Picnics on Bikes

Since our very first date was a picnic (of sorts) on our bikes, I created a treasury in Etsy for a perfect picnic with my beau...

 Picnic Perfect

Why are picnics so nice and romantic?

Our First Date (Remembered)

One of our first dates together was in February (2009) but it was so nice out that we planned to ride our bikes on the seawall. So I gathered up some goodies in my basket and made him a card (decorated with a construction paper cut out bicycle), and off we went on our very first real date!

holding hands

  

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Delicious Rogue Ales 

 

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It was chilly, but we cuddled under a blanket on these bench/chairs near the Athlete's Village and sipped our drinks and looked at the city.

 

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I remember thinking that he just seemed so nice and genuine and sweet... and I was right! He is all those things! That was such a perfect beginning for us...

Bargaining Tools

I don't know what sort of mood I was in last night, but I just felt like watching a stupid movie, and The Ugly Truth was on. I don't know why I wanted to watch it, but I did, and Duncan being a perfectly reasonable intelligent man, did not want to watch this pile of garbage. I somehow persuaded him to watch this with me, THAT IS HOW NICE HE IS! And I hated it. I will never get that Wednesday evening back. EVER.

Jersey Shore

I don't even consider it a "guilty" pleasure. It's just pleasure... pure pleasure. I not only love the show, but I love all the commentary on it. We listened to a podcast with a sports announcer Duncan follows, called the B.S. Report with Bill Simmons. So we listened to two sports guys talk about Jersey Shore and how much they loved it, and making comparisons between J-Woww's having a boyfriend and Darryl Strawberry's cocaine problem. "They were good, but without those things, they would have been great."

Can't wait for the second season, although I'm sure it will be a little disappointing and more than a little contrived. Oh well. It was one of the few things Duncan wouldn't mind watching on the laptop in bed, and that suits me just fine. Now! Off to GTL (I do NONE of those things - gym, tan, laundry)

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