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| Miriam Makeba |
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<--- something about the audobon
<-- a lil movie featuring charlie chaplin
<- this was Earth day 2011 (save the planet)
<-- look out space (celebrating man on the moon mission)
<-- and this was in celebration of the worlds fair...
today is some celebration of bunsen's 200 birthday... but for some reason all i can think about is beeker from the muppets- go figure!I just discovered I am a spinster and not in the 'one who spins thread way' either. Apparently I am a spinster in the 'one who is perpetually single well beyond the conventional age of Marrying way.'<- thanks Merriam- Webster.
Or 'a woman who seems unlikely to marry'<- again Webster you are doing me dirty. So I ask myself and the lovely people out there:
What is the conventional age of marrying? *
as of 2007 men 27.7/women 26.0
Great, the U.S. Bureau of the Census is using my lack of liking numbers + the lack of male interaction in my life against me.
So let me get this straight (as I sit here & ponder this) average age of marriage is 26 for women. At 26 I am sure I had trouble committing to a pair of shoes on any given shopping outing, I had trouble committing to any weekend event at various given times (club, bar, lounge, chill) and to which friends I was attending said outings (intellectual types? wild & crazy types? co-workers? family? others<- there were others who are undeniably unclassified.) I definitely had trouble committing myself (ok applying with any real real desire) to furthering my education/career so at at average age of 26 I was supposed to comit myself to ONE MAN IN HOLY MATRIMONY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE???? And this whole marriage thing.- like that is some damned prize (ring, get it?) at the end of the tunnel [the long and treacherous dating world of men, dogs, pigs, snakes and kissing frog-like princes? what is this a freaking animal farm?]
Wow I am so behind the curve here (and here I am looking for a curve, know what I mean?)
I mean here I am trying to get a date, trying to get someone to love men for who I am, trying to get someone just to acknowledge my presence- NOT marry right off the bat. I don't know the first thing about all that- hell sometimes
anywho, enough about the marriage, let's talk about:
Divorce.
(cause you can't have one without the possibility of the other, no?)
So I ask myself this question:
What is the average divorce rate in America?
The answers I get are staggering based on the age of marriage:
Age at marriage for those who divorce in America
| Age | Women | Men |
| Under 20 years old | 27.6% | 11.7% |
| 20 to 24 years old | 36.6% | 38.8% |
| 25 to 29 years old | 16.4% | 22.3% |
| 30 to 34 years old | 8.5% | 11.6% |
| 35 to 39 years old | 5.1% | 6.5% |
so check that out-- had I been married at the 'ripe ole age of 26' the possibility of me getting a divorce was approximately 16.4%.
hope, right?
well, not so fast as i goggled:
What is the average age a person meets their spouse? (no real answers came up but what i did score was interesting:)
With "Gen X" individuals (labeled between 28-39) the most popular way to meet people is through work, at 19%. Following are through friends (18%),through school (14%), social activities with friends (8%), and via a club/bar 6%. Dating services come in dead last at less than 1%. So much for eharmonymatch.com
Where does that leave me?
All confused about my status and about my place/ space in this world. It leaves me thinking about the future and about my past transgressions (a.k.a choices) that lead me right here to this very spot I am sitting in. Then of course a few weeks ago when I started to compose this blog {ok damn near a month ago} this wonderful <--insert sarcasm article comes out on Why I am not Married by Ms. Tracey McMillian via the Huffington post and it blew my mind. Literally got me all riled up. I had so many things to say, respond to about the circumstances that surrounded the place where I am at-- not because I am a shallow-slutty-lying-selfish-not good enough-bitch. [because one thing I did find out about this article is that while she did accomplish marriage(3 times), she accomplished at least 2 divorces as well.
anywho, anyone know how to work a loom?Today we in the world celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday with a holiday. His actual birthday was January 15, 1929 but typically they reserve the third monday in January as his day.
Google celebrated with a new doodle:
My grandmother celebrated by making me pannycakes:
<-- this one was posted monday, 9/27/10 which was googles birthday!!!
<---this one was posted today 10/9/10 to celebrate John Lennon's 70th birthday....(pretty cool cause it was a video with a snippet of Imagine)
World cup (sunday July 11) - everyone was in their world cup glory putting South Africa on the mainstage for other reasons from June 11- July 11. watching the usa vs ghana was truly the highlight of the games for me
pi day (sunday 3/14/10) not the pie that you eat but a pi nonetheless
garbor (6/10)-- i dont know-- i may need to google that one myself...
and finally today 7/15- jose frank...
