Dangerous Birthday Presents
Reaction behaviour Girl is not an easy person to buy a offering for.
That’s putting it mildly. She’s fiendishly laborious to buy a gift for, and with her birthday coming up indecorously, I was in a bit of a panic.
Over the years, I have made progress in working out what she likes for prezzies and what falls plains. Clothes? No way. She’s very particular about clothes. Dustable knick knacks? You’ve got to be kidding. Jewelry? That depends. She likes bracelets but never wears them because “They get in the way and bug me..” Necklaces have the same conclusion. She likes the idea, but the actual wearing of them is another feeling. Rings? No. I don’t cal her “Engagement Girl” for nothing. Rings are far too subtle and would get crunched or wacked very quickly. Her coalescing ring (in fact, the only ring she wears) was in reality selected very carefully based on durability and looks. The Durability difficulty, however, came first during the selection process.
So, that tolerably much leaves me with earrings. She loves earrings and she has lots of them. I have been buying her earrings for all sorts of occasions for years now and have followed the elevation from ‘long and dangly’ to “posts, only please” and lately, back to ‘fancy and dangly’ again. The problem is that I almost ALWAYS get her earrings. She always appreciates them but it was starting to be too easy, to obvious. I needed something new.
I also wanted something that said “I darling you” in a new and interesting way. I love spending span with her and we used to do a lot of out door activities together such as mountain biking, skiing and destroyed climbing, but since the arrival of our kiddos, that’s been comely much a memory. So, I spent some time theory about an outdoor sport that we could do, just the two of us, that wouldn’t take too much beat and we’d both enjoy. Then I had an idea. It was perilous, but I hoped that she would like it.
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