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Birthday present
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I'm in need of ideas for a birthday present for someone I've recently become friends with/have feelings for.
The problem is, she is back home in Baltimore for the summer, while I'm in NYC. I can't really just buy or make her something and send it over to her place, since she thinks her parents might be kind of anal about it (I recently went to Europe, and asked her if she wanted a postcard, and she told me not to because it'd be to her parent's house).
So right now, my only real means is things I can send through the net. She misses things from NYC, so I was thinking of maybe taking pictures of things she misses/likes in the city, and sending it to her in the form of a collage or something like that.
Some basic interests of hers include: Art illustration, WoW (Which I don't play anymore), Edward Gorey, science fiction, dreams, and board games.
It really doesn't need to be anything serious. Just something fun and light-hearted.
Thanks.
The problem is, she is back home in Baltimore for the summer, while I'm in NYC. I can't really just buy or make her something and send it over to her place, since she thinks her parents might be kind of anal about it (I recently went to Europe, and asked her if she wanted a postcard, and she told me not to because it'd be to her parent's house).
So right now, my only real means is things I can send through the net. She misses things from NYC, so I was thinking of maybe taking pictures of things she misses/likes in the city, and sending it to her in the form of a collage or something like that.
Some basic interests of hers include: Art illustration, WoW (Which I don't play anymore), Edward Gorey, science fiction, dreams, and board games.
It really doesn't need to be anything serious. Just something fun and light-hearted.
Thanks.
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If she were back living in NYC, I don't think she'd give a rats ass what I sent her.
low cost, no frills and 1 letter shouldnt alert her parents to someone trying to get in their daughter's drawers.
PokeCode: 3952 3495 1748
Wait, wait, wait. might be anal about it ? My cognitive powers fail to see why someone would be anal about getting a birthday present.......especiall if it's in her own goddamn mail.
Just send her something. Birthday. Present. Should be simple and reasonable enough.
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The collage Idea sounded really cool to me, you could write her a nice letter as well to e-mail with it to make it more special.
I'm just curious, how old is this girl?
I know my parents would have been weirded out if I recived a gift from a boy that I met on the internet. Oh parents.
Her parents are anal. Not her.
I haven't even brought it up to her that I'd like to get her something.
Yeah, something like that would be nice. I'm really not interested in sending her some giant elaborate package. I'll see today if she's alright with me sending her something for her birthday. At least if it's a card it'll be in an envelope, so her parents will only see my name, and not what's inside.
She's turning 21, I'm 24.
Yeah, the collage is just something I thought up of, but I'm seeing if there are any other ideas that might form from you guys.
I'd be able to think of a lot of things but being limited to the net makes it harder to formulate ideas.
I'm with you on that man. I would just try and make sure you 100% cannot send anything to her. You could do the collage and add in a nice birthday greetings video. Also postal mail doesn't need to have a return address on it so you could do it without even revealing yourself to nosey parents.
Steam | Live
Um, yeah. You missed my point, which was that it is perfectly reasonable for someone to recieve gifts for his/her birthday. Hence why i suggested to do it anyway.
As for not telling her... why would you have to inform someone that you're gonna buy a gift for their bd?
Sure, I agree to that too. Realistically I'd like to send her something over the mail. Maybe it's her parents, maybe it's her. I don't know. But if she says she doesn't want something through the mail, I have to respect that. It's really not my call. As for not informing her... I'd have to get her address somehow. I don't think stalking her home address is going to result very well.
Anyway, I'm asking for ideas, not why I can or cannot send her things in the mail.
If you or anyone else has any ideas over the net, or even through the mail that I might find useful, that'd be awesome.
A photo presentation could be really cool, all sorts of things she'd miss from the city and stuff, make sure to make the last picture of you with like, a little birthday had and a cupcake and a candle being like "happy birthday!" +goofy smile
she'd like it...guaranteed.
parents are pretty messed up on the PA boards.
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Hey, now that's such a great idea with the cupcake. Thanks!
You said she likes WoW? How good are you photoshopping skills? Put a WoW character doing something silly in a picture of one of her favorite spots in NYC.
edit: (B's are not P's Skullo!)
Steam | Live
For extra points, add a PS picture of you devouring the cupcake (on her behalf), possibly followed by a LOLcat picture saying "I made u a cuppycake... but I ated it."
Just don't send her an inexplicable dildo, and it'll seem like something she bought herself.
You'd be hard-pressed to find an explicable dildo.
You could also do the same thing with WoW screenshots, but if you don't play anymore it would be kind of hard. You'd want to stage them doing stuff to match the letter. Otherwise you're gonna get stuck making it look like this:
B is for Basil assaulted by bears.
C is for Clara who wasted away.
That's how she'll know he put a whole lot of thought and effort into the gift!
So, basically, I did the photo collage and went with the Edward Gorey commentary (no WoW), and she loved it. So flash forward three months, and we're now dating, and it's going great. Thanks PA for your help!