Valentines Day

Ok, so just a quick post to show that apparently my family thinks i'm their charity case and/or pathetic. The day before Valentine's Day my sister calls me and asks if i would like to join her and her husband for dinner the next evening. I decline. After work i'm talking to my dad, he asks all of us if we would like to join him and my mother for dinner at this restaurant i dislike (Crappolla's for PP). I decline.

I wake up on Valentine's Day to some Lindor chocolates and a card that sings and lights up "i love you" on the inside, courtesy of my parents. My mother then says that they are no longer going to Crapolla's but are going elsewhere, still asking if i would like to come. I tell her no, i work late and am going to the gym and then to Melissa's to watch the Penis Dementia. As i'm trying to get ready for work and running out the door, she again asks me if i'm sure i do not want to come and again asks what i am doing. Ughh.

The day progresses and i get a phone call at work from my father inquiring as to whether or not i will be joining them for dinner. Again, i decline.

I don't get what the big deal is, it's just another day to me. Even if i did have someone special in my life to share it with, i think the fact that it's shoved down our throats would deter me from wanting to do anything like dinner, just because it seems we are told that's what we should be doing. It's a nice marketing scheme for all the card and chocolate companies out there.....like i'd turn my nose up at a box of chocolates LOL, of course not. I just think it puts a lot of pressure on people single and attached. Some might expect extravegent dinners, marriage proposals and other such things. As for us single people, it just yet again reminds us that we are alone.