Single? You have the right to be jolly!
Hello single people out there! I know this is official couples season. It’s the time of year when people are getting engaged, taking vacations together, and behaving like lovesick teens. It’s sweet! It’s endearing. It’s also …absolutely annoying to see at times.
Don’t get me wrong, I love romance and watching people fall in love. What I don’t like is getting the pity looks, sympathetic stares, and “your time will come” spiels from the smug and coupled up. Just because it is couples season doesn’t mean I have to be depressed about not being in a relationship! I have the right to be jolly!
If you are determined to make it through the next couple of weeks, you are going to need a game plan. Where will you go? What will you do? Where can you go to avoid the holiday madness?
Do you ever feel down about being single this time of year?
If you are single right now, how do you maintain your holiday cheer?
What is the best part of being unattached during the holidays?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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Leggs
December 15th, 2011
11:43 am
Senior dues cover the graduation but why not march across the stage, get your diploma, shake hands, turn tassel to other side of cap and at the end of the ceremony toss your hat in the air and call it a day (lol).
Anyway, back to regular scheduled session on being jolly around the holidays. As long as no jolly, fat arse drunken man bother me, I am good (lol).
SlimNu
December 15th, 2011
11:43 am
Can one of yall let Ryan Gossling know he needs to callll me too
SexyCool
December 15th, 2011
11:50 am
kimmie – that 1046a – chuuuuuurch!
kimmie
December 15th, 2011
11:52 am
Leggs – That pleather diploma-cover, cap, gown & tassel, rental of venue where that stage is, printed programs – all cost money. Even if they had it in the gym, there would still be some costs associated. Everything is just super-costly now.
disco
December 15th, 2011
11:53 am
hey y’all. I’m a day late and a dollar short but I made it. so…. y’all are talking new years celebrations. folks got outfits picked out or do you have to go shopping? guess my real question is – what are you wearing?
a friend of mine just had twins graduate high school in 2011. that chick started crying the blues about this time last year and just stopped crying a few months ago. I ran across my son’s overpriced yearbook last weekend. think it was about $75. the boy didn’t even value it enough to take it with him when he left.
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
11:55 am
yep Kimmie! I didn’t want to type all that but that is what the funds cover….We are planning the senior picnic now and the cater laughed @ me with my projected cost for 400 people so money talks BS walks….#payme
Leggs
December 15th, 2011
11:55 am
@kimmie ~ I ask because in the north we didn’t do any of that (wait, I forgot, I graduated around the time dirt was forming)….carry on!
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
11:58 am
Leggs that is not the first time I heard that comparison but I never lived there so I can’t confirm but I heard WTF from many Northerners regards this and other stuff in school we do and they don’t…..shrugs
kimmie
December 15th, 2011
11:58 am
Leggs – Hubs said they did it up in Cleveland.
Dirt forming – you crazy!! LOL!!!
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
11:58 am
3pm please come kindly……sigh lol
Leggs
December 15th, 2011
12:00 pm
I’m not saying WTF necessarily, since we are in the South. When in Rome….nuf said.
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:00 pm
got you
Leggs
December 15th, 2011
12:01 pm
@kimmie ~ when I graduated polyester was all the rage (roflmao) and this acronym wasn’t even thought about!
kimmie
December 15th, 2011
12:03 pm
disco – dang, I remember our yearbooks were $20. Had they been $75 I probably wouldn’t have gotten one!
kimmie
December 15th, 2011
12:04 pm
Leggs – It’s back in, you know!LOL!!
Leggs
December 15th, 2011
12:05 pm
@Just remembered this. In cafe this morning, a regular from the credit union is at the counter. He tips his hat and winks. Nothing unusual there. I was talking with another coworker so when he walks by he asks me to stop in the back where he eats his breakfast with others. He says he just wanted to tell me how nice I look in my dress. I say thank you and pivot to walk away. He says “today is my last day here until the new year and I would love to speak with you over the holidays. Can I have your number?” Ummmm,
Hell no he didn’t. I sit down and look him square in the his eys saying aren’t you a married man of 30+ years? You should be shamed. He laughs and says “thought I try, but I knew you wouldn’t bite.” Foolish man and disrespectful to his wife (no I don’t know her, thank goodness).
Ladies, are you finding you’re getting hit upon more and more over the holidays by married men???
Leggs
December 15th, 2011
12:06 pm
Just trying to keep the blog moving with convo….
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:09 pm
that is nothing new Leggs…lol
disco
December 15th, 2011
12:09 pm
heck – forget the big school expenses. even school lunches got me. in my day there was free, reduced and full price. reduced lunch was 40 cents and full price was 80 cents. before it was all said and done I was allotting my son $4/day for school lunch. (I think lunch was around $2.50 or so and I allowed for a la carte items). folks told me that I should let him pack lunch but those folks obviously didn’t understand that it wasn’t worth it. boys eat too much. I’d have been pitching a fit every time I went in the kitchen and there wasn’t any bread.
Leggs
December 15th, 2011
12:15 pm
@Lady, I know, I know…
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:15 pm
disco my cater I called was my friend go figured and he laughed so my point is food is high but you know this…lol I asked for $5.50 pp but that was a joke apparently lol
SexyCool
December 15th, 2011
12:16 pm
Fion – that 1121a – yuuup!!! (Sounding like Dave from Storage Wars…lol)
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:17 pm
Toni Barxton wants out of Braxton Values! I can’t half blame her either! smh lol
SexyCool
December 15th, 2011
12:19 pm
NYE – at home with TheDude, at church or something *really* lowkey with friends and family.
Oh…and depending on exactly what we’re doing – trying to actually stay awake until midnight.
cba
December 15th, 2011
12:20 pm
Lady~ I know you have guys lined up trying to holla at you……..you love and talk football, PRICELESS. My first two dates with the wife were football games, Ft Valley vs Morris Brown and Falcons vs Jets. Now she just agitates me while I try to watch the games
Leggs~ that was a bold azz brotha, apparently he doesn’t know you very well LOL
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:23 pm
cba plenty but the ones of substance and value and same compatibly to date for real (far and few between) I really like the game though so I don’t use it as a bait. I am who I am on and off the blog. lol
SlimNu
December 15th, 2011
12:23 pm
Leggs – I don’t think holidays make a difference. It could be the last day on earth and they will try you
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:24 pm
you and your wife are adorable! she has a good brotha!
Leggs
December 15th, 2011
12:26 pm
@cba ~ he started to right his number down since I wouldn’t give him mine. Told him there’s no need for him to do that. Again he laughed. Well, one day he’s going to actually “catch” someone and his laughig will be short lived. Probably already pulled a “Herman Cain!”
Leggs
December 15th, 2011
12:27 pm
write…
disco
December 15th, 2011
12:28 pm
lady – I’m not even a caterer and I almost laughed at your $5.50/pp. I would have been like “good luck with that”.
leggs – you should have asked him to write his wife’s number down.
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:29 pm
Lawd Herman Cain gonna wear all jokes for being silly lol smh I heard a HC joke this morning as my co-worker attempted to embrace me! MEN! lol
Leggs
December 15th, 2011
12:29 pm
@disco ~ now, that’s more up my alley…I will remember going forward.
Yeah $5.50 is pretty low. Especially if it’s a hot plated function.
kimmie
December 15th, 2011
12:29 pm
Leggs – Disgusting. Yes, I did seem to get “extra” attention from the marrieds during the holidays. I think they feel extra bold because they think because you’re single you might be lonely during the holidays. They have an article on essence.com ironically entitled “are you settling for the holidays?”
cba
December 15th, 2011
12:30 pm
Yeah Lady, I can feel your passion for the game coming through clearly.
BTW I have posted a couple of times on the Falcons’ blog that Ryan has
hit a plateau. I don’t think it’s a plateau that will take them to the “Big Dance”.
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:30 pm
disco he said the same thing my point is its a school budget so why expect a 6000-8000 pay out somethings I feel can be adjusted folks get tax breaks often don’t believe the hype
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:30 pm
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:32 pm
so 15 to 20 pp for a senior bbq?!? no I won’t do parents like that someone will pick up the job
cba
December 15th, 2011
12:34 pm
THANKS LADY!!
You know I have much respect for you, keep on being YOU!
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:35 pm
hamburgers hot dogs chick on a stick (maybe) chips drinks…..maybe a brownie
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:35 pm
Will do sir and thank you too!
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:37 pm
8.50 is my max….lol
disco
December 15th, 2011
12:37 pm
lady – I know it sounds like I got jokes but for $5.50 the school might have to call papa john’s or something. don’t know if high schoolers get excited but I remember in grade school you couldn’t tell us nothing come pizza party day.
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:38 pm
I see your point but I will still search a caterer that will meet our needs
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:40 pm
they wanted chic fil’a and we crushed the idea bc they eat it daily but hey we have used them in the past so there are some vendors out there that will adjust
kimmie
December 15th, 2011
12:41 pm
disco – my 4th grader yesterday was going on and on about a class pizza party! You would have thought she had never eaten pizza!
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:50 pm
the sun is bright! I want this same weather through my break! Wonder who will smoke a hog?!? lol
SlimNu
December 15th, 2011
12:52 pm
I wonder why they don’t sell those little square pizza’s they used to serve at school in the grocery stores. lol
Lady~Don't believe the hype
December 15th, 2011
12:54 pm
NP Lose Ends You can’t stop the rain! Yep I am ready for some spring and summer concerts!
kimmie
December 15th, 2011
12:54 pm
Slim – Good thing they don’t cause I would never buy it. I hated that school pizza! I was so glad when I never had to eat it again!!LOL!!