Well... if we can all agree on something, we can agree that Valentine's day may single handedly be the most commercially perpetuated day of the year! Yes, even worse than Christmas, because some of us still celebrate what Christmas is really about, however Feb 14th is about some foolery.

Let me be clear--if you do not know you are loved by those who claim to love you until some unrandom act of commercialism on Feb 14th, then it is not genuine.

Telling or expressing your love for your loved ones (mate, friends, family, etc.) should not require prompting. We live in a world that constantly reminds us tomorrow is not promised, so to convey your love for your loved ones should be a constant act.

I hope no one misconstrues this to think that I am anti-valentine's, because I'm not. I support the romance, the love and all that, I am just saying if its real then 2/14 will not be the only time you feel it or show it.

So.... 2/14/2009 -- probably one of the best Vday's I've had in a long while!!! I woke up feeling magnanimous and glorious. I woke up to similar messages of endearment that I get year round, which only added to the pep in my step. I felt like making breakfast for everyone I know... but I dont have enough food for all that, my people can eat!!! I did however get up and make a huge breakfast, so that my roomie could enjoy too. It was great-it was so Shayzo (my mommy) like. If you have ever stayed at my house then you already knows that means it was alot of food on deck and definitely no shortage of pork :)

While enjoying my pork filled morning delight, I got a text from a friend - his 2nd daughter had just been born. What could be more awesome than that- a Valentine's baby... well that just filled me with so much joy for him and his wife and their family.

After my regular struggles with the law (by that I mean all the reading I have to do) I proceeded to get ready for a fun-filled evening with some great people.

So we packed up in the Honda with GA plates and went to Universal Studios for Mardi Gras. There was dancing and spirits even before we got in. We finally arrive and go to Finnegans for spirits and sustenance -only to be greeted by tomfoolery. The only ID with my d.o.b. that I had on me was my expired NYS driver's license (by the way NYS DMV send my new effn license -thx). They refused to serve me any spirits because it was expired. Needless to say this turned into quite the event, because you do not simply tell a table full of law students that the oldest person at the table can not drink for ambiguous and actually quite bogus reasons. So we continue to press the issue. I mean the card is expired, but the d.o.b. is the same. The waitress gives us some bogus example she clearly got from their corp training video b/c the shift supervisor used the same example: we dont accept expired licenses b/c someone could easily just give their expired license to an under-aged friend... I looked at her like ma are you effn serious. I said, you do know that is my picture on there right? [holds license up to face for comparison] I even offered my school id as a companion to further prove yes this is me and this is my license. Well at this point she is positive the last thing she is going to get from this table is a tip.... so she politely offers us her immediate sup..the shift manager. He comes over with the same example-I said mister, clearly you have to be kidding me. Realizing chronie #1 has already used that example he proceeds to try and convince us that he would not sell spirits to a 90 yr old woman if her license was expired. MONEY WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT..AND WHO THE EFF ARE YOU TALKING TO WITH THIS KIND OF FOOLERY... [smh] The relentless law students are not satisfied. MF proceeds to ask well if I gave her some of my drink is that a problem, because she is almost 30 so its not underage drinking, and Im buying the drink so you are not serving someone without "proper id". He proceeds to tell her no. She retorts is there some statute to support this, enter JJF yes, is there some statute or is this just some park rule, b/c this does not make sense to me! WELL WELL WELL... chronie #2 aka the shift manager says.. Its Orange County Law... LMFAO!!!!!!!! LITERALLY!!!!!! JJF proceeds to enlighten our theme park chronie to the diff b/w laws and ordinances and which orange county has and how they are enforced. At this point im not even interested and I want to leave, but that glorious spirit kicks back in and I re-engage in this convo with chronie#2. We eventually break him down with our superior intellect into confessing, this is not an "orange county law" and that these really are just Universal Studios rules-which he should have just said to begin with. Instead everyone wanted to play Susan Lucci and give me the dramatics of how they could lose their job, be arrested, etc.. please... save the drama!!! At this point I know Im not getting the spirits, but for shits and giggles, when he offers the Assistant manager I say, go ahead send her out. Well needless to say she was bombarded with the same legal inquisition from the table. She tries to play nice by pointing out we have the same birthday (she needs to step her 12/15 game up she was not in tuned w/ her star player @ all but thats another story for another time), then I notice her name tag and she is from Williamsville, NY- I told her how I used to live there and went to school at UB (Go Bulls), and she adds how me and her son are the same age .. and for good measure threw in a Happy Birthday before telling me how she too could go to jail for serving me! GO TO JAIL FOR WHAT???? Chronie #3 ... stop it already..there is no damn statue that says you cant serve a 29 year old a damn drank!! One of these mofos even asked me if I had my passport with me as additional ID- I said does that make any sense, that I would walk around with my damn passport-Im a citizen!! ahhh yes it was chronie#2, b/c then he follows up w/ yea alot of our foreign guests carry their passports... DUH MOFO .. CUZ THEY ARE FOREIGN... whiskey tango foxtrot..where the hell do they find these people. We eat... pay the bill.. and make like dem D's and bounce!!!

Well when we come out we realize ish is closing up .. the damn rides done closed, the concert is over, we cant even find a shot girl walking around. BTW ... I did have my Finnegans drink..LMFAO.. so the joke's on them!!! Anyway, now $50 has been invested to this evening and the return is minuscule at best!! We were not giving up yet, nor were our spirits even remotely tattered. We hit city walk and decided if we do nothing else tonight-we shall have spirits, there shall be dancing, joy shall infest us all!!! Spirits we had, Dancing we did, Joyful twas the entire evening. As usual no probs at city walk getting into the clubs and getting spirits and with our universal ticket we got into all the clubs for free-GAME CHANGER!!!! We danced everywhere- a nice older fella even tossed me some beads from the 2nd floor of Pat O'Brians for my dancing prowess :) I mean at one point of the evening we started an electric slide in front of Pat O' Brians. We hit the cha cha slide at about 3 different venues and went hard all 3 times. lol... $2 shots in the Red Room of the groove where we toasted to "being with great ppl you love and who love you back" ... I mean the good time was on high. I will say the only thing that sucked was the line at Bob Marley b/c I really wanted to hear some reggae music.

Nevertheless AND ALWAYS THE MORE... my Valentine's day was great, filled with laughter, dancing, food, spirits, great people and the bestest A CARD AND CANDY GIFT FROM MY MOMMY -LOVE U SHAYZO!! I could not have asked for a more perfect day!!

I hope you all had a great Valentine's day too!!!!

XOXO
Snobby Girl :)