FFS

[tamaranth]

I'm ignoring V-day -- I just don't care any more -- and even being slightly amused by the plethora of commercial emails beseeching me to celebrate it by buying something. But bloody Google Docs has gone pink.

*switches to NoteTab*

In cat-related news, Sam is even less keen on needles than I am, so we're going back tomorrow for sedation and blood tests. (They're thinking 'thyroid' again.) For a cat who has apparently lost quite a bit of weight in the last year, he managed to be very very heavy ...

Comments

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I don't understand it; it's all quite out of hand. All the newspaper articles saying 'oh, your true love will think the less of you if you don't turn up with at least a small diamond...' wtf? We need to call it for what it is; the population being collectively brainwashed by the forces of consumerism.

I recommend The Story of Stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.com/); in fact, I recommend it so much, I think I'm going to post about it.

[andrewducker]

Except you can say the same about any celebratory day. People complain about Christmas every year - and then celebrate it. And Thanksgiving. And Halloween. And many other celebratory days.

Google frequently updates its look to match these days - I'm not sure why people expected Valentine's day to be any different.

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

Well, thyroid should be treatable at least.

Lex was very good when she had a blood test last week - no struggling at all, the vetinary nurse said she was perfectly behaved.

[lj_stowaway]

I've ignored Valentine's Day for decades now in great comfort. Stupid marketing.

Thyroid *is* treatable. Cleo was on thyroid meds for years, quite happily. Um, how is Sam about pills? Oh, no reason - just asking.....

And OMG how DO cats manage to weigh so terribly much when they want to?

[fishlifter.livejournal.com]

Bastet was diagnosed with quite serious thyroid problems when she was about 8, I think; one thyroid gland had just shrivelled and the other was failing to keep up with the pace. Although she had to have pills initially (which she did not like one bit), she was fine with it for some years afterwards.

As for pink fluffiness, I'm sure it was you who I first heard use the phrase 'Icky Sicky Day', many years ago now, which is how I still think of it. (What annoys me is the idea that people should be all mushy for one (specific) day a year and not worry about being insensitive clods the rest of the time. If they are mushy all the time I mostly forgive them for doing so today too, but remain unconvinced about mushiness that needs to be done in public.)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

I think Google docs looks cute! And the thyroid thing, just not good. I had a cat that we had treated for that, some kind of radioactive implant or something, which was expensive but she responded almost immediately, and lived several more years, fat and happy. Pills are cheaper, of course, and do the trick just as well. I just couldn't see struggling to give mine a pill every day, though.

*sends Valentine hugs*

[(Anonymous)]

I actually don't mind stuff like Google's headers (though turning Google Docs pink does seem a bit dodgy to be honest). And I don't mind people celebrating these things, or even spending money, providing they can afford it and the things they buy have some use or beauty.

What I have serious trouble with is the repeated suggestions in the allegeded editorial of newspapers, suggesting, for example, that just buying a dozen red roses won't do, they need to be a dozen organically grown red roses; that if you're in a relationship, that your girlfriend will probably leave unless she gets flowers, chocolates, a thoughtfully chosen gift and a nice meal; that more and more people are doing 'experiences' for Valentine's Day, so why not go to Paris for the day. On the next page, we have horror stories about the rising tide of consumer debt, linked to adverts for debt consolidators. Nowhere in these papers will you ever see articles like the ones that appear every day in blogs like The Simple Dollar, saying, over and over again in different ways, 'you know, there are ways to enjoy your life to the full that do not involve spending more than you earn'.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

sorry, that was me.