"Aside from today, it's been... relaxed. We've had time to recuperate a little from November, and from some of the other problems. Is Varian doing alright?" she said, wanting very much to focus on things not herself. "And is it? We're definitely going to need to make sure to celebrate that somehow. Birthdays are wonderful things, after all, and that one's close to when people give out chocolates isn't it?"

She wasn't going to insult valentine's day, not with her girlfriend. Other holidays sure, because Earth holidays were weird, but not that one.