This is for all the single people thinking that love has left them dry. Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup, you never know until you try.
-America
Well, well, well. It is once again that day I have dreaded for so many years. Since 2007 to be exact. St. Valentine's Day.
I don't hate VD, I never have. It's just the pressure this holiday puts on a girl. I mean jeez! Do I really need a date, a bouquet of roses, a boyfriend and chocolate and stuff? Being single in cities like Seattle and L.A. I always had great friends to go out with. It didn't matter to me that I was with friends for dinner and wine. It was beautiful. I love my friends. Who better to spend LOVE day with? Gone are the days of elementary school when you bought a box of 24 VD cards, stuffed them in an envelope with some candy hearts and dropped in your classmates craft day mail box. VD meant candy, cupcakes, musical chairs or a pinata in class with your teacher. That was so freaking fun. What the hell happened? Oh, I know, I turned 39, didn't get married, didn't have kids, moved to the south for a great job and a failed relationship. Silly me. I grew up.
Now I'm in a strange city in the dirty south. I don't know a soul. ( This is my fault. I've been a stuck up bitch. I need to remember to change this ASAP. ) I have two cats and I'm determined not to stay home with them, watching a movie, swallowing a bottle of wine and drowning in my sorrow. Poor me. Nope. Not going to happen.
I'm taking myself out to a movie (I'm torn between Warm Bodies and Beautiful Creatures) and then I am stopping at a local restaurant, sitting at the bar, ordering the VD special for one and eating all three courses and sipping all three glasses of wine with me. Me just purely. (Brendan Benson song that you should totally check out.) I'm excited. I'm sure me and myself have so much to talk about tonight after the movie. Who knows, maybe the bartender will be cute and flirty too.
Anyway, Happy Valentine's Day.
