
Happy Birthday to me! OK, it's not my birthday. My birthday's in April. And so's my boyfriend's. But we just got around to exchanging presents tonight. LOL It's funny as our anniversary's Sept 8th so now we have to scramble and buy more presents LOL
Presents he got me- HP2 DVD(actually, he gave it to me the day it came out, but it was technically a bday present so I'll list it), bleach (cuz I need some and don't have any, long story), a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, a Simpson's mug featuring my favorite quote("Trying is the first step to failure"- SOOOO true!), and a HUGE book that I've been dying to have for about 5 years now- the J.W. Waterhouse book by Peter Trippi.
John William Waterhouse is my FAVORITE artist of all time. He did a lot of paintings of women... and most of them either from myths/legents (Celtic, French and mostly Roman and Greek) or Shakespeare. He did a whole Lady of Shalott series that is beautiful and haunting and mesmerizing. I LOVE his works. I've got at least 80 saved digitally... but the book's got such BEAUTIFUL details in his paintings, plus tons of sketches and LOTS of discussion about form and concept and trends and his life and oooohhhhh! SOOOO happy! Boyfriend is so sweet! Can't wait to sit down and read and start analyzing composition and art and perspective and all that fun stuff! I've already looked through it three times and inspected every single picture *G* Happy me!!! *bounces*
Presents I gave him- Family Guy on DVD (seasons 1&2), a specially-constructed bag of tootsie roll pops that contained only ones of his two favorite flavors, a stuffed animal care bear- the good luck bear(his favorite... plus I think he could use the luck!), 9 CD's I burned for him containing tons of MST3K shorts and clips and specials and interviews and things that I downloaded for him over the last 2 months (as well as a few Highlander things, cuz I couldn't resist), a DVD rack (he currently keeps his DVDs in a a large pile with his video tapes on the floor, just tosses 'em in there... no stacks) and two more DVDs- Young Frankenstein *giggle* and the Batman movie ($5 in Walmart bin, I couldn't resist, and tons of neat features)
He knew about Family Guy and was with me when I bought Young Frankenstein, so those weren't any surprise. But he seemed to love the rest. He's got a trend of putting things I get him in the corner and never opening or using them... so I'm trying hard to get him things he will like and use...
Anyway. Happy, happy. He also made dinner for me tonight. I'm stuffed! I had to choke down thirds.
Oohh, and then he let me watch a little Star Trek TNG at his place (and I made him sit through the end of Boy Meets Boy) and then he even let me flip over momentarily to naked Daniel at the beginning of SG-1. Is he sweet or what? heehee!