gold, silver, paper... and Playstation??

So, my 4-year anniversary with Zeus was on Saturday. As proud as I am of the love that we’ve built (and torn down, and built again, and torn back down, and re-built… you get the idea), anniversaries still freak me out. For guys, it’s easy (at least it SHOULD be). Get us some flowers and a sappy card, some jewelry if it’s been awhile, and take us to dinner. Piece of cake!

But for us girls, it’s so much more difficult! You have to draw the fine line between something sentimental, something cool and something functional. We can’t get them, like… cufflinks or anything. Boring. And a scrapbook of the relationship can work if it’s done tastefully and only once. You know all they want are video games and stuff… fine for birthdays, but shouldn’t an anniversary have at least a touch of class? So I tend to compromise.

This year, I got Zeus a monogrammed silver money clip (cool, usable, but still slightly sentimental) and Seasons 1 & 2 of The Office. Hey, I’ve gotta keep up my super-goddess reputation somehow, right? Just giving the boy what he wants! And what did he get me? The most gorgeous bouquet of flowers I have EVER seen. Maybe a cop-out, but you can never go wrong with flowers!

And don’t forget…we are immortal…and so are our plants- these babies are never going to wilt!