DW Community Catch-up Thread
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@alafair – I love vanilla more than chocolate so he’s not weird! Glad your gift went over well.
I would love to have a doggie meet up. We take our dogs to the dog park sometimes and talk to people there. the dogs get worn out though they stay mostly with us so we have to walk for them to get exercise (which is ok since we could use the exercise too).
We went to the Giant Pumpkin festival Saturday but got there late cause hubs had to work – it was also the last day of the farmers market and it was so so so so crowded. It was shoulder to shoulder and then people would stop to look at the vendors in the middle of the sidewalk and I just got so frustrated. Also, by the time we got there, the giant pumpkins were gone and that was the part I wanted to see. We ended up eating at a restaurant and then heading home. I expected crowds but not of that caliber.
I have a new boyfriend birthday coming up in a few weeks, too, so I’m paying attention to all your suggestions. I already have a cake recipe bookmarked.
The last two weekends I’ve had big work and family events so this weekend the man and I are looking forward to doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. He did request to go on a “real date” meaning we go out to dinner. I will happily oblige this as he’s chosen one of my favorite restaurants for Friday night. Otherwise the plan for this weekend is to relax, watch scary movies, and perhaps shop for new bedding. He’s also applying for jobs up here so we can get that ball rolling.
As for gifts, for our first Christmas we’d only been dating maybe 5 months so he got me a wine decanter set with two glasses and I got him n astronomy book. Super simple and yet we both loved them. I think we both spent under 40 bucks.
BG and I are carving pumpkins together on Sunday! On Saturday I was invited to a Halloween party at a neighbor’s. It starts mid-afternoon and I thought it was sweet that BG is planning to come with me anyway even though he’s going to a concert that evening and won’t be able to stay long.
In two weekends one of his college roommates is coming to town with his wife and BG says he wants me to meet them. I’m kinda nervous! I feel like he’s constantly meeting my friends and I met a few of his on an early-on date at an art show, and none since.
As an aside, I’m not sure when my life became so go-go-go but I am really looking forward to going to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving, where I can eat and sleep and read and not have a ton of commitments.
I am curious about all this cooking and baking. Not that guys don’t appreciate a cake, but does anyone treat for a dinner/drinks out? That seems so easy and universally pleasing to whomever.
I had been dating my husband only a couple weeks when he had a birthday. He invited me on a birthday pub crawl he was having with his friends, so I showed up looking good and tried to help him hydrate and pace. I also brought a nice bottle of tequila (one of his fave things) when I came over to his place to go to the pub crawl together.
If he wasn’t having a party, and maybe if we were dating a little longer, I’d have taken him for a steak. I can cook, but a meal out is so nice.
I think, in my experience, the men I have known just don’t cook for themselves as often and that is why it is more commonly done on my end. I am a pretty decent cook and very good baker so I tend to dote baked goods on men often, it is just one of the ways i show love as I love doing it. Plus, let’s be honest, I get to eat some, win win. Also, dinner can easily be $200 where I lived with drinks so maybe $50 spend on the day is a bit more reasonable so early on. That being said I have done both depending on a bunch of different factors.
I see. My husband did/does cook for himself and has worked in restaurants in the past, and I think more appreciates a meal out.
Though we did cook together for our first TG, about 5 months in, and it was really nice.
Ya husband cooks for himself easily and I cook dinner almost every single night so we go out for sure. Heck, I cannot wait to eat out most weekends. My husband was stationed in Korea for a while so he actually makes some great Korean food. He only cooks on weekends really just due to his schedule but I do appreciate that he can put out some decent meals if I don’t have the energy or desire. He also always manages to order the pizza just how I like even though it isn’t what he prefers. Good man 🙂
We very rarely do gifts. I can’t even tell you the last thing he and I got each other.
We’re more so doing the small chores a bit extra to give a gift. Maybe that’ll change in years. At Christmas we exchange love letters. Other than that, yeah.
I can’t speak for everyone, but our night in for his bday was impromptu and a surprise to him. We’d been planning one thing (an experience), but I had three back-to-back weekends of visitors and he was probably on the road for work. So our plans got pushed off. One night a couple weeks after his bday, our plans still hadn’t happened, and I’d invited him for dinner anyway. At the store I decided to buy him a small cake and some candles, and surprise him with them. It was casual, it was unplanned. I don’t think he was expecting anything from me for his birthday, really, but I wanted to acknowledge it. If we’re still dating for his birthday next year, yeah, I think we’d do dinner or maybe even a weekend trip or something? But that’s getting ahead of myself.
Also, more generally speaking, I already eat and drink out a fair amount, my city has no shortage of great food and drinks, which is at odds with my attempts to be healthy. So I do tend to suggest some dates be dinner in because I want to eat something that I have control over what goes into it, and I’m fine doing the cooking in those situations.
I frequently make birthday cakes for people. I started doing it in college because I was broke and kept doing it because people seemed to appreciate it.
“@Fyodor Was it HOF’s litter reunion or just a rescue reunion? I get together with my dog’s litter and owners several times a year and it’s so much fun. We drink and eat while our pups play.”
We got her from a breed rescue that mostly does Golden Retrievers but also handles labs and lab mixes. They have an Halloween themed reunion with all sorts of activities (relay races, etc) . HOF was rescued as a two year old from Puerto Rico* (before the Hurricane) so we don’t have any info about her litter. We did get a group picture with the other PR dogs they rescued.
*Notwithstanding this HOF’s Spanish is terrible.
