To piggy-back off of last week’s suggestion, this week’s date idea involves a spot downtown called Bin 36.
Bin 36 is a great American cuisine restaurant that holds an event about once a month called “Movies in the Loft”. While dinner and a movie might be a little cliche, it is definitely a date that will occur at some point in your fresh new relationship. If you’re going to do it, do it in style…
Instead of taking your crush out to dinner and cabbing your way to a movie theater, why not kill two birds with one stone? These events have a 3 course meal coupled with some wine that will keep your belly’s pleased while your eyeballs are entertained.
They play classic movies, the two upcoming being ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ and ‘Bottle Shock’.
The next event is coming up on November 22nd, for more details click here.
Living in the city has some great perks. We have the beach at a stone’s throw, festivals to fancy anyone’s delight, and different nightlife activities to cater to even the unique of circles.
This leads to meeting many different kinds of people… tall, short, strange, beautiful, different races, religions, ethnicities, and so on… Which helps us create a mental checklist of things we want and don’t want in a potential partner.
Straddling the line of staying in the game and being kicked to the curb, lies the deal-breakers. With so many options, which breakers are valid, and which are part of your own neurosis? (more…)
Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water…. wait… that last one didn’t make any sense.
Everyone says that it is a terrible idea to date a co-worker. Obvious reasons include if they go psycho on you, you have no where to hide. Maybe it’ll change the work dynamic and make it terribly awkward for you and the rest of the office.
It could also end up putting your ‘feel goods’ in a vice if one of you gets promoted and has to deal with not only who wears the pants in the relationship, but now the office as well.
Even though it’s frowned upon, it happens all the time. Spending hours upon hours a day with someone that you’re even mildly attracted to can make your mind wander to that dirty gutter that flows so freely.
If you do decide to venture down this much traveled path, just remember a few things: (more…)
Before you hop on that horse and gallop out into the sunset with your damsel, there will be a few key plays that you’ll need to be aware of that can greatly shift her perception of you. One of these plays is early on is the first group hang out session: her group or yours.
Which should you do? What’s the better move? Did you have to eat chili for lunch? All valid questions… let’s take a closer peek.
Whether it’s on the table, in your stomache, or even in the bedroom (whipped cream anyone?), food is golden. Even if sometimes you want to just lay around and have food delivered to your face, getting your hands dirty and acting like Emeril is a great way to change up the game. If you’re clueless on how to make dinner yourself, take the lady to a cooking class and dazzle her with your “BAM!” skills. Or just let the chopping off of the fingers commence… just don’t brag to your friends about how your date ended up at a hospital and you can no longer count past nine.
When I think of museums, one of the first things that comes to mind is this pleasant scene from one of the greats… Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
We could all use one of these days every now and then. While that movie has plenty of date ideas scattered throughout (ball games, obnoxiously fancy restaurants, and doing a rendition of Danke Schoen on a float), the countless museums around Chicago are all possible date locale’s for that first time encounter.
Sometimes when you’re bored out of your mind, or sitting on the toilet without a magazine in arms reach, you pull out that cell phone and start combing through the lost barrage of names in your phone book. Lost old friends, single serving friends you met on a random night, or even that name that just as a single letter “M” who you can’t recollect to save the shirt on your back.
Occasionally these lost souls have a way of coming back from the past to once again appear in that Recent Call list. A friend recently asked me what it means when a guy she used to date or “hang out” with contacts you after a long period of radio silence. (more…)
Things are on the up and up. You’re on a steady once a week hang out, frequent phone calls, and the text messages are beginning to get the everyday vibe. Just when you think things are running smooth… Bam! It hits you like that surprise bar tab you pull out of your pocket the next morning that rings more than just a couple digits. Just my luck!!
A birthday.
If only it were back in the good old days. Gather all your friends for cake and ice cream, smack around a pinata filled with candy, and play some pin the tail on the donkey. Even if you pinned that elusive donkey’s head, you still go home at the end of the day satisfied and smiling.
Now, its a delicate game of thin ice. Too many marbles, and the house comes falling down. Too few, and she’ll wonder if you’re even interested in playing the game. (more…)
Take a deep breath and calm yourself. Here’s a shot of morphine… feel a little better? So that crazy ex of yours is hanging outside your window with binoculars. From the 14 text messages an hour, 2AM pop-ins at your apartment, and that sudden spike in searches on the internet for your name, you’re tempted to quarantine yourself from society.
Even the city traffic camera’s are beginning to look suspicious… what was that flash!? Was that a ticket or just the next glamour shot for their shrine? (more…)
Tick tock tick tock… midnight is fast approaching and you need to be in bed. You have a big day coming up tomorrow. Work that nine to five grind, a quick run at the gym, and then the big moment… a first date with that special someone you just met. You’re sitting in front of the computer. Email – up to date. Facebook – checked. Youtube – no time. It’s just you, the low hum of your AC, and the curiously blinking cursor in the Google search bar. You ask yourself…. should I??
“You know the name, all you have to do is type it in me and I will show you everything you need to know,” entices Google. “Come on, you can even misspell the last name a little bit so you can tell a white lie and say you didn’t do it. I’ll take it from there. I have a ‘Did you mean…’ feature that works like a charm,” it beckons. (more…)
To piggy-back off of last week’s suggestion, this week’s date idea involves a spot downtown called Bin 36.
This leads to meeting many different kinds of people… tall, short, strange, beautiful, different races, religions, ethnicities, and so on… Which helps us create a mental checklist of things we want and don’t want in a potential partner.
Don’t dip your pen in company ink.
Whether it’s on the table, in your stomache, or even in the bedroom (whipped cream anyone?), food is golden. Even if sometimes you want to just lay around and have food delivered to your face, getting your hands dirty and acting like Emeril is a great way to change up the game. If you’re clueless on how to make dinner yourself, take the lady to a cooking class and dazzle her with your “BAM!” skills. Or just let the chopping off of the fingers commence… just don’t brag to your friends about how your date ended up at a hospital and you can no longer count past nine.
Sometimes when you’re bored out of your mind, or sitting on the toilet without a magazine in arms reach, you pull out that cell phone and start combing through the lost barrage of names in your phone book. Lost old friends, single serving friends you met on a random night, or even that name that just as a single letter “M” who you can’t recollect to save the shirt on your back.
Things are on the up and up. You’re on a steady once a week hang out, frequent phone calls, and the text messages are beginning to get the everyday vibe. Just when you think things are running smooth… Bam! It hits you like that surprise bar tab you pull out of your pocket the next morning that rings more than just a couple digits. Just my luck!!
Take a deep breath and calm yourself. Here’s a shot of morphine… feel a little better? So that crazy ex of yours is hanging outside your window with binoculars. From the 14 text messages an hour, 2AM pop-ins at your apartment, and that sudden spike in searches on the internet for your name, you’re tempted to quarantine yourself from society.
Tick tock tick tock… midnight is fast approaching and you need to be in bed. You have a big day coming up tomorrow. Work that nine to five grind, a quick run at the gym, and then the big moment… a first date with that special someone you just met. You’re sitting in front of the computer. Email – up to date. Facebook – checked. Youtube – no time. It’s just you, the low hum of your AC, and the curiously blinking cursor in the Google search bar. You ask yourself…. should I??