IT IS VALENTINE'S DAY.
ARE YOU, LIKE ME, SINGLE YET AGAIN ON THIS AUSPICIOUS OCCASION OF ANNUAL RECOGNITION OF ONE'S SIGNIFICANT OTHER THROUGH THE EXCHANGING OF MASS-PRODUCED GREETING CARDS, DAIRY CONFECTIONS AND MASS-MARKET JEWELRY, AND WISHING YOU TOO COULD PARTAKE IN THIS RED AND PINK GLITTER FESTOONED SOCIAL CONVENTION? WELL IF YOU WERE NOT YET AWARE, THE MEDIA HAS MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT IT IS ENTIRELY YOUR OWN FAULT THAT YOU ARE ALONE AND LONELY AS EVERYONE KNOWS ALL NORMAL WOMEN HAVE A ROMANTIC AND SENSITIVE MAN WITH AN APPROPRIATE SALARY AVAILABLE TO ASSIST YOU IN CELEBRATING THIS MOST TIME-HONORED AND IMPORTANT TRADITION.
THANKFULLY, THE VISIONARIES BEHIND THIS EDUCATIONAL VIDEO HAVE EXPERT ADVICE TO HELP US AVOID THE UNENVIABLE POSITION OF ONCE AGAIN BEING SHUT OUT OF THIS EVENT NEXT YEAR. I HOPE YOU FIND THIS AS USEFUL AND EYE-OPENING AS I HAVE:
OH, THE EIGHTIES. NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE. <3
NGL my favorite part is that they tell you you should learn about sports to meet a man, but then they add that if sports hurt your delicate feminine brain, just pick the player that is most attractive to you and talk about him. Because obviously, all men are attracted to women who don't actually care about sports but just say they do to get a man, and especially ones who try to flirt with men by going on about how hot [INSERT PLAYER HERE] is. FAIL WITHIN A FAIL.
This week started out on a high note, with last Saturday having been my birthday and getting to celebrate first with so_severus and that_i_can_see, and then partying hard at the st_nyc_gqmfs' Clue/Star Trek/Sherlock Holmes Murder Mystery Party Of Epic Win and Awesome. 8D
The rest of the week has been pretty lame, what with my laptop deciding to give me the blue screen of death (okay I may have spilled tea on it, but I do that all the time and this is the first time it's decided to actually get pissy about it), and like most years, suffering through relentless Valentine's day ads the week after my birthday, as if to say "HAHA YOU'RE ANOTHER YEAR OLDER AND STILL SINGLE YOU LOOOOOOOOOOOSERRRRRR." FML. Oh, and I haven't even mentioned the part where I'm unemployed again and looking for work again. I can't even.
So this weekend I'm at my mom's, so that I can be near a functioning computer, and she got me Season 2 of Big Bang Theory as a b-day gift so we've been watching that, interspersed with the Olympics. (Speaking of men and sports, I feel bad for the Georgian luge team tragedy, but can we please discuss how epic the thighs are on male luge-ists? I mean, UNF. They can slide down *my*, uh, ice chute, anytime.)
Monday is President's Day. I still don't understand the point of that "holiday" either, all I know is there's no mail which means one extra day I have to wait for my next Netflix to arrive >:( Now that I've finished all of Enterprise, I'm rewatching Voyager. :D (Starting with S2, because even I'll admit S1 is unwatchable.)
I also finally saw The Hangover, which is hilarious and clever, though I don't know why anyone thought it should be nominated for any awards. And I saw Paranormal Activity, which despite watching at 1 am alone in my apartment, failed to scare me at all. In fact halfway through the movie I was already cheering for the ghost. The ending (both versions) were unimaginative and I don't understand the hype. I was too distracted by how fake the "characters" and "setting" were. The girl was fucking annoying, and what twentysomething unmarried no-kids couple would have a house like that, regardless of income? She didn't even seem to have a job other than making shitty necklaces to sell on Etsy, and their house looked more like a gated community model home than a real twentysomething household. Three bedrooms and generic Pier 1 decor? And supposedly this is his house? Bitch please. Not to mention the living room that looked like it was straight out of an amateur porn (actually, the whole movie felt like amateur porn, sans porn. In fact adding porn would have been an improvement.) There went 2 hours of my life I will never have back.
IN CLOSING, PEGGY OLSON AND I WISH YOU A WONDERFULLY GENDER ROLE-APPROPRIATE VALENTINE'S DAY.
THANKFULLY, THE VISIONARIES BEHIND THIS EDUCATIONAL VIDEO HAVE EXPERT ADVICE TO HELP US AVOID THE UNENVIABLE POSITION OF ONCE AGAIN BEING SHUT OUT OF THIS EVENT NEXT YEAR. I HOPE YOU FIND THIS AS USEFUL AND EYE-OPENING AS I HAVE:
Click to viewOH, THE EIGHTIES. NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE. <3
NGL my favorite part is that they tell you you should learn about sports to meet a man, but then they add that if sports hurt your delicate feminine brain, just pick the player that is most attractive to you and talk about him. Because obviously, all men are attracted to women who don't actually care about sports but just say they do to get a man, and especially ones who try to flirt with men by going on about how hot [INSERT PLAYER HERE] is. FAIL WITHIN A FAIL.
This week started out on a high note, with last Saturday having been my birthday and getting to celebrate first with so_severus and that_i_can_see, and then partying hard at the st_nyc_gqmfs' Clue/Star Trek/Sherlock Holmes Murder Mystery Party Of Epic Win and Awesome. 8D
The rest of the week has been pretty lame, what with my laptop deciding to give me the blue screen of death (okay I may have spilled tea on it, but I do that all the time and this is the first time it's decided to actually get pissy about it), and like most years, suffering through relentless Valentine's day ads the week after my birthday, as if to say "HAHA YOU'RE ANOTHER YEAR OLDER AND STILL SINGLE YOU LOOOOOOOOOOOSERRRRRR." FML. Oh, and I haven't even mentioned the part where I'm unemployed again and looking for work again. I can't even.
So this weekend I'm at my mom's, so that I can be near a functioning computer, and she got me Season 2 of Big Bang Theory as a b-day gift so we've been watching that, interspersed with the Olympics. (Speaking of men and sports, I feel bad for the Georgian luge team tragedy, but can we please discuss how epic the thighs are on male luge-ists? I mean, UNF. They can slide down *my*, uh, ice chute, anytime.)
Monday is President's Day. I still don't understand the point of that "holiday" either, all I know is there's no mail which means one extra day I have to wait for my next Netflix to arrive >:( Now that I've finished all of Enterprise, I'm rewatching Voyager. :D (Starting with S2, because even I'll admit S1 is unwatchable.)
I also finally saw The Hangover, which is hilarious and clever, though I don't know why anyone thought it should be nominated for any awards. And I saw Paranormal Activity, which despite watching at 1 am alone in my apartment, failed to scare me at all. In fact halfway through the movie I was already cheering for the ghost. The ending (both versions) were unimaginative and I don't understand the hype. I was too distracted by how fake the "characters" and "setting" were. The girl was fucking annoying, and what twentysomething unmarried no-kids couple would have a house like that, regardless of income? She didn't even seem to have a job other than making shitty necklaces to sell on Etsy, and their house looked more like a gated community model home than a real twentysomething household. Three bedrooms and generic Pier 1 decor? And supposedly this is his house? Bitch please. Not to mention the living room that looked like it was straight out of an amateur porn (actually, the whole movie felt like amateur porn, sans porn. In fact adding porn would have been an improvement.) There went 2 hours of my life I will never have back.
IN CLOSING, PEGGY OLSON AND I WISH YOU A WONDERFULLY GENDER ROLE-APPROPRIATE VALENTINE'S DAY.