Dear Blog,
I can't believe Christmas is over already. Seems like it went by TOO fast. Now we are just days away from the start of a new year.
I was flipping through a book that our friend Sarah gave us for Christmas, it's titled "Best Romantic Ideas 365 Great ways to say I Love You". She told us that it seems like our "passion" is dying down and that we should try and find a way to reignite it. Personally, I think Gerry and I are happier than we have been in awhile and I really believe Sarah should mind her own business. However, I was curious to find out what ideas the book had, so I figured I'd skim through it. (I showed Gerry the book after the first couple of suggestions and he chose some things he'd like to do.. haha)
I came across a couple sections and randomly choose what to do. We are not sure if these ideas work or if they are fail-proof....Maybe we are only suppose to try on idea per day.
Look at your lover straight in the eye and say "I love you."
Gerard was sitting on the couch playing on his I-Pad. So I figured I'd give this one a try and see what happened. Sitting next to him, I cuddled up to his arm, got him to look up at me for a second and I said "I love you." It felt a little weird doing this at first, but honestly, as soon as he looked at me straight in my eyes, the words came out naturally. When I said it, I really meant it. He smiled, stared at me a little longer before replying "I love you too."
Kiss for at least fifteen seconds
I know that the idea behind this was probably not to time the exact duration of the kiss, but I'm pretty meticulous and I wanted to see if we could last 15 seconds. So I set the timer on my phone, leaned in and started kissing him. He was surprised at my sudden kissing assault but gladly went with it. We didn't last 15 seconds because as soon as he started kissing me back I got embarrassed and ended up breaking the kiss.
I give this suggestion 5 stars because it was a pretty romantic-hot moment.
See how long you can kiss without coming up for air.
Ok, so once the kissing got started I figured we could try this one too. At least to see how long we lasted. So I leaned in again and said "Kiss me."
"I thought I just did." He replied.
"Yes, so...continue." I smiled then puckered up.
"Why the sudden kissing spree?" He said, setting his IPad on the coffee table in front of us.
"Stop talking and just kiss me." I pulled him towards me, so he was laying on top of me for the kiss. "I bet I can kiss you longer than you can kiss me." I said teasing him. Fortunately he didn't comment on that and just kiss me, but it didn't last for long. He started talking in between kisses.
*kiss* so *kiss* what's *kiss* for *kiss* dinner? *kiss**kiss*
SO...that ended the moment and we decided to plan something for dinner. Which brings me to the following suggestion from the book:
Drink a glass of champagne. Toast your lovely partnership.
I really wanted to try this out on New Years, but by now Gerry had seen the book I was reading and getting the romantic suggestions from. He liked this suggestion and decided he wanted to try it out. We filled two glasses with champagne and a strawberry and gave a lovely toast to our 3rd year anniversary. It was sweet and after all that kissing, it felt very romantic.
Rub noses.
Word to the wise. DON'T rub noses after having sipped on champagne (or any alcoholic beverage on an empty stomach). The romantic idea didn't work well with us. Rubbing noses with Gerry only got me a very loud and disturbing burp on his behalf in my face... ugh. I feel sick just remembering it.
You know how the cartoon character's lips vibrate when the burp? Ok, well imagine that but on a real person and in.your.face..... Enough said!
Feed each other breakfast.
As a couple we don't like or do many "lovey-dovey" things; such as feeding each other. It grosses me out and I think it makes him feel emasculated. But I guess after having tried several of the other suggestions in the book we considered this one. We made tiny sandwiches and fruit salad for dinner. (for dessert we each had a slice of pecan pie.) We tried feeding it to each other under candlelight dinner, but felt awkward and ended up laughing it off. I get that perhaps sandwiches are to hard to feed to another person, at least it's hard to eat a sandwich and look sexy doing it. Also, eating a fruit salad gets messy too. haha. We aren't romantic experts here, but we did have fun.
Brush each other's hair.
When Gerry and I read this suggestion we thought it was extremely childish and silly. However after feeling like we'd been silly enough trying out previous suggestions from the book, we figured that it might be a nice ending to our evening. So I pulled out my brush and he brushed my hair, while I combed his hair. We started out by brushing the hair exaggeratedly slow and inventing romantic phrases. It was therapeutic to be silly and laugh at our behavior.
After awhile of laying on the couch brushing each others hair, it got to be very relaxing, it felt like a head massage.
Well... after that, we did get our kiss to last more than 15 seconds!!
Till next time!
love
Desirae
