Valenslimes

     As the title suggests, I am not a fan of this vile commercial "holiday".  Perhaps its because the only time that I have had a significant other on this day was also while she was studying abroad in Europe for months, and thus it was nothing spectacular.  I think I drew her a picture with crayons and mailed it.  I know, it was silly, although admittedly fun.  Now, my disdain for the day is probably due to my dislike of gooey, mushy, public shows of affection, as well as the high frequency of Tom Shane commercials on mainstream radio stations.  I don't know about anyone else, but I cannot stand that guy.  I'm not sure if it's his voice or the repetitiveness of his commercials or both, but when I hear it coming, I tell you what, my hand can't move any faster towards that next preset button.
     Lately, I feel like I have been receiving an unusually high amount of unsolicited attention from the members of the opposite gender.  I find this to be quite strange, especially since I think of myself as just an average chill guy, one that girls seldom actually take a serious interest in, but rather keep around as a friend.  I've grown accustomed to this and frankly, right now in my life, I haven't placed a high priority on dating, despite living in one of the largest and busiest dating pools.  When I moved here, I had a few people make jokes about or even just straight up ask me if I was going there to "find a wife".  Good grief.  There are other reasons for making a life changing relocation as I did.
     My usual style of asking a girl out is one where I prefer to get to know them in social settings and groups a little bit and then if I'm still interested and if I feel like they may also be interested, I'll make a move.  However, as I mentioned earlier, I haven't really made dating a priority at this point in my life.  Perhaps I should.  Really.  I'm 27.  Definitely a menace to society by now.  Shortly after the first of the year I was somewhat tricked into writing down a new years goal to date, and more specifically to beat my roommate.  Last term, my roommate had a crazy busy full class schedule, worked like 3 jobs, barely ever slept, and dated more than I did.  The guy is a freakin beast.  What did I do? Worked part time at one job, annnnnd yeah, thats it.  But going back to an earlier observation, recently various girls have been showing what I feel like is an unusual amount of attention for an average guy like myself.  I'm really not used to this phenomenon and honestly wasn't sure how to handle it.  I was definitely overwhelmed.  Then I got to thinking, hey, that February holiday is coming around again in a couple weeks... I think it's just making these girls go stark raving mad!  Okay, exaggeration.  But, still!  Anywho, I have tried to kinda play it cool and just be same old average self, and now that valenslimes is tomorrow I feel like the flames have cooled off a bit, and I'm okay with that, because all along, I've been making observations and taking mental notes.  Now I'm ready to start asking some of them out.  Hopefully it's not too obvious that I clearly didn't want anything to do with this meaningless holiday.  But if that bothers them too much, then they are probably not the right person for me.  Realistically though, I would have reacted the same if the scenario were any other time of year.
     So without further ado, here's tomorrow's schedule of events.  I will awake and go to work at the usual time and get off sometime around 6-7 hours later, depending on work load.  I will then make an incredible dinner from scratch with extra bacon and I will devour said dinner while enjoying a great man movie, The Last Samurai.  Following the movie, I will probably just go to bed and catch up on lost sleep from the previous few nights, including right now when I should be asleep rather than writing this drivel.  But yet, here I am.  Therefore I declare February Fourteenth to be a day just like any other day in which I might make an awesome dinner and watch an awesome movie.  Yes.  To be a single man tomorrow is a very pleasant bliss that I for one, intend to appreciate.  Goodnight.