Aww I used to watch movies with my boyfriend over the phone (well, Skype) as well! We are really nerdy and play online Scrabble together too when we're apart ... there are other fun internet games for two players. I never thought I would do that but it's actually really fun once in a while. Otherwise, I would suggest sending cards, postcards, or letters every once in a while - everyone appreciates a special delivery!

Sometimes my boyfriend and I will have discussions/debates. We take turns picking topics sometimes and then we talk about them. For example, I would pick the topic, abortion, then I give my views on abortion and then he gives his, and then we debate/discuss back and forth about it. For this stuff we usually just pick serious topics, the war in Iraq, presidential stuff, all kinds of different relationship scenarios like, what would think or do if someone did this...? stuff like that. We tend to have different views on a lot of stuff so it makes it really interesting. Its also a great way to figure out someones feelings about hard to talk about topics. We did have a spell of not having stuff to talk about for a while, so it works really well for those because it doesn't have to be something you did that day. Just make sure it doesn't get out of hand into an argument, both people need to understand that they might not hear things they agree with.

WOW girl 2 years is a long time. I am in the same boat as you, just not as long (almost a year for me). I have a good feeling about this for you. I am not the best with advice but you might not be with each other in person but you are together spritiually and always look forward to the next time you will see him again. That excitement just builds up and it's great when you can finally hold him in your arms.

Go out a little more. get into the habit of reading books, maybe even interesting books about architecture or cooking, or seomthing. watch movies, OLD movies... and then talk about that... Have you seen "Its a wonderful life" you havveeeee to watch it bla bla bla. lol. you'll get into the habit of watching each others recommendations once in a while.

Watch a show, heroes, or something on DVD. (separately- not on the phone) and talk about it.

try not to talk every day on the phone, and if you do keep it short, and save ONE day (random day) for a long conversation....

use msn messenger , watch each other thru webcam, play scrabble, sudoku, or anything like that.... =0)

I'm also in a similar sitution but only for about a year. However, the distance is much greater (I'm in Cali, he's in Egypt) which makes it hard to really connect sometimes. We chat a lot, every day for a couple of hours, sometimes twice a day.

He's coming to visit at the end of this month and a lot of our conversations are about planning really cool things to see and do when he visits. It's great to have make these special plans together and makes me even more excited for his visit. We also send emails to each other at random times, which is always a nice surprise.

And I'm somewhat of a techie, so occasionally I'll record an audio message for him and send it through emaill. Even better, there's the pure digital video cameras (sometime last spring that had ads for them all over this website). They're really easy to use. I just shoot some video of myself and some of my day. Then I just hooked the camera directly to my USB port on my computer and it was just a few easy steps to email the footage. I hope this helps

i agree with playing internet games.

and old fashioned letters.

when he's heard all of your stories and you've heard all of his, the only thing keeping you together are your personalities and the memories you'll make...together. there are plenty of fun free things you can do, and there are a tooon of outdoor activities in colorado. (love that place!) just look around, sign up for city newsletters, get involved in places, volunteer- make memories and do things together.

How cute is this? Watching a movie over the phone, thats so sweet awww

Definitely write letters! Actual letters!
And include a picture of yourself, in the pose of whatever is significant or unique about that day.
Kind of like a snapshot diary.

And I feel like you have a good relationship, too. I understand that the boredom sucks, but staying together for that amount of time in a long distance relationship says a lot about you guys!

Good luck! =D

Haha, I'm having the same issues with my boyfriend right now (13 months!) and I totally agree with what the other girls said. Yes to old fashioned letters.

E-mail is all the rage but it will never compare to curling up in bed and being able to hold something he wrote, he touched--it lasts forever. Just write to him at random and try not to tell him beforehand; it's a really nice surprise. Yay for internet games too.

And I apologize for being brutally blunt here, but phone sex.

Seriously. Assuming you're comfortable with that. So good luck dear!

Um...letters seems stupid to me.

If you haven't tried it already: Phone-sex!!

My boyfriend and I just moved in together after a year and a half of long distance. I had to cross an ocean to finally be with him! But for the 2 years we knew each other from worlds apart, we filled the void a thousand different ways: we slept together on webcam almost every night; we watched movies and TV shows together; we sent each other little care packages filled with silly things like junk food, sweet notes, and tee-shirts with our scent; a great way to spend some "time" together is to meet in virtual worlds: our avatars would go on dates and romantic strolls in "Second Life"!! We're also both filmmakers, so yeah... we did send each other a bunch of X-rated videos to spice things up and remind the other of what he was missing! We'd go on youtube and watch all kinds of videos, funny ones, political ones, and that way we got to share incredibly funny moments, or have very deep interesting conversations that could last for days! We even have a whole entire server on which we uploaded songs and letters and videos and pictures for each other. I think one of the things that made it work is that despite the distance, we'd always fight hard to always be able to say good morning and good night every day, and chat online or call several times a day to share little daily moments. Now that we live together, we have a whole 100GB hard drive full of amazing long distance memories - that we wouldn't have if we'd lived in the same town! Good luck to you!

my husband and i dated over the net for 7 years and well hes a computer nerd and i remember he would sent me a backround image with several parts missing and once a week he would email me a part and i would have to find out were it went and it was always a sweet poem he wrote for me. he would also call me at the most silliest time and say that he loves me and gave me kisses over the phone. we also wrote letters to each other some would be really long , some would be a single poem some would be 1 page or a torn off small piece big enough to fit i love you in lol doing small but fun things like that was the most entertaining like when i new when he set his alarm clock and i would call 5 minuets before and say that im his new alarm clock he said that always brighten his day and made work better. the little things when in a long distance relationship can mean the most even if its sending a huge box full of krinckled paper that has messages on each paper. to a simple wake up phone call. but it also take a lot of work to keep up the trust and love remind each other how much you care for one another