Ask Sassy: Valentine, Love Thyself.
As I sit writing this column in one of our local coffee establishments, a couple sits across from me, obviously in the flower of loves full bloom. I say, “Obviously” because if putting your hand up your lady’s skirt and your tongue in her mouth in front of a room full of people isn’t flowering love, I don’t know what is. Across the room, a young man glowers at them, obviously envisioning a St. Valentines Day Massacre.
It’s Valentines season, people. Strap on your red velvet seatbelts.
Once again, many of us (Sassy included) will pass through this most excellently marketed holiday sans partner, (and sans hands up our skirts). There is nothing sadder to Sassy than some poor hapless lad or lass bitterly stomping through Valentines Day, barking at all of their flower receiving coworkers, decrying the “Commercial Holiday” and generally acting pathetic.
Valentine, love THYSELF. (Now I know some of you are snickering, so we’ll just get this out of the way right now: If a trip the Castle Superstore is enough to supply you with everything you need to love yourself for Valentines, great. Off you go, just remember – good things in moderation.)
Sassy will never understand why some many singles treat Valentines Day like the cupcake buffet at the Diabetes Convention. Rise up, unchained lovers, and reclaim this day!
Valentines Day is about love, romance, and bolstering the economy via tiny stimulus packages in the form of heart shaped chocolates and bottles of wine. If there is one thing that Sassy knows for sure from personal experience and the constant whining of her married friends, there’s nothing like a relationship to decimate all memory of passion, love, and spontaneity.
In the world according to Sassy, Valentines Day is about the promise, uncertainty, passion, and fleeting nature of NEW LOVE. People in relationships celebrate Valentines Day in an attempt to recapture that overpowering feeling of infatuation.
You, my single Tacomans, have the opportunity to experience it for REAL.
I offer a challenge to the singles of this city. Rise up. Take a shower. Put on those jeans that make your ass look great and head out enmass into the local restaurants, bars, and coffee shops looking for passion. Ignore the news, the grumbles of your cubicle mate whose wife left him for a woman. Forget every reason you have to be miserable and Go. Out. And. DO IT. Because otherwise, I’m going to be quite the drunken mess.
12 comments
M Monica February 13, 2009
That’s awesome. Self pity just breeds more self pity, so the only way to escape the single life is go out and find love or friendship. I agree with both your points.
Love yourself
while
Relationships try to reinvent that infatuation feeling.
I will be doing the latter, but will be indulging in sweets, good food and sappy emotional porn (The Notebook) for my womanly heart while trying to keep my wobbly relationship stable with the man of my life as we curl up on the couch. Meh, I am excited!
A Angela Jossy February 13, 2009
You don’t have to bring a date to LOVE SQUARED but you can if you want to. We will be celebrating love – not the greeting card kind but the real kind – love for friends, love for family, love for mankind and all the big real loves in our lives.
Featuring three acoustic singer/songwriters: Angela Jossy, Sean Vandommelen, Scott Taylor and poetry by Tammy Robacker.
Live painting by Linda DeSantis, Laura Eklund, Mary K Johnson & Maureen McHugh.
THE PAINTERS PLAY MUSICAL CHAIRS DURING THE SHOW!
Square food (including sushi from Twokoi) included in ticket price.
Mad Hat Tea Company
1130 Commerce Street in beautiful downtown Tacoma
Cost : $8
There are only 20 tickets still available for this show, get em while they’re HOT!
For tickets call: (253) 441-2111
Come for the love, stay for the music, go home with the art!
S Squid February 13, 2009
AJ@2: I mis-read your last clause, thought you said “go home with the tart.”
R RR Anderson February 13, 2009
love thyself?
P pegsterdtown February 13, 2009
Good 1 RR.
All I know is that my boyfriend of 7 yrs and I are gonna go to Westport.
A altered Chords February 13, 2009
Sassy – I was with you until you said “take a shower”.
T Thorax O'Tool February 14, 2009
This year, TO’T is lucky enough to have the most awesome gf since ever.
It’s about time I am able to stop celebrating Singles’ Awareness Day.
S Squid February 14, 2009
O’Tool, one word: Sandwiches.
A altered Chords February 14, 2009
Sandwich Day? I like the sound of that.
A altered Chords February 14, 2009
A day in Tacoma where 2 people in love can spend the entire day making sweet, sweet…..sandwiches.
T Thorax O'Tool February 14, 2009
Delicious.
O OC Housewife February 15, 2009
This is the first year my kids could write out their own Valentine cards. That was great, less work for me.
Resortdude got me just what I wanted, chocolate and no useless flowers. The surprise part were the caramel apples he got me from the Rocky Mountain Candy Co. One was a classic caramel and the other had milk chocolate, white chocolate and nuts on it. Wow! I love food gifts. He also watched a romantic comedy with me.
It was a great day!