The Husband must be cursing me right now! Every time he plans a surprise for me, I ruin it.. Sometimes with “Thanksgiving sales,” sometimes with my oversmart brains, sometimes by scaring him, and sometimes by eating his brains off totally!

Lets Rewind a few weeks back to Nov-Dec 2009.
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The Husband was planning the perfect Anniversary presents for me. A MacBook Pro (been wanting it since forever), DVDs of ALL the Seasons of FRIENDS(had been asking him forever and he kept telling me we dint need it), and a trip to Hawaii. Enter Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales, MacBook Pro comes on a $100 discount and I drive The Husband crazy that I want one! FRIENDS comes for $8 each as against the regular $15 and so again, I run to Target and pick up all the seasons. And I jokingly ask The Husband in some random conversations about “How it would be if both of us book tickets for Hawaii separately wanting to surprise each other” coz he kept telling me that he won’t be able to make it to a vacation! And so out of worry that I might do as I am saying, he decided to bring out the cat from the hiding and tell me to start planning for Hawaii! Bottom line, all his gift ideas were out couple of weeks before the anniversary.

Back to the Present.. >>>>>>>>>

Come Jan 2010, my Birthday’s arriving and The Husband gets down to planning the present. He asks me a zillion times what I want and I tell him I don’t want anything etc etc. So the poor thing(though he hates to buy presents) starts thinking and keeps his eyes and ears open to my looks and words. Keeps noticing everything that I say is good which is usually 60% of the things in a store and when it comes to Apple stores, something happens to me! Its way too difficult to bring me out of the store coz I love absolutely everything there.. The whole white look of the place gives me goosebumps.. So he has a tough time listening to me and following my gaze there coz I practically check everything in the store, even the MacBook Pro, even though I already have one! So anyway, he decides to get me this girly PINK colored hardcase for my MacBook which I said I really liked, and a magic mouse (which looks way too cute).. and promptly gets them for me hides them from me etc etc. I kept driving him crazy asking him what he’s got me etc etc. For the last 3-4 days he has been going through hell coz I’ve probably asked him at least a dozen times each day to gimme hints.. even through cold cough and fever! And so he decided to start giving me one of my presents 2 days before the day. He brings out this hard case and the next question I ask him is if the other present is “the mouse!?” He very promptly says no and tells me to worry about my cases which are to be read before Monday. During some more discussion, he says lets give the notebook a complete makeover and get everything needed for it as my present (Right now, out of all my possessions nothing is more valuable to me than my MacBook! ofcourse The Husband stands way ahead of it but he is not a materialistic possession, is he?) So, we’re like OK and while using the trackpad of this thing, I suddenly tell him that we should buy a mouse first even if its a wired one coz I really need one.. Poor thing finally decides to bring my second present out too! All 2 DAYS before the Birthday! Total bummer for him.. He is way too cute to hide things from me ain’t he? Or am I way too Chalu that I get things out just like that!?

Now I actually feel sorry for him. I know he would have loved to see my expression on that day when he brings out the stuff. I am too impatient! Bad me.. But anyway, he says there’s 2 more surprises in the list and that they will come out only after 2 days! And hence, I promise I am gonna be a good girl and keep my mouth shut and read the 2 cases I am supposed to read for my class on Monday. Coz we have loads to do tomoro – places to go to, friends to meet and sooo many more things.

As for other news, we are still in this hotel room and the light’s so low here, I can’t even click pics of my presents. And we were a cm close to having a look at our new apartment, but they were the wrong keys. We hope to be able to see them tomoro! Until then, I get back to my reading and you’ll have a great weekend!