I have to admit that I'm pretty proud of my knack for picking gifts. It's probably because both B and Phil rave about my choices, and they're the two smartest people I know. Okay, okay, stop grumbling; I realize that selecting a good gift has less to do with intellect and more about creativity and/or consideration. Gift cards are the lazy way to go about it. When buying presents for people, I rely on either my memory or my knack of searching all over the world wide web for that really nifty toy.
Anyway, this post is just for what I got B for Christmas. I'll do it in the order I gave it to him. We always give them in order of smallest to nicest. I get him undies every Christmas (though he never remembers that), and in '06 it was a Calvin Klein pair. This time, I got Hugo Boss, and I gave him black ones just so they would last longer. You know how dirty Europeans can be! (And if you don't know...well, they're pretty filthy.) He proudly pronounced them to be the nicest pair in his collection.
Next up was a color changing weather forecaster clock from Radioshack. It used to drive me nuts in the winter time when B would wake up for work and turn on his computer just to check the weather to see if he could take his bike, and then leave the energy-sucker on the entire day. So this clock somehow forecasts the weather and displays it with a certain color (blue for rain, red for sunny, etc.). How does it work? I have no idea. I never bothered reading it. It just sounded cool. He can have a good time figuring out how to set it up, haha. The pic I found makes the clock look all delicate and pastel-like; I think the real colors actually are a lot less fruity.
Then, I gave him a couple items from Armani Exchange. First was a shirt that looks better online, so I'm going to return it. B was debating keeping it, but then decided he has so many shirts that unless it's something he really likes, he might as well refrain from hoarding. But he loved the cream colored sweater, so I'm glad I got something right! (On a side note, I had a horrible experience ordering from A|X, and I won't be going back for a very long time. That's right, I'm a huffy consumer, and I am withholding my purchasing power from this crappy company!)
Finally, I broke out the climactic gift: a Hugo Boss sports coat. Here's the story behind that. I had purchased it earlier in the year, and fretted on and off whether or not it was a nice blazer. Some days I'd look at it and think, "He'll love it!" and then other times I'd sadly wail, "It's awful! He'll hate it!" One time, I left it hanging on my canopy bed and forgot all about it. He actually came and spent the night with it just hanging there. It had the opaque plastic protector on, but still, you could pretty much tell what it was. The next morning, I burst into tears when I realized what I had done, and he had to soothe me and say, "It's ok, baby! I have no idea exactly what it is! I'll still be surprised!" I'm an idiot. But it's okay, because he ended up loving it, and it looks so good on him! He looks like a dashing Belgian prince, haha. (It's not exactly the coat pictured, but it's close in both style and color.)
Last but not least, I had a surprise finale for him. It doesn't top the sports coat, but I saved it for last since he already knew he was getting some sort of jacket/top from Hugo Boss. When we were in Paris back in September, we walked by a watch shop and he totally checked out this Diesel watch. I remember thinking it was ugly, because it had all these unsightly lines across the face. But he thought it was cool, and I kept note of it. Flash forward a couple of months, and I was searching frantically for it on the internet. I ended up settling for the watch pictured, which I wasn't 100% sure was the one he liked, but it was the only watch I could find with lines across the face. But I really like the look of this one, and all that matters is that B loves it too. :)
Anyway, this post is just for what I got B for Christmas. I'll do it in the order I gave it to him. We always give them in order of smallest to nicest. I get him undies every Christmas (though he never remembers that), and in '06 it was a Calvin Klein pair. This time, I got Hugo Boss, and I gave him black ones just so they would last longer. You know how dirty Europeans can be! (And if you don't know...well, they're pretty filthy.) He proudly pronounced them to be the nicest pair in his collection.
Next up was a color changing weather forecaster clock from Radioshack. It used to drive me nuts in the winter time when B would wake up for work and turn on his computer just to check the weather to see if he could take his bike, and then leave the energy-sucker on the entire day. So this clock somehow forecasts the weather and displays it with a certain color (blue for rain, red for sunny, etc.). How does it work? I have no idea. I never bothered reading it. It just sounded cool. He can have a good time figuring out how to set it up, haha. The pic I found makes the clock look all delicate and pastel-like; I think the real colors actually are a lot less fruity.
Then, I gave him a couple items from Armani Exchange. First was a shirt that looks better online, so I'm going to return it. B was debating keeping it, but then decided he has so many shirts that unless it's something he really likes, he might as well refrain from hoarding. But he loved the cream colored sweater, so I'm glad I got something right! (On a side note, I had a horrible experience ordering from A|X, and I won't be going back for a very long time. That's right, I'm a huffy consumer, and I am withholding my purchasing power from this crappy company!)
Finally, I broke out the climactic gift: a Hugo Boss sports coat. Here's the story behind that. I had purchased it earlier in the year, and fretted on and off whether or not it was a nice blazer. Some days I'd look at it and think, "He'll love it!" and then other times I'd sadly wail, "It's awful! He'll hate it!" One time, I left it hanging on my canopy bed and forgot all about it. He actually came and spent the night with it just hanging there. It had the opaque plastic protector on, but still, you could pretty much tell what it was. The next morning, I burst into tears when I realized what I had done, and he had to soothe me and say, "It's ok, baby! I have no idea exactly what it is! I'll still be surprised!" I'm an idiot. But it's okay, because he ended up loving it, and it looks so good on him! He looks like a dashing Belgian prince, haha. (It's not exactly the coat pictured, but it's close in both style and color.)
Last but not least, I had a surprise finale for him. It doesn't top the sports coat, but I saved it for last since he already knew he was getting some sort of jacket/top from Hugo Boss. When we were in Paris back in September, we walked by a watch shop and he totally checked out this Diesel watch. I remember thinking it was ugly, because it had all these unsightly lines across the face. But he thought it was cool, and I kept note of it. Flash forward a couple of months, and I was searching frantically for it on the internet. I ended up settling for the watch pictured, which I wasn't 100% sure was the one he liked, but it was the only watch I could find with lines across the face. But I really like the look of this one, and all that matters is that B loves it too. :)
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