Valentines Day Rant

I posted this on my myspace blog, for anyone reading this twice, I appologize.

Who else can you turn to but your blog in times like these? I just need to vent for a minute. My best friend has a good friend, well call him K, that I am interested in. She and I have been trying to arrange meetings with the 2 of us and K so it won't appear obvious and for us to get to know each other better. Well, since we are 2 single girls, she has told every one of our guy friends including K to send us flowers today. So Friday night at dinner, K was at the same restaurant as we were. So she makes the comment about flowers and I just throw it out there, that I love pink gerbera daisys.

Monday morning, I'm getting ready for work and my phone rings. It's K. He wants to know the name of a florist in town. I told him which one I use and where it is located. He then asks me "What kind of flowers did you say you like again?" So I told him once again, pink gerbera daisys. So I'm thinking that I'm going to get flowers from him and that he's just stupid and has no idea about how to be sneaky.

Well, today goes by and at 5:00 I still had no flowers. So my best friend came over and I said, "K is going to be on my shit list" to which she replies, "yeah he is, he sent me the flowers. He said he didn't know you all that well and flowers were expensive, but he did ask what you doing tonight. I told him you had a meeting to go to (which I did, I had to go to a sorority meeting since I am one of their advisers)."

Am I crazy or was that not a cruel thing to do to a single girl on Valentines day? To top it all off, I made myself look stupid. I told several people and coworkers over lunch that I might be getting flowers and it turns out they were never for me to begin with. I hate this day and I always have. Ever since elementary school where people HAD to give each classmate one, then onto junior high where you wait to see who's actually gonna give you one, to being dumped on Valentines day my senior year of high school. My mom told me that she and my dad sent flowers, but the florist called and said they would not be able to deliver them today. So I guess I'm getting flowers tomorrow. Not to sound ungrateful, but gee thanks.

My most serious boyfriend in college worked in forensics and had to work a plane crash on our one and only Valentines Day. The last guy I dated during this wretched day took me to Atlanta with 3 other people. The plan was to go to the Cheesecake Factory. I knew we wouldn't get in because everyone else would be there as well wanting to get in. So after him bitching and whining because I was right and I wouldn't make out with him in front of the other 3 people, we settled for a pizzeria in Buckhead. Then we went to the sex shop and he proceeded to buy me the best gift ever. It was battery powered. Perhaps the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.

I just want to get in my bed and eat lots of fattening foods.