Tag Archive: romance

Valentine’s Day 2012: Celebrating 23 27 years of unrequited love and rejections!

Update: Apparently I’m getting so old I can’t even count anymore. It’s not 23 years, it’s actually 27. O_O And I was so looking forward to celebrating the silver anniversary too by hanging myself.  It all started when Margie Otta kicked me in the shinny after I gave her a Valentine’s Day card back in…

Finding Two Lost Hearts in Texas

Split Heart Tracking Bug

One of the peculiar things regarding my trip to Texas was how my two tracking bugs (TBs) had wound up there at JUST the right time, one being in a geocache near Austin and the other near Dallas. These were split heart TBs, the goal being that they be reunited once again by any geocacher…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

Mini Christmas Tree with Soldier and Train

The decorations are up, and the Chipmunks are back on my iPod playlist. It’s that time of year again, so you know what that means: time to plan another early Christmas getaway! :-D Last year I traveled to Stockbridge in Massachusetts in a quest to recapture the Christmas spirit, something I hadn’t felt in a…

Finding love in the frozen food section

So I’m at the supermarket, slowly pushing my cart around and filling it up with my usual single man’s diet of Ramen Noodles and diet sodas. A twinge of sadness creeps over me as I pass through each aisle on my way to the checkout. And then I noticed her. She was a petite brunette,…

Whoever said women fall quickly in love was smoking serious crack

Generally, it takes ten years for a woman to fall in love with a man. I’m serious people, this is science, look it up. Things might move along a wee little faster though if you put some muscle into it and work 24/7 to get a girl to fall for you. Then perhaps after spending…

Poll Results Are In: Women convinced I need them to be happy, men either disagree or like pie!

The results from my last poll (Should I stay single?) were pretty interesting: Only 20% thought I would be perfectly happy remaining single, 34% took the coward’s way out and mentioned their fondness for pie , and 46% were convinced that I’d soon be doing 20 to life if I didn’t get myself a honey…

The Double Edged Sword of Singlehood

Biker on Harley

I was reading a few quotes by Dr. Laurence J. Peter (the creator of the Peter Principle), and he had this to say about marriage (section in bold are mine): A bachelor does not grow lonelier as the years pass by. He learns how to live with himself. He satisfies his unique social needs. His…

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