February 5th, 2008

Self-Love Day 2008: A Whole New Kind Of Valentine’s Day!

Valentine’s Day is not a favorite holiday for most people.  I can take or leave “Pepto-Bismol Day” quite frankly.  We’re often told that diamonds are forever, chocolate equals love and that flowers will win her over.  We’re somehow brainwashed into thinking that if we don’t have anyone to celebrate this day with, then we are “less than” and should feel bad about ourselves and/or depressed on February 14th.  Even those of us who are in touch with our emotions, claiming to be smarter than the greeting card companies, sit and wonder……is this FTD bouquet coming into the office actually mine?  And then, when it passes us by we STILL go home and keep our ears open just “in case” the doorbell happens to ring with our present from a secret admirer.  Don’t think that married people have it any easier, because we have a whole new set of mental masturbation to conquer.  Therefore we are bringing back…



Self-Love Day
(aka “Learning To Love Me”)
Valentine’s Day, February 14th!



No more “how much do I love thees”… rather ask yourself the question, “how much do I love ME?”  Even if you have someone on this special day, take the time to think about yourself, list your good qualities, have some positive perspective on who you are and treat yourself better than you ever have.  This is a day to pamper yourself,

be happy with who you are and declare yourself free from wondering if he went to Jared!Last year, everyone took one of the banners and posted it on their sites with their Self-Love Day blog post.  Please feel free to do the same this year and if you’d like to pimp this out on your blog beforehand…that’d be funky fresh too!

HERE ARE THE RULES!!!

1.) Post one of them thar banners on your blog and declare February 14th as the day you not only love your one and only, but the day that you love yourself!

2.) Post one nice thing about yourself……then ask others to post one thing that they really like about you.

3.) Enjoy yourself!

If you’d like to see an example of what the fuck I’m talking about, here is my Self-Love Day post from 2007, and here are some others.


I”ll remind you again next Wednesday!!!  And just in case I wasn’t crystal clear, you can pimp the idea whenever you want but “SELF-LOVE POSTS” go up on V-Day itself.

Cinnamon Red Hott Kisses,
Me

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Posted in Memes and Quizzes | Comments (22)

22 Responses to “Self-Love Day 2008: A Whole New Kind Of Valentine’s Day!”

  1. kilax Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    That sounds like fun! I am in… ;)

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  2. Dave2 Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    But I practice self-love every day!

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  3. Dave2 Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    But I practice self-love every day!

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  4. Dave2 Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    Wow. Apparently I practice self-love twice a day! Comments stuck?

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  5. Sybil Law Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    I love this idea! I will do it – closer to the day…

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  6. jane Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    I really like that idea! We can always learn to love ourselves a little more. Well, most of us…I think Dave2 may be gettin’ a lil too much self lovin’.

    When I graduated college (AA) and got a job I sent myself some flowers. The goofy florist got them wrong so I called them & got the correct ones. I gave the 1st bunch to a coworker. :)

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  7. Iron Fist Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    I can still refer to Self Love Day as V-Day, and for me it’s still entirely accurate. In fact every day should be V-Day as far as I’m concerned.

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  8. Whit Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    Is the guy on the right practicing self-love in the picture? My blog is rated G you know.

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  9. Mr. Fabulous Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 1:44 am

    I used to practice self love every day, several times a day. Not anymore. It’s a stamina issue.

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  10. Aunt Robin Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 4:44 am

    Are you nuts? My daughter would shred me! I mean, she seriously lives for moments like that.

    Umm, she was dropped at birth. It was very unfortunate. Really.

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  11. CuriosityKiller Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 6:36 am

    Did my comment go through? I was just gushing about how much I love you!

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  12. tori Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 7:08 am

    I loved this last year, so I will definitely do it again this year.

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  13. furiousball Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 7:53 am

    can i just masturbate?

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  14. Atomic Bombshell Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 8:00 am

    I appreciate where you’re going with this concept, but rather than focus on loving myself (and I have yet to meet a human that when you really dig down to the heart of the matter doesn’t do just that) I hope I can still remain in keeping with the ideals that you’re trying to promote by instead focusing on doing loving things for other people.

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  15. Atomic Bombshell Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 8:03 am

    I appreciate where you’re going with this concept, but rather than focus on loving myself (and I have yet to meet a human that when you really dig down to the heart of the matter doesn’t do just that) I hope I can still remain in keeping with the ideals that you’re trying to promote by instead focusing on doing loving things for other people.

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  16. Karl Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 8:05 am

    Wait, I have to find nice things to say about me EVERY YEAR?! Argh.

    Naturally, I’ll play along. *grumble grumble*

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  17. turnbaby Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 8:14 am

    I love it!! Glad you are doing a reminder though because I have become a total spazz about remembering these sorts of things.

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  18. Absurdist Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 9:21 am

    That’s a great idea!

    And I am still going to send myself flowers. I LOVE getting flowers… It’s just so exciting!

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  19. Shelli Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    I’m doing this. You know why? Because I really need to learn to love myself. It’s hard for me. It’s an everyday struggle.

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  20. Shelli Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 11:20 am

    Where did my comment go? Wahhhhh

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  21. Dustin Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    Ya, I’m gonna need all the self-love I can muster after KJ finds out I don’t have reservations to anywhere nice.

    P.S. According to my mouth, chocolate does in fact equal love. 9 out of 10 taste buds agree.

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  22. turnbaby Says:
    February 14th, 2008 at 8:28 am

    I love your writing and how you can be serious and funny in the same post.

    And I love your sublime snark.

    And the bangs–lovin the bangs.

    I’ll let Dave and Avi fight over your spleen.

    Smooch sugar.

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