Single On V-Day? Embrace Your Inner Cat Lady
5 fabulous activities for Valentine's Day singles.
Single on Valentine's Day? Awesome. Who cares about the multitudes of gooey couples going out to crowded restaurants with overpriced prix fixe menus. Bad chocolate, balloons and (ick) teddy bears? No thank you, we know how to really have fun. 5 Worst Valentine's Day Gifts
Taking a cue from Drew Barrymore's Golden Globe-winning performance as ultimate cat lady Edith "Little Edie" Beale in Grey Gardens we feel this year it's time to embrace the hipness of singledom, spinsterhood, or so-called Crazy Cat Lady-ness! Here are some ideas on how to make the most notorious day of the year for romance a total blast for you and your single friends. 5 Benefits To Being Single On Valentine's Day
First, to get in the mood, check out these alpha cat ladies unabashedly sharing their love of felines. Martha Stewart recently dedicated an entire show to cats (including having 50 cats in the audience!) and spoke with penultimate cat lady Grace Coddington of Vogue, about her love of "Dominant Calico Persians":
If Martha feels comfortable waving her cat flag on national TV, then we can certainly do so in the privacy of our own homes.
Some ideas:
1. Invite some single friends over and have a tongue-in-cheek spinster party. Dress up however you imagine a spinster to, make a fun cocktail for the evening, play music and generally revel in how fabulous you all are and how you can do whatever you want because you're single! Party favors could include the Crazy Cat Lady doll and cat food-scented soap!
2. An evening of total seclusion to do whatever the heck you want. Buy every food you secretly crave but are too proud to eat in public e.g. crackers with cheese in a can, pickles and peanut butter, ice cream with potato chips, etc. Play all of your guilty pleasure music, read trashy magazines, do face masks, experiment with hair styles, dance in your underwear. In other words, let it all hang out. Alone But NOT Lonely
3. Go on an adventure. Round up some of your favorite people and do something anti-V-day. Sneak in to a public pool and go skinny dipping, play mini golf, go bowling, go out on the town with fake names (cat names? Muffy?) and tell tall tales to the people you meet.
4. Do something for the community. If you are the sort to rue your single status on Valentine's Day, do something to focus your energy outside of yourself. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, organize a food and clothing drive at your office or, perhaps, adopt a kitten (wink, wink).
That is a great way to celebrate valentines. You could always watch movies with your friends. I'm excited to see the Superman reboot film, if it does make it to production, but I am getting a little tired of all the reboots and sequels that keep coming out. Granted, reboots can be really good – the Hulk movie with Ed Norton wasn't bad, and Christopher Nolan did knock it out of the park with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, so his Superman reboot might be worth a payday loans worth after all. That said, it would be nice if they came up with something original that wasn't completely awful for once. It seems the only original scripts are really generic and lame rom-coms.
