be the insomniac that i am, my mind wanders like a drunk at mardi gras (whatever the hell that means)
anywayz, i started thinking about my girlfriend and how it was gonna be our second month anniversary in a couple of days. i wanted my gift giving to be unique, “cute” and “aww… sweet” and all that sorta stuff. basically, all i did was go to safeway at about 11 at night and pick up 2 yellow roses (2-months, yellow roses-her favorite) and a nice simple little note.
long story short, it was a nice gesture and she liked it a lot
so, my question to all you threaders out there:
what’s a unique way that you’ve:
asked somebody out?
said i love you?
celebrated a birthday/anniversary/anything else worth celebrating with that special someone?
i have no hopes, but i bet this thread can go places.
thanx
I once got a phone number, and subsequent dates, because I happened to be dancing on top of a bonfire and I pulled a li’l lady in with my hockey stick. She later left her name and number on it . . .
Yes I really was dancing on top of a bonfire. It melted my shoes. Thank God for Kevlar.
Tripler
But then again, I impress people by capitalizing all my sentences too.
I wrote this song for a girl I was head over heals for, drove down to Boston, and with a little finegeling(sp) I managed to meet her in Boston Commons without her knowing I was going to be there, and sang this song for her there by the subway station.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work. We’ll see when I go out on a limb like that again.
I flew down to Key West for a job interview and had flight delays on the way home. Before the final leg of my trip (Atlanta to Milwaukee) I called him and gave him the flight information so he could pick me up. “I’ll be there with bells on.” said he.
Three hours later I land in Milwaukee and leave the gate area. I’m walking toward the arrivals pick up area and I hear this jingle, jingle… jingle, jingle.
Here he comes, walking toward me, little bells on his shoes and a dozen roses in hand. At that moment, I loved him more than anything.
I still have those little bells in a drawer even though he and I split four years ago.
In terms of presents, Carnie bought me an HP graphing calculator. It was practical and perfect! I bought him tickets to see Doc Watson.
His best stunt so far is that he brings me breakfast in bed every Sunday. He’ll get up early, check my alarm, and then, just as it goes off, he’ll come in the door with my breakfast. Cheese omelette, turkey bacon, toast and coffee. Sometimes he brings in his guitar and plays me a bluegrass tune, too. Such a sweetie!
I’m not very unique, either. I just leave him be about most things (except keeping the place clean) and never fuss when he wants to go on a run with his biker buddies. I do try to be sure that his favourite foods are always in the house.
I don’t have a lot of information for anniversary presents, I have a good story for valentine’s day though. I was dead broke so I used some old paint, glue and glitter, (straight out of the third grade) and made a homemade valentine. Something cheesy on the back like “I’d give you a heart for Valentine’s Day but you already have mine. Love, Ladyfoxfyre”. All day he made me think that he hadn’t done or gotten anything for me ( A BIG no-no for all guys out there) until he could see that I was visibly upset, then gave me 3 peachy/yellow colored roses. Eh, it was sweet at the time.
my ex-fiance and I were pretty broke and we weren’t giving each other Christmas/Hanukah gifts that year. So one night before Christmas while he was out running a errand, I started a fire (in the fireplace of course!) turned off all the lights in the house except for the Chrismas tree lights, put the dog in the bedroom, removed ever stich of clothing, curled up in a comforter under the Christmas tree
and waited for him to come home.
He was so pleased with his surprise gift that he told everyone in the gym about it (thank god it was a small town) He told me this while we were grocery shopping at County Market. I hit him with a frozen turkey and walked home. Go figure.
Box seats at Phantom of the Opera in Toronto for a birthday present.
I’m not much of a romantic straight up. I like my romantic moments to be honest, touching and unique. Flowers are cool, but so trite. Don’t box me like that every time you want to do something nice.
Do something nice that you thought about. $50 on roses in my favorite color is neat. Once. After that you are blowing cash without impressing me. Take a snapshot of a spot where we did something meaningful and get a nice frame for it. Buy a book related to something you tease me about (or vice versa) think about it.
Its not something I do, but something my husband does.
Every morning since we’ve been married, without fail, he will lean across the bed, kiss me on any avaliable part of my face, and whisper “I love you.”
What makes this so great is, he has no clue that I know he does this. I’m a very heavey sleeper, and do not stir. I’m usually half awake when he does this. But I think its the sweetest thing.
This wasn’t really an anniversary thing really but it was just cute or something cause I knew she’d either die laughing or die of embarrasment.
My girl really likes RHCP, and you know how they do their sock thing on stage? Well, my friends and I kinda did that in our band just for kicks for my girlfriend at a party at my house.
So we plan this out and everything just to be playing with just socks on in my basement for her when she comes down with her friends on the weekend. But somebody at school ends up finding out what we are doing and ends up telling my girlfriend and my band member’s friends what we are doing at the party at my house on the weekend… She shows up with a video camera and tapes us.
{It was kinda like the really lame (all of them are) episode of Undressed where the 3 randy guys expect to get some from the three girls but like they are in their boxers and stuff and everybody comes downstairs and takes pics of them.}
Yeah so we’re not together any more, not because of that incedent, but that night she got a kick out of it because we played her favorite songs and put on a show for everybody… everybody being a group of 10+ girls in my basement… it was a unique night and that’s why i felt like posting this story.
i'm SORRY for this pun, but my friend........ you've got balls! though actually, i've done something similar to that myself... same sorta story, a band, playing with nothing on but electrical tape spelling "I (heart) U" between the three of us... i need a bigger guitar, if you know what i mean!
keep em coming people, these are cool
My ex Jamie used to write me the best letters. Really romantic ones that described how much he loved me and the things he’d like to do (but that he couldn’t afford to at the time) like plan a balloon ride and then a romantic dinner. He was a great writer. These letters were so awesome I kept them, and in fact a later boyfriend found them in my drawer and broke up out of jealousy. Oops. I still didn’t throw them out.
I think mixed tapes are romantic and thoughtful. They take effort and thought and I’ve kept every one a friend or boyfriend has ever given me. I guess these days you young whippersnappers burn CDs for each other.
Also, two boyfriend have given me books in a thoughtful way. The aforementioned Jamie bought me A Room With A View and inscribed it with someone about seeing fields of flowers with me someday (it’s related to the book). Sigh. For Christmas my ex Michael (ironically, the one who later dumped me over Jamie’s letters) went to the bookstore and got the the first book in about ten different series he liked. I’d never read any Tolkien so he got me the first book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and then the first book in several sci-fi/fantasy series…In all he must have gotten me like 8-10 books, all of them ones he thought I’d like and that I could perhaps get hooked on, series-wise.
