Dating on a Budget

Spring is here, which means warm weather is vastly approaching! Warm weather is a great time for budget dating! Why? Well that's simple! Picnics, ice cream,  and walks in the park. What do they all have in common? I'll tell you, they're all under 50 dollars or FREE!

The HighLine

The HighLine In NYC is beautiful! spend a couple of hours here with some ice cream and great conversation. It's the perfect date. Come here on a warm afternoon or a cool evening. You'll both love it.








Seven Dollar Tuesday at Edgewater Multiplex! Every Tuesday (all day), all movies are seven dollars. Now in an age where movie tickets are about 13 plus, that's a great deal!

The Bronx Zoo has free admission every Wednesday so if you want to see LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS, oh my! then the Bronx Zoo is the place for you. Plus nothing sounds better than FREE

Central Park, with its roller skate and bike rentals, it is another wonderful wallet-forgiving date spot. Or grab a basket make some sandwiches, a blanket and voila! You're picnic's ready. Central Park is perfect for that. 

Happy dating folks

xoxo Rockie

Cool Date Night Spots

Living in the tri-state area gives you a large playground for dating. There are countless cool, trendy and romantic date night spots you and your significant other can visit! I will give you guys my top three best places for a date night.



Cafe Archetypus or The Cave, is the ultimate place for romance. It is the MOST romantic restaurant to take your significant other in New Jersey. When you walk into The Cave, it's like stepping into another world. It really sets the tone with its dimmed lighting, slow music and countless candles. When you come here always ask to sit in the back, where the personal cave booths are. It's also BRING YOUR OWN BOTTLE, so come with your favorite bottle of wine. (264 River Rd  Edgewater, NJ 07020)

Spin is the coolest interactive night spot in NYC. It's a ping pong club on steroids. If you and your significant other want to have a blast in a glass then you must check out SPIN. The food is really great too! (48 EAST 23RD STREET NEW YORK, NY  10010 )

Comedy Cellar is the coolest comedy club in NYC and usually has guest appearances from big names like Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. It's a small place but a guaranteed great time.
(117 MacDougal St  New York, NY 10012)

These are just few of the countless cool date night spots to visit! Hope this helps.

xoxo Rockie

Are You Dating or Just Friends PLUS+?

Having any kind of a relationship with a member of the opposite sex can be tricky! You two are either platonic or something more, and then there is often times that one person in this relationship that may feel something the other person doesn't. So when dealing with trying to define what you have, you must ask yourself; ARE WE DATING? ARE WE FRIENDS? ARE WE FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS? or ARE WE FRIENDS PLUS?



Dating- A form of courtship consisting of social activities done by two people with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse. When you're dating someone you two usually go on intimate outings, and discuss what each of you are looking for in a partner. Usually there are a lot of conversations about relationships. Usually two people can date for two to three months before actually entering into a meaningful and long term relationship. This is only if you're interested in the other person. If you realize you have no interest in the other person then dating with him or her won't go further than one or two dates.

Friends- This is a platonic relationship. There is no dating, no touching of any sexual kind and no discussion about relationships. You two hang out alone or in groups with other friends. 

Friends with benefits- This is a strictly sexual relationship. Often two people agree to this type of arrangement for convenience. Usually going out on dates and discussing about feelings is not involved. If the only time you guys speak is to discuss a "meet up time/place" then you're involved in a friends with benefits type of relationship.

Friends Plus- This is a friendship that's stuck in limbo. Usually it feels like you two are dating but nothing ever happens. This is a friend you love or care about deeply which leads to feelings of confusion. You two, on paper are perfect for each other but no one ever makes the first move. A lot of hanging out is involved, some intimate interactions can be involved such as kissing, hugging holding hands. No sex is involved.


Which situation-ship are you in? Happy dating folks!

xoxo Rockie

"Popping" the "Question"?

Candles, flowers, and candy, oh my! When asking for your woman's hand in marriege one should try to make it as special as possible!  Romance is a MUST when popping the question! One doesn't need to plan the most extravagant series of events to try to impress your woman....
                                               
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                                                         Will you
                                                      marry me will
                                                      you marry me
                                                      will you marry
                                                              me
                                                        wi       lly
                                                   llyo             ouw
                                               mar                     rym
                                            me                             wil
                                          wil                                  you
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                                              wi                                 ll
                                                  yo                            u
                                                    willyoumarryme?

 Creativity and especially effort are highly appreciated by women. We love to know that some thought was put into what you men do, especially for something like a proposal. Now, I'm not saying fly your woman out to Fiji and write "will you marry me" in gold (even though that does sound wonderful).

When on a budget there are several affordable ways into getting that YES your looking for. Flowers and candles are certainly romantic and will set any mood. Filling up a room with tons of lit candles and flowers everywhere is sure to take a woman's breath away. Don't just throw a few rose pedals around and light 3 candles, have an entire room oozing them. Oh what a sight to see! Picnics, champagne, roses, can't go wrong with that! Check out this cool link for 50 romantic wedding proposals click here.

xoxo Rockie

Some DON'TS when trying to get a Mate's attention

Social media certainly makes meeting potential significant others rather easy. It also makes looking like a stalker easy as well. When trying to pursue someone leaving comments on everything they post, to try and get their attention is not the way to go. especially if they aren't acknowledging your comments/presence. If a person had an interest in you then they would respond to the direct communication your trying to make. Following them on every social site doesn't make them like you more, it's sort of creepy. So when you have an interest in someone please refrain from stalker-ish tendencies. Here are a couple of things you DON'T DO when trying to get "noticed"

1. Show up in places you know their going to be
2. try too hard (no one like an eager beaver)
3. compliment them every 5 seconds (compliments are always nice but not in excess)
4. Looking to available ( being at someones every beck and call wont help your cause, it will only get you taken advantage of)

This is just a short list of a few things you Don't do! In addition if you feel like you have to work on getting someones attention then just quit while your ahead. If someone is genuinely interested in you then getting their attention is no work at all because you'll already have it!

xoxo Rockie

How To Lose A Girl in 10 days

So I was watching the movie, How to use a guy in 10 days and got to thinking. Now in the first ten days of meeting someone you can usually tell whether you want to possibly pursue something with them or not. Some people can detect this way sooner then ten days. So in this movie the main character tries to do everything that women do WRONG while dating a man for ten days. I started asking my friends what is it that a man can do to make a woman lose interest in a man and came up with a list of a few things.

1. excessive calling and texting
2. poor conversation
3. eagerness for intimacy
4. lack of proper etiquette 
5. talking about an ex
6. boasting about yourself

Communication is very important in the getting to know someone stage in a relationship, but excessive calling and texting will make a woman think you're a creep, stalker and weirdo.

Great conversation is key! Sitting on the phone saying um and OK over and over again because you can't think of anything interesting to say will have a girl thinking OK NEXT!

Eagerness for intimacy- Men who constantly bring up sex in the first few dates is a major turn-off and inappropriate. It'll make a girl think that that's the only thing on your agenda.

Lack of proper etiquette- PUT THE PHONE AWAY! while on a date you should not have your phone out at all, this is extremely rude. Also when out on a nice dinner please tip the waiter and waitress accordingly. I once had a friend who went on a date and the guy tipped the waiter TWO DOLLARS. Of course she never saw him again nor did she return any of his calls after that.

Talking about an ex- Please do not talk about an ex-girlfriend especially if not asked. If you were asked please keep it brief. No one really likes to hear about exes and it'll make a girl feel like you're not over them.

Boasting about yourself-  No one likes a bragger! Yuck! Talking about yourself and the things you have is a major turn off.

Please leave a comment if you would like to add to the list of things guys shouldn't do. 

xoxo Rockie

Movie Review: Beautiful Creatures

So, Yesterday late afternoon I finally had the time to watch Beautiful Creatures and to my dismay it wasn't as wonderful as I thought it would be! This movie is based on the novel Beautiful, which I'm sure is 100 times better than the movie actually was.

This movie was very "twilight-ish" to me. There a character "Lina" who's a "caster" (witch) and she falls in love with a mortal "Ethan". Of course falling in love with a mere human is forbidden so these love sick teens face several obstacles. Lina is almost turning 16, and when a female caster turns 16 she is "claimed" to the "light" or to the "dark". I didn't really understand why a woman didn't have a say in whether she was going to be a "good" Castor" or an "evil" one. Didn't make much sense to me (sigh). I did like some of the messages in the movie about love and sacrifice. In the movie you can see that sometimes sacrifice for the greater good is often needed. Sometimes you have to let go of your own selfish needs and do things because its the right thing to do.

Beautiful Creatures the movie felt like a poor attempt to try to get a hold of all the people who loved twilight. It's another love story similar to a Romeo and Juliet, but unfortunately this one was not entertaining and really left the viewer (well me anyway) like HUH? This movie gets one star from me. If you're thinking about watching, this wait till it comes out on TV. This movie was so not worth the 14 dollars I spent! This movie wasn't the best love story I've ever seen. If I were you I'd just wait till it came out on TV.