This is a fun thread! I'm always a lurker, but today I thought I would join in on the fun. I actually have 2 for very differant reasons. The first and not the worst of the two was a birthday gift from a crazy neighbor that had just moved into the neighborhood and practically invited herself to the party. She gave me a basket full of very suggestive sex toys and since friends and family insisted I open gifts in front of everyone, well you can imagine my ambarassment. My mom God rest her soul, was fumming and so was my hubby. And yet the worst was from my husband. We had just been married 1 month and he has always been a romantic at heart but not a great gift giver. I don't celebrate or even remember the month anniverseries as he does. He walked in with a present behind his back and when he told me it was our one month ann. and presented me with this large gift I was so excited until I opened it. It was a blender, a very unromantic blender! I was so upset with him, and as an example of what not to buy a woman unless specifed, I still have it 21 years later in the appliance garage as he calls it. I get the best presents now, he goes to the quilt store and the owner (my friend) tells him exactly what to pick out as I stop in a few days in advance to let her know. We are all happy now.

Katie, I am sorry yours was broken. I was taking a chance mailing without a bubble envelope but it would have cost 249 each to do so and didn't think those little sticks were worth that. LOL I can't believe your hubby ate that either. Mine would do the same though. Margo

Well, we may have hit a roadblock of sorts. Filming might need to be extended into the time when we will be away in Augusta visiting our son and DIL. This trip has been planned for months now, all reservations made, their work schedules rearranged to be off, and I won’t change it. But, I’m also not going to allow the film people in our home while we’re gone. We always have a housesitter here, but she does not want to be here during any filming, and responsible for watching over everything, and we don’t want that either. So, we’ll see. They love our views and our home. They’ve been through it and have many photos of it. If it doesn’t work out this time, they’ll probably call us back when, hopefully, it’s at a much better time for me. I should hear something back from them in the next few days.

The pillow is beautiful. Annie's suggestion about an eye pillow is also great. Lots of people like to use one during final relaxation. It sounds like you have a real friend who can be honest with you about not liking jewelry. When I first started dating my now husband, he gave me a necklace. I don't like to wear jewelry and anything around my neck, no matter how light, makes me feel like I'm strangling. Since we were not yet exclusive, i told him nicely to give the necklace to someone else. The next time I saw him, he had gotten the necklace made into a bracelet. I wore it in front of him until it (thankfully) broke. He had always dated women who liked jewelry and he wanted to give me gifts. As my birthday approached, he talked about taking me bracelet shopping and I knew he was thinking about something expensive. You should have seen his face when I told him that what I really wanted was a crown! And that's how I got some expensive, needed dentistry for my birthday.