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Chris
- Joined
- Dec 14, 2008
- Location
- Lincolnton
So today was my anniversary, and it didn't go so smoothly.
An anniversary:
1: I got up this morning and to my surprise I had a lovely card left for me from my wife, which plainly said "Happy Anniversary." It still didn't register.
2: I got a text message from my wife once I was at work, which plainly said "Happy Anniversary." Oh crap. I sign up a couple hours of vacation for the afternoon.
3: I leave work and head to Hallmark to buy a card, a Willow Creek figurine, a gift bag, and some tissue paper. Things are looking up.
4: I get home and my wife opens her gift, at which point she tells me it's the same one I got her last year.
5: Then she tells me I got the same one the year before that, too. Now she has 3 of them. :/
6: She calls me out on "Who put the tissue paper in the gift bag so nicely?" I cannot lie, it was the girl that rung me up at Hallmark.
7: She calls me out on "Did you even remember it was our anniversary?" Uh...
I told her I thought the card was a lovely gesture, and that I didn't notice the "Happy Anniversary" in big letters at the bottom.
8: We go out to eat at Fatz here in town, which actually went pretty well. Things are once again looking up!
I LOVE YOU BABY! HAPPY 8TH ANNIVERSARY!
(Please God, let it be our 8th...Thanks)
An anniversary:
1: I got up this morning and to my surprise I had a lovely card left for me from my wife, which plainly said "Happy Anniversary." It still didn't register.
2: I got a text message from my wife once I was at work, which plainly said "Happy Anniversary." Oh crap. I sign up a couple hours of vacation for the afternoon.
3: I leave work and head to Hallmark to buy a card, a Willow Creek figurine, a gift bag, and some tissue paper. Things are looking up.
4: I get home and my wife opens her gift, at which point she tells me it's the same one I got her last year.
5: Then she tells me I got the same one the year before that, too. Now she has 3 of them. :/
6: She calls me out on "Who put the tissue paper in the gift bag so nicely?" I cannot lie, it was the girl that rung me up at Hallmark.

7: She calls me out on "Did you even remember it was our anniversary?" Uh...
I told her I thought the card was a lovely gesture, and that I didn't notice the "Happy Anniversary" in big letters at the bottom. 8: We go out to eat at Fatz here in town, which actually went pretty well. Things are once again looking up!

I LOVE YOU BABY! HAPPY 8TH ANNIVERSARY!
(Please God, let it be our 8th...Thanks)


(i can leave work early today)
Never even registered what day it was. So around about 11:30 in the morning I was sitting in my office making some slides for a presentation that afternoon. Got around to put the title and date together, and thought boy that date (April 5) sure seems familiar for some reason....then the oh shit moment hit. So now what to do, continue to ignore it, come clean, make something up.....no real good options there. So I came clean and gave her a call. Like a damn volcano erupting, she was not at all pleased with me. The worst part was I had a card and everything ready to go but didn't use it because it had gone pear shaped so badly. So the next year comes around, I am on top of it this time around, but use the card I had left over from the year before. Which would have all been fine, except for some stupid ass reason I thought it would be funny to mention it was the card from last year, whole damn thing went south again. I hate birthdays now. I had been married to her for 15 years at that point, what made me think mentioning the history of that card is beyond me, I should have known better. So now I have it on my outlook calendar with bells and whistles leading up to April 5 for the next 20 years. Hell after that, probably neither one of us will be wanting to acknowledge a birthday anyway.