I'm in a bad mood today. As I sit here thinking about it, national holidays almost always put me in a bad mood. I guess it's the whole, significant other - family thing. It just seems that the world revolves so much around being part of a family or a couple that it just becomes very glaringly obvious that I don't have any of these things going on when a holiday crops up. And I'm not trying to say, 'you're not complete without a man, significant, whatever' either, but it just seems that as much as you read (and feel) that it's okay to be alone, the World (fueled by the media) is happy to convince you otherwise. It just seems that holidays do a pretty good job of making sure I realize that I'm single. Well, TG for Lola the Pug anyway.