YES! She just went to bed.
 

Big day tomorrow, just laid the following out on the kitchen table, let me know what you guys think:

HAPPY 16’th Mrs. blue (not her real name).

I am your anniversary SPIRIT.

I am here to SATISFY you.

If you want me to get you all wound up….I might be where you get HOT outside.

If you want me to get you WET….You may find me where you go for a good ride.

If you want me to make you squeal….I will be waiting by your back, BACK door baby.

Please don’t look for me in the WRONG order, or you will have 7 years of bad marriage mojo.

If you want to PLEASE the anniversary spirit, I’ll probably be on the couch.

Dude, you know I love and respect you and all ... but you so better have remembered to purchase a gift of fine jewelry and a large floral offering.

Just because the "years between the 5s" don't appear on the Anniversary gift charts does not mean you don't have to get her anything.

I take it that Hallmark didn't write that card for you.

The Chicago Public Library List of Anniversary Gifts says that the 16th is for "Silver Holloware".

I have no freaking clue what silver holloware is. (until I googled it.)

Congratulations to you and to Mrs. Blue!!

Thanks wolf but it's not as bad as you suspect. She is the practical type (gets more powers tools as gifts than I, and loves it).

Yours truly wrote the card, I did get her a real one too.

You do realize it's a treasure hunt right?

Did the big anniversary ring last year for 5 (we lived togethor for 10 years, I don't like being rushed).

I am going to get SO lucky tomorrow. I love that chick.

says that the 16th is for "Silver Holloware".
 

Checked out the anniversary site for 6'th.

I think I will give her a "wood object" tomorrow after all, that'll be her 4'th gift ;-)

hol·low·ware or hol·lo·ware ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hl-wâr)
n.
Items of usually metal tableware, such as bowls, pitchers, teapots, and trays, that serve as containers or receptacles.

BTW, for Wolf's gifts you should give her silver hollowpoints:shotgun:

Congrats, Blue!

What kind of gifts do you think Slang and Wolf give each other?

He gives her chills, she gives him meds.:D

Excellent, many happy more.

Ammunition and meds.

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Congratulations blue. I hope we all manage to keep the same sense of excitement and romance in our relationships ...

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You're wife is 16? Where do you live, Alabama?

Just kidding. Happy anniversary. We celebrated our 20th last year.

so, did we ever get to hear what the gifts were? or was the scavenger hunt the main point? did you give her the 8X10 glossy photo of me that she asked you for? ;-}

I didn't know she played darts.

wow, that was quick.....punk.

OK, thanks for the nice comments guys.

She didn't realize it was a treasure hunt either, I had to 'splain it after a few hours, geesh..she must think I'm a perv.

We are into home & garden things, tools etc. She got me some garden stuff, a tree, tent thing, pruners.

The WOUND thing was a auto hose reeler thing hidden in the burning barrel, close by the campfire pit.

The WET thing was a watering can with her real card on the front seat of her car.

The SQUEAL thing was a sort of lawn ornament Pig, damn thing weighed about 75-90 pounds (it was big...looks like wilbur) waiting in the backyard behind the gate to the field. I have a sort of tradition of buying the animal ornaments, leaving them in subtle places to scare the crap outta her.

And we went out to eat at a new restaurant, and I got WAY lucky too, so I guess it turned out OK.

Again, thanks for the sentiments, it sure is nice to be with her after all these years.

Way lucky... you must have found a parking space right close to the place

Congrats!

Thanks toad, but you must step out of your big city mindset for a minute mmmkay?

This is northern Wisconsin....we don't have parking spaces, we have dirt.

So yeah, we got a pretty good spot.

I'm just fuckin with ya kind of but I really couldn't imagine how you folks live like that, the hustle & bustle, traffic, people trying to kill you, etc.

I'm feeling kind of stressed and high strung and I spent the better part of this week planting trees, mowing lawn, fixin stuff, how do you do what you do to get by day to day?

Cellar.org :D

that's like some kind of bad tongue twister.

what can you do but do what you do to get by day to day. What the hell else would you do? If you knew what I do, and I knew what you do, and we knew what they knew and we do what they do and they do what we do, we'd all get through our day by day and wake up and say. " It's time to do what we do."

I didn't type it like that did I?

Great googley....let me wake up the wife, somebody has to be accountable.

Geez, I did type that....all by myself....you knew what I meant tho right?

I dunno what other Cellar folks do about traffic, but my response is to work at home and only travel outside when the Others are mostly secured away in their homes or offices. I can make it downtown in a good half-hour at 1am and don't understand why people think traffic is a problem.

I have a less than ten mile commute, am driving "in" while others are driving "out" and drive "out" when nearly damn everyone else is asleep.

I just need to find a way around "having to deal with people."

My job would be much easier if I didn't have to deal with people.

Or at least quite as many of them.

I was the same way when I was nutwrangling.

For myself, I found that dealing with the crazy people was less stressful than the people outside the walls.

What about you?

I love crazy people. I hate drug users.

Actually, if we could just get rid of the junkies, I'd be worlds happier.

And yes, there is a lot less stress in dealing with crazy people, because you can leave out a lot of the bullshit ... you don't have to dance around things you're not supposed to say or ask or talk about. You can just be what woud appear brutally direct in normal conversation.

yeah, and if they tell someone what you said, you can just say," ahh, don't listen to him, he's nuts."

sweet.


"Yes, mr patient, you DO have to actually swallow this pill, or I'll ram my arm up your ass and drag it into you from the inside"

"well ... you have the right to refuse medication and treatment. Of course, if you're going to injure yourself or others, you lose the right to refuse. You have a question? What does that mean in a practical sense? Well, it's like this. You can take the pill we hand you, or I can have six really big guys join us here, and they will hold you down while your pants are pulled down and you get a shot from a nurse who climbs over the pile of guys to get to you. If you continue to be uncooperative, those same guys are going to pick you up and strap you down to an ambulance litter. No, we don't have straightjackets. We use four point restraints."

Our cameras have video but not audio recording.

Traffic doesn't bother me much anymore...I lived in DC for a year. Sitting on I-95 in the morning for 45 minutes isn't really a big deal (though I don't do it very often these days).

I catch a train with the nut job train folk to work every day, from the coast to the city and it takes 1 hour and 35 mins EACH WAY!

Went for a job interview this morning for a position which is within walking distance of my home!! fingers crossed!!

good luck!

I thoroughly enjoy my 7 minute commute to work in the DC area. That includes time to stop at McD and get breakfast :D