Musings at Altitude

I want to thank everyone for the awesome suggestions for what I should get Denise as a way to kiss up for all the perminopausal musings I’ve had lately.  Those gifts include:

• the Hope diamond
• a trip to Vegas
• a “freakin big” rock
• install the address marker (she got the marker last Mother’s Day and I haven’t quite installed it yet)
• an ice sculpture

Now I must admit, I may very well do the first 3 just to soften the paybacks that I know are coming.  I won’t get to the fourth one till later in May, so that won’t buy me any time (an IOU right now don’t cut it).  But I’m very intrigued by that ice sculpture suggestion.  That does indeed serve two purposes – (1) for those few minutes that the image is still viewable, it would bring beauty to our home; and (2) as it melts (very quickly because of the heat generated by the one the gift is destined for), it will cool off the sun-like temperatures of the PMW and allow her for maybe just a moment to feel that same sense of relief that someone in Phoenix experiences going from 120 degrees outside to 78 degrees inside.  Ahhhhhhh. 

I still need more suggestions though, so feel free to chime in with another couple if you could.  Quantity may be much more important than quality right now.  At a minimum, lots of gifts would occupy some time (while she’s opening them) which would prevent (at least for those moments) any retribution from occurring!