As everyone can see from changes in the chocolate selection in the stores, Valentine's day is coming. Here they call it ystävänpäivä (friend's day) but the idea is the same. I don't celebrate it unless I have to, and luckily for me Killeri doesn't either, so I don't have to.
Valentine's day is a kind of a negative chocolate holiday: stores sell the same kinds of chocolate as usually, but it is shaped as hearts, wrapped in red paper and foil, and is more expensive than usual. Whereas Christmas is a positive chocolate holiday: new and better kinds of chocolate appear in stores, and when the infidels (sorry, Christians, my use of this word is largely humoristic but I think this humor does not come very well across in written text, and smileys in the middle of a sentence tend to look weird) fail to buy it all on time, the prices drop.
Monday, February 09, 2004
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