yum

So, JeT and I don’t actually celebrate Valentine’s Day. It just feels awkward and weird. One year, I went all out with a theme, “pink, red, and mellow” with a themed meal and a concert, but really, it was only because The Kings of Convenience were in town that week. So, in order to celebrate it, we have to coat it with a huge layer of irony and sarcasm, and I just didn’t have it in me this year. On the day in question, while scoffing at the dudes buying flowers in the depths of South Station (not even bothering to go upstairs to the good flower shop in the same station, sheesh) on their way home, I thought about a different way to celebrate the day.

Because I can’t just ignore it and hope it will go away; it’s way to In Yo Face, Foo! to just pretend it isn’t there, I decided instead of celebrating Love (TM), we should celebrate chocolate (and maybe flowers, but mostly chocolate). Now that’s a holiday I can get behind.

I do love JeT. Very much. I just don’t like Valentine’s Day. And not just because it’s all commercial. (Because I still like Christmas and Easter and Halloween, and those are just as commercialized.) It’s that I can’t shake the awkwardness of the whole thing. When I was single, it made me feel crappy. When I was coupled, it made me feel weird, like I was trying to live up to some expectation where the standards were set by some weird, faceless entity. Yeah. Awkward. No matter what. I’ve tried to do the whole “hooray for love” thing on 14 February, but it just feels… not good. Besides, diamond commercials make me… not happy. And I’m already annoyed and angered by all the other commercials out there this time of year: diet! Diet! DIET, bitches! Oh, and here’s an ad for junk food! /rage

But the celebration of chocolate, I can get behind. So, today I made awesome chocolates. On the right are ginger candies dipped in dark chocolate. In the middle are marzipan balls dipped in chocolate and rolled in coconut. And on the left is a dark chocolate bark made with raisins, dried blueberries, and coconut (because I got tired of dipping things). Yum!!!