MY Funny Valentines

This is an e-Valentine that I sent over to my Dad this morning because I am so lame I can't get anything in the mail in advance. That's us in 1960.

I am not a very romantic person. Valentines day has never been a holiday that made me run out and spend money. I partly think it's another one of those guilt-ridden consumer driven holidays that prey on people and guilt them into buying expensive jewelry for their mates.

I come from a funny family. Ha Ha funny that is. Sometimes not so funny but humor, especially self depreciating humor abounds. Some family members are funnier than others. This seems to be a genetic trait on both sides of my family as my cousins and their children seem to have this same sense of humor.

Valentines day is the holiday where my Mom sends out her homemade Valentines. She makes one for each of us but I don't always get the gist of what she is trying to say. I think many times she is being funny but sometimes the humor is lost on me. An example would be recently she sent my husband a pair of swim goggles and a speedo swim cap. ?????? I think the joke was supposed to be that he wears a speedo when tanning. She finds that funny.


Yesterday our Valentines arrived. One for T and one for me. This year there was a "quote" theme.


Mine has a photo of a fat ballerina and reads: "Beautiful is not what is beautiful, but what one likes..."

T's valentine has a political theme this year with a photo of Tim Geithner and Barack Obama. The quote reads "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." I guess our valentines aren't funny this year. Sigh... a sign of the times.

Mom loves to talk politics, which I hate. I try not to let our conversations lead us there because it makes me crazy. She loves hater talk radio and totally buys whatever they spew. I am her "liberal" daughter. She still loves me.

Below is a photo my brother sent of my niece in Ohio with her Valentine from her Baczi (Grandma).

FINALLY the sensitive, loving Valentine from the person who loves me the most, my husband T. So thoughtful and loving.

I love a man with a sense of humor. Since I never do what anyone wants me to do I think I'll take the risk and lead with the left one.

Happy Valentines Day.

(Oh, and if any of my other siblings want to share their Baczi valentine, send it over and I will post it.)