Flipping February

I HATE February. The entire month just sucks. To begin with it only has 28 days. Why!? When the great powers that be were deciding where one month ends and the other begins why was February only left with 28 days when other months have 31? I don't understand the logic behind it.
Then there is that intriguing day we call "Groundhog Day." Who's bright idea was it to rely on a rodent to predict the amount of winter left in the season? Where minds really so simple "back in the day" that this was considered intelligent? And while we're on it... has the damn thing ever NOT seen his shadow? I'm nearly 25 and I can't think of one winter that the groundhog has not gone running back into his burrow. Of course if some human woke me up, drug me out of my warm bed only to be photographed by a hundred cameras... I'd run back into my house too. Hello!
And let's not forget the weather. With out fail, February is consistently one of the nastiest months. I live in Florida and while we don't have the snow that they get everywhere else... it does get rather cold. And we can always be certain that February will be our coldest month. Why? Mother Nature couldn't find a way to evenly distribute the shitty weather between the other "winter" months? She has to save it all up and then dump it on us in one clean sweep. Then it takes the next 4 months just to get out from under it. By the time things start to thaw we've totally missed the beauty of spring and the sweltering heat has hit us like a rock.
But, my all time favorite part of February, the part that keeps me waiting from one year to the next... is Valentine's day. I curse the person who came up with this holiday. Not only is it a day for the greeting card industry to make a quick buck (like they didn't do well enough with Christmas?) it's a day all people lucky enough to have a significant other rubs it in the faces of us who haven't been so fortunate. Did it ever occur to them that maybe we're still looking for our Mr. or Mrs. Right?
Ok, that's my gripe for the day. For all of you who love February... you suck. For those who are with me in my annoyance - have a beer on me.