Un Valentines Day Memories

Current mood: annoyed
Category: Romance and Relationships
Originally posted on February 15, 2007

I know this is a day late, but it took me a while to actually type this out. Valentines day and I have had a bad track record over the years. Some statements are things I have never revealed until now. My Asiaphile blog will be back next week.

4^th grade:

My class had a contest for making Valentines mailboxes, I made the sorriest looking box in the class. The kid who made the winning box, didn't even look like a mail box. And it looked like he didn't build it himself.

5^th grade:

My teacher was a bitch and got mad about something I forgot what, but she was so mad the class that she cancelled Valentines day on Valentines day morning. We weren't allowed to pass out valentines and she didn't want to see us doing it secretly either. We did pass them out during recess and lunch, but nobody cared about my valentines they just wanted the candy I was handing out.

6^th grade:

I had planned to go to a valentines dance with my hot new Clueless-esque outfit. I thought I looked so hot in my polyester XOXO brand black cargo mini with silver snaps and contrasting white stitching. I thought that skirt looked very "Rachel" (from Friends), my polyester flower print shirt with pearly buttons, black knee socks, and patent leather penny loafers. Now if that outfit doesn't scream 1996 I don't know what does. First off I didn't know mini skirt etiquette very well and I ended up having some embarrassing results. I ate some really nasty macaroni for lunch. The dance was bust. The worse thing was that that was my first dance ever. I remember one of the chaperone teachers told me that the boys pay money to sit on a bench and they don't even enter the dance. My feet were killing me in those shoes, so I ended up walking home barefoot and catching the end of Oprah.

7^th grade:

If I remember correctly this year was pretty mellow. Well except this girl wanted me to give her all my Winnie the Pooh valentines because she really wanted them and I really wanted the Sailor Moon ones she had. You know if either of us was smart enough we could have proposed a trade.

8^th grade:

I celebrated Valentines Day on Friday the 13^th because it fell on a Saturday and I wouldn't be at school on a Saturday. People were more concerned about Valentines Day than Friday the 13^th and bad luck. I didn't wear red because I was wearing my lucky shirt which was navy blue. I didn't really like red back then, but I kinda wore red because my shirt had red in it.

9^th grade:

Valentines Day was celebrated on the 12^th because it fell on a Sunday that year. They day before (the 11th) I had watched the video for "Just a Girl" and I felt inspired by it. So I felt like dressing like Gwen, like that is a surprise. So I wore my pants low and my shirt high and a high ponytail. I went to a Valentines day dance at lunch. (my 2^nd dance ever and ironically a Valentines one) It was a pretty cheap dance because it was held during lunch. I was cold at the dance because I thought I looked really cool dressed like Gwen, and I didn't cover up my midsection. I ended up getting sick a few days later. I was also crushing on this guy and I was tempted to buy a Sailor Moon Valentines gram and send it anonymously, but I didn't know which class he was in. I spent that Valentines day moping around a feeling sorry for myself.

10^th and 11^th grade:

These years were pretty mellow nothing really to report here other than me being single and bitter about it.

12^th grade:

I was reading the February 2002 issue of Teen and there was an article about girls who celebrated un-valentines day I got the idea to not celebrate it that year. By then I was already sick of it, and being single didn't help either. When you are in junior high and high school it seems like Valentines day is being crammed down your throat. One of the ideas I got from the magazine was to wear all black because it was your way of not showing your "love" for the holiday by wearing colors like pink, red, and purple. So I wore all black except for my red and white striped socks because I thought they were very "Gwen" and very cute. I wanted to wear my pants like she had wore them at the Billboard awards 2 months earlier in December. I still think black knicker pants and red and white striped socks look cool. So that was the only red thing I was wearing. This girl got mad at me because she said I copied her. She was wearing a short sleeved red and white striped shirt. How could I have copied her? I was wearing striped socks and she was wearing a striped shirt. I don't see how those are the same thing. Plus I was trying to copy Gwen anyway.

2003, 1^st year of college:

I was going to try and experience my 1^st Valentines day in college. Aside from seasonal Conversation Hearts being sold at the student store. I actually forgot the holiday was coming up. That year I didn't feel bad about being single or anything like that . I was going to go to school on Valentines day that year, but I got sick and never made it to school.

2005 3^rd year of college:

I actually forgot it was Valentines day that year until I saw people on the street wearing red and pink. By then I was so over that and I hadn't wore red on Valentines day since that incident in 2002.

2006 4^th year of college:

I had written about this Valentines day in a blog last year. Ok I only wrote about wearing my black Cena shirt and professing my love for him.

Aside from what I wrote in the blog I saw a lot of people on the bus in festive colors pink, red and purple. My writing teacher was decked out in red and made us write about Valentines day. The day before there were these 2 girls in my math class who were complaining about how their boyfriends were treating them on Valentines day. But those girl seemed to have a "high school" mentality.

As for this year I didn't do anything, and that was the best way to celebrate.

As a special treat here is a list of some of my more remembered Valentines day outfits broken down by year.

6^th grade, 1996- Clueless-esque outfit

8^th grade 1998- Navy No Doubt ringer shirt

9^th grade 1999- A crop top and low cargo pants and a high ponytail

11^th grade 2001- Sailor Moon shirt

12^th grade 2002- Black outfit with red and white striped socks

4^th year of college 2006- Black John Cena shirt