Valentine's Day!

[furtech]

Happy Valentine's Day, particularly to those of you lucky enough to have an SO to spend it with! Despite my singular status, I have no antipathy for the day. V's-day is still my second favorite holiday (after Halloween). Mind you, the day would be a LOT more enjoyable with an SO, but still...

My border collies are wonderful in most every way; the one area they fall short in is in the romance department. Romance for a border collie is apparently a big, meaty bone for each and a putrid fish carcass to roll in and set the mood. They -did- help me dig out gophers in the hillside earlier while I was planting some oak seedlings, but aside from dogwalk, that's about it for today!



What this means is I'd better quit perusing pointless online-dating sites (where everybody wants someone they can't have and pretends to be someone they aren't) and get active in some local groups. Maybe I can fulfill my resolution to do more training with R0ndo and Apache -and- meet more people! The trick is finding someone in the mundane world who watches equal parts of Cartoon Network and Animal Planet, thinks SDCC is neat AND enjoys speculating whether the tail of a giant, rubber monster in a Toho pic was tube-formed or carved...

Comments

[beetlecat.livejournal.com]

I've often contemplated attending random local activity groups but, as you say, you can find someone who enjoys that specific activity but not one that appreciates all the same various aspects of life as me. .. the only guy I ever really met who liked me, did art, *and* had a dog he took to the dogpark; had just gotten out of jail for sexual assault -_-

Hell, just finding a useful group where the people are not all 20 years older than me and married is difficult >< And I stopped the online stuff once it matched me up with my older brother's best friend lol

Thankfully, while I'm not able to spend this Valentines with my SO, at least I do have one on this day for once lol Can't say it changes anything about how I approach the day, but it's fun to say.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Haha! The most perfect match online (interests, activities, dogs) turned out not to be female, yet. Or I'm matched with ex-girlfriends (I apparently am attracted to stuff I shouldn't be). Two people at the dogpark were nice possibilities, until buttons were pushed (one turns out to be a foam-at-the-mouth Republican and the other belonged to an alternate Christian sect...).

Sympathies on the age thing, but from the other end. At least your age group tends to be more single and more open to fannish stuff (conventions, comics, etc.)

At least you can have a mushy phone call!