Here are five a few of my more unique ideas for 2023! I will add to this list with regularity, and within it you will glean excellent insight into what we might enjoy together. While I remain an eternal fan of the classic dinner date, you’ll find that most of these vignettes combine my thirst for romance and adventure with lightheartedness and outside-the-box thinking. Feel free to use my ideas to inspire your own before pitching your best woo through my booking form. 🥰

DRAMATIC Dinner at Sepia or Beatnik on the River before walking over to The Lyric to catch my lifelong favorite West Side Story.

CIRCUITOUS We dress to the nines, meet a beloved dive, and ask our bartender to determine our dinner spot. Then at dinner, we ask our server where we should land for a nightcap / non-alcoholic night cap. No vetoing. We will commit ourselves to embracing the night with chance as our guide. Bonus points for doing this in your favorite domestic city or somewhere abroad.

SERENE Hiking, camping, lovin’ on each other and decompressing. This is a fabulous list of destinations. 

PAMPERED We book a suite at The JW Marriott, lavish ourselves with one of their extraordinary couples massages, then eat our fill of room service (and one another) before taking a nap.

ELEVATED Paragliding in Belize. Don’t worry, I’m not afraid of heights, and I own enough sunscreen to protect an entire desert island full of Irishmen. (View photos from a February 2023 bikini-clad FMTY are posted below.)

HILARIOUS As you’ve already ascertained via my gallery, I’m a huge fan of standup comedy. Is this something we have in common? Let’s go see one of our favorite comedians live and ugly laugh til we cry. (In 2021, a member of my inner sanctum flew me to Baltimore to see Last Podcast on the Left live and crash with him at The Four Seasons for a few days. ‘Twas a riotously funny and erotic dream.)

GREEN We stroll hand in hand through the botanical gardens as you tell me about your green thumb and I confess my that mine is black. Then back to the boudoir we go for something more salacious ahead of a couple of Fill Colinses at Aviary (make mine non-alcoholic, please) and dinner at Bloom Plant Based Kitchen.

BRUTAL We satiate my love of Brutalist architecture by setting out upon a tour of our city’s most iconic concrete monoliths, and we nibble and sip at assorted establishments along the way.

ADORED We grab some Pho at Sunda, Le Colonial or Pho 777 or before a day of luxury shopping. You indulge our mutual stiletto and nylon fetishes and I buy you something small, wife-proof, carryon ready and discreetly meaningful to commemorate our day together.

TRIUMPHANT We grab a couple of dogs at The Weiners Circle and plot our Florida getaway After all, you do have meetings in Tampa and I am overdue for a return visit to the Dali Museum. 🙂

NERDY They really ought to hurry up and release the Venture Brothers movie because boy howdy do I have the best nerd date idea! We watch it while lounging naked in bed & eating a variety of Venture Brothers themed foods: vegan spring rolls, a block of Asiago cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches, tortilla chips & ranch, etc.

Unfamiliar with Venture Brothers? Let’s build a themed date around a nerdy movie or TV show we both love. 🙂

ATHLETIC We lift together in a well appointed hotel gym (I’ve kept a nationwide list!) and I teach you the importance of farmer carries. You, in turn, chide me for my disdain of the steady state cardio. (I do it every day and I loathe it every day.)