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Anonymous wrote:This thread actually made me very sad as to how dull most of our lives are. Just think of it...the general consensus for a good day is eat dinner, play a board game, watch TV, go to bed. Or maybe go out to eat, see a show, and then come home and go to sleep. I mean these are things we do as well. I'm not judging saying that my life is more exciting. It is NOT! It's just, after reading this, I feel like we are just doing our best to pass the time because, taking a step back and reading this, even the post with the most going on are pretty dull. It makes me sad. I'd like to do something more exciting than garden, I'd like to do something more exciting than playing a board game. I'd like to do something more exciting than what a show together, but...I'm realizing life is just blah.

I have the opposite reaction. I’ve had 3 people in my life die in the last 6 months (in their 40s and 50s). I’m just grateful I’m still on this planet doing mundane things and that I get to love my family & friends. Seriously. Boring is so much better than chemo or a deadly heart attack

Anonymous wrote:This thread actually made me very sad as to how dull most of our lives are. Just think of it...the general consensus for a good day is eat dinner, play a board game, watch TV, go to bed. Or maybe go out to eat, see a show, and then come home and go to sleep. I mean these are things we do as well. I'm not judging saying that my life is more exciting. It is NOT! It's just, after reading this, I feel like we are just doing our best to pass the time because, taking a step back and reading this, even the post with the most going on are pretty dull. It makes me sad. I'd like to do something more exciting than garden, I'd like to do something more exciting than playing a board game. I'd like to do something more exciting than what a show together, but...I'm realizing life is just blah.

Anonymous wrote:This thread actually made me very sad as to how dull most of our lives are. Just think of it...the general consensus for a good day is eat dinner, play a board game, watch TV, go to bed. Or maybe go out to eat, see a show, and then come home and go to sleep. I mean these are things we do as well. I'm not judging saying that my life is more exciting. It is NOT! It's just, after reading this, I feel like we are just doing our best to pass the time because, taking a step back and reading this, even the post with the most going on are pretty dull. It makes me sad. I'd like to do something more exciting than garden, I'd like to do something more exciting than playing a board game. I'd like to do something more exciting than what a show together, but...I'm realizing life is just blah.

Anonymous wrote:I watch squirrels appear to give me the middle finger as they steal birdseed. I suppose I could thwart them somehow but that means I would have to think and do some work. Maybe they’ll get diarrhea then I will have the last laugh but no, I have seen those squirrels eat mushrooms. They have iron stomachs. One dragged a cap up a tree onto a branch.

I said to the squirrel as I looked up at it, “Mushrooms? Are you crazy? Really, you are eating that?”

I considered eating one of the mushrooms because the squirrels do but maybe they are pretending hoping I will eat a mushroom and then I will be the one to get diarrhea or perhaps die, rolling on the grass vomiting blood, the squirrels laughing.

I spend weekends trying to figure them out.

Anonymous wrote:Make dinner together with a bottle of wine, dance, then go for a walk, then sit by the fire or outside on the patio.

Anonymous wrote:We try to put things on the calendar 30-60 days in advance. Not for every weekend but if we have 2/4 planned weekend activities we can do less structured activities on those other 2.

We go to lectures, concerts, or the theater. We both love baseball and there's always a game somewhere in DMV. We often go to the Cal Ripken league games to see the college kids playing.

Dinner and movie is always a good standby. We also look for silly popup things happening in the area. Our goal is to get out of the house and "do one thing" over the weekend.

Anonymous wrote:We try to put things on the calendar 30-60 days in advance. Not for every weekend but if we have 2/4 planned weekend activities we can do less structured activities on those other 2.

We go to lectures, concerts, or the theater. We both love baseball and there's always a game somewhere in DMV. We often go to the Cal Ripken league games to see the college kids playing.

Dinner and movie is always a good standby. We also look for silly popup things happening in the area. Our goal is to get out of the house and "do one thing" over the weekend.