<human>: Give me the gist of the text in a nutshell

So  We have been together for about a year and a half now, she lives about an hr away works overnight and doesnt drive. I work days but we have the same days off, Fri and sat. So we usually hang out on the weekends. But inbetween we text each other everyday. Sometimes when something out of the ordinary happens or one of us gets something new we have stuff to talk about. But when its just another normal day we stuggle to have any type of conversation other than
Me: Hey how was ur day?
Her: Alright, how about urs?
Me: was ok, same ol same ol, did you sleep ok?
Her: yea 
etc, etc you get the idea.

How can we have more engaging conversation when theres nothing new to talk about. Neither of us are big talkers so we actually talk on the phone maybe once a week, and for this reason exactly..we have nothing important to talk about. 
Any ideas?
<bot>: GF of 1+yr and I have a hard time having substantial conversation on regular days when theres nothing really new to talk about. How to have better convos?