Happy Birthday Angela

Today is Angela's birthday. Yay! Since it's a weekday and we won't see each other much today, we celebrated over the weekend. Even if we were both off work today I probably would have given her the presents early. I just can't keep a present secret. I gave her a PlayTV Real Swing golf game way back on December 29th because I wanted her to be able to start playing over New Year's weekend. She loved it and it's loads of fun swinging a club at an invisible ball in the living room, but it counted as premature birthday joy. I guess that's not a bad thing. But I also won an ebay auction for this golf game because I feared that I wouldn't be able to find it in the store, so now we have two. Anyone need one?

Since I gave her the golf game early I started worrying that she wouldn't have enough stuff to open on her actual birthday, so I bought more stuff. Such a viscious cycle of giving. So I bought her a lot of shoes. I guess I'm obsessive about things and once I get excited about something I focus in and go overboard, and shoes are the latest target of my obsessive binge tendency. Plus Angela needs them and she never buys them for herself. She loves Crocs and I think they are the weirdest, most hideous shoes ever. But they are comfy, I have to admit. So I bought her a second pair. While I was in Dick's looking at Crocs I noticed some sweet Keens on the clearance rack so I bought those too. To make a long story short, I decided I wanted a pair of Keens too and since it was Angela's birthday and not mine I ended up buying two pairs of Keens for Angela and only one for me so she would get the sweeter deal. But it's still wrong for me to score some sweet new thing on her birthday I think.

Since she opened all of her presents prior to her birthday, I started worrying that today would be less than special. So I cut and pasted a picture of a Gaugin painting in an email and asked her to sneak away with me to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth some afternoon since the exhibit is there through March. We love art. And that's a fun gift for her to open today via email. I had been planning it for awhile and the email was more fun and romantic than I'm making it sound, but I have a hard time regurgitating that stuff and it's much easier for me to just say I did it. It was filled with love and goodness though, I promise! It will be a great escape, and now her birthday can last for even longer.

Cantina Laredo in Frisco tonight for more celebrating. This birthday is fun for me too.