"Make a list of ways to enjoy your OWN company. Complete three and collect your prize."
This one left me befuddled because I'm a total hermit and introvert, and being alone is kind of my natural state. I'm married to my best friend, so I'm not actually alone, but let's just say it's a good thing my husband is around to pull me out of my bubble because otherwise, I'd get really weird.
In other words, this is just too easy, and it seems to me that the point of these challenges is to stretch our boundaries. So I decided to flip the task a little to this:
"Make a list of ways to enjoy your PARTNER'S company. Complete three and collect your prize."
Making a list of ways that I enjoy my husband's company is easy because I like the guy an awful lot, but arranging for them will take a little stretching because despite being a lifelong fan of the romance genre, actually being romantic has always made me feel awkward.
So, here's my list (in no particular order)
- Cooking together
- Hiking
- Road trips
- Playing board games
- Sharing crafts
- Cuddling before and after sleeping
- Eating good food
- Exploring new places
- Watching excellent movies and talking about them
- Reading books and wiki articles together
I didn't - ahem - include sex in my list, because intimacy is private, and while I'm no prude, I'm just not going to blog about my sex life.
We'd planned to head up to Grand Marais on Valentine's Day for Fiber Friday at the Northern Folk School, but snow was forecasted, and the roads would have been iffy on the way home, so instead, we ate the picnic we'd planned for at the kitchen table: chocolate-covered almonds, lemon Italian soda, potato-leek soup, and mozzarella, arugula, and pesto sandwiches. We played the new-to-us two-player board game Undaunted: Normandy, and Chris taught me how to use his pin loom while trying out the new circular loom I'd gotten him.
It was a pleasant, low-key weekend spent with my best friend. Highly recommended.
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