urk, it's that day again O.O
They call it Valentine's Day.
Some call it Single's Awareness Day (SAD, because even if most people won't admit it, they are).
Back in my MSU college days, we called it the "firing squad" day... because anyone who wore red or pink on that day would be the butt of pranks, as if it was uncool to be happily involved with someone on that day. Even couples wore white, black, or any dark color. Just not the official color of the day. Nonconformity, yes, we learned it.
I think it's a grossly overhyped holiday myself.
If you love someone, show it all year round.
Well, the flower vendors are happy, the restaurant owners are happy, the greeting card companies are happy, the newspapers, the TV networks, the radio stations are happy.
Then tomorrow, back to hurting people's feelings again. Ah, the hypocrisy.
Maybe people set aside this day to vent all those "loving feelings"... leaving the rest of the year free to be mean to everybody. Hey, I'm grumpy everyday, not just today. (Bah, humbug.)
Yes, humbug.
This is the one day that is never special for me. But then I've never celebrated it. I've always spent it alone. Even when I had boyfriends, I always seemed to lose them before February rolled around.
Bah, humbug this jinxed day.
I'd sleep it away except that I'm still at the office, getting ready to go home and pack the one hundred and one things I'd need for a week-long out of town trip, and we're leaving first thing tomorrow morning.
February 14, 2009.
Some call it Single's Awareness Day (SAD, because even if most people won't admit it, they are).
Back in my MSU college days, we called it the "firing squad" day... because anyone who wore red or pink on that day would be the butt of pranks, as if it was uncool to be happily involved with someone on that day. Even couples wore white, black, or any dark color. Just not the official color of the day. Nonconformity, yes, we learned it.
I think it's a grossly overhyped holiday myself.
If you love someone, show it all year round.
Well, the flower vendors are happy, the restaurant owners are happy, the greeting card companies are happy, the newspapers, the TV networks, the radio stations are happy.
Then tomorrow, back to hurting people's feelings again. Ah, the hypocrisy.
Maybe people set aside this day to vent all those "loving feelings"... leaving the rest of the year free to be mean to everybody. Hey, I'm grumpy everyday, not just today. (Bah, humbug.)
Yes, humbug.
This is the one day that is never special for me. But then I've never celebrated it. I've always spent it alone. Even when I had boyfriends, I always seemed to lose them before February rolled around.
Bah, humbug this jinxed day.
I'd sleep it away except that I'm still at the office, getting ready to go home and pack the one hundred and one things I'd need for a week-long out of town trip, and we're leaving first thing tomorrow morning.
February 14, 2009.