Single - Never Married

marital status - Single, Never Married. That's the option I have listed in my yahoo personals ad. You can check it out by going to the Yahoo personals site and searching on keyword "notanordinaryman".

Sometime, when I tell someone on a date ( or e-mail ) they look at you like "What's wrong with you?" Sometimes, they will actually come out and say "What's wrong with you?" That's a hard one to answer. Is there something wrong with me? I guess I could just easily respond back to them "You've been married twice, what's wrong with you?!" I may have actually done that once or twice. I don't want the door slammed at the get go, so, I usually tell them something like, Oh, I've been close a couple of times, but, fate intervened, or the timing was just never right, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada yada.

Recently, I've given it some thought, why am I single, never married, at 46? It may be something hereditary because two other of my 7 siblings never married. And it wasn't because we are dogs either, I come from a family of attractive, intelligent people. I guess if you throw double marriages of 3 of my sibs, then we've all had our allotted one marriage.

So, is it hereditary, or is there something inherently wrong with me? Maybe it's environment (sounds like a scientific research ) I wasn't really exposed to a happy-couple family unit in my formative years. This wasn't really anybodies fault, my dad had a very debilitating disease, so he wasn't an presence in my life. But, he was for my other two, older, unmarried sibs. So..why?

I've read that love is associated with a chemical reaction in the brain. My I'm deficient in some hormone or something. I mean, I felt infatuation several times in my life, but, I don't really go goo-goo over anybody.

Maybe, I've just never met anybody worth going head-over-heels over. I do see myself being with the One, someday. My biggest fear is, not getting in a bad, tumultuous relationship, but, to get in a relationship that turns "lifeless." I'll talk on this subject more latter. I'd love to hear you thoughts on love and marriage. I have to start packing for my trip to Branson.

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After 6-mile run a week ago Friday, my knee got stiff and showed some swelling. So I didn't workout at all for two days and just lifted on Monday. This was hard for me because I wanted to go on a long ride that weekend. Tuesday, I did some light mountain biking, but Wednesday, I hooked up with a group of very good mountain bikers. We hit some very difficult trails at Landahal Park and it was an excellent workout for upper body, legs, and from a technical skill stanpoint.

Thursday, I did 20-minutes of eliptical which might have aggrevated my knee. I'm icing it as I write. Friday, I had a good threashold workout on the stationary, after a 5-minute warm up I tried to maintain 21.0 mph for 10-minuetes, then 5-min of easy spinning, then another 10-min hard. It wore me out. Felt good. I need to get in some good quality workouts, the Xterra Duathalon is in two-weeks.

The pictures below were from the KCK Street Fest. There will be some more in the next week or so.