Valentine's Weekend Gripe

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Hi MyLot, I admit that one of the many things I enjoy about this community is a place away from my other social media and the people who know me in real life. It's a place to vent about things that maybe I wouldn't in front of others. Alright, so usually I have a gripe about this time of year. Ages ago I broke up with my first serious boyfriend days before the Valentine's holiday. Ever since, I have never had anyone special on that date. As much as I would like to continue my gripe - I actually have a different one this year. So once again I'm single on Valentine's Day which should be no big surprise to me I guess. I get to sit by and watch as married/coupled friends get flowers, candy, and out of town weekends. And I get a dead cat. Yup. You read that right. So, one of my side gigs , is that I pet sit. Thing is my friends also ask me to come watch their pets when they go out of town. These friends have helped me with things in the past, so I don't mind. This year one of their cats was sick. I knew this. The cat had stopped eating and honestly had looked pretty bad for awhile. I'm slightly surprised they didn't have the cat put to sleep. But I try to be respectful, people feel all differently about that. Anyway, I go to check on their cats and I find the sick one has passed. So I had to call them, handle moving the dead cat, feed the living cats... it made me sad the cat was passed away. And then it triggered the whole spiral into this way of thinking.... "well, MAYBE if I was EVER able to actually ATTRACT ANYONE *I* could have romantic out of town weekends instead of having to deal with a dead cat". It isn't the nicest way to think... but... there it is all the same. Hope other people have had nicer Valentine's Day/Valentine's Weekend or "half Price Chocolate" day on 2/15 lol Link is to the clip from the "Wedding Singer" movie of Adam Sandler singing "Love Stinks"