special/sentimental moments

soconfused · October 14, 2011, 7:19am

Re: special/sentimental moments

Career in the UN [split: New Government (in Pak Affairs]

Thanks everyone I didn’t think my stories were all that special, but I’m humbled by y’alls comments. It means a lot. I’m truly blessed to have an amazing girl like her in my life.

I have tons of more stories, but what about you all? Share some stories too, we can swap!

For our first valentine’s day I was in a different state so we knew we wouldn’t be seeing each other. I wanted to make it very special for her b/c I knew how big of a romantic she is and that I would be the first guy to give her anything for Vday. So I thought about overwhelming her with a bunch of gifts, but they had to be within my student budget and have a meaning or thought behind it. I came up with four. Everything was delivered to her dorm room before midnight on Vday with a help of a friend who went to the same university.

I’m in medical school and she thinks of me as her “teddy bear” and sometimes would call me her “big bear” as a nickname, lol. So I ordered a little teddy bear from online that was in a doctor’s outfit - blue scrubs, surgeon mask, holding an x-ray and I had “Dr. Big Bear” written on the front of it’s surgical scrub shirt. I then recorded a voice message through the online system and they inserted it in to the bear so every time she pressed the teddy bear’s little hand she could hear my message. It was really cool - she still has it. Every time her friends came over to her place they would press the teddy bear’s hand to hear my message b/c they thought the concept was hilarious. She hugged that bear to sleep every night for almost two years.

She’s a big fan of fresh flowers. It was funny bc she had mentioned flowers several times but I couldn’t remember what her favorite ones were. So, I remembered a conversation we had once online where she mentioned her favorite flower. So I went online and spent over an hour going through all my old messages to find where she talked about her favorite flower. I finally found it and they turned out to be Tulips. So I ordered her an assortment of Tulips to be delivered to her dorm in her university housing. She was SO surprised b/c she had only mentioned to me that she liked Tulips ONCE and she had no idea I would have remembered over a year later She dried the flowers and still has them years later 'till this day.

She’s unfortunately not a fan of chocolates and sweets like I am and I always tease her about how “boring” her sweet tooth is. She prefers more fruity and nutty desserts. I told her I would never pay for dessert that’s not chocolate aka ‘real dessert’ and we would always tease each other about this. In fact, a few times she tried convincing me to get dessert that she liked, the ‘boring kind’, and I refused every time and I think once she even got a little upset cause I was being stubborn. So to surprise her and make up for that I ordered myself and her a tower of treats filled with all sorts of edible sweet fruits, dried yogurt covered pretzels, dried nuts, etc. There was everything in it without all the chocolatey goods that I like so she was REALLY surprised I finally gave in, spent money on, and bought myself and her ‘not real dessert’, haha. We both finished everything in a couple of days and there was a lot of stuff in it…so it was good! I admitted to her that her taste in dessert was in fact GOOD and I was wrong Ever since then we’ve been willing to try things that the other person likes and it’s really cool b/c sometimes I really end up liking something I would have never tried if it wasn’t for her and vice-versa.

The last present was the best in my opinion and didn’t cost me a penny. She’s a huge artist and draws really well. She does bridal henna too. I’ve never been an artist and can’t draw AT ALL so I decided to draw something for her myself! I wanted to show her my appreciation for her skills and make something that required time and effort on my part. SO, I found my favorite picture of her that I had saved on my computer. I printed it out and I tried copying it and drawing it by hand myself on a white sheet of drawing paper. I sketched it on pencil a million times first and kept erasing and redrawing it. Then when I finally had it down I outlined it with a pen. I would work on it constantly instead of doing my homework because I was so excited to finish it that week, lol. I think the end result was a lot better than I expected. A couple of my friends saw it and they thought it was pretty good. When she saw it her reaction was and she couldn’t stop saying “OMG I can’t believe you drew this yourself!” Her reaction and seeing her smile and laugh so much TOTALLY made my day.

Oh, and I asked her to open all the gifts on webcam so I could see her reactions. She did it at midnight of Valentine’s Day. It was such an awesome moment. And guess what? She had sent me stuff too. It came in the day before so I had to impatiently wait to open my gifts with her. Her stuff was amazing again. We opened our gifts together on webcam and that was honestly one of the most exciting experiences we had that year. Even though we were separated by miles, we still found a way to celebrate the day of romance together and make each other smile.

omggggg so cute