Best Valentine's Day Gift Ideas

OK guys, it's that time of year again. No, not the Superbowl; that's over, get over it already. Your team lost anyway. No, what I'm talking about here is Valentine's Day. That means being nice to your sweetie and showing her you appreciate her.

Flowers are good and chocolates will get you a smile, but jewelry will seal the deal. Flowers will wilt and candy will make its way through her digestive tract, but imagine how special she'll feel every time she straps on that pearl necklace that you bought her.

From what I've been told, diamonds are a girl's best friend. I admit that I've never understood the concept but I'm thinking that's a genetic thing. Personally, I think that pearl earrings look more stylin'.

If you go with that, you might as well add a matching pearl bracelet. Not only is this kind of jewelry easier on the wallet than diamonds, but pearls are, yes, a renewable resource. They are created inside mollusks like oysters. When a grain of sand gets into the shell, the critter protects itself by covering it with layers of calcium carbonate. And viola! The jewel is born!

Oddly enough, this doesn't only happen with mollusks. Several years ago when I had an annual physical, the chest x ray revealed a "calcified nodule" in one of my lungs. So they did a cat scan to get a better picture; to make sure it wasn't cancer.

Sure enough, it was something that I must have inhaled at some point and my body responded by coating the dang thing. Strange but true! OK, that one's not up for sale, on eBay or anywhere else, so don't bother asking. I'm just glad that NObama wasn't in charge of my medical plan...

But for the fashionable ones, there are both freshwater and saltwater versions available and they even come in darker colors than the standard white. So go ahead, make your life happier by taking care of your sweetie!