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dkocolin · 02-07-2006, 05:25 PM

I'm going the whole sentimental not functional route this year (our first vday together, been seeing each other since august)

im in target, trying to find something sweet that wont destroy her diet (right...) and wind up finding this hot cocoa/heart marshmallow/mug set which is neat... but im like hmm i need more

so i go over to the photo section and find this really cool 4 level frame (4 panes of glass about 1/2 an inch apart front to back... i guess like a shadow box?)

i also stop and grab some postit notes (she uses them like crazy, more on this in a moment) and ransom-note-looking letter stickers, and head for the checkout

stop by barnes and noble to get a copy of the latest 2600 magazine (unrelated to this plan), and see a book of world war I poems (she's fascinated by war) so I get that on impulse

so i make the background of the photo frame this awesome photo that i took a few months ago (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkocoli...n/set-1349888/) since we live at the shore and had a lot of time on that beach during the summer. then i put in a couple scenic pics from when we went to Philly last month, some shots from our New Year's in NY, and some generic "hold the camera in front of us with one arm and smile" photos

then I used the ransom note letters to write our names down the sides and "love" across the top

for the post it pads, one is a "how do i love thee let me count the ways" pad, and its got something i love about her at the bottom of each page

im also going to do the standard coupon book (dinner on me, a backrub,etc) and a "things to try" (and i dont mean recipes) one. the rest im going to write random quotes, drawings, cute sayings, etc so she finds them randomly as she uses the post its

im bringing it all w/ me on Saturday to her place in NY when i go to stay the night (shes in vagina monologues on Sunday (which I'm going to) and I go to school at the opposite end of Jersey from NY) in a box that says "Do not open til feb 14" in the ransom stickers, plus a boquet of Shop Rite's finest happy-valentines-day/good-luck-talking-about-your-vagina-on-stage flowers (she said no ones ever given her flowers romantically before)

02-07-2006, 05:25 PM	#39 (permalink)
dkocolin Upright	I'm going the whole sentimental not functional route this year (our first vday together, been seeing each other since august) im in target, trying to find something sweet that wont destroy her diet (right...) and wind up finding this hot cocoa/heart marshmallow/mug set which is neat... but im like hmm i need more so i go over to the photo section and find this really cool 4 level frame (4 panes of glass about 1/2 an inch apart front to back... i guess like a shadow box?) i also stop and grab some postit notes (she uses them like crazy, more on this in a moment) and ransom-note-looking letter stickers, and head for the checkout stop by barnes and noble to get a copy of the latest 2600 magazine (unrelated to this plan), and see a book of world war I poems (she's fascinated by war) so I get that on impulse so i make the background of the photo frame this awesome photo that i took a few months ago (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkocoli...n/set-1349888/) since we live at the shore and had a lot of time on that beach during the summer. then i put in a couple scenic pics from when we went to Philly last month, some shots from our New Year's in NY, and some generic "hold the camera in front of us with one arm and smile" photos then I used the ransom note letters to write our names down the sides and "love" across the top for the post it pads, one is a "how do i love thee let me count the ways" pad, and its got something i love about her at the bottom of each page im also going to do the standard coupon book (dinner on me, a backrub,etc) and a "things to try" (and i dont mean recipes) one. the rest im going to write random quotes, drawings, cute sayings, etc so she finds them randomly as she uses the post its im bringing it all w/ me on Saturday to her place in NY when i go to stay the night (shes in vagina monologues on Sunday (which I'm going to) and I go to school at the opposite end of Jersey from NY) in a box that says "Do not open til feb 14" in the ransom stickers, plus a boquet of Shop Rite's finest happy-valentines-day/good-luck-talking-about-your-vagina-on-stage flowers (she said no ones ever given her flowers romantically before)