The title isn't exactly a self-congratulatory toot, per se. My roommate and I threw a double birthday party (hers was the 20th, mine the 28th) and we invited a bunch of our friends over. I decorated the dorm with streamers and crazy balloons and tissue paper pompoms, and we got to play Joking Hazard and Just Dance.
My boyfriend and I joked the other day about coordinated gift-giving, since we attended a gift exchange where I gave the hostess a pretty bookmark and he gave her a little book on angels, since she likes reading and is moderately spiritual/religious.
The coordinated gift-giving got cranked up to an 11, however, as between my suitemate and two of my friends, I received 5 neko atsume plushies last night!! I got Peaches, Smokey, Miss Fortune, Tabitha, and Callie, and they're all freakin' adorable. Watching their faces as they panicked realizing they'd all gotten me the same thing was pretty hilarious.
What really shocked me, however, was what my boyfriend got me.
Yall.
He started a freakin' scrapbook of our adventures. He printed out pictures of us and decorated the cover with "[Our names]'s Magical Journey" and got unicorn stickers* and wrote a little note inside and yall. I cried like 3 times. He had talked about making a scrapbook but I never expected him to go out and do it on his own (or at least, to get the scrapbook and some starter materials) and print out pictures of us.
Every time I think about it, I get a little teary-eyed. It's my most prized possession and next time he comes to my house, we're gonna work on it and make it as freakin' awesome as he is.
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*The unicorn stickers are because my suitemates and I joke about my boyfriend being a unicorn, because he's a genuinely sweet and sensitive guy and those are pretty hard to find. See also: the bisexuality/unicorn joke.
