Valentine's Day

Ah Valentine's Day. The day that makes single people super aware that they're single, as in single awareness day lol. It was always great to feel left out wasn't it? Especially when people bragged about the things they'd get from their partners.

James and I hate Valentine's Day in that obviously we were bitter single people for most of them. Well, except for me, but my anti-romantic boyfriends never did a thing for me on Valentine's Day so I might as well have been single. In high school especially, and middle school, you'd see the girls going around showing off the roses, huge teddy bears and boxes of chocolates they'd get from their boyfriends. You'd see them posting it on facebook and other social media. It was even bad in elementary school where you'd have the Valentine's bags open on your desks and only the popular people would get a lot and I'd be like Ralph Wiggum and barely get any, well he got none but I'd get maybe 5 - 10 while other kids got one from almost everyone in the class.

Also there were those stupid candy grams and obviously only popular people would get any amount. I'd sometimes get one from my closest friends but most of the time I didn't get any or send any myself. So that's how I came to be bitter about Valentine's Day. Yet at the same time, I still wished I had a boyfriend who would do cute, cheesy things for me, because hell I'm a Libra, my planet is Venus, and I need romance dammit.

I asked James what he'd do for me if he was here, and he said he'd give me flowers and chocolates, take me to dinner, then bring me back home so we could cuddle and watch movies and stuff. I'm like where have you been all my life? He hasn't had a girlfriend before me, therefore he's been single on Valentine's Day until now. I'm not sure if we'll spend a Valentine's Day together during our long distance part of the relationship, but I imagine at some point we will if we want to live together someday.

I've made something cute and cheesy for him, so I don't know if I'll mail it or just wait until he gets here to give it to him as a belated V-Day gift. I might mail it though. Also I'll send him a telegram, I found a website that sends telegrams so that's cool, it's only like 7$ plus 1$ for a photo or something like that. He's into old-fashioned stuff like that so I know he'll like it a lot. I can't mail him anything until he moves so it might be late for V-Day but at least it'll be something. Plus I'll send him a card I guess. I don't have much money right now since I don't have a job and any money I get between now and when he gets here is going towards the trip, but I'm sure I can spare a buck or two for a card and a telegram.

Anyway, those are my thoughts on Valentine's Day. It's harder when you're in an LDR for sure, but like I said, if you're on a budget like me, you can do the telegram thing or just send a nice card with a cute photo. Maybe even hand-make the card. I know James likes hand-made stuff. However, if you can afford it, go all out and send them a whole bouquet of roses or a big box of chocolates lol.

105 more days until I finally meet him <3