How's it going lurkers? These last several days, especially yesterday I have not been as talkative online. Blog community hunting, enduring advertisers and mainstream media cramming Valentine's Day down my throat, and getting into a fight with a friend don't exactly mesh too well.
Yesterday was already an emotional roller coaster and Valentine's Day really sent me over the edge. Not that I didn't get any presents for Valentine's Day because I got several.
A new lounge pants set, chocolate candy, an extra pair of lounge pants with snowflakes, hearts, and skulls on them (which I am currently wearing), and food from Taco Bell.
After being told that my favorite Taco Bell Burrito (The Volcano Burrito) was discontinued, I was a little upset.
Taco Bell's Volcano Burrito had rice, cheese, nacho strips, sour cream, spicy hot cheese sauce, and obviously ground beef in it.
Since my family spent a lot of time and money trying to make Valentine's Day special for moi, I didn't want to complain.
There really wasn't enough money for me to buy them anything for Valentine's Day.
Last year, I won free Galaxy Desserts Chocolate Mousse Cupcakes via Facebook from the Dating With Dignity page. I wasn't expecting to win anything, last Valentine's Day.
Nonetheless, I did and shared my cupcakes with my immediate family. Because they spent so much time and money on me yesterday, I just washed the dishes.
After
signing back into Facebook last night, I was in a bad mood again. I
had to sit and look at some of my friends' wedding pictures, their "I
love my husband/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend" statuses, obnoxious
Valentine's Day articles, advertisements, etc. Ugh! ENOUGH, ALREADY!
You are probably thinking, "So what? If you don't like it, don't look" or something along those lines.
This Valentine's Day week has been on my
last nerve. Local TV stations, commercials, biased news anchors, the media, and social media are generally to blame for this.
Our EXTREMELY biased local news reporters kept reporting about Valentine's Day and couples, which only poured salt into invisible wounds.
Those of us eternal bachelors, bachelorettes, widows, widowers, those who are only conveniently dating, or in a contrived "committed relationship," and being unable to celebrate with their significant others, or have no one are BARELY acknowledged.
It's infuriating!
If I have to listen to or read that same bullshit about "Valentine's Day is just a Hallmark Holiday. Why celebrate love once a year, when couples should celebrate their relationships everyday?", I'm gonna bitchslap somebody!
Here's what these people don't understand: Valentine's Day is mostly Christmas for COUPLES. Albeit, Valentine's Day is mostly Show & Tell Day for women.
Whether we are in relationships or NOT, we are forced to be shown and told about how great someone's man is to her because he bought her fill in the blank, showed he DOES listen to a single word she says by doing something romantic, creative, etc.
It's not that Valentine's Day is necessarily a woman's Show & Tell Holiday because men are given presents as well.
Valentine's Day in Japan is nicknamed "Chocolate Day." Basically, it is a man's Show & Tell Holiday in Japan. What a twist!
Japanese females either buy chocolate candy, or custom make it for whoever they have a crush on and give them chocolate candy as Valentine's Day presents.
Females also give their female friends "obligatory chocolate." If you have ever watched Anime, you'll understand what I mean.
Then, March 14th is White Day. White Day is the female version of Valentine's Day.
Those, who were given chocolate, must do something special for females, who gave it to them.
This could be a treat to an onsen (hot spring), or buy or do something special for them.
Regardless, singles and couples celebrate Valentine's Day. Japan is only celebrating it differently than in Western countries.
As an American woman, I take Valentine's Day personally. It's mostly because I'm constantly having to endure people intentionally pouring salt into my wounds.
The last guy I dated was 8 years ago. My last ex-boyfriend was a womanizing crooked cop. He committed hate crimes, loved playing highly offensive and deplorable pranks on people, and was a cheapskate.
I was matchmade to be with that loser mostly because my oversexed friend's boyfriend at the time, planned our blind date. I dated that scumbag for 3 months.
He had ZERO respect for me because that womanizing crooked cop cared more about how he could strategize ways to get an ethnically ambiguous college girl drunk enough to have sex with him on his mind.
That piece of shit automatically assumed that I was a dumb and naive, slutty college freshman, when I was a senior and 2 years OLDER than HIM.
During the 3 months of dating each other, he didn't even care about the fact that I was in the middle of enduring a severe menstrual bleeding disorder the night after I met him.
Luckily, I NEVER had sex with the creep, especially since he was NEVER the type of guy I would've EVER dated in a million years, had an unattractive personality and physique.
My highly oversexed friend's boyfriend wanted to play matchmaker and force chemistry between us.
You can't force chemistry between 2 people. They either have chemistry, or they don't.
I'm convinced that womanizing crooked cop was a curse to my health before I graduated from Carthage.
Instead of him buying me anything for Valentine's Day, he was supposedly "working late." Then, 2 months after I dumped him, he told me about how he knocked up his fuck buddy, shacked up with her, and got married. I bitched him out.
Valentine's Day 2007, he felt the need to e-mail me and 3 other women about his new born daughter's baby pictures.
I ended up sending him another angry message and blocked his ass.
I would've dumped that asshole sooner in 2006, but my highly oversexed friend kept begging me to give him another chance.
My crooked cop ex and several other exes are the driving forces behind me writing "All Of Chastity's Men." How's that for an Anti-Valentine's Day Story? There really should be more of them.
