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My Favorite Valentine’s Day Memories — Part 2


2010
02.13

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This mem­ory takes me back almost seven or eight years (I am hav­ing trou­ble remem­ber­ing exact dates). I had a very, very close friend who lives in the Mid­west and she was hav­ing a tough time right around Valentine’s Day. From what I remem­ber, her and her hus­band were hav­ing some mar­i­tal issues and she was tak­ing it hard. Com­bine that with the fact that she was work­ing almost two full time jobs at the time with two young girls,  It was fair to say she was tee­ter­ing at the edge. I knew that in gen­eral she wasn’t a really big fan of Valentine’s Day so the actual day wasn’t a big deal to her. Even still, in the state she was in, I wanted to do some­thing for her just so she knew that some­one out there loved her and cared for her and was there for her dur­ing this extremely dif­fi­cult time. I placed a call to the local florist near where she lived and ordered her a dozen rozes. Just told her I was think­ing about her and there for her if she needed me.

Well, she was so very touched by my gift to her. She said she even shed some tears of joy. Some­thing pretty sim­ple bright­ened someone’s Valentine’s Day. Mis­sion accom­plished. That is another favorite Valentine’s Day mem­ory for me.

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My Favorite Valentine’s Day Memories Part 1


2010
02.11

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Valentine’s Day is quickly approach­ing and instead of post­ing a bit­ter, angry sad post, I will like to share with all of you some of my favorite Valentine’s Day memories.

The first one takes me back to 10th grade and a crush I had. It was the mid­dle of bas­ket­ball sea­son and I was in an advanced Anatomy & Phys­i­ol­ogy class. My desk­mate was a cutie who was a Var­sity Cheer­leader and also smart as hell. We inter­acted so much dur­ing class and then at times after school because of bas­ket­ball. Of course a crush devel­oped quickly and strongly. Dur­ing high school, I also worked a part time job so I had some extra change. Nor­mally in our high school, for Valentine’s Day they would deliver car­na­tions to peo­ple in their classes (of course you had to pay). I had the genius idea of send­ing her a car­na­tion deliv­ery while we were in class together. A lit­tle bold, but fun, I went for it. The day came and as class was almost over the fire alarm went off. At the same time, here comes the car­na­tion deliv­ery. The impact of my though­ful­ness was gone. She still got the deliv­ery and knew it was from me, but I missed my 15 min­utes of sit­ting next to her after the deliv­ery to really “make my move.”  I never got the chance again.

Nev­er­the­less, this is one of my favorite Valentine’s Day mem­o­ries. Stay tuned for more later on in the week.

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Where Are All These Cute Guys Coming From?


2010
01.12

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I said that I was giv­ing up on love. Why is it that now I am see­ing all these cute guys?! First, my friend brings a cute guy to lunch, and we kept look­ing at one another. Now, I notice at work that there is this cute guy who works on my floor. We both headed to the ele­va­tor, and he started talk­ing to me. I was tongue tied because I didn’t know what to say. In a way, I wanted to talk to him, but then again, I didn’t.

I prob­a­bly will never see him again, but I won­der why all of a sud­den I am see­ing all these good-looking guys? I won­der if I should see this as a sign to not give up and that there is still hope. I’m start­ing to head in that kind of think­ing. Is it a sign? Or is it fate play­ing me a raw hand once again?

All I know is that I am tired of wast­ing my time and get­ting hurt. Maybe it’s a way to admire all the hot­ties out there with­out hav­ing to deal with any pain.


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Should I Settle?


2010
01.12

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Set­tle
Verb Phrases
set­tle for, to be sat­is­fied with: to set­tle for less.

Is it a bad thing to set­tle? Is our list of things we want in a mate just too damn much long? I have been think­ing about this lately. Ever since I went to see the movie “Up in the Air” and one of the best scenes in the movie, the younger female lead actress speaks about set­tling and how it is a bad thing (by def­i­n­i­tion she says). Won’t I regret it later on in life if I set­tle? I can’t call it. I admit, some­times it is lit­tle things that really bother me about ladies here and there.

Let me give you an exam­ple. It’s a pretty small exam­ple, but still gets my point across. There was some­one who I have been admir­ing from afar and we are in the same group activ­ity together. Lately she had been impress­ing me with her com­mit­ment to our group and attend­ing all of our weekly meet­ings. Note she has a his­tory in the past of being flaky and just not show­ing up or rsvp’ing a decline when the group really needed her. Very lit­tle issue but just a sign of flak­i­ness. My feel­ing is don’t com­mit to some­thing if you are not going to attend reg­u­larly when the group is depend­ing on you on a weekly basis. So tonight, she flaked again. I fig­ured maybe she had a large amount of home­work to do or maybe had to stay late at work. Nope, she had to do laun­dry. Hmmm … seems like she has regressed her true col­ors are showing.

Am I over­re­act­ing? This lit­tle inci­dent both­ers me because I see this as a sign of what one might do with more major events than a group activ­ity. This would be enough to just write her off and for­get about pur­su­ing my admiration.

What do you think?

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Temporarily Forgetting About Love


2010
01.06

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Last year, I hoped that by the end of 2010, I would be engaged.  How­ever, I never found any­one last year, so it’s doubt­ful that this will hap­pen.  I’ve decided to forego love for awhile.  My busi­ness is tak­ing off, and I want to ded­i­cate all of my energy and effort to finally quit­ting my job and free­lance full-time.  There­fore, I don’t have time for love. 

Behind my back, my sis­ter re-established my EHar­mony account, but I told her that she can do that because I don’t have any hope for love right now.  It’d be sur­pris­ing if she does find some­one for me, but I am not hold­ing my breath.  My friend, who’s wed­ding is in Mex­ico, found her fiancée on the dat­ing site, and in the first month.  I had the sub­scrip­tion for three months and didn’t find any­one.  Well…not entirely true.  I found depressed guy who wasted two months of my life.  I guess in a way, I did find some­one in the first month. 

Today, my friend brought her friend to lunch.  He was hot, and I couldn’t help but look at him.  I saw him star­ing at me too, and I felt an instant attrac­tion.  How­ever, I forced myself to not think about it.  I have to con­cen­trate on my busi­ness, and I hate hav­ing to do the whole awk­ward “I  have kids” speech, so I’d rather not exert any energy.  Not going to lie though, I couldn’t help but feel tingly inside when he looked at me.  I noticed that when he hugged me good­bye, he kind of lin­gered, and I did as well. 

Ok back to work.

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