Stay Or Leave....

Well Happy Valentine's Day peeps!  No, I did not have a hunny this year but I have some of the best girlfriends in the world that loved on me.
Plus I found these:

Raspberry M&M's!!!!  OMG I. Am. In. Love. For. Reals.

I started thinking about all of my past Valentine's Days and thought it might be fun to share them with you!

Senior year of High School:

My BF at the time (who turned out later to be NOT a nice guy) had each of my teachers give me a rose and a note with 2 lines from a poem he had written me.  When I got to my last class, my teacher turned on the song "My Girl" and handed me 1 dozen roses, a box of chocolates, a teddy bear, and the final copy of the poem.  Very sweet and AH-mazing when you're 17 years old.  By the way, we had only been dating for a month when this happened.

Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior years of college:

I'm sure these were spent with a deck of cards and a case of beer.  Hehehehe don't judge!

Senior year of college:

I was robbing the cradle at this time and dating a freshman.  He told me we were going to dinner with 2 of our friends but that he forgot his wallet at his big brother's apartment (yes, he was a Frat Daddy who lived in the dorms.  Hence the borrowed apartment). When we got to the apartment to "pick up his wallet" there were candles everywhere and a very sweet mixed cd (hahaha) playing.  The sweet boy had made me dinner AND dessert and had gotten me what he thought were the obligatory flowers and chocolates.  It actually was a really thought out plan.  His roommate stayed at the apartment and waited for a text saying we were on our way.  The roomie lit the candles and turned on the cd (I still have this cd BTW and its pretty great) and left before we walked in.  Looking back, that was one of the sweetest memories I have from the freshman.

We are going to fast forward a few years to Valentine's Day 2010.  There were a couple of sweet occurrences in the years between Sr year and 2010 but none really blog worthy.

V Day 2010

This was a weird one because I was involved in a long distance romance but we weren't officially BF-GF.  We both were very emotionally attached but due to the fact we lived in different cities it was hard to date. At the time I was choreographing and directing a production of Beauty and the Beast, I was broke as a joke, and just REALLY stressed out about where my life was headed.  I had made a comment on a friend's Facebook about making chocolate cupcakes because it was the only chocolate I was going to get for Valentine's Day and he had seen it.  In the middle of rehearsal, flowers and chocolates were delivered along with a very sweet card.  Unfortunately, things did not work out with this boy as much as we both tried (there is a blog post, or 7, here but tonight is not the night for that) but this was such a sweet gesture that showed me he really cared about me.

So all in all I guess I've had some pretty stellar Valentine's Day occurrences.  They just have been overshadowed by the fact that each of these relationships has ended.  I know that's not the most positive way to look at things but let's face it: when someone breaks your heart, you don't really want to remember the good things about them.  

I'm not one to be bitter about being single on Valentine's Day.  I brought my girls at work Chic-fil-a breakfast and then enjoyed brownies, cupcakes, and 3 different desserts from my bosses, clients, and dance students.  My mom sent me the sweetest card and my dad sent me a text.  I'm a pretty blessed girl, single or not.

While I was writing this, my favorite Dave song came on my iTunes, so I leave you with this: