OK, Mrs. Fresh’s birthday is coming up, and I’m looking for gift ideas.
Here’s some background. She’s a hardcore geek and proud of it. She’s already told me what she wants for her birthday (a satellite radio and minor computer stuff), but I also like getting her offbeat things as well. For the past couple of years, I’ve gotten her silly bumper stickers and refrigerator magnets, but that’s wearing thin.
She’s got a great, really dark sense of humor (For my birthday one year, she sent me a package with a stuffed seal and a nerf baseball bat–OK, some of you might question her sense of humor, but it made me laugh). She’s extremely intelligent. The thing is that she’s independent. She doesn’t need a lot or want a lot, and what she really wants, she tends to buy for herself. Also, she doesn’t have a lot of hobbies. Her free time revolves around cooking, watching soaps, writing soap fan-fic, and posting on soap message boards. It doesn’t bother me, because I’m not much more adventurous than she is, but it does make it hell to pick stuff out for her. She doesn’t read the books or listen to the CD’s I give her, even though she’s genuinely grateful for them. I’m banging my head against the wall–literally. Mrs. Fresh says that if I don’t stop it, she’s going to bang my head against the wall, and she thinks she can do a better job of it than I can.
I really want to give her something that’ll make an impression on her. It doesn’t have to be practical (in fact, whimsical is good).
I would be thankful for any advice. What would you give your nerd? What are some great geek gifts you’ve given or gotten that have made an impression?
