Laugh About It [N.E.R.D.]

so karen and I have a pretty unusual policy when it comes to holidays, birthdays and anniversaries. basically, we have a window of time around any date that serves as a buffer - so if you're a little late or early with a gift or celebration, then it's still cool. we believe that gifts should be personal and meaningful (always) and you can't always make that happen by a certain time. especially if life has handed you lemons lately. We spent our first two anniversaries unemployed, and one christmas with 1/2 the household income, and now this little adventure. so our buffer has come in handy lately.

even though we have the buffer, since i'm going home this weekend i thought i might try to be on the ball with valentines day. so while i was in the store (target) doing some general shopping, i stopped to see what valentine's cards they had. as i looked through the selection, picking up any/most cards that said "to my wife..." i grabbed one and it was decidedly different than the rest - it was..... ethnically oriented. apparently they have a whole collection of cards for the african american community, called 'cards in harmony' or something like that. i put the card back, but the though struck me that it might be funny if i got one for karen. so then i started to laugh about the idea, and i couldn't stop giggling. i was laughing so hard that i actually frightened the ladies away who were shopping for cards at the time - which made me laugh harder. people must have though i was nuts. not that first time that's happened in a store (i'll share that later) but it was happy touch to an otherwise so-so day.