Single This Valentine’s Day? Here Are A Couple Things You Can Do Instead of Staying In Miserable (For the Ladies)

 

Valentine’s Day or better yet, the official Hallmark holiday, has approached the masses. The majority of men hate this holiday, as they should. It is just an excuse for their significant others to demand they show how much they love them by spending money on flowers that die, chocolate that gets eaten and cards that ultimately get thrown away.

Yes, I know, I sound so cynical and maybe I am because I am a part of another group that hates this joke of a holiday… single girls. We are forcibly surrounded by our coupled up friends and bombarded by sappy romantic date night ads.

It is only natural to throw some sort of internal pity party, especially because there are not too many options for us single ladies. However, here is a list of the most practical ways for a single girl to spend her Valentine’s Day.

Single Girls Night

One of the best options by far is to spend the evening with your fellow single ladies. Why not spend the holiday meant to glorify relationships by celebrating your single-dom. I would recommend going balls out and get an anti-valentine’s day piñata. You know you have wanted to ever since you saw Jennifer Garner hit the crap out of one in the movie “Valentine’s Day.”

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Tinder it Up

Some may feel the need to go on an actual date on Valentine’s Day, and for those individuals, Tinder makes that option a quick fix. But as Tinderella suggests, you are most likely not going to find the love of your life and instead go home with a void temporarily filled and a possible STD. There is nothing wrong with Tinder, but I would be hesitant with who you are meeting up with as it is a good time of year for men to prey on vulnerable women.

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Your Parents’ Third Wheel

Most hate to admit it, but sometimes the best cure for a lonely heart is to spend time with people who love you unconditionally. There is no shame in hanging out with your parents in this situation. I would gladly take a date where I will be able to order my favorite pasta and wine without wondering if it makes me look fat and still be told how beautiful and awesome I am. I will even order dessert with zero f*cks given.

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A Night in with a Tub of Ice-cream

I will admit that this year on Valentine’s Day, all I want to do is stay home with my favorite flavored ice cream in my most comfortable sweatpants and watch my favorite guilty pleasure in the great movie “One Fine Day.” Sometimes a bit of wallowing in your own relationship despair is necessary.

When you feel something as unsettling as the loneliness it is better to release that in a positive way rather than to internalize it in an unhealthy way. So this Valentine’s Day, it’s okay to cry and be sad while you immerse yourself in romantic movies that will make your heart break.

Whichever way you decide to spend this hallmark holiday, just know there is no wrong decision. In instances as these, it is better to look out for number one, because we are the only ones who have to deal with our emotions, and you know yourself best.

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Fresh Tunes: Tim Stacks (@Timstacks_) “Day 1”

NC Rapper Tim Stacks debut mixtape  NEW ERA  will Be releasing next Monday February 3rd. But before he releases his tape, he is back with a new single featuring Jerm (@Jerm9v) Titled “Day 1” with some production from NC Producer Fuego (@TheStudioBreh). Listen to it here:

Adriana Lima Covers Harper’s Bazaar February Issue

Adriana Lima makes her usual fierceness known on this cover! We are hear for it! I mean look at her!

 

Fresh Looks: Kanye West Covers Interview Magazine

Quietly, I  have been over Kanye West interviews for some time but this is a bit more interesting than I first thought it might be. Kanye sat with Director Steve McQueen for this interview and he actually was a mild version of his anal self and the images shot by Steven Klien are phenomenal. Here are some highlights of quotes from the interview:

How his car accident led to “The College Dropout”

Before I was more willing to give my time to people and things that I wasn’t as interested in because somehow I allowed myself to be brainwashed into being forced to work with other people or on other projects that I had no interest in. So simply, the accident gave me the opportunity to do what I really wanted to do. I was a music producer, and everyone was telling me that I had no business becoming a rapper, so it gave me the opportunity to tell everyone, “Hey, I need some time to recover.” But during that recovery period, I just spent all my time honing my craft and making The College Dropout. 

The Bound 2 video…

I think people are afraid of dreams, and that video is one of the closest things to the way that dreams look and feel, or the way joy looks and feels, with the colors. You know, I think there are rules to fashion, with the all-black everything, and rules to art, with white galleries. There are rules to how a lot of things are: the concrete jungle, stone pavement, brick walls. There are even rules to what a Brooklyn apartment looks like. But this video completely didn’t respect any of those rules whatsoever. [laughs] It’s a dream, and I think the controversy comes from the fact that I don’t think most people are comfortable with their own dreams, so it’s hard for them to be comfortable with other people’s dreams. 

His definition of success

Well, influence isn’t my definition of success—it’s a by-product of my creativity. I just want to create more. I would be fine with making less money. I actually spend the majority of my money attempting to create more things. Not buying things or solidifying myself or trying to make my house bigger, or trying to show people how many Louis Vuitton bags I can get, or buying my way to a good seat at the table. My definition of success, again, is getting my ideas out there.

Go get the issue to read the rest.