February 11, 2004

double chocolate

Mystic Michael called my desk sometime around two and asked if he could bring me some chocolate. Of course, I said.

I’ve spent all day deciding whether to actually get upset over the fact that my Valentine’s Date has cancelled on me. And while I’m not heartbroken over it, it was nice to have plans with someone who’d put some thought into it all. He does have a good excuse. Mostly. But for all his talk about taking a different approach to courting yours truly, it’s fairly amusing that he’s behaving just like all the others.

It’s just a Man Thing. What can you do?

Well, for one you can let Michael buy you chocolate and tell you how great your boots are. And for another, you can let Stella talk you into going to New York City Saturday night to get too drunk and totter around in too-tall shoes, flirting wildly like you used to do before disappointment made you forget just how great that is.

And you can decide that you will go home early tonight, mix up some strawberry margaritas (even though you no longer drink during the week), watch Ten Things I Hate About You and go to bed very tipsy.

But first, you’ll have some more chocolate. Because it’s been a double chocolate kind of day.

Posted by This Fish at February 11, 2004 04:10 PM
Comments

Double-dipped chocolate peanut day in my neck of the woods. Hope your chocolate is just as tasty.

Posted by: Kyria at February 11, 2004 04:20 PM

going out to bars on v-day is great because its a fairly safe assumption that no one is taken or they would be with their sweetie. i know from experience. go for it!

Posted by: dahl at February 11, 2004 04:28 PM

10 things is on my valentines day to-do list as well. we're having a girls-only night with chick flicks and chocolate. and we've limited griping about boys to a minimum, although i bet it won't stay that way. because griping about boys is so easy, and fun.

Posted by: janna at February 11, 2004 04:37 PM

That's it...march on down to the store we've discussed and finally walk in and get that hot chocolate.
If you're going to do it, do it right. :)

Posted by: Paul Gutman at February 11, 2004 04:41 PM

V-Day sucks. I proudly boycott it every year, and I've had a sweetie for six years. It's just an invention so Hallmark can make more money. Go out and dancing the night away is so much more real than all that contrived romance.

Posted by: The Countess at February 11, 2004 05:08 PM

Valentine's day is the devil's work.

Love and gestures of lvoe cannot - should not - be scheduled like some sort of freaking relationship oil change.

Posted by: Dan at February 11, 2004 05:25 PM

I'm sure PJ Harvey's been quoted 8000 times here:

"Big fish, little fish, swimming in the water..."

Lameness mode: OFF

Posted by: Country Mike at February 11, 2004 05:45 PM

I feel like there should be some sort of day dedicated just to single people, where the lovey-dovey couples can look longingly on us single people who are proudly eating ice cream out of the container and watching movies all day in our pajamas. If I ever get a job at Hallmark, you better believe I'll push for that.

Posted by: Steve at February 11, 2004 06:57 PM

by the way, thought this would crack you up but my site is no. 7 on google for "i hate valentine's day". too funny.

Posted by: dahl at February 12, 2004 08:46 AM