I sucksucksuck
I'm the biggest jerk ever.
pre-Christmas season, I was doing research on Amazon for various gift ideas, and came across the Kindle. I showed it to Jorge, thinking it was pretty cool, and might be nice down the line, when we have more money. Weeks pass, and Jorge gets very secretive about his email account -- "Don't look in my email, I ordered your Christmas present and I don't want you to figure it out." only saying so because I've gone into his email a few times to get work related emails to forward to me when he wasn't available. I don't look, of course, because I like Christmas to be a big surprise.
Only, a few big obvious hints crop up, including him telling me, "I went way over our budget for Christmas, but don't worry about it." and never giving me an exact number, and then, me seeing him browsing books online and then quickly closing out the browser when he saw I was there (for the record, Jorge is not a very big reader)
So, this morning, we're taking the car to gas it, hashing over our finances. We ended up spending a lot more money in Maine than we expected (along with footing the bill for my brother's plane ride, which was not planned) which leaves us a little tighter for Christmas than we had wanted. So we decide to skip Christmas on extended family until the following paycheck after the holidays, and to go lean for his parents. The following conversation happens
Him: I should give you your present before we go to my parents, if we're going to tell them we're too broke for Christmas.
Me: Yeah, especially because you got me a Kindle.
Him: ........................
Me: OMFG. (dies)
And that, folks, is why I'm the biggest jerk ever. My fiance is cool and amazing, and got me a gift that was nice and thoughtful and loaded with my favorite books, and I ruined it by blurting it out. I suck. And because Jorge is awesome, he decided that the Sony Reader (which he got instead of the Kindle, as it turns out) would be my birthday present, and my (still unknown) birthday present would be for Christmas.
Sigh.
pre-Christmas season, I was doing research on Amazon for various gift ideas, and came across the Kindle. I showed it to Jorge, thinking it was pretty cool, and might be nice down the line, when we have more money. Weeks pass, and Jorge gets very secretive about his email account -- "Don't look in my email, I ordered your Christmas present and I don't want you to figure it out." only saying so because I've gone into his email a few times to get work related emails to forward to me when he wasn't available. I don't look, of course, because I like Christmas to be a big surprise.
Only, a few big obvious hints crop up, including him telling me, "I went way over our budget for Christmas, but don't worry about it." and never giving me an exact number, and then, me seeing him browsing books online and then quickly closing out the browser when he saw I was there (for the record, Jorge is not a very big reader)
So, this morning, we're taking the car to gas it, hashing over our finances. We ended up spending a lot more money in Maine than we expected (along with footing the bill for my brother's plane ride, which was not planned) which leaves us a little tighter for Christmas than we had wanted. So we decide to skip Christmas on extended family until the following paycheck after the holidays, and to go lean for his parents. The following conversation happens
Him: I should give you your present before we go to my parents, if we're going to tell them we're too broke for Christmas.
Me: Yeah, especially because you got me a Kindle.
Him: ........................
Me: OMFG. (dies)
And that, folks, is why I'm the biggest jerk ever. My fiance is cool and amazing, and got me a gift that was nice and thoughtful and loaded with my favorite books, and I ruined it by blurting it out. I suck. And because Jorge is awesome, he decided that the Sony Reader (which he got instead of the Kindle, as it turns out) would be my birthday present, and my (still unknown) birthday present would be for Christmas.
Sigh.