I already have the only one of these books that I'd want ... yours, which is by far and away the best of the lot, anyway.

Happy VD to you, too!

Oh my GOD, I was first! Yay, lunchtime surfing!

Sign me up for the self help! Mabye I will get some much needed insights. I tend to dread VD, and since my birthday is the day after, if I happen to not be dating anyone at the moment, then it is double the fun!

Hilarious title for your new book ("who moved my cheese sandwich et al") - I actually think it would sell really well just based on the name!

Hope you had a good weekend. May the sale priced chocolate be with you...

Ooo! I'm in it if only for your book which I love and plan on making a little fort out of extra copies. Because that's just how much I love your book. ;)

OMG I love "Say Goodbye to your PDI" Uh-oh- If I read that, I might have to quit my job. Seriously...

I love your blog Laurie- you keep me laughing!

Happy almost VD!

I'm still married, give to books to someone who might need them more. What I need to know is where can you get double pointed knitting needles in size 13? I want to knit THE beret but cannot find the needles needed.

Sign me up for this drawing. Everyone needs a little humor on V-Day.

Hmm, I may need help any which way I can get it. Ha!

I'm in...maybe you'll throw in some chocolate!

I could probably use the PDI book...yikes...

I cannot pass up self-helpy-ness...or a contest! Which may require a whole 'nother kind of book.

What a great idea for a VD week contest! Of course, VD is also Happy Arizona Statehood Day which really confuses people when you spout that off as they are telling you how their husband is taking them to blahblahblah and he got them blahblah and you just want to break all their acrylic nails. Not like I've thought that or anything, of course.

Got your book for Christmas, read it Christmas Day! Would no doubt have a good laugh at the rest of them, tho'. Why does everyone think we're all broken and need to be fixed????

I just love that someone else out there refers to it as VD. Back in college any of us who were single on this day would dress in all black and go to dinner together. That was so fun!

Love the title for your new book! You're definitely on to something.

Happy Monday.

Happy early VD! I agree the astrology one sounds like the most fun :-)
Scienceprincess

Laurie, congratulations on your divorce.

And why have you resorted to closing comments?

WTF I'm sure I need some help.

oh, self-helpy nirvana! I'd love them.

Because I need all the help I can get! :0 (My first post should really have been to tell you how much I loved your book and how much I enjoy your blog. But, no.......I thought I'd just get my neediness out of the way first. :)

Scienceprincess, the astrology book is great ... I have a copy of my own at home.

Dotty, I bought my size 13 dpns at a local yarn shop. You may want to try looking online if you haven't found them in a store. Yarnmarket.com often has needles in all sorts of strange sizes.

My husband is not going to be happy when I tell him that I have VD. And he better have it too!!

I want in on this. I'm in a seriously dysfunctional relationship & could use all the help I can get. Besides, I really want a copy of your book--bad. Came to this site after seeing a copy of it in the store & immediately copied down the web address so I could look you up, & am I glad I did! I've had a lot of fun checking in every day. Maybe I'll send a crock pot recipe along sometime (love those slow cookers). Tell Dotty to try KnitPicks for her needles. Lol

I've always wanted to know why people seem to think you are "broke" if you don't have someone on Valentine's Day. I think I'm perfectly fine without or without a man. :)

I'd rather spend my VD reading a book, then with a man. so there.

love the blog, your grrrreat!

I want in on this. I'm in a seriously dysfunctional relationship & could use all the help I can get. Besides, I really want a copy of your book--bad. Came to this site after seeing a copy of it in the store & immediately copied down the web address so I could look you up, & am I glad I did! I've had a lot of fun checking in every day. Maybe I'll send a crock pot recipe along sometime (love those slow cookers). Tell Dotty to try KnitPicks for her needles. Lol

Happy VD everyone! You are a riot Laurie!

Ooooooo - sign me up for your book - if you autograph it for me I'll send you some chocolate! Happy VD to you and the kitties~from my own princess kitten Lilian >^..^<

All I have to say is that V-Day is evil. It's months of being violently reminded I'm a "have not" by the retail industry.

The few times I was actually dating someone my V-Days went like this:
-big screaming fight;
-forgotten by my significant other at the time (that relationship ended when he also forgot my birthday the next month);
-and my favorite, I was dumped two days later without warning, even after receiving a flowery card. No joke.

My mother, however, always remembers to send me a Valentine, complete with chocolate. My mom rocks.

I might really need that self help. Or maybe just lots of sale priced chocolate.

Yeah, I'm one of those guilty people signing up mostly hoping to win your book. I couldn't stop laughing over it.

Thanks for the daily pick me up ! Always welcome

The way life has been going lately, I could probably use some of those books . . . *sigh*

Happy VD Laurie! Hope yours is a good one!

Would love to have those books! Especially yours!

after watching Daniel Day Lewis in the Last of the Mohicans this weekend (no, never saw it before now) i'm officially in a i'll-never-have-real-quasi-native-american-and-british-colonel's -daughter-LOVE that brought me to tears in that amazing flick.

send Help, please.

xo
denise

What a great contest! Thank you for offering it. I happen to be home today because I worked Sat. & today is a comp. day. Yea! Keep up the great writing & knitting, Laurie. I wish I'd had your book about 15 years ago....

OMG -- I totally forgot VD is this week. Yuck. A bottle of wine, a pint of Hagen Daz, and my two lil kitties will help me get thru it... And these books! Tho I already have yours but a signed copy would be even better!

I will be completely honest with you, I am only entering for the signed copy of your book, Laurie. If i get picked, feel free to pick someone else for the other books ;)

My small midwestern liberal arts college had an annual VD party called "Broken hearts are for @ssholes." I was never sure if it referred to the heart breakers or the breakees, but when my boyfriend of 10 weeks (which seemed like a long time because I was 19) broke up with me the week before VD, I very much agreed with the sentiment.

It truly sucks that I need all of those books - except for yours, of course, which is resting proudly on my nightstand.

Must, must add my name to THIS list. I tried & tried to win to come out and meet you...to no avail! And I gave my mom my copy of your book...and she won't give it back! Good for her and YOU, bad for me! I need a new copy!!!

The title of this post made my day. Here's to VD. :)

Anyway, I'm dying to have a signed copy of your book although Say Goodbye to your PDI sounds intriguing.

OOOh! What fun! VD with prizes!

As messed up as I am I'll take all the self-help I can get my hands on.

Please enter me for the giveaway!

I have your book (loved it) and who wouldn't want a signed copy. I'm going to have to look at that Hot Romance one!

Oh yes! Looking forward to Friday's chocolate sales, here! I think I could use that copy of Astrology's Secrets to Hot Romance, too.... Consider my hat thrown in! :)

My my, your publishing company sure does have some interesting titles. I need all of the help I can get. I went a tad bit crazy when out hight temp yesterday was negative four degrees. I'm in.

I'd love to win these books - especially as I sent yours to a friend of mine who went through her own lousy (after only 6 months!! and knowing him 5 years before marriage) divorce. Self help can go a long way sometimes - sometimes it even beats out good chocolate and champagne.

MMmmmm... cheap Friday chocolate...

I love books too!

I heart books!!!

And I too have never won anything ever

I want you book signed....I hope I win.

Count me in on the VD haters! I thought it was bad when I was single. Now that I'm in a relationship (sorta), I'll get an impulse purchased something, handed over with "Here. You probably won't like it." Oh, the romance!

I'm sure I could use some of those helpy books.

I need new reading material, its never toooooo late Andi

And I definately need help... haha!

Oh you are very helpful. I am kind of lovin this VD thing now.

I have your book, but if I win, I'll give the signed edition to my sister who is also a knitter and has several cats and babysits occasionally for her granddog. (That's a lot of hair!) Self-help books? I might discover what's wrong with my family after all!

Oh, the things I'll go through for a signed copy of your book. ;)

WOW....I desperately need the PDI book...for some relatives and mostly my office situation. It's kinda tragic. I also really, really want your book...the other's are a bonus. I've wanted to buy your book but have been on a serious budget and not even buying yarn (gasp)..trying to whittle down the stash because I must get my debt down. It's my 2007-8 issue. And now and starting to work on the weight...so definitely I think the PDI book will be helpful!
but...valentines day candy on the day after...so TEMPTING! Thank you. Jan

Man, I am a happily married person who so totally does not get the VD thing. Like seriously. DH knows better than to walk through that door with anything in his paws that resembles VD giftie crap. How about 'be a loving husband for 364 days, and you can have VD off for good behavior'?

Hi Laurie (and all)
I don't really need the books, already have yours. But I did want to let you know that there are comment filters you can install which remove a great deal of the garbage without you even having to do anything. My (other) blog gets thousands of "bad" comments a day that I never even see. Perhaps you are already using one of these.(?) Or you could hire and intern!
I also like the title of the new book. You are writing a new book, right? :)

I like chocolate. And the colour pink. This does not qualify me as someone who loves VD. But I do LOVES your book and would be intrigued by the rest.

You rock.

my chloe wants to know why there is no such thing as carob-covered catnip leaves on VD

Who could resist the possibility of such self-helpiness....I am *so* in!

And Happy VD, whichever strain you choose.

Contest--did you say contest~
I keep entering, but never win~
Can the home cats be bribed?

I would love your book, Laurie!
Happy VD !:)

Waaah...Help me help myself!!!! I once knew someone who thought that our connection was that we both read a lot, but when she found out that I only read the self help, I never heard from her again...Self help counts as reading!!!

I'm a VD lovin man. On my second time around and so is she. Maybe we could read the books together as a form of therapy so make sure we don't screw it up this time. Nobody ever gave me congrats on my divorce either but I'm happy to be past it.

haha, i probably could use some self help... truth be known, i could use alot of self help! count me in! :D

OMG, those really are book titles!

Okay, I'll bite. I can use some self-help. Please enter me in the contest du jour.

I was hoping to simply skip over V day this year, but that won't happen. Like I go to be Wednesday and wake up on Friday. But that probably won't happen so I have red wine and chocolate chip cookies on hand.

I just finished your book - and devil baby blanket here I come. Glad to see someone else who celebrates the VD with pink champagne! Hope yours is wonderful!

I may actually have a date for Valentine's Day this year (first time in 2 years since my divorce), but if it falls through, I will need all the self-help I can get so sign me up!

KJ

Laurie, your book arrived in my postbox this morning, and I'm about a third through it already.
Lovin' it!

I'm not so much into the self helpy these days, but I would definitely read most of those titles before passing them on to my work colleage who needs them way more than I do.

I already have your book, but I know quite a few personality disordered individuals and definitely need some astrological tips for hot romance, so I'm in!

I always managed to be single for VD in college, so I started throwing "Poor me" parties for me and my single pals (male, female and otherwise)--and pretty soon, we made it a yearly thing. We were especially smug when we started to realize that WE "left-out" people were the ones actually having a good time that night while most of our dating buddies suffered through first VD angst or inflated expectation syndrome.
And after? A looong hot bath with a dirty novel and a box of chocolates (alone of course- chocolate is more fun when there's no guy around to notice with horror that his "petite flower" has snarfed the whole heart shaped box in one night!)

Hey, really now. Who couldn't use another helping of self-help? :) Count me in!

Hey, it just might save me a few trips to the library. ;)

Ha! No wonder I couldn't find any of these at B&N this weekend... you have them! :)

LAST!!!

Would lurve to be subjected to random drawing.

Oohwee. A Valentine's Day contest I could win!! And use!!

OMG I TOTALLY need these books!!!!! I might need the books more than I actually need a MAN.

I'm a conscientious valentines day objector! It's too much pressure. And I have issues with pink. Which I'm sure has significant meaning according to the self help gurus.

I love winning free stuff! I'm sure not all of those books apply to me, but still fun!

OK found your blog this weekend, and trust you me I really needed the laughs. Thanks bunches and I'll take all the additional self help I can get!

Happy early VD Laurie!!!

And...count me in. Those books look good.

I'll take all the help I can get:)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Broke up with my live-in boyfriend of 8 years just over a week ago. Have not stopped freaking out. Reading makes me calm; send me books, please!

Will you sign your book?! That would be awesome. I'll even send you home made chocolate chip cookies if you pick me. Pick me, pick me!!! It's 14 degrees where I live, I need all the knitting and crock pot and self-helpy book lovin that is out there!

Let's see...in the last 60 days:

I've left my abusive husband
Left my favorite shoes behind, now they have mysteriously "disappeared"
Had to euthanize my dog
Realized I'm not the "fun parent"
Gotten a new job with lots more pressure but a little bit more money
Started trying to find ME again
Am dreading V-Day as it was the only holiday where I ever actually got flowers and candy...feeling like it's pathetic to send them to myself

Yeah! I totally need those books! :)

Who can't use a little self helpyness now and then?? Sign me up!

Sign me up. I need all the help I can get. Or maybe I can trade them for chocolate.

Okay, how do you pronounce @$$#%\$?

Just askin'

Those books are hilarious! Love to have 'em!

Hee - I have my package of signed Cheetos in a place of honor on my top shelf. I think I definitely need that book about getting rid of the PDI, though. If I don't win, I may have to start buggin' my local library...

heeheehee. I thought the "Men Are $$#%/" was make-believe. Yikes. However, I think it can be countered (for a bit) with a few viewings of the fabulous movie in last week'w column; I CRIED at the clip you included, AT work. It was great...

Great stack of literature...pick me pick me :)

I'd be happy to share the prize, since I really just want YOUR book... and maybe the one with the title that you can't pronounce.

OK. I'm going to comment even though I never win anything. *pout* Well, not since Bingo in grad school. Of course, back then I had a real love life as well. *sigh*

All I really want is the signed copy. The rest, well, we have a LOVELY fireplace! ;)

Oh my goodness...you are way too hysterical for words! I had to put my hand over my mouth so I wouldn't laugh too hard. My boss is trying to work just behind me so I have to act like I am as well.

I am working...I'm working on reading one of my all time favorite blogs!

I don't know if I need anymore self-help, I means self medication seems to be so much more fun. I do know that I need YOUR book!

Much VD-ness to you,
D

I am liking the idea (and title - though it's rather long) of your new self-help book. :)

Oh man! I want to win! Even though I have Laurie's book and I've never been divorced!!

Too funny - I just really want a signed copy of your book, but I'll be glad to rifle through the other books and see if I can't be "self-helpy" on myself! :o) I have "lurked" for a long time. Finally getting up enough guts to comment a few times in the last few months or so. It was the 80's video last week that finally got me. Corey Hart and his sunglasses at night was who made my heart sing and I will forever be a Journey/Steve Perry woman! Anyway, I love your blog/posts and look forward to snorting my sweetened iced tea through my nose as I read your posts! Have a great day!

oh my. so much self help in one small house. please sign me up. i have great need of the self helpiness... not for me of course. for a "friend."

In all my years of single-dom, I believe this is the first that I've found it annoying. Oh well, at least the Astrology book may give me some hope:-)

I recently borrowed your book from the library and love it. I'd totally love to have a copy of my own. Though my story is a bit different, I relate to so much of it, and I am glad you shared.

By the way my kids have been enjoying playing 31 and it has renewed our love of games. However it's hard to keep knitting when I am required to play so many games!

I am of course flagrantly disregarding your instruction not to enter if I don't want a big heap help (your book, yes; the others, not so much), but I think you'll forgive me when you follow this link to the true spirit of Valentine's Day.
http://vd.meish.org/

Trust me. These e-cards, you will want to send.

AH HA HA HA HA.

Oh wait, crap, I don't want 8 self helpy books. Or is that seven self helpy books and one nobel laureate candidate book about life, love, and uh, cat hair?

btw, even when I WAS in a relationship on VD (heh), which incidentally hardly ever happen (what, do they run away immediately before and after, avoiding The Day like the Plague?) it kinda sucked.

"Say goodbye to your PDI" sounds JUST like the book I need to off my seriously off BF. I just got done reading both your wonderful book and this one titled "They F*** You Up" by Oliver James which goes into, among other things, Personality Disorder. In fact, I may just run to the bookstore today and have a look!

Comments are open?

But...this time I have nothing cute to say about today's blog entry.

Oh well.

I cant wait to buy me some Day-After Chocolate. I wont get to have my VD date till sunday anyways. I can get my boyfriend a VD themed stuffed animal for cheap on friday (or saturday, if there's anything left)

The Pizza guy...yeah, I can relate. In my own going crazy phase, I told it all to my hairdresser...and actually went out with him on a date....EUUUU...ick, ick, ick, big mistake. during lunch (to which he wore a shirt unbuttoned down to there, all the better to see his big gaudy metal pendant jewelry (OMG!), he proceeded to "interview" me...what???did I say I wanted to be his live-in housekeeper with benefits...when did I say that! for the next 10 days or so he called me morning, noon and night to schedule another date...AS if!!! Meek little me finally shouted into the phone: "Don't call me ever again, never, never call me again!" I've learned that if I must cry, then cry on shoulders that belong to persons I know will not try to take advantage of "the crazy lady." Happy VD to all women everywhere who have found their way to independence...and to those who have not... perhaps especially to those who have not:))

I never sobbed to the pizza dude. Just absolutely everyone else I came in contact with. I'd like a set.

I would love to have your book!!! The others too, but yours especially.

One word that says VD sucks......

Psychomom

I absolutely love the title of the book. I would so buy this book.

Oooo pick me, pick me! I'm still trying to find life after divorce. Is it true Valentines Day was made up by Hallmark for the slow season?

PS. Thankful it's only a crazy "phase". I was afraid it was permanent!

Love the blog - look forward to it everyday (and photos of Paul Magers whenever possible)!

thanks for another laugh! sign me up!

OMG, I am snorting with laughter at this post today! Love the self-helpyness, totally did not know there was so much of it in book form! I am a fan of the peanut butter cups, I will definitely be indulging in that little treat!! And maybe some hot guy tv, a la Bravo's Make Me a Supermodel! Total guilty pleasure for your VD!

Of course, I PERSONALLY don't need any of these books (except, perhaps, yours, which I already have). I just want to make that REALLY REALLY clear. Nope, no problems WHATSOEVER over here. But I have friends....

Sign me up! I need a little humor on V-Day :)

I never really celebrated VD, but naturally since this is my first case of VD since my husband moved out I'm sure it will be extra-special. It has been 52 days since he said he didn't “respect” me anymore. (I was a Southern married librarian with two cats; it doesn't get any more respectable than that, does it?) It has been 43 days since he said he appreciated everything that I was willing to do to save our marriage, but oh, any changes he was willing to make? Yeah, not so much. It has been 31 days since he moved out. It has been 24 days since our house sold and I had about 4 days to find a new place, pack the entire house and move. It has also been 24 days since he sent out the email to his entire address book telling everyone that we had split up. That includes MY best friend from the fifth grade. But I wasn't carbon copied on the message, so I had NO IDEA.

In the midst of all that my cat got really sick, was diagnosed with diabetes and I've had to learn to give her insulin injections every day. (Not that that has anything to do with VD, but it has been a lousy month!)

But Laurie, your book has given me hope and gotten me through the worst times. In the morning, I look in the mirror and say to myself, “You can do this. Aunt Purl has shown you that it's possible.”

I'm not saying I'm in the most need of some self-helpiness. After all, I haven't shared all this with my pizza guy....yet. But I will say that if you do the ugly cry in Starbucks, they will give you free coffee and a pastry to make you go away. (Not that this happened to me or anything...)

How about the 7 layer dips of highly successful people?

If I win I will spread the love! I'll distribute the books amongst my VD-challenged friends (along with chocolatey goodness, of course)...

Oh please oh please oh please.

One can never have too much self-helpiness!

Oh please!

YAY for self help!! I'm soo having pizza and sappy cry your eyes out movies on Thursday.

I am too cheap to buy books, but I would love to take yours.

Half priced chocolate..yummmmm

VD - ha!

that is a lot of self helpiness. Crazy amounts of helpiness.

I think it's hilarious that you're willing to sign anything. I totally would feel that way if I wrote a book. Actually, no-one has ever asked me to sign something but I suspect I would anyway. It's how I roll!!!

Love your blog! Even more than all the half-price sweets on Friday...

Gotta love this one. I by far need the self help books. A guy I was dating and I had the "we just don't click" talk last night. Yeah great timing for the ole Valentine's day huh? I knew the day was coming but my god why couldn't the boy have done it last week when all the other boys were? I just turned 30, divorced and a mom. The boys are really lining up around the block. ;-) Please pass the wine! Thanks!

I have your book :) but would love a signed one!! and the rest look interesting. You are the best!

I soooo need the hot romance book for VD. Wait... that didn't sound right.

I love reading your blog! So also hope to score your book. But don't worry, I'm not a sore loser, I'll buy the book if I don't win it. Wait, the voices in my head are saying... oh yeah, I guess we could use the PDI book?

I'm a self help book novice, unless you count how to clean your house - I have quite a few of those!!

Luckily this is a VD that you know when it's going to clear up!

I already have a copy of your book but a signed one would have to go on the special shelf for signed books in the bookcase.

I knew I caught VD from somewhere...
I, for one, cannot wait until Friday - This girl needs chocolate!!

Yikes, I'd better comment while I can, without even saying anything sensible.

I already have your book, loved it! But I also would love all those other ones too! I hope I win! (Crosses fingers!)

I need those books now. So send 'em over!

Okay, I'm in! I need to move forward with my life and that pile of books might be just the thing needed.

I've been separated for 5 years and I am still not divorced. That should tell you how much I need them.

There's a better name for VD: It's called Singles Awareness Day! Go to a bar with your girlfreinds and show off your awareness to the single men. :)

Sign me up for the self-helpy book contest! Especially the autographed copy of your book...but I can use all the others, too.

That pile of books is enough to scare away the average dude. I could really use It's a Guy Thing to understand the dudes at work.

Hey Psychomom! Are you going to change your name to Psychograndmom when the time comes?? Just asking.

I need all the help I can get. Please pick my number! Otherwise it will be up to the lemoncello and vodka (with a splash of Pom for the antioxidants) to get me through this depressing February week.

So going for the "say goodbye to your PDI." Thank you.

All right, now that we've got that out of the way... excellent title. As far as I can see any book that has 1) a number under eleven and 2) a common character flaw or virtue in the title is bound to spend eons on the bestseller list. If you can work important metaphorical foods and/or God in there (which latter I note you have failed to do -- you might want to work on that), so much the better.

Btw my local CVS broke out in severe VD symptoms on December 27. Apparently they think we need seven weeks to brace ourselves for this "holiday," which if you ask me is overdoing things just a bit.

I want to win. Pick ME!!! :D

I'm just curious, why did you start closing comments? You probably mentioned it in an earlier post but I missed it.

funny... but not so funny when your spouse is seriously personality disordered... send help books ASAP!!!

Pick ME! :)

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Sign me up!

As I'd really like to say goodbye to my personality disordered roommate, but can't until the lease is up, I could really use that book to stay sane in the meantime. I already have your book. It would be great to win another copy I could give away. Thanks!

Okay, I want those books. Particularly the one on the PDI. I had a coworker who used to refer to those with, uh, "challenging" personalities as "PDI".

Haaaaa. That's a most...interesting selection. I believe I need an entry.

Also, this is my first Annoyed With V-Day year, and man, does it start early. I never knew. And grumbling through every store is so unflattering.

If you draw my name... please send to Gussie! My heart goes out to her! Hang in there Girl!

I have a few friends who could SO BENEFIT from those books!

Oh, I need some more self help. Sign me up!
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MJ above, I thought you said you needed some Porn for the antioxidants! :)

Also, ya'll (I spelt that rite, din't I?) better check your store shelves - I discovered over the weekend that most stores around here are already ditching the VD goodies for Easter (since Egg day is so early this year). I had to try 4 places before I got my Conversation Hearts fix!

I need all the help I can get, self-administered or otherwise.

Awesomeface.

Liz R, WTF do you know something I don't! When the time comes I suppose I'll have to change it to....

"psychogranny" or "abuelaloca"

Happy VD! Love is all we need--no, wait--chocolate and wine and self help books are all we need. Maybe if I win, you will sign some chocolate and send that too!

oh me please:)) I've been wanting to get your book and I know several people who could benfit from the others in the list:))

Oh Laurie... If anyone needs help, it's me... I think right now I have the most dysfunctional life of everyone I know. I'm stuck at a dead end job... I'm married to a great guy, but don't know how to tell him and show him that... I have a lying problem and can't seem to stop... I am a compulsive buyer, and am always broke, but act like I always have money... I sit at home and read books and knit instead of being with my friends reading books and knitting... I'm so afraid to leave my house for fear of ruining what's left of my marriage... Does this sound desperate enough yet???

I love the half price chocolates!!!!

I already have your book, not ready for a divorce, but know someone who could really use them

oh intranet god, pick me, pick me! cathy

Happy VD to everyone - I'm not big into it, but I think it makes the stores pretty after all the red and green of Christmas! And who in the world couldn't use a little self help now and then!

A Contest and self helpy books...I can not refrain. Even if I can't use them, I sure I must have some community members who can. Because come on, it's February in Alaska, officially the crazy month. Thank god it's a short month! An VD......that's funny.

I love it! I think that Valentine's Day should be all about chocolate and the love part should be from people in your life like your mother or sisters. My sister likes to remind me that its not Valentines Day .. but Valentine's Day Massacre. That is her way of getting of the man part of it. Hehehehe

Count me in please........

Okay, let's have some self help!

WOW - that is quite the collection of self help. I LOVE IT!

hi, i need help. sign me up. =)

To answer your question: I'm from the Netherlands and I do think the self-help stuff is less popular here. Still quite popular, though.

Can I enter as well? Thanks. Best wishes to everybody else who's feeling detached from the commercialism this year... we are all special people, and we can recognise that without being disappointed at not getting gifts/getting completely thoughtless gifts that we have to be grateful for!

You are so darned cute.

From now on, I'm going to call it "VD." Thank you.

Ugh! I absolutely despise Valentine's Day! Although half price chocolate does sound good....

Love your blog by the way!

I love self-help books!

ME! Choose me! I need lots and lots of self help! XO

Sign me up!

I admit it, I need those books. And now, maybe, randomly I can win (I did need to make a comment to qualify, right? kinda like the gotta buy the lottery ticket to win thing)

I'd love a signed copy of your book. Please, me!

I'm a mess AND I like books!

Well, I am not divorced, nor have I ever been, and I am not even married. But some of those titles are too funny to pass up. So I will throw my hat in. If I were to win, I would use them to have a little fun with my partner's head. I think you would approve.

That's a whole lotta self help...and looking around I could use some.

Oh pick me, Pick Me. I am a senior lost love affair ol lady, who has given up on men.

I think I need the "Let's Face It" book. My husband has good qualities but romance? Ain't one of them. In five years, the only flowers I've ever gotten...I can count ALL gifts on one hand...were given after he massively pissed me off by refusing to acknowledge Mother's Day. Then he tried to make up for it by treating the deck, with a spray thing-a-ma-bob, which was nice except he also killed everything in my flower beds while he was at it. So I got flowers delivered to my work.

Maybe people wouldn't be PDIs if they ate more Reese cups...or drank more wine...your pick...

I would like the books - even though I already have the crazy aunt purl one. I have an autographed copy!

Love the stack of books. I work at a university and, based on the students I've dealt with so far today, I would start a lending library with those books!

COMMMENTS STILL OPEN?! ANY CHANCE YOU'LL ENTER ME INTO THE DRAWING?! WHOO-HOOO!

Oooooo

One of my favorite quotes from my friend..
"Valentine's Day and Veneral Disease both begin with VD... Coincidence?"

hehehe

Hi Laurie.
Sign me up for the books drawin'.
I lost both of my best friends (1 of 27 years) within 5 months of each other. Been divorced for over 21 years and still lookin' for love (probably in all the wrong places:) oh well.
This year is going to be MUCH better! by faith. Thanks for always putting a smile on my face!

love you...and I don't need a book to tell me that Men are $#&*&%*(.
But enter me in the contest anyway!

love you...and I don't need a book to tell me that Men are $#&*&%*(.
But enter me in the contest anyway!

LOVING the working title for your new book... too too funny; kind of in the realm of that 'Nuke a Gay Whale for Jesus' bumper sticker!!

I saw a "Crazy Cat Lady" Action Figure at the candy store today when I was out getting....ummmm....knitting supplies. It was right by to the Sigmund Freud, Jesus, and Lunch Lady Action Figures. I thought of you. I even considered buying it but I thought it would make me seem like a stalker. Hey, you didn't want a stalker for VD did you?

Just kidding! Anyway, I would love being entered in your draw, as it appears I do need some help, self or otherwise.

Leoal

I can think of other people to give each of those books to. Me need help? Not if I can give advice to others, I don't.

Ooh, self-help. Yes, please, I would like some of that. Will they tell me how to stop lounging at 4.30pm in my pajamas, browsing the internet? Cause I could use that kind of help...

Umm, I'm also a first-time commenter. Love your blog. My local bookstore has been sold out of your book for ever, so I'm very annoyed with them. (Also, I'm in Canada, is that ok?)

That's one huge pile of self-help! I'd love to be entered in the draw... just for the signed copy of your book that I might win :o)

Valentine's Day alone isn't so bad this year: I have some lovely pink and purple tulips, a bottle of Prosecco, a sumptuous bath bomb from Lush (a Christmas present from a friend), some candles (presents from my ex's parents for Christmas 2006, not that it particularly matters) and a nice meal from Marks and Spencer in the fridge. I intend to leave work as early as I can manage and go home to have an evening treating someone special - i.e. me!

Well, what an interesting combination of books.

With one ex-husband and four cats, I need all of the help I can get!

selfhelpy stuff not always needed, but always appreciated! i like reading this stuff even when i'm not having a crisis of some sort...

Can I just have your book?

hey- i don't think you should name your next book the long title that shortens down to WMMCSTAMCSWGMTSTSLOHSWD because just reading it the one time made me laugh so hard i peed a little, and that hardly ever happens. So with all the gottagogottago right now commercials, that's not something you should impose upon the reading public.
but i hope you have a great vd

Just yesterday my son was telling me how stupid he thought Valentine's Day is, and that it was a ploy to sell cards and red stuffed animals. I had to remind him of the reason I love it, the same one you cited, cheap chocolate the day after. Last year, I got a dozen hand-crafted, exquisitely made chocolate truffles for $3.99! It was a week after VD, not a day, but well worth living through all the red & pink ephemera.

We have a party here, too - Bitter, it's called - for singles on V Day. Haven't been, but I love the name.

Happy VD Laurie!

Yeah! Sign me up.

read your blog everyday. well, every day there is something new. <3 the mistake-rib stitch.

i could get in on this drawing! who doesn't need a little self help, right?!

yum...free stuff...! Almost as good as a trip to the yarn store...yum. Yarn. Oops, gotta go!

Happy early VD! Just delurking to say that I loved your book - especially your comment that "...there is not enough fried chicken on the planet to soothe a broken woman". I'd love to be entered in the drawing - I could use whatever self-helpyness is available re. relationships!

Laurie, you have got to see this. It has nothing to do with VD or the books. It reminded me of the blouses that you showed us. http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/02/diane-fugger.html

Arg, I'd totally forgotten it was that time of February. Better stock up on beer.

Oh wow!!! This might just be the only chance I ever have to have a signed copy of your book!! Unless you are signing in Niagara somewhere. On the Canadian side. :0)I could use the personality disordered one on my hub's ex. That's for sure! Interesting group of books. I'd love to win!

But. Chocolate? Cheetos? Cat hair?

My friend is recently divorced and we've found that the best cure-all is a bottle of wine (for each of us!) and some nice dark chocolate. Seriously, when you're all boozed and chocolate-ed up, who needs a man! :P

Ooh! I love your blog, and still haven't gotten around to buying your book. Being short on cash sucks :(
Maybe I'll win =D

Oh, to win a sign book. thanks for the contest!!!

I have your book, love it!!!

I'm not divorced but I have a life long friend who has been through two divorces and I'd love to pass them along to her if they could be of any help.

Smoooches,
~dani

Happy early VD-may you be blest with much chocolate on Friday!!! I know I will be!!! You can't beat the day-after sales!! (Who needs a guy anyway-you can pick out just what you want and eat it without any guilt!!)

Oh this is TOO FUNNY.......... love those titles... the top one best..hehe!

Well, as someone who is not looking forward to VD...I'll be an excellent home to your stack!

Me and my dogs will hang out without any problems that night...just waiting for what we are not sure, but I'm sure the 6 of us will be doing great!!

Amy

I normally wouldn't post to try to get these books (except for your own, of course) but I just today, not three hours ago, discovered that my husband has been looking at porn on the computer. *&*!#@$)&#%! I really need these books right now, if only just to throw at him and so he can have some reading material as he spends the next month on the couch.

I work for Hallmark and I am utterly convinced that they invent all of these stupid holidays to sell more crap at the drug stores. Better stock up on your 'Administrative Professionals Day' cards now!!! Ugh. I too am divorced, but have to keep the ex around (like a bad VD hehe) because of my kids. Perhaps I could self help him out of his personality disorder.

Hi, sign me up!! I need all the help I can get.... If you sign my phone book you'll be the 392 person in it! Daughter was once issued by the town phone company a photocopied page of all of their customers and their numbers, so I have a really big book compared to hers!!!

I'm pretty sure several people DID congratulate me on my divorce. I already have your book, but sign me up for the others.

Ahh, I don't have to worry much about vd. Our wedding anniversary is just a week before it, so we do that all lovey instead!
Re: if everyone else reads as much self-help-ness as the americans - can't say that this little Aussie has ever read one! Maybe I should start... ? Have a great day!

Hey Laurie! Please do not enter me in the contest...I do not want any bad juju on my marriage!
Just wanted to tell you that my anniversary with my high school boyfriend was on VD. I am in love with the abbreviation and now I can think of the day with a laugh rather than a shudder of regret and the memory of peppermint schnapps.

Ah, Singles' Awareness Day. Up until about 4 weeks ago, I was going to be having a Valentine's Day with boyfriend of...well, but V Day it would have been 4 months. But alas...All I have to look forward to in the love department are hugs from family and friends and a rousing run of the Vagina Monologues. Bring on the self-help!

You have just gotta enter me. I really need secrets to HOT Romance.

Heck yeah! I'm all for the self-help for VD. I've got soo many selves that need helping that it can't hurt! :P

No really. And score for the reeses hearts the day after, I LOVE those things. :D

Not as much as the reeses eggs though...yay Easter!

Yay free self help!

I really enjoy your blog and am particulary interested in the PDI book- don;t think we have that here in England.... (the book that is, not PDI- I think I have gone out with a few of those!)

winning your book would be prize enough!

Dude, I loves me some self help. I need all I can get!

Nobody needs help more than me. "Self" may not be my best option, but why not give it a shot?

I definitely want to win!! Self-help books are very amusing for neurotic psychology students.
This was my answer to a quiz that I recently took:
10. Do you believe in Cupid?
A little winged man that runs around in a diaper and stabs people with arrows so they'll fall in love? noo....
Psychology would say it is misattribution of arousal, in which the explanation of the physiological symptoms of arousal is switched from the real source [in this case, the arrow wound] to some external source [the nearest person].
teeheehee!

I'm going to eat a lot of sour patch kids on Thursday!

Count me in.

Sign me up.

Miss Bobtoes though

is there a book for funny valentines who visit 3 bars in as many hours, invite other untethered VD friends to a post-VD party at one's apartment only to get violently ill from too many margaritas, and wake up to find out that best friend who took care of you all night got his car towed off fountain blvd? cuz i could really use one of those....

My divorce was final 28 days ago, I have 4 cats and a dog, and Pinot Noir is my good, good friend. Count me in!!

self help = strange

Wishing you happiness however you choose to spend your VD!

I don't care if I win or not, but I just have to submit the title of my favorite life-after-divorce book: "If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?"

Happy VD, Laurie!

I PERSONALLY do not need the books, but I have a lot of FRIENDS who do. ahem

Has anyone written a book entitled "Help Yourself to Self Help"? I love Debbi's contribution--too funny! Happy VD, Laurie, we'll all get through it somehow.

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Where were you when I was in the running for Queen of Dysfunctional Relationships? I've gotten better but can always use some self help.

Let's see if lucky-lightning strikes twice -- sign me up, CAP!

Let's see if lucky-lightning strikes twice -- sign me up, CAP!

And here I thought my getting tickets to go see Wayne Newton on the 15th was the best VD gift ever..!

I'd MUCH prefer a signed copy of your book. The rest I can sell on ebay for some yarn $$.

JUST kidding!

(Imagine Mr. Las Vegas himself singing)
"Dan-ke Shane"
Yes, I know it's spelled wrong, but it's how HE sings it!!

I think I know all the reasons men are &^%^%, but it could be nice to learn a few tips. :) I figure since I have a dog, I knit and I live in a basement, a little help would be welcome.

Until I achieve enlightenment, I shall continue to self-medicate with dark chocolate Lindor truffles. (Although this could be why I resist help!)

Bahaha Laurie, this has to be one of the funniest, most-charming blogs I've stumbled across in a long, long time. I can most certainly appreciate your fresh perspective on VD, and anyone with four cats is a friend of mine! (I have 2 British Blues myself and love them to death) And as far as Vday goes, for me, there is nothing better than a warm, intimate dinner at home (as laid back as possible, in my opinion!) I just believe that it is so, soo important to have a day where you focus on your loved one and letting them know how much they mean to you. I just so happen to have the inside scoop on a fantastic contest about love and expressing love going on right now that you ladies should definitely take a quick peek at sometime; I work for Dove Chocolates (perfect for this time of year, huh? haha) and we have this contest going on right now called the "Expressions of Love" contest, where we're basically asking ladies like you to submit their most creative ideas for letting someone know you love them...and get this, the winner will receive a 5.58cts "Baby's Breath" diamond necklace worth $21,000!! THAT would definitely be a nice trinket to open on Vday ;) I'd definitely love to have some ladies like you who really do care about Valentine's day enter, so feel free to go to http://www.mydovechocolate.com and leave your most creative submission!
We also have these ridiculously adorable customizable boxes of chocolates available for Vday this year, so if you're trying to think of cute gift ideas, definitely take a look ;)
Thank you ladies, hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day, and let me know if you enter! :0) Hope you're wonderful Laurie, can't wait to read more!!

I think I know all the reasons men are &^%^%, but it could be nice to learn a few tips. :) I figure since I have a dog, I knit and I live in a basement, a little help would be welcome.

Until I achieve enlightenment, I shall continue to self-medicate with dark chocolate Lindor truffles. (Although this could be why I resist help!)

Long time reader but it's my first time to comment. My real knitting project was your roll-brim hat for my son and he still wears it almost every day.

Please don't let Best Online Casino win the books. Pick me instead.

How much self help could America need? Probably more than we can find in all those books combined. That's why you have to get started on your second one, someone is going to need it very soon.

Cindi

Oh, self-helpy goodness. Sign me up.

Liza {who's another divorced woman with 4 cats (and two kids)and yes, it's totally sexy}

What a great post! Oh course I've probably written the unofficial book on most of these but hey, a lady can never pass up a little help for herself, can she?

Wow. That's a lot of self-help in one place. Impressive collection, really.

I myself am particularly intrigued by the "holiday"-colored M&Ms. Red, pink, and white packs? Cute. The all green pack? Downright ridiculous. (Why do I hate America so much?)

What about the book called, "I love you but if you give me sale chocolate for my birthday which falls right after VD I will be forced to hurt you"?

Seriously, that'd better not happen to me....again.

Sign me up; I can use all the help I can get. Now if there was also some de-cluttering info in there too (but that wouldn't really be VD-related unless a hot new romance fizzled b/c of not being able to have him over. Hmm).

And I know you said Ravelry was too dangerous of a potential time drain for you (or at least that's how I read it, I could certainly be wrong) but I posted some pics and directions for making a hat to go with your Magic scarf! It's on the CAP fans group under patterns, or look under Suef on Ravelry.

Count me in! I could use a little sass and help this VD!

What a pile of books, enough to cure anything. Happy VD and love your blog. If you are supposed to knit your hair into a garment to bind your love to you, anyone who receives a knit from me will surely find my cats irresistible.

ooh, ooh, my self needs some help!

Happy VD to all!

The books would take care of my Christmas list for this year. Except for your book. Already have it, but not a signed copy!
As an aside-if all these women are so independent, and don't need a man, why do they biatch so much about VD? Get over it already!

There's a book called Men Are @#$%^?! Brilliant!

Twenty-four years ago an ex-boyfriend dumped me on VD in a letter where he wrote: "God has commanded me to break off our dating relationship." He must be the subject of the @$$H%/¢$ book. It still pi$$es me off.

I just about SOMD when I read your post title... I am a child of the 70s and remember the "old" meaning of VD!

OH what a hoot! On a day when I really needed it, a Monday. I started reading the post thinking "what is the deal with V.D." duh,,,then it dawned on me for Valentine's Day. My day will consist of getting my favorite baby (that would be my Golden Retriever Sadie) a VD bone and cookie! WOO HOO!
margi

oh me please. because i would read yours first and then all the others, because i am possessing a man who i do love muchly but understand not so much who wants to marry me and i need to get ready and be prepared for all that relationship stuff that i am not so good with. hi, i would much rather be watching the tv than nicely folding your dress shirt for you to take to work and could you please stop singing so loud because i CANNOT hear the TV and THE BIGGEST LOSER IS ON. jeez! (his shirt and singing obviously, not yours.) so please pick me, pick me!!

Huh, those look to be just the right size to prop up my knitting table. It's been a bit wobbly. Aside from the signed copy, of course, which would have a nice flashy spot on one of my 5 large bookshelves stuffed with books.

HAPPY-Drinking-Wine-and-Talking-to-Your-Cat-Like-She's-Your-Soulmate-DAY! Oh wait...that's what I'm gonna do...

Bossy has been married three trillion years and still she hides from VD.

You may be a bit too late. I actually have a Valentine this year.

Of course, there's still plenty of disfunction in my life. You might as well bring it on.

Crazy Aunt Purl, I am in DESPERATE need of self help. In this last year alone, I have bought a new house which is built on an Indian burial ground and has brought me MUCH bad luck, including:
1. My 'feral' cats whom I had spayed/neutered escaped after I spent 3 months studying/researching/trying to acclimate them to the new home, but not before one of the bit me and clawed my entire right leg, causing an infection.
2. I went into anaphlactic shock from the antibiotics my doc gave me for the infection.
3. 3 weeks later, my 16 year old kitty who was my one true love died suddenly, and of no apparent cause.
4. My 11 year old kitty who thought my 16 year old kitty was her mom, got so depressed she quit eating and eventually had to be put on a feeding tube for 9 weeks, but now I am thankful to say she is thriving, and has taken on her former 'Mom's persona, sleeping on my pillow every night and trying to sneak under the covers to snuggle with me.
5. Then, my 75 year old mother moved in with me because she needs someone to care for her fulltime.
6. My 5 year old son got stuck inside a 'crane' game. Really, it's true.
7. One of my best friends said goodbye to me to make me oh so sad...for months, even still.
8. My mother is now wearing Depends after having peed all over my house.
9. My counselor says I should give Mom the boot, but I don't have the heart.
10. There's a lot more I could include, but did I mention I often drink wine on my back porch? And, I can crochet!

Thank you for your blog. I've thoroughly enjoyed being part of the ride and I wish you the absolute best!

Happy almost VD! For once I will have a happy VD! My husband is home! :)

Oh! Got my signed book from the daily drawings about a week ago. Mailman was holding it hostage, but I'd gladly pay a few bucks for it ;)

OMG! The PDI book is a must have! Except I am already consumed with guilt 'cause I did manage to rid my life of a SIL with serious PD by divorcing my husband. Then she up and dies! No, seriously!

I didn't wish her dead...honestly, I didn't! But I did have a passing thought after the trip to court that now I wouldn't have to deal with her ever again. And two months later, she died. I'm afraid it's made me some wicked karma that will come back some day to haunt.

The books would take care of my Christmas list for this year. Except for your book. Already have it, but not a signed copy!
As an aside-if all these women are so independent, and don't need a man, why do they biatch so much about VD? Get over it already!

How about a book with the title, "Crazy Aunt Purl's Secrets to Hot Romance Because Men are $%#^&* with PDIs and Should be Divorced Because They Are Not In Love With You, Just With Their Guy Thing." That should hold up the side of anyone's coffee table.

I totally thought that some of those titles were bogus .. just you writing for the fun of it! .. I wouldn't have believed you .. good thing you put in a picture! (And if I do win .. be sure you sign the other books in the other author's names! ... LOL!)

Ok, thanks for all the entries, a lucky winner will be posted tomorrow!!