Adventures in Geek Dating

I think your "geek dates" sound like fun.  Antiquing and winery hopping rank high on our list of things to do when we have time.  Of course, we just bought a house in the country that we are "refurbishing" so we don't have a lot of time on our hands. The region in the north of France is famous for its flea-market/yard sales.  Whole towns block of certain streets and people set up shop in the road.  We used to buy a book with the dates and places at the beginning of the season and go every Sat/Sun to a different sale.

It is fun, but it's also MUCH more work than I expected.  (The DH was not surprised!) The house was build in 1850. The following link has some picutres: http://fake.frenchie.monsite.orange.fr/

I hope you get to come to France.  It's great.  I've lived here for nearly 20 years. 

My DH and I are enormous losers and we're also broke. Our big dates come when the kids go to my parents' house and DH and I are home alone. That's right. Home in our own house! (Without the kids, it's like a hotel. )

Um, let's see. We also periodically go to the bookstore. Or the downtown movie theatre where the same guy makes the popcorn, sells the tickets, and starts the films. Or wait, I have another one! I have ninety million cousins who all seem to be in a marrying state of mind. We have one or two family wedding dates every year!

I like to think of this as our "nesting" period. When we were younger we did a lot of cool stuff and I believe we will again. Now cool runs more toward new paint for the hallway or, my current dream, new storm doors!

Holly--your dates sound wonderful. I'll aspire to your level of geekdom anyday.

FF--I didn't realize you were in France either. Your house sounds marvelous! Have fun! Loved the photos--especially the guest room!

Ellen

i love the idea of "geek dating".  actually, i love the idea of time spent with dh shopping considered a date.

we tend to be really practical.  i guess owning a home, having two kids and being a sahm in today's economy, ya kinda have to be pretty practical.  we both love to cook and spend many weekend afternoons whipping up fanastic culinary creations together, often sharing a bottle of wine!  hey, i guess i can consider those times dates!  wow!  the romance is still blooming in my life!!

we are currently "finishing" our basement.  we have spent many afternoons at home depot or lowe's picking out lights, bathroom fixtures, windows, carpeting, etc. 

when we were dating, we would have considered shopping a date...so why not consider our forays to home depot a date?

sometimes we even stop at panera or baja fresh for a bite to eat.  once we even went to a place for a cocktail...

i guess we have been dating!

i feel so much cooler now that i know i have been "geek dating" because prior to that, i thought i had not had a date in, well, years!!

woo hoo!  thanks for posting, holly

The hubby and I sometimes cook together--which means I give him all the yucky jobs (like chopping onions) and he does it. LOL! Usually its some sort of gourmet recipe I've always wanted to try and we open a bottle of wine and get to chat while we cook--without interruptions from the kiddie.

It sounds like something my dh and I would do. I remember the days my babies were small, every year for our anniversary we would swap houses with my parents. They would take care of the ankle biters and we would go to their house with take out (to last the weekend), 6-12 romantic comedies (depending on whether it was a 2 or 3 day weekend) and we would enjoy our "get-away". We also go contra dancing (think those long line dances in Jane Austen films on speed) and International folk dancing for our geek dates--or maybe those are retro hippie dates.

One of my favorite activities is going to Scottish games and watching the pipers strut there stuff Now that our piper has gone off to seminary we don't do as many piping events, but my dh has a kilt...

I love those! Dh and I might go to dinner or a movie. Last Friday he deemed we needed a date night so we went to a rib place I was introduced to by friends on a girl's day. Not our usual date night style since we had 3 yo dgd with us. She fell asleep half way there, despite efforts to prevent it, and didn't want to be woke up so she cried for the first 15 minutes there. Finally woke up with the help of Dr. Pepper and lemonade and we had a nice time entertaining the little one. Then we took her, as promised each payday, to WalMart for a toy. Of course by the time we returned home she didn't want to go back to bed!

Sometimes we go to flea markets or yard saling in warmer weather. I'm a firm believer in "One man's junk is another man's treasures".

Me too. We watch the show all the time and gawk at some of the prices. I have an old (at least I think it's old) Hamilton Beach coffee pot, the two piece pot bellied-cook over open flame- kind that I bought for $25. I keep missing the ARS to take it and see if I got cheated by dhs aunt or if I made a good deal. Heck, no sentimentality attached, I'd take $5000 in a heartbeat! Lol.