You don’t have to break the bank to show your love this year. Here are my suggestions on how to have a great time with your husband or boyfriend on Valentine’s Day, with minimal expense!

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If you are one of the millions of single women bemoaning the fact that you don’t have a Valentine this year, it’s time to look on the bright side. Here are the top ten reasons to be grateful that you don’t. 

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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I’m sure a lot of you have relationships on your mind. So, if you are in one, a new study seems to indicate that you can determine your happiness level and predict whether you’ll be in it 6 months from now, based on your IM messages between you and your significant other.

If you had any doubts that we are in the technical age, I think the fact that a journal called Personal Relationships did a study on IM patterns between lovers, proves it.

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Super Bowl Sunday is tomorrow, and I’ve noticed that when it comes to the big game day, women seem to be divided into two camps: those who do, and those who don’t. (Watch it, that is). 

I fall into the watcher camp, because not only do I like football, but this year, my hometown team, Arizona, is actually in it! But even if you are a gal who doesn’t like football, there are some great reasons for you to love the Super Bowl, and tune in tomorrow. Here are my top 10 reasons for chicks to dig the Super Bowl:

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Okay, everybody, as promised, we have one day left for the contest for your chance to win a getaway to a San Diego Resort! If you are one of our male readers, don’t be scared off by the “wedding theme” of this contest! You can win this contest and take your woman!

We are kicking off our *f.a.t. Bliss pre-wedding weight loss plan with a little inspiration from Dana, our blogging bride from The Broke Ass Bride. If you missed yesterday’s post, I want to get you started on your fitness plan by motivating you to be fit and trim in a bikini first……… while helping Dana achieve her fitness goals to get in shape for her wedding!! We are warm and fuzzy for things like Valentine’s Day and weddings, so we are giving you the chance to win a getaway for two to Paradise Point Resort!

Therefore, the drawing will be held Valentine’s Day! If you missed yesterday’s post, you must grab a glimpse of the instructions here. By helping Dana get to strut her bikini body on a Costa Rica Honeymoon, you could win a getaway to a San Diego resort!

I’ve never been married so I don’t know the angst of needing to get in shape for an impending final dress fitting for the most important dress of my life, in preparation for the most important day of my life. But I know the stress of wanting to tone up for an important event (albeit not as important as my wedding - double yikes!) in order to fit into a hot dress in my closet that somehow looks less hot than it looked when I bought it.

So, I imagine that if I multiplied that feeling times 200 million, that is what brides feel when they are not quite as trim as they wish they were in the months or weeks preceding their wedding.

I know all of you soon to be married readers know exactly what I’m talking about. None of us wants to be BIG on our “big day” and no girl wants to feel fat in her dress of all dresses! So with spring around the corner, with many weddings set to take place, I thought I’d stir up a little inspiration in a series I like to call *f.a.t. Bliss - as in marital bliss. (Keep reading for how you can win a romantic getaway!)

To get the motivation ball rolling, I am sharing the weight loss plight of my engaged friend and fellow blogger, Dana (whose bridal blog, Broke Ass Bride, is like Fit After Thirty but with a ring on its finger). Dana has three months to get her bod in shape for her walk down the aisle, and I think a lot of you will be able to relate with some of her struggles, while gaining wisdom from her approach! (See her video interview tomorrow!)

We’ll check in to see her progress over time, prior to her May wedding! I think her approach to view this as more than an attempt to look good in photos for a day, and rather a mindset to get healthy for a lifetime, is a healthy one. And since we’re so confident that she’s going to be able to look fabulous by May, we want to help her show off her bod in a bikini on a honeymoon in Costa Rica. She and her man are entered in a contest to win this trip, but they need our help to win! Help a *f.a.t. girl win a honeymoon and you can win a *f.a.t. gift certificate for your own romantic getaway for two, at the Paradise Point Resort! The drawing will be held on Valentine’s Day - February 14th!!!

Here’s what you do:

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Get your Pure Insanity Journals out everyone, because it’s time to make another entry! For all those new to this activity, this is where we jot down the latest story that provides concrete proof that we’re all going completely mad. I’m kind of hoping that there won’t be enough stories to fill the pages of our journals, but at the rate we’re going with high heeled babies, and women opting out of what it is to be a woman, I don’t think we’ll even need to fill the journals to make the diagnosis stick.

Today’s topic just may be the clincher. I’ll summarize with one sentence: Perfection-obsessed women take their self-loathing out on their vaginas by turning genital mutilation into a sport that society now calls “Vagina Reconstruction.”

Have you heard of this, ladies? This is the latest and “greatest” in cosmetic procedures that our esteemed medical community is pushing on society, with promises to “correct” and “perfect” the vulva of any woman naive or insecure enough to pay for it. If it weren’t for the fact that women are lining up in droves for these surgeries, I would think that “Vag Repair Services” as a business model was a joke conceived by a high school business economics class filled with sixteen year old boys who were still waiting to see one for the first time.

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I know I’m reaching with this post, because I’m mostly writing this to gush about two of my all time Hotty men and one my humor heroes, but I’m going to tie in the Fit After Thirty theme by recognizing that all of these people are over 30 and look damn good for their age! There. Now back to gushing.

A big *f.a.t. Yeah and Congratulations to:

*One of my favorite *f.a.t.ty’s, Alec Baldwin!

*My all time favorite musician, songwriter, superb human being, hottest man for his age on earth, Bruce Springsteen! 

*My humor hero, brilliant writer and actress Tina Fey.

So this is a lesson to all of you. Follow your passion and it has an anti-aging effect! It has worked well for the three of them!