Yes, that's right, it was really only less than two weeks ago that we celebrated another odd holiday in the United States.  As if one somewhat pointless holiday in the month of February wasn't enough, here we are again paying tribute to to Saint Valentine (for what I'm not sure) just a few days later.  Now, I don't want you to go thinking that I'm some bitter single person, because that's really not it at all.  I just don't get why it's necessary to have a day to celebrate romance, since in theory, if you're actually in love or in a good relationship, you should be celebrating your romance very day.  You really shouldn't need another day to forget about, like birthdays and anniversaries, where you can just as easily get yourself in trouble for not remembering or not getting a gift.  I suppose that certain commercial business in the United States and perhaps around the world really rely on holidays like Valentines Day.  I question the "around the world" part, because I honestly don't know if folks in other countries celebrate Valentines Day, and I also don't have much energy to go looking stuff like that up today.  I think that businesses like Hallmark would be absolutely devastated if certain holidays like Valentines, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and maybe even Halloween were not celebrated as extensively as they are.  Of course, there are others like grandparents day, secretaries day, and who knows what other ridiculous holidays like arbor day that they probably make decent money off of as well.  I suppose that I might be old fashioned in this regard, but I think that holidays should really celebrate something significant that we don't necessarily get a chance to celebrate on a regular basis.  Take Labor Day for example...now there is a real holiday...and a truly American one at that.  How often do we really get a chance to step back and think about how grateful we are to the American work force?  That's right...not too often...perhaps just on September 3rd of each year.  Memorial Day, 4th of July, President's Day, Veterans Day...OK, those fly in my book.  Even Thanksgiving is somewhat marginal, since we should be giving thanks for things every single day.   But then you get these other intervening holidays that make no sense.  People even go as far as to celebrate the equinoxes and things like April Fool's Day.  Why bother?  As much as I love being an American most of the time, I honestly don't understand some of our holidays and our customs.  I'm sure that I'll probably be strung out to dry talking about all this stuff, but I'm going for it anyways.  I just seriously doubt that most people in America, particularly people my age and young, don't even have an idea about what the holidays that we celebrate are really about.  Most of them just find them as opportunities to take time off of school or work.  Most people don't even appreciate celebrating Easter or Christmas anymore, owing to the fact that fewer and fewer Americans identify and/or practice Christianity.  Alas, this is what we have, and it doesn't look like anyone is doing much to change it...not that it necessarily needs to be changed.  Sure, celebrate some German tradition about a groundhog seeing it's shadow, but don't make a big deal out of it.  Most people in American don't understand it anyways.