I kind of avoided the Valentine's Day topic. It is usually a sore spot with me. For every boy on this planet, I will agree with your emotional pleas: yes, it is a fake holiday made up by greeting card companies, yes, all the jewelry commercials are crap...But as much as you want me to tell you that it is all lame and I hate Valentine's Day, too...It would be a lie. I can't help it. I love that damn fake holiday! As a child, I loved avoiding actual classwork so we could make our Valentine 'mailboxes'. Later, in high school there was the flowers. You could pay a dollar per carnation to have ones sent to people, there was white, yellow, pink and red. Each color had a different meaning, with red being the 'love' one...The school cheerleaders would deliver them in homeroom on a Friday closest to V-day...I was always dreaming of the 'secret admirer' flower, or any flower in red, from a boy and not from my friends! Just avoiding the look of disgust from the cheerleaders would have been nice, I spent most of my high school years looking like Robert Smith's love child...complete with messy black hair and smeary lipstick!
So, my point is that every girl has one of these stories...we have great expectations and we want you to stop being such a tool and come up with an original thought! Believe me when I tell you its not about the money...one of the best gifts I ever got was a mixed tape of love songs...I would do ANYTHING to find that tape today! I don't care about the money spent, or jewelry or stuff like that...its the effort and love you put into it! My card this year was cute, there was an allusion to sex, which is always good to me...then I read my loves personal message. It was the most depressing thing ever, and also managed to make me feel like a materialistic whore. I will spare myself the embarrassment, but let me paraphrase: 'I hate this holiday, but I will oblige you with this card'
You boys, you want your blow-jobs so badly! All we want is the love...behind every cold-hearted, stuck-up bitch is a Valentine-scorned woman who just wants some real, heart-felt emotion and honesty from the person they would like to have lots and lots of sex with! Boys=read some Jane Austen, learn how to write a real letter...not a fucking text or email...a REAL LOVE LETTER. Practically free, if you can push your ego aside. I guess all this good advice is a little late for V-day, but there is no expiration date on love, so you can write those letters anytime...include a bottle of something yummy, wine, champagne, in my case, good Irish whiskey!
Of all the silly things I've become obsessed with lately, the flag counter on this blog has got to be the best! For example, today my newest visitor was from United Arab Emirates. That's like a fairy tale land from where I'm sitting in the hills of Virginia. I am also intrigued by the counts, USA has the most, with the UK holding a strong second place, always a little ahead of Canada. I can't help but wonder what all these people are thinking as they click on my blog...which I pride myself on having no point...So, seriously people of earth, if you leave a comment or question, I would love to write you back!! mmkay?? Now, because of the ridiculous amount of snow, (and there will be more tomorrow) I have been one of a hand full of people able to get to work. The 'getting there' part is rather shitty(say that with an accent in your mind) also, people here have no clue how to drive in this mess. I lost count of how many jack-hole moves I saw today...Ok, enough complaining...I just finished reading "The Swan Thieves" by Elizabeth Kostova. I had read "The Historian" a couple of years ago and fell in love with her descriptive style. I recommend The Swan Thieves to any serious reader out there, its no fluffy, easy read. I don't want to give away too much, but I love the way she writes about the painters in the book, their selfishness and their ability to put art above everything else. Now, I have not bought a new book so I am returning to my comfort zone and re-reading 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' gearing myself up for November when part one of the movie comes out! I have to get up super early for work, so I need to turn my brain off now and try not to worry about more snow, since it is all of of my control...
So far, today has been pretty rad. First, school is canceled due to the impending doom of a snow storm bearing down on the east coast of the good old USA. Next, I went to work and we closed after being there only two hours. Now, I am home, sipping the Jim Beam I bought 'cause I know how to plan ahead...yay for me! I got up early, but the grocery store was still terrifying when I got there, you would have thought it was the zombie apocalypse....people were buying shit like they were going to be trapped for months! I was sort of embarrassed when I finally got to check out, the lady looked at my pile of alcohol and cheap DVD's and said "is this it?" I was also mildly offended because I had noticed, irritatingly, that she had told the 20 billion people in front of me to 'be careful out there' or 'ya'll be safe now'....I got nothing, not even a 'kiss my ass'....maybe she was offended by my pink hair, or choice of movies. Who can really tell anymore? I bought the classic 1980's film 'The Sure Thing' with John Cusak, I remember going to see that movie in the theaters back in he day...next, I picked up 'Along Came Polly' with Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston. I think that movie was seriously underrated, because it gets more funny every time I see it! Also, the supporting cast is amazing: Phillip Seymore Hoffman, Alec Baldwin and Hank Azaria, just to name a few! I am also still geeking out over the season premier of LOST this week. I watched it again online and I can't stop thinking about it. If you are not one of the converted, you will not understand the level of obsession! Well folks, looks like I am going to have a lot of time on my hands this weekend, being trapped in the snow with nowhere to go...check me out, 'kay?
