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People Who Hate Valentine's Day Bug Me

Do you remember when you were little and you would make plates of cookies and valentines with your mom to leave on your friend's and neighbor's porches and doorbell ditch? It was such a rush to sneak up to the door, leave the cookies and valentine on the step, press the doorbell and then dash to the side of the house to hide before they saw me. I would peak around the corner to watch them find it. I wanted to do it all year long! I think Valentine's Day was one of the best times ever. I always enjoyed handing out valentines to my friends to tell them I love them. Even in High School when handing them out was no longer popular I would still give select friends a valentine. In fact when I was a Senior my mom bought me some super awesome tinfoil Disney Princess valentines that were better than your average little kid valentine and I handed some of them out to my friends (they thought they were cool). This year I was excited when I found the rest of them I had left from back then and gave them to my friends again. Some of them have gotten one twice now, but only one friend remembered that from four years ago and that was Alisa (of course).

Only once have I had a Valentine's Day with a boyfriend, and that was also my first kiss. Isn't that sweet. (I can see you going, "Awww" while you read this.) But that experience was also about 3 years ago and I've been single for every Valentine's Day before and after that. So when people around me start complaining that "Singles-Awareness Day" is coming up I get really annoyed. I know that when you're single and you don't want to be that holiday points it out even more and you feel more alone than normal. But you AREN'T alone. All of us are surrounded by friends and family regardless of our romantic status. Why can't we take the holiday to appreciate everyone we love in our lives instead of dwelling on the fact we don't have a special someone to celebrate with?

Okay, rant over. So you anti-Valentine people now know my opinion.

So for some good news I actually had a date the day before Valentines!! I was pretty excited. One of my single guy friends called me up and asked me to come with him to the Utah Symphony. I haven't been in over a year since I always end up going to the Opera so I was really excited. We ended up being late and couldn't go in until Intermission but the second half would have been my favorite regardless. They played Dvorak's 9th Symphony "From the New World" which I played recently in my community orchestra. And as a really cool twist my friend brought a copy of the score for us to follow along with while we watched. I've never head of someone doing that before. It tore me two ways because I liked following the music since I'm familiar with it, but then I'd look up and get fascinated watching the violinists and that would make me lose my spot in the score. So I went around in circles like that a bit, but it was so amazing regardless. And it was a lot of fun seeing my friend again. We always have a blast when we hang out. The silly guy decided to go to BYU so I don't get to see him very often. I can't blame him too much though, I do like the color blue more than red. Don't I just have a ton of school pride. Lol!

Hope you had a good Valentine's Day!
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  1. bridge-FACE8/13/10, 5:11 PM

    I know you posted this like a long time ago but i haven't been on this thing before! so i was snooping through and i really loved what you had to say about valentines day because it's true!! people are loved and if you focus on making people feel loved and baking cookies and surprise them then you feel better! i think all holidays are like that personally. people who get depressed that they dont have a significant other to share the day with.... it's silly! i give this blog 2 thumbs up :D

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