
Now, the most fun fact about today is Saint Valentines Massacre!!! Yes, that needed three exclamation points. I'm going to need your imagination for a little bit, okay?
Okay, it's February 14, 1929. You're in the Chicago, on this lovely day with your sweetheart. You do not know that they're will be a massacre right in front of you, between two well known gangs (why you were in an alley way behind a garage, don't ask me). Anyways, the next thing you know you see several men of the Irish North Side gang up against the building, you also see two police men in some nice Crestview uniforms (don't they look hot?) The next thing you know these two handsome, "police officers" open fire, each with Thompson Sub-Machine Gun.
It was known that Frank Gusenburg, had 14 shots in him. While in the hospital they asked who shot you, and Frank responded "Nobody shot me." You would think that if you knew that you were dying that you would say who shot you right? Frank died three hours later.
Now back to your imagination, you're now on the street. You fled the scene with your sweetheart and are enjoying a nice walk on the street. You see two men acting as street men walk out to the main road with their hands on top of their heads with the two policemen behind them. You assume that everything is under control, and continue your day with your sweetheart.
Both Capone and Moran were not there, Capone was vacationing in Florida (man wouldn't I wish to be in Florida today, I'm so tired of this cold) and Moran was actually going to the warehouse, when he spotted the cop car and fled to a coffee shop. So as Moran's buddies were being killed, he was enjoying a nice Solo Espresso Con Panna (okay so maybe he wasn't dinning a Starbucks, but we're imagining here, got it?)
Okay, you can stop imagining. Story is all over.
The aftermath of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the beginning of the end of Mr. Moran's power and control of the city. In 1931, Mr. Capone was convicted of income tax evasion (even the Al Capone had to file taxes, I guess explaining where he got the money for hits would be kind of hard to explain to the IRS, so I don't blame Mr. Capone for not filing them. I'm sure tax evasion is a much better sentence than everything that he's accomplished). Mr. Jack McGurn, the guy that the police suspected planned the whole shebang, beat the massacre charges (nice judicial system we have), but would be murdered February 15th (ha you thought it was going to be 14th) in 1936, no one knows who's gang got the hit on him.
So all in all Valentine's Day is a world of unknown. You don't know who we're feasting to, the Catholics don't even have the feast on their liturgical calendar and the Eastern Orthodox Church feasts, but they don't have any saints to feast for. You don't know what your special someone is going to do to you (hey I wonder how many romantics out there are proposing today, maybe they're proposing under the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France with a nice cup of espresso with their sweet heart, and have tirramissu and have the ring right on top, or maybe it's with biscotti - - - oh I want that guy.) tonight. You don't know how many Valentine's Day roses you'll get (I got one Saturday night), or how many cards you'll get. You won't know what the cutest sweetheart message you'll receive. You won't know if you'll end the day with a Valentine if you're single. Today is all unknown, and maybe that's what makes today as amazing and wonderful that we all believe. Maybe Valentine's day is like Santa Claus for grown-ups. Maybe Cupid is Santa, we don't know.
I hope you will have a wonderful Valentine's Day, and if you have a special someone. Tell them how much you mean to them, because you really don't know how long you have with them.
This is a hopeless romantic signing off.
-And remember, I love you! ♥
