How to Date your Significant Other During COVID-19

Got the quarantine blues? 

The solution's just an arm's reach away. Here's my 14 ways to do it for 14 days!

1.) Make breakfast for dinner: We're talking pulling out all the stops. Chocolate chip banana pancakes with all the fixin's you can scavenge for in your cupboards.

2.) Bob Ross Paint Night: Art isn't just beautiful, fun, and happy: it can be stress relieving and relaxing. Find stuff at home that you could transfer your creative energy towards. You could paint a mural in the background, do adult coloring books, make a water color painting, or do any number of things. Or, get some chalk and write positive messages on the sidewalks in front of your house for passing pedestrians

3.) Get dinner delivered from your favorite small business: Support your favorite small business by putting in an order during this difficult time

4.) Host a 2 person game night: There's tons of great options to choose from. We did Speed, and I am unashamed to admit that I was the reigning champion.

5.) #Throwback Thursday: Pull out all those old, cringy pictures from high school and do some good reminiscing. If anything, the pictures will provide some much needed laughter. Bonus points if you've got embarrassing videos to share too!!!!!

6.) Create a scrapbook together: Did you ever end up finishing that photo book you were making for your last family trip? Have an anniversary or other milestone coming up? This is a great time to actually get those photo books done and spend some quality time together reminiscing about all the good times.

7.) Have a group date night through a video call: Reconnect with friends through a virtual group date. A great thing to do for such an event is play some verbal, how-well-do-you-know-each-other games. If you don't have any ideas, just google games for wedding receptions or bridal showers, which usually have funny prompts and ideas.

8.) Have a cooking competition: Are you breaking out some of your old food storage? Make it a competition to see who can actually make something edible with what's available.

9.) Have a jam session: Does one of you play an instrument? It's a great time to brush up on skills and maybe even teach each other how to play. Or, if you are not musically inclined, make a brand new playlist together that you think describes your relationship.

10.) Send some snail mail: Ah, yes, good ol' snail mail. Write up some notes for people who might need a little pick-me-up during this time.

11.) Document history: This is a crazy time that we're living in right now. Make a time capsule to remember everything that's been happening. (you can make a virtual time capsule too!) You might include crazy anecdotal stories, news articles, or even some of your favorite memes. Or an empty tube of toilet paper...

12.) Talk: What a concept. With all the family time we have, this is a great time to have time dedicated to good conversations. If you're stuck, try googling weird conversation starters. We had a lively discussion about the relative ranking of Disney sequels and the quality of Disney live action films. Quite entertaining.

13.) Have a movie night: This seems to be what everyone's doing, but you can make it fun by choosing a new one that has just been released or choosing a throwback movie that you both loved. I give Marvel's Black Panther and Disney's Emperor's New Groove both a 10/10

14.) Decorate the house: I actually did this with my roommate, but it's a great date night idea too! We had a huge empty wall in our apartment, and we have started to fill it with different colored sticky notes saying things we're grateful for. The list grows every day.

That's it folks! Stay tuned for more ideas of how to take full advantage of this very strange, very unique time.