rrinker I have enough trouble finding ONE card that I like each year.
I have enough trouble finding ONE card that I like each year.
My wife's birthday is within a week of Valentine's. I have to come up with two gifts, two cards, and two places to go out to dinner!
I'm not sure if my brother is a secret genius, but his wife's birthday is also their anniversary.
BATMAN We give each other lots of support in all things we do and go to nice restaurants frequently, so going out on those special days doesn't usually happen. We like to go out for lunch often to a nice oceanfront restaurant on days the weather isn't great. It really breaks things up and makes the day more enjoyable.
We give each other lots of support in all things we do and go to nice restaurants frequently, so going out on those special days doesn't usually happen. We like to go out for lunch often to a nice oceanfront restaurant on days the weather isn't great. It really breaks things up and makes the day more enjoyable.
I can completely relate to this Brent. We don't go to the restaurant on a holiday because it's always so busy and crazy.
We have the day off on Mondays together, always without fail. It's grocery, lunch and errand day. I pay the bills so Judy always buys food and lunch, really nice lunches. I always look forward to Monday.
We give each other support and share alike as well. She is always patient while I fumble around for a long time at Hub Hobby Center rounding up my train stuff. So I am patient with her while she's fumbling around at Kohl's trying clothes on and such.
TF
rrinker She still 'cleans up' some places and I can;t find my stuff. "It's in the last place you had it" "No, it's not - that's the problem!" --Randy
She still 'cleans up' some places and I can;t find my stuff. "It's in the last place you had it" "No, it's not - that's the problem!"
--Randy
I hear you on this one Randy.
My woman does the same thing but she's got a memory like a hawk. I ask her and she tells me where everything is, so I'm okay with it.
My Judy is no girly girl. She's a Tomgirl. Back when we had our house in Prior Lake before we downsized she loved hanging out in the garage and organizing. I appreciated the help because I would come home tired from work and just throw my tools, hardware and crap all over. She would organize it. Anytime I didn't know where something was she would tell me exactly where it was.
Nothing about trains here. That's another thing she likes helping me make trees for the layout. She loves making trees. We have lots of trees made, waiting for some day to plant them.
mbinsewi Everythings good Yea, everything is fine. So TF, if you ever come back to this thread, did you get your track yet? Mike.
Everythings good
Yea, everything is fine.
So TF, if you ever come back to this thread, did you get your track yet?
Mike.
Yes I did Mike, thanks for asking. I don't have all my turnouts yet. I'm still contemplating. Always being an indecisive person definitely has a conflict with timing sometimes.
Been busy moving my layout from the temporary glass table set up to its new location and the building of that in-between work. ..... we'll get there.
One thing I have learned through the years is patience, I used to be extremely impatient. We get a little smarter as we get older (Subtract stress, don't add to it, ...right)
I have enough trouble finding ONE card that I like each year. No way could I find 10 at one go. That's for the serious card. For pretty much every occasion, I get one serious card, one lighhearted one, and one that is just silly. One of these usually involves a Pug, since we have Pugs, but the card companies don't always oblige.
No regular flowers on Valentines, flowers just die in a few days. Instead I always get her one of those gold dipped roses. They come out with a new color every year, except this year the buggers came out with FIVE new colors. Well, at least next year I won't have to worry about getting any duplicates.
At least she doesn't bother me over my model railroad and electronic hobbies. Though she has vowed to never go on another train ride with me, after the one rare mileage excursion we were on went from like 7am until 7pm. And she was unimpressed by the trip behind NKP 767.
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I asked my wife last year if she wanted to stop exchanging cards on our Anniversary and Valentines day as she didn't come across as being interested in the whole ordeal. After talking to her about it, I found out differently and the tradition will continue.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Wow Dave, that is quite a story.
Everythings good here.
We're kinda like Kevin with the gift things. Only occassionally would we gift each other.
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I have been married 31 years. We met in November, Christmas is in December, We Married in January, Valentine's Day is in February, and her Birthday is in August.
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That make 155 events where I have NEVER given her a gift.
I do nice things for her every single day. Being 100% broke when we started out created the no-gifts tradition. This has been good for the marriage.
-Kevin
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The following story is true, not a joke, but related to the topic. A local modeler and avid railfan, now deceased, had what you could call a strained relationship with his wife.
When I say "avid railfan" someone told me he had 100,000 35mm railroad slides going back to the 1940s. Someone else told me, no, it was only 40,000 or so. He'd either taken or purchased these slides.
They had a major argument. He stormed out of the house. She took an ice pick to ALL the slides. The only ones he had left were those that he had happened to lend to friends or book publishers at the time.
When he died his adult daughter took charge of selling his model trains and many books. I bought some books - some rare and hard to find ones. You had to meet her at odd locations for the transactions perhaps because the wife did not know what she was doing and would have burned everything. She charged a high but fair price. I assume the wife got the money.
May we all be spared from those sorts of family dynamics.
Happy Valentine's Day (I got a nice card and gourmet cookies).
Dave Nelson
Track fiddler I like the 10 cards in a hidden spot idea. That is brilliant, as long as she never finds that hiding spot
I like the 10 cards in a hidden spot idea. That is brilliant, as long as she never finds that hiding spot
Up to the point where you say "Hon, do you remember where I hide the cards?".
Nothing says love than some MR drama!
The handwritten card flew. She liked it. I got greeted with a cup of coffee, a big smile and a hug this morning.
All my MR stuff was neatly put against the wall under the new bench work. I don't know when she did that.
I will make sure I pick her up two dozen roses after work today. 23 yellow ones and one red one. We've had that thing going for 24 years.
Very nice Track Fiddler! I'll print that off and just cross out your name. Just kidding. I got Dianne a dozen roses.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
BATMAN year one I went to the store and bought 10 Aniversary cards and 10 Valentines cards. Ten years later I did the same thing and today I just restocked the hiding place in the trainroom office with another 10 years worth of cards.
Why didn't you buy her 10 years of flowers too?!? Too hard to hide I guess.
You guys need to be more proactive about this. My Aniversary is January 20 and Valentines is February 14. I was 40 when I got married and year one I went to the store and bought 10 Aniversary cards and 10 Valentines cards. Ten years later I did the same thing and today I just restocked the hiding place in the trainroom office with another 10 years worth of cards. I'll be 72 when it needs to be done again.
It's like finances, people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
That's wonderful writing. I hope you get your trains back.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
This should work, I really mean it
Just a thought... after you make/finish that one, start on a second one, just a early start for next year's card, don't have to finish it, just start it. Then if just in case she says that ''A ha you forgot, didn't you dear?'' You say ''Why no sweety, see I start early, heres the one for next year that I have just started on, it takes me awhile to experss myself.''
Okay ....I'll do that one... I'm working on that right now
Hand made is always the best one .... anyone can run out and buy one... but hand made, well that just says you really care to make it personal, just for her.
Oh .....I'm screwed Do you suppose a handwritten one will work guys for the morning that is
Uh oh, now that you think back, maybe you do remember passing a 'Sam's Auction' truck as you came up the road to home?
But I didn't
That's not till tomorrow
And you did remember to get her a nice Valintines present right?
Or... you may never know.
She said she moved all my stuff that was underneath the railroad table underneath the glass to a new safe location
But I don't know where that is while she was cleaning and she hasn't told me where that is yet