I may have mentioned before (on Twitter, if not here) that
I’m essentially 67 years old. Mimi’s not
quite as old as I am. Together we
probably average out to a content 55 year old couple. We drink red wine. We go to bed by 10:30. And our normal night time line up involves
some combination of Golden Girls and Everybody Loves Raymond. Anyway… it means we have very many completely
content nights, but we run the risk of letting our dating life become
stale. To avoid this tragic fate (our
technical age, after all, is half our functional age… ), we have committed to
doing new things. So each month, we are
going to do one completely new thing (not necessarily something we’ve never
done before, but something we’ve never done together), and eat somewhere new
(we are, after all, in the midst of many, many great restaurants/pubs/so on and
we have yet to discover nearly enough of them!).
For April, we’re already two for two. Over Easter, we went target shooting… yes,
shooting. If you don’t know me, that
probably doesn’t sound nearly as alarming as it really is—I shot a gun. Quite a few times. 100% Democrat; 67% Pacifist; 100% terrified
of guns, me, went shooting. Eek! I was
trying to lose some of my fear of guns… I’m not so sure it worked. I could shoot the 22 I was given without too
much issue, but each time I heard any of the guns around me go off I jumped,
and when my uncle convinced me I really did
want to shoot the glock he was using—I nearly cried. My whole body jerked with each shot (major
kick on that thing) and you could practically feel the fire coming out of
it. Mimi on the other hand looked like
she’d found her calling. (Seriously… I
was a little terrified!) BUT that’s hardly the point. We did something totally new, and to be
frank, something I was terrified of, and it was great! We can call April a success. As for May… we’ll keep you posted!
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