Best Gift Ever

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A donation of one Poly Resin Bed was made in your name to The Humane Society at Lollypop Farm, Fairport, NY by Steve Comstock. Happy Valentine's Day!

I saw the return address on the envelope containing the above card and thought it a little strange since I'd never heard of this company and Steve was the one who recently bought a dog bed for his office here at home, so from what mailing list did they get my name? I tossed it in my mail tray and planned to open it this weekend when I "process" my week's mail.

The next morning, Steve brought me the envelope and said, "Open this."

Stefani: This the BEST gift you've ever given me!

Steve: I know it is.

Stefani: I'm so blogging about it tomorrow. And I have to show this to Sherry at work. (We talk pets all the time, she loves animals.)

Steve: Damn straight. That's part of the gift, you bragging about my mad gift giving skillz.

He cracks me up. He said he always sweats gift giving occasions because he knows I value creativity above all else. That's true, I do - but I thought we were way beyond the gift giving thing. We haven't given each other Christmas gifts in 14 years. And I was pretty sure we were over the Valentine's Day thing too. And birthdays have traditionally been a dinner and a movie for years.

So I accused him of making me sweat because now I have to come up with something for him for Valentine's Day. And he says what he always says, which is something convoluted about it being a holiday for a man to give a woman a gift but not vice versa. Like it's a woman's holiday or something.

At this moment, I'm considering giving him back this cold he gave me.
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