Yesterday after a rough weekend (death in the family), I decided that Jenn needed more smiles in her life, so I set about getting her a nice little present to put some cheer into her day.
Now, I'm not the sneakiest man in the world, but allow me to share what I did for my wonderful wife yesterday. Jenn's been wanting to get back to Ikea for awhile now to pick up a picture frame for her desk at work, but we never seem to make it up that way. Over the weekend we made a trip back to Iowa and Jenn had some pictures from the wedding that she really liked, so while she was in getting ready for the day I snuck downstairs and copied those images to another memory card and slipped it into my pocket. I drove to work yesterday to head down to a data center to do some work, finished that up earlier than expected, so I decided to beat traffic and head out to Ikea to pick up the picture frame Jenn had her eyes on.
On my way back into town I swung by a Target, began printing out the photos when my phone rang - Jenn was calling. I panicked, thinking she would hear the target announcements or the stupid printer yelling about how awesome of a job it was doing messing up the balance in the images. Fortunately (or unfortunately) she simply wanted to ask me to pick up some soy ice cream to ease her sore throat, so I added Jewel to the list of places to stop and off I went, armed now with the pictures I knew she liked, the picture frame I knew she wanted, and little book for additional pictures. A detour to Trader Joes to pick up some bread, tofu, and clif bars and then a quick Jewel stop to grab the soy ice cream and I was finally on my way home.
I walked in the door to see my beautiful bride, and after giving her her present I got the biggest hug and best smile yet.
I love you Jenn :) Think of me whenever you look at your picture frame!