Friday, October 15, 2004

My Creative Side Needs a Kickstart

Finbar and I have an anniversary coming up. I have to come up with an idea for a present. The thing is, I always do something creative and meaningful for our anniversary. One year, I made up a stack of cards entitled "101 Cool Things About Finbar". Another year, I bought twelve Yankee Candles that had names that corresponded to key events in our relationship over the previous year and a candle holder to burn them in. One of my crowning moments was the mix-CD and accompanying booklet in which I superimposed the lyrics of the songs (which, again, corresponded to key events in our relationship that year) over a collage of movie tickets, pictures, etc. from things we'd done together that year.

Any one who knows me knows that I have a presents problem. I am compelled to search for THE PERFECT GIFT for everyone, for every occasion. I am not capable of just buying a token gift for anyone. Christmas shopping is a nightmare with me. I've tried delegating some of the choosing to Finbar and just giving him the money to buy the stuff, but I can't do it. I must pick out the perfect gift. Period. It's a sickness, really. The positive side of it is, that if you've ever received a present from me, you know that it was from the heart and that a lot of thought went into it.

Anyway, I'm ready to start working on Finbar's anniversary present now because the big day is just over a month away and I'm in law school, so I haven't got a lot of free time OR cash. The problem is, I have NO IDEAS at all. I even went to Michael's and JoAnn's and just walked around looking at stuff, searching for inspiration. No dice. I used up all the good ideas already??? The only thing to do is dump him, I guess ;) Start over with some other guy who won't know that I'm just recycling ideas from my previous relationship.

Do you guys have any inspiration for me?

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