Valentines Day and hopeless romantics

On Saturday night, Lorelei and I went to dinner at this Asian place. She was so tired that I think she nearly fell asleep at dinner. Then we watched the office at my place. Not exactly a romantic valentines day date but it was still fun to just hang out. There is a lot of pressure on all of us to have some sort of romantic encounter on or around valentines day and I think it is just bogus. Valentines day used to be cool. It used to be about really good candy (not those crappy chalk hearts) and teenage mutant ninja turtle valentines to all my friends. One year, and I am not kidding, my mom gave us the movie Beetlejuice for valentines day. Now THAT is cool.

It's not that I don't want to do something romantic on valentines day. It's just that the opportunity so rarely presents itself. I have only had romance on three valentines days in my life. When I was 16, I went to walmart with my buddies and bought HSGF a little gold ring with a heart on it. I also got her some flowers. Four years ago, I was dating Brooktynn on valentines day. We tried to go to a restaurant but everything was full. So we got pizza from little caesers and watched the Notebook. Two years ago, I had just begun dating a girl named Emo. I think Valentines day was actually the second night we hung out. It was the night of our first kiss. She had to work but we met up afterwards and "watched" a movie.

Someday, when I am married, I am going to make every valentines day count. For starters, valentines day requires a nice dinner at a nice restaurant. I think this is a given. The place should require you to at least dress up a little. Second, I fully intend to buy my wife flowers on valentines day. I think flowers are a waste of money but they smell nice and look pretty and as long as I can afford it, I am gonna at least buy her flowers on that day. Third, if she wants, I will write and sing a song to my wife every year about how I love her more this year than the year before. Cute eh?

A new year

So New Years Eve has come and gone. Anyone who knows me knows that NYE is basically my least favorite holiday of the whole year. I haven't had a good NYE since I was 16 and had my second kiss with high school girlfriend (HSGF). I haven't had a great NYE ever. So I approached this NYE with realistically low expectations. Sugarloaf, TheCaptain and I headed to a holiday party hosted by Tweak and FarFarAway. Tweak and FarFarAway aren't dating but they probably should be. I met Tweak years ago at University and met FarFarAway through Tweak. In a text inviting me to the party, FarFarAway told me she expected a NYE kiss from me and I jokingly agreed.

The party started out pretty lame. Lots of dudes, very few ladies, and a group of married or engaged couples. There were a couple of really pretty girls that stopped by but they didn't really stay long enough to chat with any of us. Throughout the night FarFarAway was hitting on me. I think FarFarAway is a very pretty girl but I am just not interested in her like that. She has made it obvious that she wants a relationship that will lead to marriage. While I think dating FarFarAway would be fun for a bit, I really don't see her as a potential wife. Plus, FarFarAway was dumped recently by a mutual friend. This rightfully put her into the "don't touch" category.

I talked to a couple of cute girls with zero dating potential (i.e., lived out of state, interested in another guy there, not attractive, engaged) then found Sugarloaf and TheCaptain hitting on this girl Cougarette who teaches dance at an elementary school. She was there with a date but Sugarloaf managed to get her number with a sly trick. I hope he takes her out. Cougarette has the potential to have bunches of really cute friends that she could set me up with.

When the clock struck midnight and the ball dropped, I decided to kiss FarFarAway. She was just standing there looking around and so I walked over and planted one on her. I don't think she was expecting it. I don't think it was a dishonest kiss. It was short and closed mouth. The party was pretty much over so we took off.

On Saturday, GetErDone set me up on a blind date with LittleDebbie. LittleDebbie reminds me so much of a girl that one of my friends married. I didn't like either of them very much. I wasn't really attracted to LittleDebbie and her personality kinda irked me. The night was mostly uneventful. However, while hanging out at LittleDebbie's apartment, her very cute (and very snobby roommate) came home. Harassing the roommate was the highlight of my evening.

Side notes: Saw SouthernBelle at church on Sunday but didn't say hi. She has graduated from hanging out with the super nerdy girls in the ward to hanging out with some of the pretty cool girls. My interest in her has waned. I am very open right now to being set up on blind dates. Please find me a cute girl that isn't too snobby.