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Date Ideas (DC)

The Secrets to Keeping Romance Alive After the Ring

9th January 2012 by Christie View Comments

Ok, so full disclosure: Neither Jess nor myself are married.  However…we do have over 20+ years of combined serious relationship experience (yes, we are serial monogamists), so when we got asked to write about romance for those in a relationship after our seduction article got people talking, we said “hell yeah!” and here we are [...]

FREE Date Idea: Rocky and the Capitol

15th July 2011 by Christie View Comments

You know you’ve been watching too many episodes of Golden Girls when you start sentences with: “Picture it: Sicily, 1923…”
Has anyone else ever had this problem? You know, where you quote old TV shows in random situations — like at work during a meeting, or on your couch as you write a blog about date [...]

Date Idea: SAX DC

27th May 2011 by Christie View Comments

Ok.
Oohhhhhkayyyyyyyy.
Girl walks up to door. Door opens. Girl’s mouth drops open. What IS this magical place??? How are we now in a cross between a medieval catholic church and Mariah Cary’s bedroom? Is this what the pope’s brothel would look like? (If he had a brothel–you know, instead of being celibate).
Chandeliers everywhere. Beautiful gold leaf [...]

Things We LOVE/Date Idea – Put Your Hands Together!

8th April 2011 by Christie View Comments

So, while in New Orleans recently for the sitting around, the chess, and the chandelier shopping (you know, best done after a large hand grenade at 2 pm), I bought a little purse table holder thing.  You know the things that you hang on a table, and then you hang your purse on them so [...]

Couch of Christie: Valentine’s Day, 4 Lessons, and Richmond.

16th February 2011 by Christie View Comments

Wherein Christie gets off her couch, goes to Richmond, and learns some lessons about love.