Today is my wife's 26th birthday.
She received her bis present a couple weeks ago when the stereo (ordered online) arrived via UPS. The company I ordered it from failed to wrap the stereo box (which has a big picture of the stereo on it) in another, larger box, so the surprise was pretty much destroyed. Oh well. She got to enjoy her new stereo for a few more days than if she were forced to wait.
Come to think of it, the idea of birthdays is a wonderful one, is it not?
Celebrating birth is worthwhile in and of itself, but especially when it is someone as wonderful as my wife. The thing of it is, when I buy her a gift, I don't want to have to wait to give it to her, hanging onto whatever it is until some special occasion. The stereo wrapping issue is just an accidental situation, but one where she got to enjoy her gift longer because of the mishap. I like surprising people as much as the next guy, but in this case, we had SO much going on this weekend that presenting her with a new stereo may have proved to be awkward to our house guests... oh well.
All things considered, I hope that she has a wonderful, happy birthday today!
Posted by MEK at May 4, 2002 03:00 PM