I usually love Valentine's Day. As a hopeless romantic, I'm usually all for the hearts and flowers, chocolates and love songs, but for some reason this year, I just wasn't feelin' it. I can't pinpoint the exact reason. Perhaps it is that I haven't had one of my mom's strawberry jam-filled heart-shaped sugar cookies yet. Or maybe it's that I'm 22 and still single. Could it be the fact that I'm a helpless victim in a one-sided love affair? Or the fact that I'm the villain in another one-sided love affair? Who knows. It's probably a combination of all these things.
I had multiple date offers, and had accepted one. I was to go to a movie with my fabulous friend Shelly after work. But when I woke up yesterday morning, I just wasn't feelin' it. I didn't feel the greatest, and I had a list a mile long of things I needed to get done before my parents arrive this weekend. I had every intention of cancelling, but then I realized that if I was going to be miserable on this marvelously sappy day, the least I could do was make sure that those around me were at least having a good time! So... I went. And had a DANDY good time! Shelly also brought me a single rose and a box of chocolates to work earlier in the day, so that helped me get in the mood for celebration, too.
After the movie, I had one last Valentine to deliver. I had already delivered Helen's (she got a bottle of children's grape flavored cough/cold syrup, a bag of honey flavored cough drops, and three mini sharpies) and Shelly's (a box of theater-style M&Ms). So I stopped at Olive Garden on my way home to deliver my last Valentine to my dear friend Thomas. A bag of dark chocolate Hershey's kisses... and a hug (the real kind).
I then came home and finished off the remains of a half gallon of Blue Bunny White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie ice cream while watching the Valentine's episode of Glee. All in all... I guess I didn't really find a cure for the Valentine's Day Blahs, but at least I made an effort, right?
I must say sister I felt the same way this year! I usually don't like Valentine's Day anyway (because it competes with my birthday), but this year there was just something off. As with you maybe it was being single. Maybe it was wishing I wasn't. But the big thing for me was the GARBAGE! that went with the day. I didn't mind seeing all my friends get flowers, and rings, and things, but for every one cute thing there were like 5 RAUNCHY things to go with it. I don't need to hear about your sex life on facebook! It's no wonder the worlds in the shape it's in when love equals sex and chocolate!
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