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What do you do without your DH?
So we all love our DH's. But sometimes it's just good to do things on your own. I love spending my days with my DH but there are days that I just want to be by myself and do what I want, and leave DH at home. What do you do when you aren't with DH?
Me? I like to go shopping, hang out at a cafe and read a book. I also like going out with my girlfriends (girls night out, holla!). Then I come back home to DH and smother him with kisses. DH usually uses a day like that to play video games and maybe hang out with his brother. lol
Re: What do you do without your DH?
WELL I find that I like to have company when I food shop you know someone to push the cart, pack the bags and wait on the cold cut line while I do the rest, however I've learned after my last experience shopping alone it goes MUCH faster w/out DH. He's like a distracted child that needs constant re-direction. I come home and see 4 pictures posted on facebook of goldfish who have "escaped" aka are on the floor. Hahaha OY!
However if you are talking ME time. Working on my shows are time spent away from him, he comes to watch performances but everything else he is home for. I LOVE to go shopping (though have zero money) with my mom/sister/friends. I also like getting mani/pedis and going to dinner w/ my girls. Sometimes though I just like to lock myself in the guest room and watch trashy TV
DH HATES grocery shopping. So much. I really enjoy it. I like taking my time looking at everything and deciding what I want. That's why I only do the food shopping, hah!
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Every Wednesday is our night to do our own thing. DH plays in a rec basketball league in the summer and has games every Weds night, so he normally gets some dinner, then goes and plays basketball with the guys and isn't home till about 10pm. Wednesday is my night to get together with my girlfriends. We'll either meet for dinner/drinks or one of us will cook dinner for the others. Sometime's we will make pottery, or just get together and talk or watch a chick flick.
We both have long-ish commutes, so each of us have some time alone on the car ride home. We're dying to see each other by the time we get home!
I'm all for "me" time and "girl" time - I actually really miss hanging out with my friends (both guys and girls) without our "significant others". Although I really like everyone's SO's - I miss the times that we used to just spend together as friends and be able to talk about anything. Anyone else feel this way??
That being said, obviously I love having girl only time, I have to shop alone (for food and definitely for clothes - he just wanders off on me...) and we usually watch TV separately. There is very little we both like on TV. I also like to cook alone - I just love being in the kitchen doing my own thing - it's fun for me.
We enjoying working out together, going to the beach together, and pretty much everything else!
I don't miss the single life one bit, but I do miss the weekly nights out my friends & I all had back in the 90s when we were in our 20s - I think it's the fond memories more than anything. We always had so much fun when we were all single. Eventually all the BF's/GF's became part of the group anyhow since most of my friends have been with their husbands/wives for like, EVER. But it was always so much fun when we were younger and so much more care-free.....no worries about bills or kids or the economy since most of us were still living at home then.
I like to hang out with my MOH (sushi date usually with wine involved), go shopping for food, clothes, basically anything. I sometimes like when DH goes shopping with me when the kids aren't with us though. But sometimes I like to be by myself so I can go as fast as I want :-) Sometimes I like to go run/walk with him if he'll come but usually I'm on my own for that. Fortunately we like mostly the same stuff on TV so we don't need to separate ourselves for that.
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I'm gonna have to ditto "Muchlove's" post :-) Because of hubby's work schedule (every third week he has night shift, which is 5pm-3am), I actually spend every third week almost literally by myself! I am at work while he is home resting, or doing whatever, and when I get home, he is already gone. Sometimes if I wake up when he comes home at that unworldly hour, we may get a chance to say hi in person, but mostly we chat on the phone a lot that week.
Sooo...that leaves me with a lot of me time!! I normally garden, go out on the deck with my doggie and either read a book or get on the computer, talk to my Mom on the phone and generally just come home from work on those weeks and do whatever my heart feels like :-) Because of the fact that we kind of have forced time apart, when we are together, we normally do most everything together - except grocery shopping! I hate grocery shopping (its always freezing in there and I hate being cold...lol) So since he loves to grocery shop, he does that alone while I baby sit the doggies! Great post, Mandah!
I get a lot of "me" time also, especially in the summer. Why, you ask? DH is part of two softball teams that play weeknights, so that's two nights a week. Plus he's a Yankees season ticket holder so he goes to 1-2 Yankees games a week when they're home (I go with him maybe 20% of the time). He also loves going to concerts and the occasional Mets game (to boo them), not to mention work events and boys nights, so that all amounts to maybe a couple times a month. Oh, and he also always has to work really late on Thursday and Friday nights. There are weeks where I only spend 1 or 2 nights with him. So, I get a little too much "me" time IMHO. It's not as bad in the winter though.
My single time is spent in a combination of lounging on the couch watching bad reality TV, shopping, doing things around the house, or nights out with the girls. Most of our friends are coupled up but if they're out doing something fun I'll join them without DH if I feel like it.
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Wow - um I'm still thinking, really, I am.
We wake up, commute together (work in the building next to each other), go to lunch together, go home together, spend most nights and weekends gaming together (both in the same room and 'together' in the game). Really except for being in my office, when I'm cooking (he does laundry while I cook), or we're cleaning (different floors) we're always together. Maybe a couple times a year I have to go out of town for work for a week - he acts like a lost puppy and then spends the entire week doing deep cleaning on the house while I'm gone - hahaha. It's funny because there seems to be a clear break between our "honey time" we share and our "best friend mode" we get in - so it's like splitting the time between two people but both are the same person:-). Neither one of us really likes to go out (except together) and all of our friends live out of town (either on the other side of the country or out of the country) so when we go and visit, we go together usually.
Oh - well when his son is here visiting, I hide upstairs or in the basement to give them alone time (son doesn't really like me, guess it's my fault that mom and dad aren't ever getting back together...you know the abuse she dished out couldn't be a part of it). They usually go bowling and out to eat so they are gone for most of Saturday every other weekend (except for the last 4 months when we haven't seen him at all thanks to his mom). That's "me time".
The only "me time" that I really miss is time to really read my sappy romance books :-) Other than that, I like being together nearly all the time for the years.
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