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Best way to deliver highly personalized card to girlfriend
Hamurabi
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MiamiRegistered User regular
hallo Internet People
I'm giving my girlfriend a Moto G as a present when she gets back from Jordan. She insists on keeping her crappy ancient Android phone that always shits out on her and is the source of a minor amount of stress for her -- and has also become a minor annoyance for me personally as a result. She maintains that getting a new one would be too expensive... so I've decided to do both of us a favor and just get her a really nice one as a homecoming/belated Christmas present.
To reflect the shared utility -- and for humor value -- I plan to include with the phone a card that reads, "This is really a gift to myself" in 11 different languages + English. She speaks/can read and write six at varying levels, so it's a play on her fascination and facility with languages. Some of them (like Farsi and Turkish) are languages she wants to learn. I got a bunch of native speaker friends (some of them mutual friends) to pitch in with translations of the phrase, so there's a nice layer of 'See, all these people also care about you' on top of the basic 'Here is a present' emotion. Her mom gave me the Dutch translation, for instance.
Thing is... I'm not quite sure which is the best way to physically deliver the whole thing. I considered handwriting them all on the inside of a Hallmark, for that extremely personal touch... but that's a looot of work, and my awful penmanship (in languages I don't read/write) may get in the way. My eyes glaze over just looking at the Mandarin script.
So I wanna print it somehow... but not be cheesy and just paste a computer printout into a Hallmark card.
Any ideas?
I'm giving my girlfriend a Moto G as a present when she gets back from Jordan. She insists on keeping her crappy ancient Android phone that always shits out on her and is the source of a minor amount of stress for her -- and has also become a minor annoyance for me personally as a result. She maintains that getting a new one would be too expensive... so I've decided to do both of us a favor and just get her a really nice one as a homecoming/belated Christmas present.
To reflect the shared utility -- and for humor value -- I plan to include with the phone a card that reads, "This is really a gift to myself" in 11 different languages + English. She speaks/can read and write six at varying levels, so it's a play on her fascination and facility with languages. Some of them (like Farsi and Turkish) are languages she wants to learn. I got a bunch of native speaker friends (some of them mutual friends) to pitch in with translations of the phrase, so there's a nice layer of 'See, all these people also care about you' on top of the basic 'Here is a present' emotion. Her mom gave me the Dutch translation, for instance.
Thing is... I'm not quite sure which is the best way to physically deliver the whole thing. I considered handwriting them all on the inside of a Hallmark, for that extremely personal touch... but that's a looot of work, and my awful penmanship (in languages I don't read/write) may get in the way. My eyes glaze over just looking at the Mandarin script.
So I wanna print it somehow... but not be cheesy and just paste a computer printout into a Hallmark card.
Any ideas?
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