Single Awareness Day
It comes around once a year to taunt and remind me. “Jon, you are single!.” Fact is, I always do the exact same thing on this day, as I would on any other normal day, which may or may not be unfortunate for me. On occasion I may get all the ’single’ guys together to do something ‘fun’ which, never actually ends up being fun but at least it is something to do I suppose.
The greatest reminder as this day comes around, is the fact that I have actually managed to stay single EVERY Valentines Day since I turned 16, and as it comes around again, I think of all the fun I never had on Valentines Day’s. Achieving the single status 8 years in a row on this particular day has been no easy feat. I have had to dump girls, ignore phone calls, run away to different states, pretend to be sick, get arrested, and even invent pretend girlfriends.
None of that is true.
I have never done anything to intentionally be single on Valentines day as it turns out. I might be single right now, but it isn’t intentionally to escape Valentines festivities.
I find it funny how it is one of the few days where all the single guys I know call me up and want to make solid plans to do something because they too are reminded how single they are. Hanging out with a bunch of dudes on valentines day is probably just another reminder of the day’s purpose. Anyone ever try to go tract as a missionary? It was not only pointless, but we pissed off a fair number of people. The mission president didn’t think we should treat it like any other day, and I had an anal-retentive companion at the time, so door to door we went. I was just lucky I spent the the first Valentines on my mission in the MTC…. not. That wasn’t healthy either. The good things about Valentines Day from my perspective? The candy. Peanut Butter filled heart shape chocolates and chewy conversation hearts are fantastic. What candy is even better? Red Kit-Kats with strawberry flavored filling. Yea buddy. Everyone in the world, send me red kit kats and peanut butter filled chocolate hearts right now.
This is my experience. 8 years of watching a movie on the 14th of Feb. What have all you single people done?
< venting >sandy< /venting >
UPDATE:
I went to the store to buy strawberry kit-kats on clearance, and one of the co-workers mislead me and I spent all night last night eating regular kit-kats that LOOK like they could be strawberry but are in fact NOT.
I would like to cordially invite you to spend the evening with me and my wife. We’ll do something fun - maybe a movie and some popcorn?
Preston : well done making that look like Gunther wrote it.
Well I like the title of this blog….and the fake html coding at the end
Funny. The rest not so funny…except here and there….If it makes you feel better I am going to be watching the Season Finale of Beuaty and the Geek tonight. Rob is working, but I did my good deeds for today. I took Maddie to a pretty much ALL-Spanish speaking play group this morning where we made valentine’s for daddy and gma and gpa then I printed a pic of her holding them all cute-like and took them over to my parents house where she fed the chickens. Then I took the Strawberry heart shaped gelatins with wipped cream on top to Rob’s work with a card and Maddie’s Valentine. She probably was interrupting a sale to give it to him but shes so cute, who cares. And then I came home and I think I’l take a nap. The end.
well- it wasn’t supposed to be a huge comical strip of genius - ” this is what being single on Valentines has been like thus far”
-sandy
aww Jon, didn’t I make you have a nice Valentine’s Day
::Nervously looks at feet::
Oh, wait this is for singles, woops. Happy Valentine’s Day Jon! I know I’m a day late, so this goes for next year too.
Well Jon, next year you can eat valentines goodies with me…those peanutbutter hearts are killers!