A year's worth of a woman

Today marks the one year anniversary of my starting a relationship with Katie. In short, I'll say that it's been a great year. I enjoy every minute that she's around, and hope to make all the time we spend together from now on just as enjoyable for her as she's made this year for me.

In traditional style with gifts for special days, I played today by ear. I worked out a few plans in advance, but it's always better to wait until close to that date for opportunities to exploit. Last night, it turned out that I needed to borrow Katie's car to get to an extra class that was scheduled at the last minute. My brother and I share a truck, and he was already at work, so at lunch I took Katie's car and dropped her back off at work. I did my class thing, and picked Katie up from work at 5, then took her to her night class at 5:30. With her occupied for the next few hours, I finally had time where I could get out and get together my anniversary ideas.

My first idea was, of course, flowers. Instead of ordering them online I figured I could buy some locally and just decorate everything myself... get some colored stones to put in the bottom of a vase, get some flowers with baby's breath (the little white flowery junk that usually comes with roses). So, I got myself some roses, some red stones, a glass vase and made everything more presentable.

It happened that on my way back from picking up the flowers, I noticed that Katie had left her keys in the car. So, I thought that it would be nice to sneak over to her apt., set up the flowers, leave a nice little note, and sneak back out. So, she'd have a nice surprise waiting for her when she goes home. Well, that part of the plan went without a hitch. She appreciated, and was surprised by the flowers and also really enjoyed the note I left along with the flowers.

That's the first part of the plan, and the only part that I've completed and thus the only part I can really talk about. I hope she enjoys tonight's events as much as the flowers. I'll post again after everything's done... I don't wanna give up my surprise before it happens.