Date Night, Home-Style

Just like everyone else, Matt and I love having date nights out. We enjoy going to dinner and a movie. We love going on short trips to explore. We like going to football games for our favorite teams. If we were in the South, we'd still make it to the shooting range for a date night here and there. It's a little trickier in this area, so it hasn't happened yet.

A new love is date nights in. We talked a while back about having game night once a week. We want to learn to play chess. We have a Wii. We like a good game of Phase 10. Though we've had a couple of game nights, it's not taken off. We have had movie nights with our Netflix and football dates to watch K-State (though we recently watched the BCS Championship without being fans of either team). Occasionally we catch snippets of a Ravens game.

The area we differ in taste most is with our preferences for entertainment. We both like T.V. and the movies. He likes what I call "stupid humor" and I...don't. It's my least favorite genre. We're talking Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell. I like action movies, even ones that are unrealistically over the top and he...doesn't. I like dramatic television shows; he likes comedy. Is it that big of a deal that we have different preferences? No. Not at all. 

Fortunately, we do have some common ground in this area. The neat thing for me is that my husband has routinely planned on us having date nights at home where we watch episodes of 24 together. :) Forgetting that I'd only bought the first season on DVD, it was a rude awakening to rummage through my stockpile for season two and come up empty. Matt took note and bought me this for Christmas:

What a sweet, thoughtful and encouraging gift. He wants more date nights with me watching 24!