Posted on 02/09/2007 9:20:30 PM PST by snugs
Next week is Valentine's Day which for some of us if we are single can be depressing on the other hand we do not have the dilemma will We buy the right bottle of perfume, wine or box of chocolates. Will we pick the right restaurant, movie or play.
Instead of concentrating on the lack of a partner at the time of year lets look at the positives of our lives as singles. Places we can go, things we can do without having to negotiate with a partner.
Some may have children or elderly parents which means you are restricted but even so these are family members that most times offer unconditional love and support even if at times it does not seem like it. A partner gives love but often conditional love, a relationship that has to be worked at rather than being born into. There are great rewards in both and pressures in both.
As singles we can also appreciate and enjoy seeing happy couples this Valentines and sympathising with those who are just acting it out and being thankful once again that being single is preferable in many cases to pretending.
Be positive lets think of happy past Valentine Days maybe as a child for a lot of women when your father made you feel special. I know several families where the father always sends valentine cards to his daughters even though they are grown just to make sure they are not forgotten.
Come on all lets have fun and not dwell on what we do not have but celebrate that what we do have.
Oh dear...
Was it as bad as an Apple thread? Man, those get ugly. I never post, but I read sometimes. Train wrecks, all.
Much worse.
The Apple threads are often quite tame compared to the Linux threads.
And this one last night was worse than most of the bad Linux threads...
can you clarify that for me please!???
::laughing:: Just kidding!!!
don't mind me! i left the shy me back there a ways. i am finding the real me. i like to tease (not mean), joke around, and play (food fights, to clarify that!!!) ::grin::
hang in there, Os!
i am an artist, so very visual.
I'm not sure if I should be sorry I missed it or not.
I do love a good train wreck on occasion. ;-)
Which is probably why I foolishly wander onto the he-man women-hater / men-are-trolls threads. Flying mud - woo-hoo!
how do you "raise sheiks"? :;grin::
...if you have to ask, do you really want to know? (LOL)
Oh, right! I read that. I forgot you were the one who said it. My memory gets worse as I get older. Lol. ;)
FRiendships galore sounds like a fabulous idea. There are some really amazing FRiends around here...
Nice :) As you probably seen me mention before, I like to write. Writing is not exactly visual, but I might try to draw some of the characters (although thats a tall order, I have tried drawing people before, its difficult to say the least lol).
drawing...can be done by anyone, if you learn the techiniques... i prefer to draw other things, and am 'stylized' with my work...charcoal, pastels usually.
trussell posted some pics for me of my clay work, a while back.
would love to read some of what you write.
over-here ping ;)
I think we're not alone...
...remember where we were last night? ;)
hardly scientific! i want to see some room in the female brain for intelligent thought! (quiet in the peanut gallery!)
Nope. Wanna remind me? ;)
...scientific enough (LOL) 8^)
(obvious sarc--do i really need the tag?)
hey, you two! take it back to the closet!
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