The Most Beautiful Day of the Year

Published February 12, 2008

By Lea McLellan

Dear Diary,

Holy wow!

Can you believe there’re only two days left until the most romantic, awesomest, greatest day out of all the 365 days of the year?! Well start believing it Diary, because Thursday is Valentine’s Day! I don’t know how it crept up on us so fast. I mean, it was only two days after Christmas when all the grocery stores started putting out all the cute teddies, heart shaped chocolate boxes, and dyed pink everything.

Yesterday I bought a pink bagel with pink strawberry cream cheese. Then I was thirsty so I got strawberry milk. I don’t really even like strawberry milk, but it was pink so I basically had to get it. Anyways, the whole breakfast was so cute-I almost died!

So even though Hallmark and all the other creators of V-day barely gave me time to find a recipe online for Valentine cupcakes (white cake, pink frosting, red heart sprinkles) I’m totally prepared for this sacred holiday. I didn’t know if I should buy the Dora the Explorer valentines (so cute) or the Disney Princess ones (absolutely precious) at Rite Aid, so I played it safe and got both. Then I got a million little heart shaped lollipops that I plan to scotch tape onto each of them. Everyone in my hall is going to just die.

The best part about the Valentine cards is that they relay heart-felt messages like “Princess wishes that all your dreams come true.” So all the time I would have spent thinking about what to write, can be spent thinking about how great it’s going to be when you-know-who presents me with a ridiculously humongous, but completely classy bouquet of red roses. Or maybe pink. White? No red. I definitely want red. Or maybe a dozen red and a dozen white, all mixed in with one another! Ah! I can’t wait!

All I know is that I will not have a repeat of last year’s floral disaster. Could you believe that guy actually gave me pink carnations? Carnations?! Please! Only cheapskates and fourth graders give carnations on Valentine’s Day. Grow up! I almost vomited. Seriously.
But this year will be different. This year you-know-who, also known as hottest-boy- on campus as well as planet earth, is going to shower me with gifts and take me out to dinner and it’s going to be totally great. I’m certain of this fact because I told him that if my Valentine’s Day wasn’t totally great, I would just die and it would be completely his fault.

Then I outlined the specific points necessary in order to make it great: a shitload of roses, fancy dinner, maybe a necklace. I gave him a little leeway with the last one. You know, so he could get a little creative and surprise me. Not that creative though. Not like, homemade or anything. God, maybe I should have qualified that for him. I should call him.

Okay, I just called him and he got the message. I also remembered to remind him to dress up. So now there’s no doubt in my mind that February 14th, 2008 will be the absolute most awesome day of my life. Gosh. It’s all I can do to keep from squealing! I’m going to go paint my nails red. Or pink. Or maybe I’ll use a different shade of pink and red on each finger…

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