"I say to myself..."

"... 'You're such a lucky guy'... to have a girl like her is truly a dream come true... out of all of the fellas in the world she belongs to you... but it was just my imagination running away with me" Just My Imagination - Temptations (1972)

So I was reading up on the blog to see where I left off. Indeed I was happier than a pig in shit when I last left off. I had just started dating Barbara Jean, a native Southerner who was living in New Hampshire, who I met thru mutual friends at a Labor Day BBQ. Although the distance made me feel like Anthony Michael Hall in the Breakfast Club lying about a girlfriend in Niagra Falls, we did fall pretty hard for each other and tried to make it work through weekend roadtrips and endless phone calls in between. But eventually, it just got to be too much...

But we both had obligations where we live that meant neither of us could seriously entertain relocating, so the relationship could only go so far. No hope to spend our everyday lives together without at least one of us making huge sacrifices... and I don't think either of us were ready to even contemplate doing, so eventually and amicably, we split. We still email now and then to stay in touch, as she really was a sweetheart. So it's back into bachelorhood I go...

Freakin' wonderful!!