While Boo makes fun of my love of the Offspring, I have really started listening to them a lot (I blame Pandora). It's funny how you listen to some songs and you know them, but you never really realized how many songs you know by a band until you look and see what's playing on the playlist and say "WOW THEY SANG THAT?"
Anyways, tail end of the week here in El Paso and it's finally showing signs of being cold around here. I have no clue as to why our weather is on tape delay, because it didn't get colder till mid-November and even then it was only 60-ish. Not that I'm complaining, going out in Jeans and a T-Shirt in November is suicide in some states.
So Valentine's day is upon us and from what I've seen by some of the members in the chat is a glaring statement against the values of Valentine's Day. Some view it as a strictly commercial holiday that is made by industries in order to get people to buy useless or "One-time use" gifts. Others think that love is overrated and the sight of seeing their peers getting gifts from significant others causes them to wretch. But I'll just inject my two cents in here.
Valentine's day is about one thing: Love.
Now I don't mean romantic love necessarily. It can be about love for your family, love for your friends, even love for yourself. A lot of people get rather downtrodden if they don't have a Valentine, but here's my question. Why don't you try to be someone else's Valentine? Life is too short to think that people are going to just pop up and declare their everlasting love for you. If you have someone you care about, maybe not even romantically, at least show them that you care by getting them a small gift or doing something nice for them for Valentine's Day. It may not be the romantic V-Day you see on TV, but I think that doing things like that for others is more special than having a significant other spend lavish amounts of money on Teddy-Bears and the like.
So, if you're single this V-Day, go out with other single friends. Make a plan of it. Go out and enjoy each other's "single-ness". A day spent with others who are "alone" like you can often be better than the pity party you throw for yourself at home.
Catch you cats later,
Korey
