"we should totally do that!"

First we were trying to keep up

with the Joneses...

then moved onto the 

Cleavers and

Kardashians

(yeah...right!)...

today,

Carmichael Lynch

(I don't often cite an ad agency

but this one is deserving...

great work team!)

gives us something to really

strive for...

the adventurous couple

featured in their Subaru commercial

whose slogan is

"Let's do that."

Filling their road trip of firsts

with things like

deep sea diving

log rolling

bug eating.

All goes well until they get naked

and share a hot spring with

a couple of hippies...

ending with the line

"We really shouldn't have done that!"

Their troubled ending

did not deter me from throwing

their plan at my man

when we found ourselves

Married Without Children

for an entire weekend.

(The boys went to

Hell's Survivors

a weekend of paintball mayhem.)

When I posed the theme

"Let's do that!"

to my husband...

he was all about it.

Now some things

are not

appropriate to blog...

we are consenting adults

who haven't been

all alone in our own house for

well..

way too long.

Let your imagination surf here.

The rest of the weekend

was fun but tame by Subaru's standards...

hey...

 we're new to this

couple without kids thing.

Started our Saturday at

Architectural Artifacts

in downtown Toledo

(Yeah...that's right...he took me downtown!)

We've always wanted to go

but it was either closed or we just 

didn't.

Well we did on this day.

Such a cool place with everything

you could possibly imagine 

that has been salvaged from old

homes, buildings, outhouses, churches...

you name it

I'm sure they've got it.

Didn't know I needed something

until I found the knobs

that were missing from a salvaged desk

I use for my sewing table.

(will blog soon)

A real win because

I bartered and they accepted.

For those of you who care about such things

you can now add

Architectural Artifacts

to your list of

places that barter.

Yeah!

Time for lunch at

The Beirut

serving Mediterranean cuisine.

My choice

fattoush, hummus, olives and feta.

His...

cabbage rolls.

Really.

Good.

Food.

We stayed for some baklava and

Turkish coffee

while a storm rumbled through.

Next up

decorating my guys office.

That's right...

all alone
 in the newest NOIC location

where the loan officers are housed...

lights dim...

putting a cabinet together

while watching

Ridiculousness

on their big screen.

No,

I'm not kidding.

That man knows how to show 

me a good time.

Sounds silly

but we had great fun just being

us.

We're newbies to this

filling of our days with firsts.

A work in progress.

Looking forward to the homework ahead. 

I'm even liking the thought of

ending our day with...

Maybe we shouldn't have done that!

Yesterday

he gave me an early b'day present...

tickets to see

Trace Adkins

at Centennial Terrace

(another first!)

Friday night.

I took it as a 

Tag...You're it!

;)