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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Celebrate Earth Day with your Sweetie!

Fun things you can do as a couple to help save the planet:

plant a garden and grow your own fruits and veggies - it can be fun getting dirty together!
take a shower together afterward - strictly for water saving purposes, of course!
tuck away the car keys and take a bike ride together - take an organic picnic, or go out for fair trade coffee somewhere
check out a farmers market in your area and buy local goods -you get to stroll around hand in hand and feel closer to you community
consider purchasing carbon credits to offset your lifestyle
educate yourselves by reading articles and books and sharing your ideas. Watching movies together (like An Inconvenient Truth) is a great idea , too, or you could join a community environmental group as a couple.
switch your household cleaning products to a greener option - read labels
if you are getting married plan a green wedding - (yes, the bride can still wear white if she wants to!)
turn the heat down and snuggle up!
turn the AC off and take your clothes off!

Just a few humble suggestions of ways couples can make the planet a better place from CouplesQuestions.com. Be gentle with our Earth. It's the only on we have.

Happy Couples, Happy Planet!

Labels: fun, life, off topic, relationships, togetherness

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Cold feet? Don't worry!

A conversation we just had on this average November evening in Western Canada:

Dan: "Holy Crap it's hot!"
Me: "Really?" Then, "Oh it must be, because I'm not cold at all."

This little exchange is one we have had many, many times before. Though, sometimes it plays out that I'm too cold and he's just right. We like to mix it up. That's just how we roll.

Though we differ completely on the temperature scale, we've never had an argument about it (my blessed husband is even kind enough to let me warm my feet -aka blocks of ice- against his at night). We always seem to work it out somehow and today we read that this difference in temperate just may be one of the contributers to a happy union. Yay!

Check out this tongue in cheek report from today's (ok tomorrow's) The Australian. The writer, Frank Divine, tells of his own experience and subsequent fact finding that has become the basis for this Opposing Thermal Attractedness Syndrome (OTAS)....OK I made that last bit up, but is sounded pretty good, don't you think? It's a good article that many happy couples will surely relate to. Why not read it together and have a wee chuckle?

Happy Couples, Happy Planet!

Labels: happy unions, Opposites, relationships, togetherness

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