Thursday, May 20, 2010

My Toe is in the Water



Hello! Thanks for stopping by…

Yes, I am a 43-year old bride. Actually, I can do better – I am a 43-year old, never-been-married, ever, bride. 

I’m pretty normal, whatever that means. I have a science degree (marine biology, cool!). I’ve SCUBA-dove in underwater caverns/caves (scary cool). Throughout my career, I’ve worked with a wide variety of animals (sharks! pelicans! octopus! eagles! jealous cool…). Hockey fan (Stanley Cup cool). I currently live in the Bay Area (crazy expensive cool) and work at a wildlife/nature museum (unique job/anemic salary cool).

For all this, um, cool-ness, why was I single for soooooooo long? And, after years of being single (NOT “unmarried”, btw), why take the plunge now?? How did I get here?

That’s what I want to explore with this...blog thing. I have no idea that I have anything worthy to say, and am not totally comfortable about putting stuff out there (isn’t this a bit self-absorbed? I mean, really, who cares?!).

I am, however, curious about the blog experience (so trendy) and I also kind of view this as a creative way to pad my life skills (photography, check; power tools, check; music trivia, check; blogger, hmmmm…well, why not?). 

I’m also curious how my single-time stacks up to the universe. In my circle of family/friends, I was an enigma – a cool (duh) blonde-haired, blue-eyed, healthy-active, snarky-funny, quirky-normal…yet a totally dateless wonder. I cannot believe I was alone, here, people…

So, I’m casting a world-wide net of inquiry and comment. Patience is a must and feedback/advice/anecdotes are always welcome. 

Cheers, T43YOB