DW Community Catch-up Thread
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Here’s my list which includes things already done and more to do! the list is always growing
Binny’s Booze Tasting (we did a Rose one)
Jazz Brunch at Dusek’s http://dusekschicago.com/jazz-brunch/
Bowling and Beer at the Bog (my old university .. cheap date)
Glessner House (a great one to take your parents too!) and lunch at Spoke N Bird
Joffrey Ballet
Kiki’s Bistro (great wine prices)
Bienmesabe
REggie’s
DimSum in Chinatown – water taxi!
UIC Baseball
Loyola and Depaul Basketball
Jazz Showcase
Winter at Starved Rock (fall/spring too!)
St Lou’s for their wednesday chicken bucket special
Frank Lloyd Wright houses (Oak Park, Hyde Park, the SC Johnson company, Farnsworth, Taliesin)
SNL show at Broadcast museum
Rhine Hall
Hawthorne Race Track
Green Mill
@Copa – I’m glad you finally got the date! He sounds promising!
Also, let’s talk axe throwing on a date. MofV and I are going to KC later this month for a long weekend and we signed up to do axe throwing and I’m super pumped. Though, I haven’t thrown so much as a softball in a year so it could be real entertaining for anyone watching that foolishness.
Also, another sidenote, I get to go to France in April! The sad part is I might miss manfriend’s birthday 🙁 But he told me it was okay to miss his birthday for wine in Burgundy. I’ve just been tasked with bringing some back.
Thanks MG! Water taxi to China Town and dim sum is on my list too! I’ve seen a DePaul game (we were there for Marquette) at both the Rosemont stadium and just last week the new one downtown. I love college basketball, so it was a good time.
Oh, the Chicago history museum is fun too. And cheap! Copa, that would be a good date.
@ver, that’s awesome! You should make him beef burgundy, or something french, and drink a bottle of wine you bring back for his birthday.
The throw for axe throwing isn’t the most intuitive. If I recall correctly, it’s all in the shoulders! I was getting really frustrated at first when I couldn’t get my axe to stick, but then you get the hang of it. It’s fun, but like I said, it got old to me after awhile.
So Neighbor Snapchats me (snaps me? snaps at me? sends me snaps? IDK the correct Snapchat lingo) a fair amount. And I… don’t understand Snapchat. But I feel like this is how youths express romantic interest these days. 😛
Does anyone watch The Bachelor? I really don’t, but have tuned in a few times this season. Last night’s finale was so painful to watch. Hope I don’t ruin this for any avid fans out there, but Arie spoke to Becca in Sensitive Guy Voice the whole time he was calling off their engagement and that whole thing was so hard to watch. Yikes.
I fucking LOVED axe throwing and if you have a good coach, it’s easy.
They are small hatchets not axes, so it’s not hard.
Here is my most recent dating story: I was casually swiping on Tinder last week and got a message from a match. He was enthusiastic about chatting with me, seemed decent, attractive, etc. He quickly asked me out for the weekend. I agreed. We chatted again on Saturday and finalized our plans to meet about 2 1/2 hours later. We had not exchanged phone numbers because I prefer to wait until I’ve met someone in real life before handing it out. I got ready, and about ten minute before we were supposed to meet, I went to message him to let him know I was running about 5 minutes behind and discovered that we were no longer matched on Tinder. I thought it was weird, but I was walking out the door at that point, so I went ahead. Of course, he was not at the meeting place, and he did not show up in the 20 minutes I waited either. So I got stood up. I wasn’t really upset, but I am baffled since he was the one who initiated everything but then up and disappears immediately after confirming plans. And because he unmatched me, I can’t even jack him up about wasting my time and just generally being a piece of shit.
@shakeourtree that’s happened to me before! I want to say maybe a year or two ago I matched with a guy, made plans for like a Wednesday night, didn’t exchange numbers.
Went to confirm that afternoon just to make sure I was going to the right place and he had deleted the match! So I didn’t go to the restaurant. He showed up on Tinder again a few months later so I swiped to see what would happen and we matched again. So I wrote him and told him how rude that was. He apologized and said it was because it was his “work phone” and he had to delete tinder because suddenly. Right. Then he had the nerve to ask me out again. Maybe it’s the same guy……
@shakeourtree I’m sorry, that sucks! That’s really rude to do to someone, and that would upset me. Bullet dodged, though, because I mean, really, who even does that?
