I liked things a bit better when I was much younger, a lot smarter, and broke up with any and all girlfriends right before Thanksgiving and didn't make up or get a new one until April or June.(my birthday is in June)
Didn't have to go to their house for Thanksgiving dinner.
Didn't have to buy 'em a Christmas gift, go to any of their dumb Christmas Parties.
Didn't have to eat awful Christmas Day dinners at their Aunt Margaret's place with 20 linoleum lizards and rug rats running about with their noisy new death ray Christmas presents.
Didn't have to sit thru the drudgery of watching a specific 'her' and all her friends get sloppy drunk/sick on New Year eve or eat yet another boring & uninspired New Year Day dinner.
Make up or get a new one before Easter was about the right timeline, as I really didn't mind going to Easter church services and, ... watching bratty kids bawl because they didn't find many eggs wasn't too much of an ordeal, and of course, there is something to be said for 'making up' .......if ya get my drift..........
It saved me 100s (thousands? )of $$ over the years..not having to buy flowers, jewelry, heart shaped boxes of expensive candy, the latest greatest gadget, bottles of good wine to take to the host's house when we ate, or listening to the never ending drama young women deem to be some sort of rite of passage or asset.
Ah, the joy of exercising one's unalienable right to the happiness of pursuit..
Then, I actually caught one (or got caught..depending which story one believes) and all that changed...
