V( --insert rest of word here--) DAY

Once more, the ever-commercialized "V" day has arrived... err--it's actually tomorrow, but there isn't a better day to de-glorify "V" day than today, Friday the 13th. Who could ask for anything more?

Sure, blame it on the Haterade. I guess I've been chugging a lot of the stuff down lately. But that aside, I am sure that I'm not the only one who thinks that "V" day is nothing more than an overrated holiday. In truth, it should be called "Venereal" (as in disease) day, because it's more or less just another day to serve up love and sex on a platter. I mean I get it, People In Love, this day is for you. Valentines Day is specifically for you to smooch every 5 minutes... to use up all of the flippin' dinner reservations in the city... to buy out the shelves of champagne, wine, cookies, cakes, whip-cream, ice cream, yada-yada-yada... to leave the kids with the grandparentals or babysitters... to sneak-in late at night... to do it for hours on end (if the stamina to last that long is still there). I get it, she gets it, and so does he... shit, the bum on the corner of Lincoln and Pico gets it, too. WE GET IT.

Don't think that just because I'm a single person that this note comes with malice. No, it does not. In fact, I pride myself in my current state of singleness because I just like it that way. But where in the calendar of days does it list a holiday specifically for ME?! Where are the "Happy Singles Day" cards, candy, and balloons? How about those "Thumbs-Up for being single!" t-shirts? And... and... the "Honk If You're Single" bumper stickers? Where the hell are they hiding those?

I'm not bitter. I'm just OVER it. In essence, "V" day is just another excuse for people to throw their love into other peoples' faces. Think about it the ramifications of this, will you? Think about all the lonely people out there who will fall into the post-"V" day slump, and walk into Ralph's to raid the clearance "V" day aisle, and drown themselves in the bags of un-sold Hershey's Kisses and "V" day Peeps! Those are the people who, in the end, will suffer ... they will eat themselves to obesity, and when you look into their eyes, all you will see is pure, unadulterated DISDAIN. And who will be to blame? Capitalism? Commercialism?

Think about that!
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In other news, I bought a new pair of boots yesterday! Saw them on-line for $125, but found them on another site for like $40! Who says you can't purchase happiness in a recession?!

"Happiness in a recession"