Sunday Fun Day

I really didn't do much of anything productive with my day.  I did do some drawing and did a bit of running.  I also managed to get really angry after reading about the most recent slaying of innocent people by an angry white man with a gun and a misguided grudge.  When do we start profiling white men for their terrorist threat to society?

Politics need to be fixed.

I need a massage.

Andrew suggested we make a list of things to do together in the event we become bored. Granted these things could not be achieved at the moment given our proximity to each other but it made me happy that he made the suggestion.

We have come up with the following:

• learn to play chess
• dancing lessons (swing)
• ziplining
• kiss
• learn massage
• wine and cheese picnic
• Stargazing
• learn to mozzarella cheese
• pumpkin carving
• volunteering
• go to new Orleans
• go on a search for good climbing trees
• go to the airport, get the cheapest soonest departing flight, spend the weekend there
• do the lamest tourist activity in the city we can find.  Have an unabashedly good time.
• drive somewhere we've never been and have dinner.  Use fake names.
• go geocaching
• fly a kite
• go to an orchard or farm and pick produce
• take a class to learn something new
• take a $10 budget to the dollar store and compete to come up with the most creative gift for the other person.
• go watch a sunrise
• point and choose a band from the live music section of westward.
• go to the playground
• walk in one direction as far as we can.  Take the bus or taxi back
• take camera to abandoned place
• have a five course dinner at five different places
• play 20 questions
• go ice skating
• teach Kim to shoot a gun
• go to a diner and share a milkshake
• draw sketches of each other
• teach Kim to wall climb and maybe climb rocks
• kayak
• hot air balloon ride
• have high tea at the brown palace
• bumper cars
• participate in foodie pen pals
• can and pickle something
• alphabet date.  Pick a letter and everything you do must start with that letter
• rent a movie from the library and make stovetop popcorn

We also set up two ground rules.

1.) If one of us feels unheard or that he or she is not happy in the relationship we are allowed to call a timeout and both of us will respect the timeout by giving the other our undivided attention to address and solve the issue. Timeouts are to be used at the beginning of negative feelings so that issues do not get out of control.

2.) If we disagree about a particular issue, ie dinner or how to spend the day, we are both to rank how strongly we feel about our choice and the person with the higher ranking will be allowed to participate in his or her activity of choice.

I'm starting to feel really good about this idea.