Less Complaining, More Sexy Rumpus.

Despite being single this year, Valentine's Day doesn't actually bother me. In fact, I still quite like the day. I look forward to buying neat decorations at the dollar store every year. Being the sexy, amazing tiger vixen that I am (hahaha!), naturally I enjoy things like roses, sparkly red and heart shaped things to adorn my abode with. Strange, my ex didn't quite feel the same way.

Many are sorry for his loss.

Anyway, I was out most of the day today, and saw many people with roses and gifts, and people with their arm around one another, etc. What I was thinking about however, was how disappointing it is that this is the one and only day of the year where you actually notice people doing that. Why?

It's a damn shame. What is society's problem with affection? People should be this attentive to their partners all the time. And yet year after year there are so many jokes about how the whole Valentine's Day thing is such a 'hassle' to men, and that it's a "girl" holiday.

I'm sorry, but I had thought this was a day that celebrated love. You know, something TWO people are involved in. Not buying things for one to pretend you give a bigger shit about it than you actually do. It's about the both of you. Yet because it's a holiday that focuses on love, somehow it's touted as a girl thing. Please to explain?

Taking it one step further, a BS, pretty much anti-Valentine's March 14th thing stems out of this skewed view. As if the girls now owe ther boyfriends/husbands for "all the effort" they made on Valentine's day. What do you mean, "all the effort" that is basically you making up for an entire year of not doing it? No? Oh, sorry for being so ignorant. So please...elaborate as to why this is such a pain in the ass for you.

Now, despite my argument that I think people should be this attentive ALL the time, I do actually believe in doing something special for V-Day. In fact, I always used to like to book a day somewhere and buy a silly gift. On my first non-single Valentine's, I was surprised to hear my then-bf say to me, "I didn't realize that people did things like that on Valentine's Day." o_O

I was a little confused, but was like, I guess some people don't celebrate it much. So I didn't worry about it. What the kicker was though, was that it was the same every subsequent year. I think I got flowers once? Don't get me wrong, I obviously don't put a lot of value on tangible offerings. I like showing care in a variety of meaningful ways.

But you'd think when I drop around $200 on a night out EVERY year, one might recognize that the date is something that is special to me. I don't care if you draw a shoddy heart on a napkin in crayon. I just want you to recognize that it's important to me instead of going ahead with the notion that it's another irrelevant day when clearly I've been so enthusiastic about it in the past.

Okay, enough with the sidetrack rant. The point was just to say, wtf people? Why do people take so many things for granted? Why just do extra kind things for your lover on Valentine's Day? Why just promote helping the poor at Christmastime? Why only call your Mother/Father to thank them for all the hard work they've done for your ass your entire life just on Mother's/Father's Day?

I don't get it.

And now, if you all didn't see it already on my facebook posts today, here is a great Valentine's comic. As usual the Oatmeal is spot on.

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/valentines_day

Since then I've had "Less complaining. More sexy rumpus," as a personal motto of mine. :D Sadly, I still do a fuckload of complaining, and there hasn't been much sexy rumpus going on, either. Hmmm...do you think those things have an inverse correlation to each other...? :O

Tatas for later, my lovelies. ;)

xoxo,

Sheeyan <3