Intentionally Random...

Some might think getting plastic building blocks for your anniversary is a bit strange. Not me. I have been playing with Legos for quite some time, now. I am also collecting the Star Wars Lego sets--and they apparently know that seeing how they keep coming out with new sets, and there is no end in sight! Also, Valerie says this is my "October" gift, so it counts for my birthday as well.
In trying to explain this to my sister-in-law (who doesn't approve of my Lego addiction), Val had to put it in terms of my brother's recent birthday gift. "Let's just say it cost as much as two Wii's!"






Anyway, I always try to get Valerie something from the traditional list of gifts, and this year was silk. So I got her silk flowers to match her wedding bouquet. Since we were married in October, we had a fall flower theme, with Orange and Black (well, really Rust and Black) color scheme.
So, it may seem unequitable that I got a $500 lego set and she got $25 worth of fake flowers in a vase of rocks. (Yep, that set is the biggest, most expensive Lego set ever. And its all mine. Mwahahahaaa!) But... I also took her to see Jimmy Buffet last month, and we sat in the 17th row on the floor section. Those were not cheap seats!
The rock vase--I didn't even do. She had that idea from our trip to Cape Cod this summer. It was just a strange coincidence that she actually filled the thing with orange rocks the day before our anniversary!