Fly Me to the Moon

I have a new Valentine's Day tradition. I found it oddly comforting today to listen to my Frank Sinatra/Michael Bublé pandora playlist, wash the mile high pile of dishes on my desk, clean my room, put on make-up--including lipstic... For some reason domesticity hit me today, and it hit me hard. I even put heels on to get ready. It wasn't a wonder I didn't vacuum or wash the windows or tie my hair up in a floral print scarf. Saint Valentine bitch slapped me all the way to 1950.

You may very well be wrinkling your brow thinking, why did Valentine's Day bother you, don't you have a boyfriend. Yes, yes I do. A boyfriend far away in a land I left. Long distance relationships are weird on Valentine's Day. You aren't being taken out, you don't get flowers, or candy, or the other consumer products Hallmark beats men over the head with. You also don't get invited to the singleton party--metaphorically speaking. It's a bizarre limbo in which you, apparently, become the mom from Happy Days... I don't quite understand it yet.

This Valentine's Day was especially...weird... Because I haven't p exactly on the most stable terms with the beau for the last 24 hours... I mean we are all made up but it did mean waking up on Valentine's Day wasn't like waking up in a Romantic Comedy. Or if it was, it was like waking up during the dramatic part where no one knows who will end up with who but there's a lot of heated discussion and you can only pray it ends with a kiss as the credits role.

Well the credits aren't rolling, yet. But after recovering from the relationship icu I spent the rest of the day in a domestic haze. I even gave motherly advice to two friends about their love lives. I still can't believe I washed dishes. I'm glad the day ended, I was about to head down to the laundry room.

You can do whatever psychologic interpretation of that as you want, but I think it might stay a tradition. I quite liked how relaxing it felt. Especially with Sinatra and Bublé crooning their love in my ear all day. Their music flew my to the moon.