Valentine’s Day is less than 2 days away. Restaurants are booked, hotel rooms reserved and See’s is running low on heart-shaped candy boxes. With the traditional methods all in use, how do you say I love you with so few days left?

Write them a love letter. A silly, goofy love letter.

Write it in pen or write it in ketchup, but tell the foodie in your life how sweet they are on uccello curioso’s valentines, available on Etsy. Each card is made by hand in small batches, water-colored and mailed to you via USPS Air Mail for $5. The super-cute cards feature profound declarations of love such as, “I love you like I love bacon + eggs” and “I love you like I love fish tacos.”

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AskMen.com says it’s almost impossible for a man to stay in a long distance relationship. However, some of my male friends disagree. Extent of the sacrifice would depend on whether you have someone you are willing to sacrifice your libido and mojo for. It is possible, but the dilemma is – how do you keep it alive and is there a time-frame?

For most of us, at least once in our lives we experience a long-distance relationship and in most cases it does not work. I know people who would argue with me about this and say at the end it worked for them. Now, I want to know how they kept it alive? I know how it has been for me in the past few months. It’s tough to know you care and desire someone who is far. Coping everyday with the fact that you come to an empty house with no one to share your everyday happy and sad moments and with no one to fulfill your physical needs takes a strong set of mind and will power. The strength to get up the next day with a same desire to make the relationship work. Most people give up after a few weeks or at most a few months. [ Read The Full Story -> ]

The dilemma of a getting a Valentine’s Day apple to women as much as men; women strive to be original, fun and unexpected in a gift choice. Chocolate, various heart-shaped objects, from heart-candies to heart-colored lingerie, it’s a gift that gives on giving, but is it exciting anymore? Not sure if it is.

As much as all ladies love chocolate, it’s more applicable on lonely horny nights, but if you are with someone already – why the need? Unless you are into melting-chocolate activities and a late-night-early-morning bubble bath foreplays, choose some other, more original and fun, gifts for your Valentine. Even if it means showing up wearing nothing but a trenchcoat and high heels – that’s a “gift” for him (he does not see you do it on a daily basis, does he?)

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, the final gift-giving holiday of the winter season is upon us. This weekend marks the last two days during which you have 12 hours to peruse Los Angeles’s shops and boutiques to find a Valentine’s Day gift. It is never fun (or appreciated) to scurry around the city in traffic, trying to find a special something in the hours between clocking out and dinner.

Here, I’ve got a few suggestions, for the long-term ladyfriend:

Get in your car, drive to 4649 Russell Ave in Los Feliz, find parking, and run into Cake.

It is not a bakery. It is a delightful space filled with chic and wearable jewelry. Opened in 2000, the shop offers exclusively hand-forged jewelry that is subtle but spectacular. Not a single piece contains nickel or zinc, so a ring will never turn your friend’s finger green. All in all, these moderately-priced pieces will certainly impress.

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, the final gift-giving holiday of the winter season is upon us. This weekend marks the last two days during which you have 12 hours to peruse Los Angeles’s shops and boutiques to find a Valentine’s Day gift. It is never fun (or appreciated) to scurry around the city in traffic, trying to find a special something in the hours between clocking out and dinner.

Here, I’ve got a few suggestions, for the long-term ladyfriend:

Get in your car, drive to 4649 Russell Ave in Los Feliz, find parking, and run into Cake.

It is not a bakery. It is a delightful space filled with chic and wearable jewelry. Opened in 2000, the shop offers exclusively hand-forged jewelry that is subtle but spectacular. Not a single piece contains nickel or zinc, so a ring will never turn your friend’s finger green. All in all, these moderately-priced pieces will certainly impress.

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This is my way to introduce a weekly “Ins and Abouts” West Hollywood column, which will highlight (or not) places to see (or not to) in West Hollywood – the home to me and my Scotish Fold.

There is nothing like a sexy “after-party” with your Valentine - be it a girlfriend, a wife, or a friend with benefits – it’s all good (no one said you should be alone on the Valentine’s.) After you are done with the romantic dinner, gazing into each other’s eyes, feeding each other chocolate “hearts” and discussing the next “step” of the relationship, I say, move on to sexy action (unless it’s first date and you have your three-week “policy.”)

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This is my way to introduce a weekly “Ins and Abouts” West Hollywood column, which will highlight (or not) places to see (or not to) in West Hollywood – the home to me and my Scotish Fold.

There is nothing like a sexy “after-party” with your Valentine - be it a girlfriend, a wife, or a friend with benefits – it’s all good (no one said you should be alone on the Valentine’s.) After you are done with the romantic dinner, gazing into each other’s eyes, feeding each other chocolate “hearts” and discussing the next “step” of the relationship, I say, move on to sexy action (unless it’s first date and you have your three-week “policy.”)

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A friend once told me that on Valentine’s Day at her high school the principle announced over the intercom the names of students who’d had flowers delivered to them. The student could then go to the office and pick up her flowers and bring them back to the classroom to proudly display on her desk.

If you were the type of girl – or guy– who surely would have had your name called, this might sound like a fun diversion. I, however, was not one of those girls, and this to me sounds like something out of a satire about the brutality of teen life. Not even Molly Ringwald’s family forgetting her birthday in Sixteen Candles compares to the humiliation of sitting at a flowerless desk, hoping against hope that maybe at least one of your friends took pity on you and was sending a couple of carnations your way.

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It comes with the age, territory, lifestyle, career standing and peer influence. When I was younger (not that I’m old now…but when I was single and fabulous and leaving in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Moscow and New York, that is…) I loved open relationships.

Think: Carrie, Miranda, Samantha…
People call them “no strings attached” relationships, “f*ck buddies” or “friends with benefits”, but whatever name they go by, for most men they are hard to pass up — there is something intensely satisfying about being able to ring up a girl at 11PM, and be having sex with her at 11:30, and then be saying goodbye to her by 12:30AM. Same goes for women. Is it not fabulous, to ring up a man; tell him you are wearing nothing and that you want him NOW.

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It comes with the age, territory, lifestyle, career standing and peer influence. When I was younger (not that I’m old now…but when I was single and fabulous and leaving in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Moscow and New York, that is…) I loved open relationships.

Think: Carrie, Miranda, Samantha…
People call them “no strings attached” relationships, “f*ck buddies” or “friends with benefits”, but whatever name they go by, for most men they are hard to pass up — there is something intensely satisfying about being able to ring up a girl at 11PM, and be having sex with her at 11:30, and then be saying goodbye to her by 12:30AM. Same goes for women. Is it not fabulous, to ring up a man; tell him you are wearing nothing and that you want him NOW.

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1. A guy makes you listen to his own CD over and over while he is singing along…
2. A guy does a lap-dance, shakes his ass in your face…(Did I mention it is on a first date?)
3. A guy leaves you three voice messages saying “if you get this message before 11:30pm, call me…(What’d happen if I call at 11:35pm?)
4. A guy says about 20 times that he is “god” and likes to be the center of attention…
5. A guy orders a customized dinner, where each single ingredient is a substitute and then says “I’m not picky, I just know what I want and I watch what I eat…” (hmm, does it mean that I don’t?)
6. A guys sends you 10 emails with pictures of his dog…and on each picture the dog is dressed up…
7. A guy takes you to a restaurant and refuses to eat bread…A guy takes you to a movie and tells you that he is protesting a 5-dollar popcorn and a $3 candy…
8. A guy takes you out and the next day, everyone, including a cleaning lady, Starbucks barista and a vet knows about you…
9. A man tells you “relationships are scary to me”…(Did I mention that he is 38?)
10. You go on a blind date and in 5 minutes both of you realize that not only you have met before, but you have also had sex…

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1. A guy makes you listen to his own CD over and over while he is singing along…
2. A guy does a lap-dance, shakes his ass in your face…(Did I mention it is on a first date?)
3. A guy leaves you three voice messages saying “if you get this message before 11:30pm, call me…(What’d happen if I call at 11:35pm?)
4. A guy says about 20 times that he is “god” and likes to be the center of attention…
5. A guy orders a customized dinner, where each single ingredient is a substitute and then says “I’m not picky, I just know what I want and I watch what I eat…” (hmm, does it mean that I don’t?)
6. A guys sends you 10 emails with pictures of his dog…and on each picture the dog is dressed up…
7. A guy takes you to a restaurant and refuses to eat bread…A guy takes you to a movie and tells you that he is protesting a 5-dollar popcorn and a $3 candy…
8. A guy takes you out and the next day, everyone, including a cleaning lady, Starbucks barista and a vet knows about you…
9. A man tells you “relationships are scary to me”…(Did I mention that he is 38?)
10. You go on a blind date and in 5 minutes both of you realize that not only you have met before, but you have also had sex…

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