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I am not a fan of Valentines Day.  And please don't mistake this for bitterness, I just find it ridiculous that we have a holiday dedicated to telling the ones we love that we love them when there are 364 other perfectly good days in the year to confirm the sentiment.  So I really just see Valentines Day as an excuse for my grocery store to mark up the cost of roses for 2 weeks in February.  And let's be real here: I hate the combination of pink and red hearts.  I don't know what it is, but it makes me queasy.  Pink hearts alone are fine.  Red hearts alone are dandy.  But together, ick.  And it get even worse when they throw in those purple hearts for good measure. As I sit here with my pink heart necklace - after all, I am a festive person and there are no red hearts in sight - I do like Valentines Day as a reminder of something more important: February is American Heart month.  Maybe you "go red" on Fridays or wear a red ribbon.  Maybe...

I just spent a very fun weekend in Steamboat Springs with my boyfriend visiting his family.  For the second year in a row, we decided that the prime weekend for a visit was during Winter Carnival, which is pretty spectacular if you ever have the chance to witness it.  During the day, they load up Main Street with snow for events such as the donkey jump, where local cowboys saddle up their horses so they can drag kids on skis over ski jumps (something my boyfriend has experienced and survived) or the shovel race, where the cowboys drag "grown" men sitting on snow shovels down the street to see who can get the best time. There are lots of other things going on as well.  Last year, we went to Howelsen Hill - home of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and training ground of many Olympians - to watch some ski jumps.  But perhaps the biggest draw is Saturday night's fireworks display and the Lighted Man.  This show begins after dark at Howelsen Hill as skiers ca...