I read that article yesterday and it made me really, really wish that I liked oysters.

And my bachelor(ette) activities also always involve cooking something that no one else would eat. (Which I do anyway, if I really want it, but there's great freedom in not having to apologize to anyone.)

And good luck to them in Phoenix. Yeesh.

hee, danf, I also used to do the cooking-seafood thing when my ex was out of town.

the mister will be in Seattle this weekend, but all I could come up with was that I'll be taking the opportunity to go do not one, but 2 training rides with my cycling team. That is, if the weather cooperates.

the mister and I are so similar in our likes/dislikes, it's very hard for me to come up with anything, actually. Oh, for sure he listens to more jam bands and I read more trashy novels, but neither of us has yet made the 'icky face' or shouted OMG TURN THAT SHIT DOWN!!! or passive-aggressively retreated to the basement/bedroom/garage while the other was doing/reading/cooking/listening to something.

Funny this: I caught myself feeling a little nostalgia-ridden that he won't be around to watch the SuperBowl with me, because we'd gotten into the habit of snuggling on the couch to watch the game on Sunday afternoons. Then I was all like "OMG HOLY SHIT I **HATE** FOOTBALL!!!11"... and then I was like, "er, actually, no I don't hate football, I used to watch it all the time and even went to games when I was younger..." And then it dawned on me: I only *think* I hate football because my x was such a friggin douchebag to be around whilst watching football that it made it a painful experience. And so it goes.

Miko commented recently about the whole subverting oneself for one's partner, and I remember nodding my head about that. However, the more time I spend around my husband, the more I think I've lucked out and found that extraordinarily rare partner for whom that might not be the case.

youall can kick me now, I'll stop.

Oh, and I'll watch Chinatown, which they also hate, for some unexplicable reason.

Ha! I just busted my boyfriend, currently in Sweden for work, downloading on usenet - I tried to log in to the server but it wouldn't allow multiple logins. I know what he does when he's away from me!

But seriously, we're both introverts and so are good at doing 'alone' activities together. The only thing I can really think of is that I cook more elaborate meals, because when he's here I cook a meat and a vegetarian dish and like to keep it relatively simple for my sanity. When he's away I can spend the same amount of time cooking just vegetarian. I also spend more time chatting on the internet and occasionally get caught up in a novel and eat sweets or apples until 3am (then wake up with a bellyache). I don't do that when he's here.

In the words of semi-humorist Roy Blount Jr.:
" I prefer my oyster fried.
Then I'm sure my oyster's died."

It's okay to be a Party Vegetable. I'll be including some "not wild, but still crazy" music for party vegetating on my Wendellradio tonight (9 Eastern, 6 Pacific), he plugged.

Ha! Yeah, cooking seafood. I do that. Sounds like a trend.

Umm. . .play music around the house because there's no TV on somewhere. Drink during the day, if I happen to feel like it. Sometimes, throw sh*t out he won't miss (shhhhh).

I like oysters.

lonefrontranger, why not join the mister and hit the Seattlebunny meetup on Saturday?

Watch the weather channel for hours. Go to the bathroom with the door open.

Have a drink or three and play music too loud while singing along, and doing housework to the tunes and the tipple.

Sometimes I sing into my hairbrush, and if I really like the song, play it five times in a row. Loudly.

This is the sort of fun that is much more fun when alone.

The mister likes to cook a side of beef and steam a field's worth of broccoli when I'm not home. I don't do much different when he's not here; maybe stay up later or eat more fast food. Oh, and watch chick flicks.

Ha, I missed this thread. mr. gaspode is out of town Saturday night (visiting a friend of his that I don't like, so I bowed out of the trip) so I am making hot and sour soup and a green shrimp curry.

And eating ice cream, which he can't eat, so I feel bad eating it around him.