Option A…
Today may be publicised as the most loved-up day in the world but it doesn’t mean us singletons should spend time alone, watching in despair (and perhaps jealousy) as our best friends involve themselves in some serious PDA. You may not have a significant other in your life but that shouldn’t prevent you celebrating this day of love. So I say ditch moping, crying desperately into your pillow and feeling the cold clutches of loneliness (and perhaps the lack of central heating in your house). Take a few of these simple steps to a stress free Valentines:
1) Have a girls day out in town: Take your best group of girlfriends around York, whether its window shopping in the Shambles (because your loan has not yet arrived) or walking across the city walls.
2) Make an Ex-Jar: The best way to get over a break up is to forget that he even existed. So take a pact to not speak of one’s ex for the whole day and for everytime you utter his name, you must put £1 in a jar.
3) Use all the money raised in said jar to buy a stack of Efes pizzas and a nice glass of red for dinner.
4) Snuggle up in front of the TV with a few friends watching a gossip girl marathon and indulging in your favourite flavour of Ben and Jerry’s.
Who cares, this is a day of enjoyment after all.
And if all fails remember that the 14th of February just happens once in the year and it will be over soon. So why not spend today with the people you love the most?
RO
Option B…
Eat your heart out! We suggest celebrating this Valentines Day by having a massive Valentines Day themed feast while couples enjoy picking at their non-messy date food. Bring on the messy finger food please!
You will need: one romantic comedy and A LOT of chicken wings, pizza, ice cream and cake.
1) Entrée. Eat three chicken wings if the protagonists is an attractive female with a somewhat successful career that will never be fulfilling enough to replace the role of a man.
2) Eat three chicken wings if the protagonist is a charming man who is a chauvinistic womanizer but somehow manages to be lovable.
3) Main course. Eat three pieces of pizza if the male and female protagonists are friends even though the woman is clearly madly in love with the man.
4) Eat three pieces of pieces of pizza if there is a “running to the airport to confess undying love” scene.
5) Eat three pieces of pizza if it works and the other love besotted idiot decides to drop the once in a life time opportunity that awaits them for love.
6) Dessert. Eat three scoops of ice cream and three pieces of cake at the inevitable moment after the two protagonists confess their love and a part of you longs for the same.
OK you should now be feeling uncomfortably full, embrace it, it could be worse you could be freezing sitting in a tight dress eating over-priced food in town.
JM
Option C…
Not convinced about the hearts, flowers, cute cupcakes and excessive focus on love? I mean what really is all the hype about! How about not following the trend? I’m thinking, slipping on those comfy I-don’t-dare-to-be-seen-in-public trainers and heading out. I mean who wants to be cooped up in their room religiously checking Facebook or the front door for a secret love note or an “I want you back” wall post. Now enjoy being single!
1) Head down with a mate to Gourmet Burger Kitchen on 7 Lendal Street with a sweet 2 burgers for £10 voucher which you can download at capitalfm.com/gbk and using your hands tuck into that delicious, but non-date food; succulent burger, extra on the onions please!
2) Next I’m talking a calorie bomb – make your way to Evil Eye and indulge in a Brazilian Monk embracing your celibacy!
3) To finish off your night why not catch the 10pm Vue cinema showing of the Underworld 3D and watch Kate Beckinsale, the immortal Vampire, battle against humanity, certainly an empowering and far from romantic movie.
This is your day, your beautiful new dawn. You can eat what you want, drink what you like and watch the most unseasonal films. Your song for the day is ‘New Map’ by M83; shift your desires, the landscape is infinite, own it.
LL