TOT - Dates

1. What is your ideal best date?
Anything that includes a good meal and good conversation with my husband. Any date is a good date when you have two kids.

2. How long does it take you to get ready to go on a date?
It depends on if I've already taken a shower and dried my hair. I'd say average would be an hour, but often a lot less.

3. What would you wear on the date?
It depends on the date. With two kids, I generally consider any outing that doesn't involve children, a date. Last year we had to get a babysitter so we could get our bedroom furniture from Ikea, and I consider that something of a date. It was a lot of fun. But in general, on a traditional movie/dinner date I'd wear jean, heels and a nice top. Maybe with some boobage. If it's a fancy restaurant, a gray pencil skirt with heels, a nice top and boobage.

4. If you are married, how often do you go on dates? If you are single, when was your last date?
Like I said, I'm a little liberal on what I consider a "date". An outing that takes more than an hour including driving and gets us out without children is a date for me. I have a resolution this year for eight dates including 6 movies in the theatre, but we are really headed for an average of one a month which is awesome. I really can't tell you how many dates we had last year - maybe two?

5. What was your worst date?
I went on a date with a guy I met online back before online dating was the norm. We met in a chat room and he liked the fact that I was studying German. We met at Steak n Shake. It turned out he was a neo-Nazi. True story.
Ooh, also there was the time I went to my date's junior prom in my mom's wedding dress.

6. Do you/Did you kiss on your first date?
I didn't really have a dating policy but I often kissed on the first date.

7. If married, how long before you knew he/she was the one? If single, how long before you know if the person is marriage material?
We had our first date December 10 (or 13, I'd need to pull a calendar to tell you for sure). He had pretty much moved in by January. I knew pretty quick.

8. Do you prefer day dates or night dates?
I don't really have a preference, but I think it depends on the time of year. Right now, day is great - it's SOOO beautiful out there (I say this as it's been storming for about 2 hours with no end in sight, but it's usually sunny and beautiful) but I have always felt that coming out of a movie when it was light outside was just weird.

9. How old were you when you first were allowed to date?
There wasn't a set time, but I started dating mostly when I had a car.

10. What is the most embarrassing moment you have had on a date?
I can't think of one off the top of my head although I have a personal embarrassment about how one of my long-term relationships started. I was dating this one guy, and he had a habit of disappearing from the radar for several days to a week at a time. I really liked him so I put up with it, but I was annoyed one time and was on the phone talking to a friend of mine whose birthday it was. He wanted to know if I wanted to meet up, so we hung out for a bit that night and ended up making out. When he dropped me off at my car he said, "So when are we going to tell them?" (meaning our mutual friends that we hung out with).
"Tell them what?"
"That we're together"
"Uhh ... maybe we should keep it a secret for a little bit" (ahem, I didn't realize that one night of kissing meant we were dating. Plus, I kind of had a boyfriend. I didn't actually comment on any of this.)
I still hadn't heard from other boyfriend by a couple days later so I officially admitted to the world that I was dating guy #2, and we were together (and engaged and living together) for three years. Two weeks after I was official with guy #2, I heard from guy #1 - it turned out he had been deathly sick and hadn't left his apartment for more than two weeks. Oops!