I AM GETTING MARRIED

Yep! That’s right! You heard it. I am tying the knot this spring and, believe it or not, I can’t wait. Don’t get me wrong here, gentlemen. I mean listen, I am still a red-blooded, all-American kind of guy with the same testosterone pumping through my system that you have, albeit, perhaps, in only similar doses. Let’s face it (you too, girls); being single is way cool, to a point. How many unhappy single people do know? Not many, is my guess. Sure, there are some sad old maids out there, but statistically, happiness and being single are usually a good combination. Unfortunately, being happy is only a fraction of what life is all about and until you find someone that makes you smile on the inside, do you truly have a life worth living. Believe me. I know this first hand.

I am fast approaching forty! HOLY SHIT. Hold on. Is that right? Yep. DAMN! I’ll be forty in 2007. That’s in like two years. Anyway, people of my age that I have encountered are well into a marriage and have kids and stuff. Since I was 18, the thought of getting married always seemed like something that would definitely happen in my life and it would probably be… Well, I knew it would definitely happen. I have listened to my parents all of my life make comments to the effect; “Wow, time flies.” Or; “Seems like only yesterday.” I now know what they meant. Time does fly and it actually accelerates, as you get older. It seems like the last five years have just evaporated and I didn’t even get a chance to take pictures. Millisa and I have been together for that time and it has just flown! I asked her to marry me on Christmas Eve, 2003 and we set a date for May 2005 thinking seventeen months was plenty of time to plan a wedding and ultimately get married. Whoa, are we surprised. Here it is, January 2005 and the wedding is four blink-of-the-eye months away. Don’t worry, sports fans, the plans are well underway and we promise to give you one hell of a party in May!

I am absolutely the happiest I have ever been.

Chowder!