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Happy National Singles Week!
Honestly, I didn’t even know such a thing exsisted until I was doing a bit of surfing this morning looking for inspiration. I didn’t get a card. No one called to wish me a happy week. There were no wishes for a happy week on my Facebook wall. Maybe the cats knew, but they weren’t talking. I wonder how it escaped me. It is, it seems, a week tailored just for me. Well, for me and the other 92 million unmarried Americans in the U.S.
In case you, like me, had no idea such a thing even exsisted I decided to do a little research to enlighten you. National Singles Week has apparently been around for about 20 years when it was started by the Buckeye Singles Council. Though it’s virtually been a state secret, apparently a couple of online greeting card companies do make cards for the occasion. In 2001, the American Association for Single People tried to raise awareness, but the tragic events of 9-11 overshadowed their efforts.
So what, I wonder, does one do to celebrate National Singles Week? I mean obviously, unlike mother’s day or my birthday, the very nature of the whole thing means I should celebrate on my own right? Sounds like fun doesn’t it?
Okay seriously though, there are a lot of reasons to celebrate being single and living alone. Here are my top ten:
10. No one nags at me to pick up my socks or my wet towel off the bathroom floor. The cats could really care less. In fact, Andi loves it when I leave wet towels lying around because she likes to lay on them.
9. I don’t ever have to deal with in-laws. They don’t come to visit. I don’t have to decide whether or not to go to their house for the holidays. No one tells me I’m not good enough for their son.
8. I can go where I want, when I want and never have to worry about checking in or coming home late. Though the cats might give me disapproving looks if I stumble in late after one too many, they never say a word. Well, not a word I can understand anyway.
7. I can eat whatever I want for dinner wherever I want to eat it. If I’m in the mood for Cap’n Crunch, then that’s what I eat. If I want to eat it in bed or on the sofa, that’s what I do. Popcorn? You’re damn skippy. Someone once told me if you have popcorn in the house, you’ll never starve. They didn’t tell me it makes a great Sunday night dinner.
6. No one says a word if I don’t shower until 3 in the afternoon on the weekends. I can schlep around all nasty all day if I feel so inclined.
5. I only have to do laundry once a week. After raising two daughters, you have no idea the joy this brings me. Three or four loads tops once a week. It’s a beautiful thing!
4. Tax returns are a breeze. They’re all me, all the time. No waiting on someone else’s W-2s or that messy filing jointly business. Easy, breezy.
3. I have total control over the remote. There are no fights over who’s going to watch what. I don’t have to deal with some man channel surfing. And my weekends don’t have to be filled with whatever sporting event or playoff game is on.
2. There’s no pressure to remember anniversaries or birthdays never mind find the perfect gift. Valentine’s Day (Ugh!) is simply an excuse to go out with the girls. Besides, speaking of Valentine’s Day, couples get a day; singles get a whole stinkin’ week. Take that!
1. No one cares if I run around the house naked. I have the house to myself. I can hang out all day in my birthday suit. I can break out the sex toys and have a party on the couch. I can watch porn whenever I want. No one says a word. Sounds like a good way to celebrate the week, don’t you think?
How are you going to celebrate your week?
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auntiegwen September 21st, 2009, 12:14 pm
Happy National Singles week, I’m sure after that top 10 you want even want a man !!!!
Honey September 21st, 2009, 1:15 pm
Your reasons sound great!