#216 - v-day 2009

woo for terminator!

so it's valentine's day again. didn't buy myself any presents this year, nope instead i gave myself a mental/emotional present, i gave myself a break. i didn't make myself feel guilty or embarassed that i didn't have plans for v-day this year. i didn't feel sorry for myself because i'm 27 and still single. nope. i think it's just fine. i like it, in fact. what else should i do but like my life right now? the other options (feel pathetic, try and be something i'm not, complain my ass off) are pretty crappy. so i chose better for myself and had a great valentine's day.

first, i slept in, not too much, woke up at 8:30 but let myself fall asleep again until 10, which was a little later than i would've liked actually, but i felt energized after that. anyway, so i woke up, said good morning to my dino-buddy, took a quick shower, made breakfast (some leftover hash patties, an egg and rice), watched last night's terminator (again), then went to workout at 24hr (i like it on saturdays, not too crowded and there's a lot of different people there than just the regulars i see all week), treated myself to some maui taco for lunch, then went over to my parents' to help them move some furniture, took the dog out for a walk...
i haven't seen the dog in a long time, so it was really nice to play with her again, poor thing, i think she's neglected, well, probably not, but i just think that if you're a dog all you do all day is sleep, eat, and want attention, so if that's all you do all day how sad is it if your owners don't give you attention all day? well, not really, but y'know, so it was good to take her out for awhile. after that i went home, played some valentine-y songs on the piano, had dinner (my parents went to jp spaghetti so i got me some yummy pasta), watched basketball (poor UH, can't close the deal) and the final day of the sbs open... poor michelle wie, can't close the deal... but for those damn golf commentators, get over it, stop hating on wie, the women commentators sound like total snob-bitches to her, at least the male commentators are a little more objective, giving constructive criticism, but still, if you're michelle wie and you have the opportunities that she was presented with, why not take them? how can you fault her for that? after that i caught one more episode of man vs. wild, then watched the news and wrote this blog, next i will go to bed not feeling sorry for myself that i'm single on valentine's day (and i'm not even being sarcastic!).

i mean, it's not that i wouldn't like to have a romantic-type valentine's day, but that's just not what today was, no big. of course, it's much easier to think that way when you're not constantly hassled by people asking what your plans are for v-day (like all my co-workers did all last week), i think the week leading up to v-day is way worse than the actual day. of course, it's not like my co-workers didn't try to change that... since i'm like one of 4 males at my workplace (and the only young, single, and handsome one, haha) and all my co-workers are motherly-type semi-older ladies, they all feel like like it's their weekly goal to set me up with girls. of course, there's really not a lot going on at the workplace, but actually yesterday we went out to ruby tuesday and the waitress there was super pretty and sweet, i was semi-flirting with her (as much as i could while sitting at a table with three mom-type co-workers, haha) and by the time we left they were all telling me to leave my phone number on the credit card receipt, haha. i didn't, but it was a nice little pre-v-day encouragment, some random hot-ness to bring a little spark into my day. don't need to make a big thing of it, but definately a good day (and will have me thinking about going back to ruby tuesday very soon, haha).
besides, who needs v-day when you've got summer glau and eliza dushku on back-to-back on friday the 13th?! terminator and dollhouse together are totally awesome!! i love them both. what else can i say?
also, psych is actually on fridays (the new episodes). yesterday's episode was funny, it was on friday the 13th so it was kind of a spoof of camp horror movies. this is exactly the type of show that i like, i don't know what it's called so i'll call it "anti-seriousness." buffy had it, angel too, and firefly did it very well, terminator has just a little bit of it and you know that dollhouse will have it too. it's like, the opposite of shows like 24 or csi or law & order or heroes, those shows hammer the drama into you until every trip to the kitchen is a life or death event. the dialogue in those shows have two dynamics, whisper and frantic shout. those are the kind of shows that bore me to death. now, shows with "anti-seriousness" make light of the most dramatic situations, they realize that in real life people make mistakes (a lot of them very humorously), people get scared, people slip sometimes when they walk through the hall, no one speaks correctly all the time, and not all coincidences need to mean something. y'know what i mean? that makes good tv. just check out one of those shows and you'll see what i mean.

okay, that's it, goodnight and tomorrow it'll be february 15th.