Welcome to The Bachelor Guide

Hi, my name's Matt, and I'm a bachelor.

Bachelorhood is pretty awesome.  I'm enjoying it.  It's the time when you're unmarried, living on your own, probably in your twenties or thirties, and are learning to live life as an adult.  You learn some pretty important lessons about life.  You start the process of "domestication".  Bachelorhood is a time of growth and exploration, learning what it means to be a grown-up making your own way.  I've just moved out, at the age of twenty-three (wish I'd started earlier!), about four months ago and am loving it!

Let me tell you a bit about me.  I'm a young guy living in Toronto, Canada.  I currently work in IT support for a non-profit organization, a Christian ministry called Catch the Fire, and I volunteer at a church that I attend called Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship.  I'm a spiritual kind of guy, some might use the word "religious", but I like to think of myself as just an ordinary guy living a faith-based life.
I love music and movies of a wide variety and am a musician, a guitar player.
My favourite thing to do though, is to hang out and have relationship with people, building community.  I love people.  People are my passion.  Without people, life would be really boring.  I also like dogs, they're a man's best friend I hear, but people are better.  Anyway...

This is The Bachelor Guide.  Sorry ladies, it's not a find-you-a-boyfriend blog (though I'm not opposed to it helping with such endeavors).  This is a blog by a bachelor, for bachelors.  Sharing tips and tricks of bachelor life, as well as the occasional musing on this single, young adult experience, for the young unmarried man out of the house.  I plan to have tips like "how to heat up food without a microwave", "how to avoid being a hermit", "how to grocery shop on a budget" and more!  I'm also hoping to bring in some guest bloggers, be it current bachelors or recent bachelors, or who knows, maybe even famous bachelors.  A guy can hope, right!?

Please feel free to use the comments for blog posts and enjoy the blog!