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i was a good girlfriend.
May. 12th, 2006 10:22 pmDid I ever tell you that I am an excellent long-distance girlfriend? The post office loved me, too. I was sorting through some old files tonight when making my mom a card for Mother's Day. I looked at cards one day this week and ended up leaving, annoyed because they were all dumb. So, I made my own. It's not all that fancy but it's cute, I think, and involves pictures. Anyway, I have a folder called "Projects" where I save all sorts of things like this in various folders, so I was looking through it and found a bunch of old stuff that made me remember how much energy long-distance relationships can take.
Before M moved, I spent a good deal of time thinking up Cute Things to send him. I remember a decorated box with tiny scrolls of paper, individually written on, color-coordinated, hand-rolled and secured. There was a lame-o scrapbook type thing. I know I bought several just-perfect sappy cards. At some point, I was writing a letter on a cassette tape that I unthreaded (and would have rethreaded so he could read it), but that fell through because the only thing I could get to show up on the brown was white-out, and it wrote too lumpy. Also, do you have any idea how LONG those stupid tapes are? On one of his trips to visit me, I wrote and assembled an activity packet, of sorts, with sealed envelopes. He was allowed to open one every hour. They had little cute things, riddles, trivia, homemade crossword puzzles, mazes, coded messages, fiction, horoscopes (again, made up), etc. I put a LONG TIME into putting that thing together and then sending it off in time.
For Valentine's Day one year, I bought a set of twin sheets and some fabric paint markers, and set up the ironing board for a work bench, and I wrote all over those sheets. I wrote "I love you" and "I miss you" and "*hugs*" and other mud actions that I won't translate or repeat and a few illustrations and some quotations. Again, sheets? Bigger than they look. If I had really thought about this plan too much, I wouldn't have done it because I wouldn't have known if the twin sheets would fit his bed, but they did (barely). Now, of course, we have a set of sheets that we will never, ever use again because we have a bigger bed and it's not like we can put them on a guest bed, but it was really cute at the time, if I do say so myself.
I also created an internet quiz once--that one was lots of fun. I registered at a free hosting company, and created a "How compatible are you?" quiz with four pages of serious questions. M is a sucker for online quizzes. He doesn't post his results or anything, but he always has to do them. So, I casually mention this quiz that I had found, and sent him the link. He went there, read through all the questions and gave the appropriate answers. The result page featured one of our favorite pictures of us at the time, kissing on my parents front porch, and called him by name, saying he was infinitely compatible with his mate, and went on in a shmooey shmooey fashion for a couple of paragraphs. That one.. kind of freaked him out because he couldn't figure out how it had done it at first. *giggle* (I had just set it up so that the answers didn't matter, and he would get the same page no matter what.. and of course, I had written that page for him so that was pretty much how. *giggle*) Now I am wondering if I could use the same gag again or if he would remember it. Hmmm.. Well, he will now, at any rate, so I guess not.
Another thing I looked at tonight was his two-year-anniversary present. Our anniversary is November 18, and that year, I created new desktop backgrounds for him every day from November 1. (This started.. on accident, but it was a lot of fun.) Every one of them said something like, "thank you for the best two years of my life." The last one I happen to think was kind of cute, so I thought I'd post it here for your entertainment. Start in the upper left corner and follow the arrow.
( Anniversary background. )
Before M moved, I spent a good deal of time thinking up Cute Things to send him. I remember a decorated box with tiny scrolls of paper, individually written on, color-coordinated, hand-rolled and secured. There was a lame-o scrapbook type thing. I know I bought several just-perfect sappy cards. At some point, I was writing a letter on a cassette tape that I unthreaded (and would have rethreaded so he could read it), but that fell through because the only thing I could get to show up on the brown was white-out, and it wrote too lumpy. Also, do you have any idea how LONG those stupid tapes are? On one of his trips to visit me, I wrote and assembled an activity packet, of sorts, with sealed envelopes. He was allowed to open one every hour. They had little cute things, riddles, trivia, homemade crossword puzzles, mazes, coded messages, fiction, horoscopes (again, made up), etc. I put a LONG TIME into putting that thing together and then sending it off in time.
For Valentine's Day one year, I bought a set of twin sheets and some fabric paint markers, and set up the ironing board for a work bench, and I wrote all over those sheets. I wrote "I love you" and "I miss you" and "*hugs*" and other mud actions that I won't translate or repeat and a few illustrations and some quotations. Again, sheets? Bigger than they look. If I had really thought about this plan too much, I wouldn't have done it because I wouldn't have known if the twin sheets would fit his bed, but they did (barely). Now, of course, we have a set of sheets that we will never, ever use again because we have a bigger bed and it's not like we can put them on a guest bed, but it was really cute at the time, if I do say so myself.
I also created an internet quiz once--that one was lots of fun. I registered at a free hosting company, and created a "How compatible are you?" quiz with four pages of serious questions. M is a sucker for online quizzes. He doesn't post his results or anything, but he always has to do them. So, I casually mention this quiz that I had found, and sent him the link. He went there, read through all the questions and gave the appropriate answers. The result page featured one of our favorite pictures of us at the time, kissing on my parents front porch, and called him by name, saying he was infinitely compatible with his mate, and went on in a shmooey shmooey fashion for a couple of paragraphs. That one.. kind of freaked him out because he couldn't figure out how it had done it at first. *giggle* (I had just set it up so that the answers didn't matter, and he would get the same page no matter what.. and of course, I had written that page for him so that was pretty much how. *giggle*) Now I am wondering if I could use the same gag again or if he would remember it. Hmmm.. Well, he will now, at any rate, so I guess not.
Another thing I looked at tonight was his two-year-anniversary present. Our anniversary is November 18, and that year, I created new desktop backgrounds for him every day from November 1. (This started.. on accident, but it was a lot of fun.) Every one of them said something like, "thank you for the best two years of my life." The last one I happen to think was kind of cute, so I thought I'd post it here for your entertainment. Start in the upper left corner and follow the arrow.
( Anniversary background. )
