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Post by **Warmark** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:50 am

<hands Darth a blank cheque>
Happy Birthday!

Post by **ur-bane** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:03 pm

Hey Darth....you might want to take a close look at that check....I think I smell rubber.

Happy Birthday, though. I hope you do get your cheque.
But just in case you don't, try to get 1 million people to give you a pound each. That ought to do it.

Post by **danlo** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:16 pm

Happy birthday Darth!!!! May you get (almost) everything you wish for!

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:46 pm

Alan, have you thought about a gift of pampering? A gift certificate for a therapeutic massage or a treatment at a day spa?

Or just offering to have "her" night, where you go to the restaurant she wants to go, and go to the movie or show she wants to see? Give her small gifts of chocolates (if she likes them?) or flowers (as long as she doesn't have allergies?) along the way as the night goes on? Maybe go listen to some romantic jazz (if she likes it?) to cap off the evening, with a bit of cuddling and slow dancing (if she's into that?)? Sometimes (quite often really) just giving a woman your undivided time and attention can be all the present she really wants or needs from you.

It's just that jewelry and clothing items can be very personal, and it can be very hard to pick out just the right ones sometimes.

Darth -- Happy Birthday!!!!! May the coming year be the best you've ever had!!

ps. Alan -- If you do wish to get her some butterfly jewelry, how about just taking her to the store and letting her pick it out? That way you know she'll be happy with it.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:45 pm

Thanks for the advice, everyone. I really didn't expect any, and some has been helpful. Particular thanks to ur-bane for the detail and thought that went into that advice.

duchess of malfi wrote:ps. Alan -- If you do wish to get her some butterfly jewelry, how about just taking her to the store and letting her pick it out? That way you know she'll be happy with it.

I've considered it. But I've surreptitiously discovered that would be "unromantic"

Tch, women

Happy birthday, Darth. I'd give you a million pounds, but I want it.

Post by **ur-bane** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:02 pm

CovenantJr wrote:
duchess of malfi wrote:ps. Alan -- If you do wish to get her some butterfly jewelry, how about just taking her to the store and letting her pick it out? That way you know she'll be happy with it.
I've considered it. But I've surreptitiously discovered that would be "unromantic" Tch, women

I would tend to agree with duchess here, CJ. It can be romantic if you make it part of the birthday experience.

Perhaps take her out to dinner to a nice quiet restaurant near a small town shopping district...somewhere you can walk together after the meal... Give flowers to the waiter/waitress to bring out during the meal. You may be able to persuade them to play her favorite song during the meal. If they do, and it's a song you can slow dance to, ask her right then and there in the middle of the restaurant to dance. Dance until the song is over and then resume the meal.

Make sure you go to dinner early enough that the shops are still open when you are finished. Stroll along the walk and bring her to the jewelry store to choose her gift......

Something like that. And, as long as you are near an area like what I said above, you're set.

Post by **Myste** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:53 pm

I wanna go out with ur-bane...

Sometimes a total shocker of a gift is good, too. My bf has this habit of giving me gifts that I never really expect to get...last year, he took me to this gorgeous old-fashioned sea-side hotel--long wooden porch, rocking chairs, lace curtains, afternoon tea, the works--that I had been dreaming of for a while. I'd mentioned it to him once as a place where I'd love to go when I'm old and have some money saved up (it's very chi-chi). On my birthday last year, we got into the car, and he didn't tell me where we going. It wasn't until 2 hours later, when we actually pulled into the driveway of the hotel, that I guessed what he was doing. And even then, I figured we were just going to have dinner in the restaurant. Then he checked us in. Room with a view & everythinng.

It was perfect.

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:03 am

ur-bane does sound like a dreamboat, doesn't he?

I'm close enough to my vacation now I can almost taste it. 12 work shifts + 3 hours (days off and time not at work do not count in the tally

)

It's coming just in time, too -- I feel generally tired and a more than a bit burned out right now. A week on the beach and then some time with wonderful and kind people like Fisty and Danlo sounds like heaven right now.

Post by **[Syl]** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:44 pm

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Post by **safetyjedi** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:52 pm

I feel pretty darned tired today. I had to get up at 4AM to be in Decatur, IL this morning to teach a safety class. Also, with the remnants of Dennis still hanging here my arthritis is playing fits with me.

ALSO, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY you young Sith Lord Darth, you!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just keep waiting for that checque!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **Eugen Razvan** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:35 pm

Happy birthday, Darth.

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:44 pm

Mainly tired today. Work this week has been rough. High patient census and the baby docs (freshly graduated from medical school) are amongst us, and every year its a struggle to try to break them in.

Don't ever be admitted to a hospital in July if you can help it -- the new docs are practicing their medicine.

Someone remind me to take off the entire month of July next year.

Post by **Edge** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:48 pm

Don't forget to take off the entire month of July next year.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:44 pm

Though it is 3.40am here, I feel pretty good; just delivered a baby over the phone.

Post by **ur-bane** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:51 pm

Loremaster wrote:Though it is 3.40am here, I feel pretty good; just delivered a baby over the phone.

That's pretty cool! I'm hungry...could you deliver me some food over the phone?

Seriously..good job. I don't think I could figure out how to fit the baby into the handset.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:53 pm

ur-bane wrote:
Loremaster wrote:Though it is 3.40am here, I feel pretty good; just delivered a baby over the phone.
That's pretty cool! I'm hungry...could you deliver me some food over the phone?

Seriously..good job. I don't think I could figure out how to fit the baby into the handset.

LOL
Delivered as in provided instructions over the phone, you git

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:17 pm

Good job, Loremaster!!!

Post by **Loredoctor** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:19 pm

Thankyou!

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:52 pm

(delivering a baby under the phone is more comfortable for the woman, not to mention the baby!)

Post by **Loredoctor** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:16 pm

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