SFAD

This year Valentine's Day reminded me of past years celebrating this day as a single female. Several years ago some single female friends and I decided to start celebrating SFAD (Single Female Awareness Day) instead of Valentine's Day. It is ironic to me that most of the attendees to these celebrations are now married and most have more than one child.

In memory of those bygone days, here is a copy of the invitation to our first SFAD party:

Dear Fellow Single Females,

At this time of year when everyone is celebrating the glories of love, it is time to celebrate the glories of being unattached. It is time to recognize the singular benefits we realize by not having someone else's dirty socks on our bedroom floor, by not needing to care about who won the Super Bowl, and generally by being footloose and fancy-free.

To this end, we invite you to a celebration of Single Female Awareness Day at our house (yes, we are now on our own). We shall eat garlic & chicken pizza to ward off suitors. We shall eat chocolate to remind ourselves that romance is a pallid substitute for chocolate. In addition, appropriate games will be played.

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The appropriate games included Old Maid and one of those "you get so many safety pins and lose one every time you _____." For us the _____ was saying any masculine pronoun or name. It was lots of fun. I also find it mildly ironic that I won Old Maid even though I had never played it before.

I attempted to get together another SFAD party this year, but few were available.