Shiny Desires

Last year for my birthday, my Fiance Arthur and I celebrated it by having a local vacation. Local vacations are weird because you leave your house and go to a hotel and stay just a few minutes from where you actually live.

Arthur and I had been dating at that point for nearly 3 years. We had talked a few times about getting married, but there weren't any concrete plans yet. I kept pestering Arthur about what he was going to get me for my birthday.

One random weekend before my birthday Localvacation, I asked for some kind of hint. I was so excited when he told me that my gift was "shiny" and "something I've always wanted". I knew it had to be a ring.

The last night of our Localvacation, we were hanging out in the Grand America hotel room he had gotten for us. I opened my presents and I kept looking for a little ring box holding the shiny gift I'd always wanted.

I opened the last pacakage and it was a Sony Digital HDD Video camera. The metal was so shiny. It was something I had spotted at Best Buy a few months back, and I had told him that I really wanted a video camera for a long time.

So, I ended up getting exactly what the hint told me it was. A shiny video camera I'd always wanted. I was so mad!

Don't worry, I eventually got my ring. :)