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Weekends Away: Gift-Giving Advice
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Why a Gift Card? Just Because!
Her birthday has passed, her anniversary isn't for another few months, and her new job is already old. She graduated long ago, the "baby" just finished second grade, and she's not moving into a bigger house. She hasn't won anything, she hasn't lost anything, and every time you ask her, "What's new?" she tells you, "Nothing much."
You've both been too busy with the business of life to slow down long enough to smell those flowers you hear so much about. Drive-thru fast food takes too long. You're shouting at the microwave to hurry up already. The hours-long phone calls of the past have dwindled to a scant handful of minutes as you're popping fistsful of M&Ms into your mouth without even thinking. Still, those few minutes are precious and the two of you manage to fill each one with as much juice, dirt, and laughter as you possibly can.
The best times are when you call out of the blue, for no real reason at all. Because it's raining. Because it's not. Because it's 8:02 p.m. Because you like spaghetti. Because it's the second Monday of the month and you're wearing new shoes and you bought six cans of vegetarian chili on sale and you hate hate hate the way the hairdresser styled your hair and you think the young guy behind the supermarket checkout counter was checking you out and you think purple may be your new favorite color. Because you saw the cutest dog in the driver's seat of a parked car and he had his paws on the steering wheel. Because because.
Her life is hectic. She needs and craves escape, but you know her well enough to know that she won't treat herself to anything without having a specific reason. When you tell her she really needs to get away from it all, she says she can't justify it. So that's where you come in, to surprise her with a personalized Visa gift card for the best reason of all: "just because".
Posted on September 06, 2006. Filed under Just Because
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