Happy February!

I love Valentine's Day and I love February and I have no idea why. I have actually never had a boyfriend on Valentine's Day or a particularly magical or romantic date. In fact, the only Valentine's Day that I spent on a date was a complete train wreck.

Recap: My friend Franny and I were asked on a double date and from what I remember we were not particularly into these gentlemen but we thought, "why not, it's valentine's day". I think I was actually sort of "talking" to my date at that point in time. Whatever that meant. However, I did not get the memo that this was a serious or romantic date. So Valentine's rolls around and they show up to my house to pick us up in suits and Franny and I have on normal high school attire. Probably something from Abercrombie & Fitch or the Gap. Oh and I almost forgot. According to the normal Valentine's Day trend we wanted to pick up a small token of our affection because that is what high schoolers do on Valentine's Day. Well, my token of affection was apparently not normal and didn't go over so well. I thought it would be funny to buy him some oversized leopard women's granny panties. Funny in my head. NOT funny is his head. He came bearing a teddy bear with a sweet card and some chocolates. woops.

Onto the next part of the train wreck. They asked us where we wanted to go and we said Sonic. And we were dead serious. They had a small Italian grill in mind but for some reason we wanted Sonic and we insisted. Bad move number 2. After Sonic they told us that they wanted to take us to the outlook near one of their houses. We obliged.

At this point my date knew that this was not a serious thing but Franny's date didn't feel the vibe and ended up confessing his undying love for her outside of the car (tears included) while my date and I just made out in the car like young teenagers should.

It was all bad, but memorable.

But on to the point of my post. I love February and I love Valentine's Day. I like the chocolates, the dinners, the cards, and the romance (pretty much everything my Dad hates about Valentine's Day). He says that it is a consumer holiday that is made to make men feel guilty about nothing. (I just think he says that because he is too cheap to buy my mom anything). But anyways, I am looking forward to it, as usual. Even if that means wine with my girlfriends for yet another year.

Happy February and Happy Valentine's Day!