Discovering Myself

1. Dinner Top Chef - For this first date idea you’ll want to pick a theme for your meal and you’ll go to a super market and you’ll each have a list of item categories you need to fill.  You can buy anything and you have a cap on how much you can spend.
   When you have purchased your items, your partner and you switch items and have to make a meal together.  It’s can get competitive, but can also be a lot of fun.  Try it out.
2. Theme Parks - Show your inner child by riding all the rides at your local theme park!
3. Comedy Club - Get your funny bone on with a comedy show, some even serve dinner.
4. Walking Through A Park - I’ve done this on almost all of my dates, I love going to the park and looking at all the people and seeing the dogs getting walked and talking to the person I’m with.
5. Movie and Dinner - This is always a winner, although I find it hard to talk through the movie, but cuddling is never a problem!
6. Scavenger Hunt - This works if you have a digital camera.  You have to work together to pick a place and the items you think might be there that you’ll need to photograph.  The goal is to get all of the items photographed with each of you in the picture with the item.  It’s a good ice-breaker and it shows what type of personality the other person has.
7. Finding a Place Neither of you have gone… and going there together to explore!
8. Visiting the Local Art Museum - This can always be fun, especially if you both have a fancy for art!
9. Miniature Golf - Mini golf is always a fun and hilarious first date idea.  If you can act like a goof with a tiny windmill thwarting your balls advances then you’ll have a great time.
10. Trivia Night - This is good at your local bar or eatery.  They often have trivia nights, you can take them there to work together and WIN!

Alrighty, here I will put the things that I like!

• Olives
  - OMG, I LOVE OLIVES. It would be my vice food. It’s wierd I know.
• Color Blue
  - I know, it’s cliche, but I’ve always loved blue.
• Photography.
  - I adore photography. I bought myself a Nikon D80 a few months ago and still haven’t had a chance to really take it out for a spin. I need to plan that.
• Travel
  - I’ve literally traveled the world. Since I was about 14 I’ve been everywhere from New Zealand and Australia to Europe and the Carribean. I still need to go to ASIA and South America. Possibly Africa if I’m up for it.
• Sailing
  - I’ve been an avid Sailor since I was about 10. I started with sailing camps by my house in New Orleans and I hope to get a boat one day so that I can go on sailing adventures!
• Movies
  - I love watching good movies, I love watching bad movies… I just love watching movie.
• Cooking
  - I am an amazing cook. I haven’t had any issues cooking anything really, I just love it. I still need to experiment a bit, but if it’s a recipe I’m on it! I healthify things when I get a chance. And yes, I just made up the word healthify!
• Computers
  - If you know me, this is a given. I love technology and seem to accumulate a lot of it. I have 4 computers in the house, two of which are laptops, two desktops. One is a media server for the TV, the other is just a big daddy computer, which oddly enough I don’t use often.
• Cycling
  - I’ve gotten out of it, but I have two bikes and I used to cycle all the time in Baton Rouge when I went to college. I’ll get back into after my legs recover from my personal training. Maybe I’ll ride it to the gym, it’s not too far.
• Swimming
  - Ok, I’m a little shy about my body at the moment, I gained weight in college now I’m working to get the shit off. I’m about 40 pounds over where I want to be. So I have a tangible goal and I think it’s going well.
• Eating
  - Ah, yes my downfall is that I love eating. I love food, I grew up in New Orleans so it was just ingrained in the culture. Culinary extravagance.
• Cuddling
  - I’m a spontaneous cuddler. The mood hits me and I just want to curl up with someone I love and cuddle. Usually when it’s chilly and there is a blanket available.
• Reading
  - I’m a voracious reader. I read mostly fictional/sci-fi/fantasy for my personal enjoyment. I read enough non-fiction for work that I rather get most of that from documentaries honestly.
  - Currently working on a few books, one of which is the Summoner Series Book 2.
• CSI Original
  - I like the original CSI TV Series. I like mysteries and the methods of solving them.
• Board Games
  - I LOVE board games. It’s a way to get a group of friends or people together and break the ice and have fun.
• Book Stores
  - I’m like the proverbial kid in a candy shop when I’m in a book store. I love to learn and I love to read. Two very expensive things when in a book store. I’ve been known to spend at least 2 hours and buy like 10 books when I’m in the mood.
• Video Games
  - I like them much. They give me something to do when I’m bored and there is that whole solving puzzles and problem thing that I like to do.
• Friends
  - I love the friends that I do have. Most are back home in Louisiana, but I’m working on making more friends here in Atlanta. It’s actually pretty hard to do. I’m surprised.
• Road Trips
  - I like just hopping in the car and heading off to a destination. It’s a way to experience the in-betweens! Plus you bond with the people you are with, or you fight with them… just depends… haha!
• Art
  - I love art, mostly digital art these days. I just find some of the things people can create from imagination AMAZING! I just can’t afford it usually! haha
• Touch
  - I love being touched. I am usually shy about it though. But I love physical contact. Not in a perverted way, but it makes a connection with someone.
• Massages
  - I love to give and receive massages. They are GREAT and healthy! Get that blood moving, get those toxins out!
• Short Hair
  - It’s an odd one, but I like short hair.
• Intellectual Conversation
  - I like intellectual conversation about anything really. It shows me how much there is left to learn as well as how much I already know.
• Money
  - I like having it when I can save up some. Who doesn’t? It isn’t the end all for me, but it keeps me safe. I’m trying to save up for a house. That will be a ways off.
• Love
  - I like to give it and I LOVE to get it. It makes me feel a sense of worth and comfort.

More will come…