Dance like everyone is watching

With Valentine's Day safely tucked back into the furthermost crevices of pockets and bookshelves and single hearts, now seems like a great time to talk about love. Loving your friends. Loving your opportunities. Loving your life. Loving your self.
This suggestion is far too much to expand upon in one sitting. But let's start small, shall we?
This weekend I spent a day with one of my favorite people. We drove an hour to an outlet mall, neither of us really needing any particular item. We started the morning with unnecessary lattes, making small talk with the baristas and flipping through the valentine's day city newspaper. We felt luxurious, spoiling ourselves in this way! Mochas! Cookies! (oh yeah, we totally got desserts too - OBVIOUSLY). How very metropolitan! We took our time and tried on frilly, colorful and ridiculous items and revisited inside jokes, slipping in corny new ones at every opportunity. We gloried in each discounted purchase. That dress was SIXTY PERCENT off? Well done! And we danced. We danced in the stores, in the dressings rooms and at every stoplight on the way home (which made that drive in rush hour much more bearable!). People looked at us, gawked at us, smirked at us, laughed at us, and grimaced at us. I think. We noticed this a few times but honestly, we couldn't care enough to look out for it. Because we were loving everything and laughing far too much. We challenged ourselves with silly tasks. Stop at EVERY TJ MAXX we see on the way home!. We made dramatic exclamations trying to find a place to eat lunch WE WILL NEVER FIND AN OPEN LOCATION!!! EVER!!! WE WILL PROBABLY JUST STARVE!!! GARMIN! DO YOU WANT US TO STARVE??? (Don't worry, we did not starve. We stuffed our faces!)
What I am trying to say is this: take every regular, everyday activity and make it yours - make it ridiculous and dramatic and full of laughter. Share it with someone you love and care about. It does not matter what other people think of you as long as you are happy and healthy. Laugh too loudly. Dance the funky dances that would make every teenager you know cringe. Be the person or pair or group that everyone else says is obnoxious but of whom they are secretly jealous.

Boring days are your responsibility. Seize them and defeat them. This is your mission.