V-day? how about D-day.

Let's talk about Valentine's Day. This holiday of love is rapidly approaching, and my feelings toward it are still luke warm. Last year i spent Vday alone on a beach in Newport where I drew a heart in the sand, thinking it'd be appropriate, which only made me even more angry. So I rode my bike through it. The year before that, I wore hot pink pants to a Keith Urban concert with my parents. I figured that the situation was sad enough, why not draw more attention with neon bottom wear? The year before THAT I was deathly ill and broke up with my boyfriend on Valentine's Day. As you can see, me and good ol Vday don't have the best reportoire. I'm sorry but a child wearing a diaper with an arrow is just not safe. Add some wings and you have a disaster waiting to happen. Weapons and babies do not mix, so what gives, Cupid?! So I was planning on my usual dark day this Valentine's...staying low and pretending like it doesn't exist. However! Today my attitude was slightly altered thanks to my favorite store...Target. Target has not one, not two, not three...but FOUR aisles of hot pink and bright red. I can't help but be completely uplifted by the wall to wall coating of my favorite color, with hearts dangling from the ceiling and puppies popping out of stuffed cupcakes. They even had princess wands. It was a fairytale land! Naturally I bought Valentine's M&Ms and hershey kisses even though I won't eat a single piece (eh hem). I also got little cards for all my friends and I'm determined to make this Valentine's Day a happy one. I may even have a few other surprises up my sleeve...but ya'll will just have to wait til February 14th!

All in all: this is the dumbest holiday ever invented. It was designed to make those without a significant other feel like a leper, and to give those WITH one an excuse to be nauseatingly cute. Maybe I'm bitter? Maybe I'm heartless and incapable of feeling the LOVE on the most commercial day of the year...maybe I'm overthinking this entire thing. BUT I'm going to make the best of the holiday, and be a loving participant.