Birthday gift decision in Stuff

Another work-week over with! Woohoo. It was a rather good one too. Way better than last week, phew. Now I can relax for a few days.
Brent has invited me down tomorrow night, so I might take him up on that. he used to have Tuesdays off but now has Mondays so I think that might even work a little better for me. I think I’m well enough to go now also.

Yesterday, I was trying to decide what to get Sheldon for his birthday next weekend. He’s quite an unusual guy as in he likes disturbing trends and things that most other ‘normal’ people wouldn’t even bat an eyelid at. Like he’s the type of guy who would burst out laughing at something borderline controversial. So I did a few web searches last night and must have looked about about 30 different things, just like shirts with offensive, yet funny slogans etc. In the end I decided to go with something with a little more taste. I have no idea if he’ll like or even make use of it, but I kind of thought, ‘Well I like it, hopefully he does too.’

The website says that it’ll arrive within 1-3 business days, so that should be here in time before next weekend. If not, I’ll just tell him he has to wait, and it’d be another excuse to see him again :P Sheldon is the guy I used to have quite a big crush on years ago now, but I learned he wasn’t interested in me via a mutual; friend of ours. Apparently his words were, “He isn’t confident enough’ or something along those lines, and I’ve learned to deal with that, and I’ve moved on too. I still think he’s a pretty cute guy though, and it’s been interesting getting to know his personality more over the years, via the Coochiemudlo Island trip and the Melbourne trip with him, as well as a few Mardi Gras’. I decided that I didn’t like his negativity anyway and that we were quite like chalk and cheese in quite a few ways, and it’s probably better that we remained friends. He also has this really weird condition when it comes to dating that a guy MUST have a car.
He randomly messaged me on Tinder last week when I was out on my long walk (so yeah we’ve ‘matched’ on there), which I thought was weird. So we messaged back and forth a few times on there and I paid him out about his car-condition and that I’ve probably saved thousands by getting rid of mine. He was just like, ‘It’s easier.’ It’s definitely something he’s never budged from. So I think he’s even more stubborn than I am. How does he think I’m getting to his birthday party in the middle of nowhere next week? I’m not walking there, or catching a bus, or a cab, or an Uber, or a helicopter or the other various ways of transport people use every day to see each other. I’ve HIRED one when I needed it. But nope, gotta own a car to date him lol.

I will say however that I will never forget that time he was at my place in the lounge-room and I was sitting on the couch whilst he sat on the arm of it and he leaned down and kissed me. It was so long ago now, but I remember my heart fluttering and I couldn’t even kiss him back properly I was that excited that it was happening at the time haha.
But I know he was only taking advantage of the knowledge that he knew I had a bit of a crush on him at the time. We initially met at a mutual friend’s party and he’d offered me a lift back to the train station, so that was my pretty impressive first impression of him. Giving a stranger like me a lift.
We’ve also hooked up a few times, but we’ve never fucked. In fact, I think it would be a bit weird if we did fuck. Hot, but weird. The last time it (hook-up) happened, he invited me to take a shower with him, and he was surprised that I was surprised that he’d asked me. Like it was a sure-fire given that I’d join him?
This was well after my days of me liking him, but it’s still fucking hot every (rare) time it happens.

So anyway, before I went off on my horny-tangent (LOL, nothing unusual for me!), in the end I decided on a book that I came across. It’s a coffee table book that features men in similar positions next to cats. I thought, “Well that’s cute as fuck and it might give him a bit of a laugh when he opens it”, so that sold it for me. It was about $20 and a delivery fee, but they wrap it in your choice of nice wrapping and even include a card for you, which is a nice touch. So I think it was worth it.
I’m writing about it now because I’m sure it will be wrapped with the card enclosed when it arrives, so I won’t be able to take photos of it before giving it away like I usually do with my presents (so I can remember what the hell I got people down the track). I know it’s probably weird doing that, but hey, if I go to the effort to think of a gift and go out and buy it and wrap it, then I want evidence of that before someone shoves it in their closet or re-gifts it to somebody else :P

Anyway this is the book cover

And the included images on the website (I wish I could see the others!)

There’s different coloured ribbon options for the wrapping too. I went with the royal purple one.

Hopefully they’ll be his types of men in the book too, and that they have cars :P