Tonight’s the night

[Shmambles]

DD has to gone off for a sleepover and now I have five hours to wait for my nice new man to come for dinner and a sleepover of our own. First time we’ll have DTD (assuming we do) after three dates over the course of six weeks. I’m excited and a bit nervous!

What shall I do to pass the time? I’m thinking… a bit of meal prep, nice bath, maybe a preparatory glass of wine in a couple of hours. I have the dress chosen and out of the wardrobe. It’s a long time to wait!

Make sure you've got plenty of condoms.

Some of the comments. I'm laughing at the genuine funny ones, and laughing at the batshit ones. Glad to see OP has a sense of humour.

I'd go with a last clean up, go for a walk and a coffee to clear the head and dispel the nerves. Then a bath with a glass of wine.

Enjoy.

Oh God. I kept the condoms in my jewellery box and that’s now at my mum’s!

There is nothing wrong with a bit of hair pulling and spanking! It's not for everyone tho

Exactly. It's not for everyone.

Yes, there’ll be none of that thanks.

Although I am cooking for him so my real fear about choking is that he’ll die of it over dinner!

Brilliant 😂

You’ve forgotten that you need to meet him three streets away and blindfold him, then walk him to your door, so he doesn’t know where you live!

have you got condoms? Don’t want to have to run to the late night chemist!

I’m mostly just impressed that you have time to decide what to do first. I’d be running around trying to get my house (and self) into shape, and mostly panicking.

If you do have time though, lovely bath, nice deep condition on your hair…

Have fun!

I once met someone for the first time at my front door in just my underwear. Probably a bit risky but I had a great time.

Have a lovely evening!

i’ve asked my uncle (recently released from prison for beating up bad guys) to kidnap him, bundle him into the boot of his car and deposit him in my hallway. It’s the only way to be sure.

Yes I have condoms. I actually had to buy some the other day as the ones in my drawer were worryingly old. I was still embarrassed buying them. Like a teenager.

I take it you’ve changed the bed?

Put WD40 on all the ‘devices’?

Alerted the coastguard?

Enjoy the prep and the evening op. Do all the things to make you feel great.

Keep your head. Say wonderful things to yourself including how fortunate he is to have access to you.

Know your boundaries and keep them.

And.. just to be on the safe side, have a good friend on standby in case it goes wrong for any reason and.you want some support. Have your phone charged and said friends number at the top of your call list.

Yep, I'm a mum to adult daughters.

have a pampering afternoon, men don’t notice clean or tidy houses and get a vase and scissors ready for those flowers he’s going to give you ! you don’t want to be faffing about looking for those when he’s barely got in the door. Have a lovely evening 😁

Gosh really?! Underwear is obviously on my mind but it will definitely remain covered at first!

Having a pair of scissors on standby is a great idea both for those who think he’ll bring me flowers and those who think he’ll try to rob me.

It's all very well taking that flippant attitude OP but it says you're not taking your safety etc seriously.

You haven't even mentioned where you've put car keys and valuable art work.

Honestly

Finding myself feeling a bit jealous op! Have a wonderful night.

Those first responses 😂😂🙈🙈, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this arrangement and timeline. Get some good music on and take your time to get ready. I hope you have a fabulous night.

Yeah, um, personally I wouldn't do this at my house either. With kids I'd want to keep my address private for quite a while...

Any reason you can't meet at his?

Good advice. The things my 20-something colleagues describe as "routine" make my eyes pop out.

If your all freshened up in pits and down below then I would spend the afternoon relaxing and maybe having a read of a book but under no circumstances read ‘what men don’t want women to know’.
Hope you have a fantastic evening and give us an update tomorrow

Thank you. I guess there are plusses to my evening to come, but on the other hand I have to clean the house, beautify myself, cook a meal that is filling and tasty but won’t leave me bloated and smelling of it, pick a wine that makes me seem sophisticated (I am not in any way), change the sheets, hope DD doesn’t have to come home early for some reason, hope he’s good in bed, hope there’s no awkwardness before, during or after, and get him out by 9am!
To be honest I wonder if I should just settle down with a book and send him to you!

...and line them up.in your preferred sequence, e.g. perhaps 'glow-in-the-dark' first and ending with the 'nobbly' ones?

Literally.