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| Thread ID: 51887 | 2004-12-02 09:38:00 | Anniversaries - Weird ways of celebrating? | Laura (43) | Press F1 |
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| 299165 | 2004-12-02 23:08:00 | I said that I wanted something big, round and hard for our last anniversary and got a bigger sprocket for my dirt bike so I could keep up with the boys. How romantic can you get than that? :-) Well... I try and keep up with the boys but they reckon my throttle seems to get a little stuck at times :p :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 299166 | 2004-12-03 02:20:00 | You wanted a boiled Kiwi egg? Much better as an omelette. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 299167 | 2004-12-03 04:39:00 | A birthday is a type of anniversary. We woke up on the morning of my wife's 30th birthday and I said " Guess what dear, I think I have the mumps !". I was right too - in all four places !! Some neighbours were supposed to come around a day or so later for a neighbourhood watch meeting - but somehow they all decided that they would have it at another house. Misty :D |
Misty (368) | ||
| 299168 | 2004-12-03 05:15:00 | Laura, maybe you could stay off the computer for the night? | Baldy (26) | ||
| 299169 | 2004-12-04 07:41:00 | I remember so many many years ago, in our second year of marrinage, we shifted to Auckland and I got it wrong by being overseas when the furniture arrived and we (?????) shifted into our new house. But I managed to get it right a few months later on the occasion of our second wedding anniversary when, being once again overseas, I arranged to have a bunch of flowers delivered to her place of work. Funny, but in all the anniversaries since when the gifts have without exception been more expensive, they have never had the same effect. |
Raymondo (5284) | ||
| 299170 | 2004-12-04 10:27:00 | Well, it's time to come clean about yesterday. (And yes, Baldy I did stay off the computer last night) Maybe I should've said circumstances meant the emphasis had to be on food, rather than charging off to exotic locations. We have lots of food we both like (mainly pretty trad NZ fare ) but between our specialties we can cook that adequately ourselves. However, I love really hot spicy curries/chillies: Mr Laura doesn't do hot... He loves really gamey wild duck/venison/pork: I don't do gamey... Last time we did posh/expensive venison in a restaurant, he moaned about how tasteless farmed was versus wild. Last time we ate posh Indian, it took so much time choosing mild options for him that I was worn out before making my choices. (You need to realise here that we were raised in an environment - or maybe an era? - when "going out for dinner" was an absolute necessity for a wedding anniversary. A husband who didn't do the decent thing was a social outcast. Only mustering or haymaking were an excuse - and merely for postponement, not cancellation) So - rather than restaurant dining on (a) Something we could cook at home - or (b) something that only one of us enjoyed, we went the obvious ( to us) way. Yes, takeaways...eaten at the kitchen table, what's more . I went berserk among the vindaloo, korma & rogan josh with loads of chapatties. He couldn't have his game in the city, unfortunately - but pigged out on good old-fashioned fish & chips. Each of us was totally happy we didn't have to fit in with anyone else's tastes. (And I did get flowers, by the way. I woke to find a plastic juice container beside the bed with one rose, a fuchsia branch & a bunch of ferns - all from the garden - with Happy Anniversary written on a piece of toilet paper tastefully tucked in. Who says romance is dead?) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 299171 | 2004-12-06 01:44:00 | Nice Laura. Sounds like my sort of compromise. Not really an anniversary but I'm reminded of how my grandparants ... both of good Scottish stock ... celebrated their birthdays. My grandmother's birthday was 3rd of August and every year my grandfather would give her a cheque (or whatever) for 100 pounds. Then 3 days later on my grandfather's birthday she would give it back and he would rip it up. BRILLIANT! |
oggy (1250) | ||
| 299172 | 2004-12-06 09:04:00 | Brilliant indeed, oggy. Doubt that it would work for everyone, though. Either the birthdays have to be very close or there has to be lots of TRUST. (My birthday is 4 months after Mr Laura's. Hhmmm...would he take the risk? Interesting thought...) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 299173 | 2004-12-06 19:51:00 | Yes, I'm sure my grandad was very careful not to piss her off in those intervening 3 days. | oggy (1250) | ||
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