Saturday, December 23, 2006
Stupendous Woman
OK, so it's been a while since I blogged, and I'm sorry about that. Things have been really busy at work. So busy, in fact, that I have neglected all the important things that I should have been doing during the month of December, i.e. think of, shop for, and buy Christmas presents.
What's more, although I technically didn't forget that my third anniversary was December 20, I didn't really do anything about it, either. I'm a clod and I deserve to be shot.
Who doesn't deserve to be shot, on the other hand, is my wonderful wife Shelly. See, through it all, she not only remembered the anniversary (that's the easy part), but also took action.
Before we left to go West for Christmas (a couple of days before the actual anniversary), she handed me probably the heaviest gift that has ever been addressed to me. She told me that it wasn't something I had specifically put on my Christmas list, but that it was something she knew I wanted. I wondered what it could be, being so heavy, and all.
And then it hit me. I said, "If this is what I think it is, you spent way too much money, but you're the best wife ever."
Right on both counts.
You see, I am now the proud owner of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, the archival quality hardbound collection of every Calvin and Hobbes strip ever made.
It pays to have a good woman around!
What's more, although I technically didn't forget that my third anniversary was December 20, I didn't really do anything about it, either. I'm a clod and I deserve to be shot.
Who doesn't deserve to be shot, on the other hand, is my wonderful wife Shelly. See, through it all, she not only remembered the anniversary (that's the easy part), but also took action.
Before we left to go West for Christmas (a couple of days before the actual anniversary), she handed me probably the heaviest gift that has ever been addressed to me. She told me that it wasn't something I had specifically put on my Christmas list, but that it was something she knew I wanted. I wondered what it could be, being so heavy, and all.
And then it hit me. I said, "If this is what I think it is, you spent way too much money, but you're the best wife ever."
Right on both counts.You see, I am now the proud owner of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, the archival quality hardbound collection of every Calvin and Hobbes strip ever made.
It pays to have a good woman around!
Comments:
I've been tempted by the collection... but it's hard to justify that purchase when you already own every C&H strip in the various softcover books in which they've been printed over the years. I'm sure I'll find a way to ease the cognitive dissonance and buy it one of these days though.
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