Pre V-Day rage. Finally the blog gets vaguely serious. Vaguely.

So enough with the making fun of a certain person who shall remain nameless. It's now time to rage at something she has done and I today found out a friend of mine was planning to do. The name of the game is getting engaged.

Now what has pissed me off about the way people are doing this nowadays, I hear you cry? Surely I should be grateful people even want to get married, seeing as in modern politics it is made better to be apart than single. Especially as divorce rates are so high, [something I now know first hand, cheers warring parents], people want to take this risk. Well, I am immensely happy for people who get engaged [when I like them that is], but it's the way people are doing it that bugs me. Long gone are the days of getting down on one knee and proposing. Now, people prefer to discuss it with each other, almost as if it is something which needs to be discussed as though it is a business deal. There is no formal asking, more an assumption that you will get married one day. Today, my old friend, Hannah P., informed me she would have big news "but not right now." After much guessing [well, after two guesses], I found out that she and her boyfriend were planning on getting engaged. He hadn't asked her, it was a mutual decision. Is it me, or is that totally unromantic? I know everyone's favourite couple also "just knew" they would get married one day, but he never outright asked her. They both just knew they'd get married one day. While a lovely sentiment, surely it would have been better if he had actually asked her properly [and bought her a better ring, but that's personal taste, or lack thereof].

If I ever have someone who would actually like to marry me [one ex bit too obsessed with possibility of marriage, now with ex-best friend and one who never thought he would get married - ever. Go me.] I'd like it to be done properly. That means none of this discussion bullshit. I would actually like a man to surprise me with the fact he thinks we could actually get married and make it work and that he wants to spend the rest of his life with me. And to be cliche and get down on one knee and propose to me. To see how discussion proposal fails, I refer you to Sex and the City: The Movie. Utterly fail Big and Carrie discussing how it makes sense to marry. Better version, see the SATC episode "Hop, Skip and a Week", where Harry spontaenously proposes to Charlotte at the Jewish singles mixer. Much better, much more loving. As is Miranda's proposal to Steve over $3 beers in "The Ick Factor" [just disregard his affair in the first film].

Meh. This rage was also brought on more by the fact that the Dresdener only appears to want Josh's company in what now has become Barbeabend. That and this will be the first Valentine's Day in four years with no proper Valentine. Saz does count, but y'know what I actually mean. Doesn't help I'm Astra-emoing about how my love life is epic fail as of now.