“Birthentine’s” Day for Sara
It’s been a while since I’ve given ‘Things for Sara’ an update… and it’s not that I haven’t done anything since the last update… on the contrary, it’s been an eventful few months, but… I think my standards for how big an update should be, might be a little too high, because I’ve been told that I have done plenty of things that were update worthy… so, maybe I’ll do some, retrospective posts here soon. After all, I wanted this site to be something we could both look back on and use to remember the good times.
Now, if you know Sara, you know that I have the very unique privilege of being with someone who’s birthday happens to fall on Valentine’s day. And most of the time, when someone’s birthday falls on a holiday, that usually means, they just lose one… and I definitely was not about that life (or at least I tried).
So, my main thought was “How can I celebrate two separate events in the same day”?
Well, I gave it my best shot. I drew up a plan in Adobe XD where I like to prototype projects I work on and got a series of gifts. Sara isn’t the type to like extravagant or expensive things so I didn’t want to throw a whole bunch of things at her at once, so I decided to start with little gifts each Monday for the two weeks before “Birthentine’s” day.
The first one was a cute little pink two piece outfit that I thought would be super cute on her and definitely seemed right up her alley and the second was a super ‘weeby’ two piece with thigh highs, that still make me face-palm a bit, but I knew Sara would love it and I mean, it’s not like I don’t like it myself. 😛
I had a cute little pink gift bag prepared each time I picked her up on the Mondays prior, and the days before the 14ths I also gave her the little Majora’s Mask necklace that you can see in the main title image and a matching little covid mask to boot… because, it’s 2021 and our masks need to match our outfits, ya’ know?
After that, it was on to the main event. While Sara was home, I (literally) spent the 24 hours before picking her up on Sunday working on cleaning up my apartment (seriously, I didn’t sleep), adding decorations to the walls (I didn’t get to decorate my room the way I intended, but… anime posters seemed like they’d be a Sara thing anyways, so I’m not mad) preparing gifts for her and also getting myself purty, because I also bought myself a new outfit… because presentation is very important to me and I wasn’t going to do a whole birthday night looking like a slob in a poorly decorated / messy apartment.
The main picture for this post, is more or less a picture I took with most of the gifts in one place, but I did separate the presentation into two parts. The living room was basically the first birthday surprise and the bedroom was Valentine’s day. It was the best way I could think of to separate the two… and both days were divided more or less like so:
Birthday (More or less Animal Crossing Themed):
- Rose petals leading to the couch
- Romantic Birthday Card (Because Ily Sara)
- Personally built & programmed photo frame*
- Rose petals leading to the room
- Animal Crossing “Bellionaire” backpack
- Animal Crossing T-shirt =]
Valentines Day (Spa / Relaxing / Pink themed):
- Cute Zelda themed Valentine’s day card
- Pink bamboo luxury bathtub tray
- Pink and comfy silky robe + lingerie set
- Pink microfiber towel set
- Pink(ish) velvet scrunchie set
- Rose shaped tealights
- Handmade bathbomb set
- Lindt Chocolate Truffles
*The photo frame, due to some technical issues, didn’t end up having all the features that I wanted to add to it, but I’m going to build on it a lot more and add a lot of “us” themed things to it. Stay tuned for that ;D
The final setup for the apartment is shown in the second set of pictures I have in this post, I wanted the bedroom to be reminiscent of a night we had a while back with the red ambient lighting and all (I actually bought that machine specifically for a that night too) and I wanted to separate both days even if it was just by having one card in one room and the other in the next… yet the whole time I was setting things up I kept thinking “man, I can do this better next year”. So, here’s to #BirthentineGoals.
I’m pretty sure, I missed some details somewhere along the lines, but this post has sort of become an essay so I’ll wrap things up.
At some point in the night Sara took all of the bath-crack I gave her and enjoyed a very nice bath… and I died, after stuffing my face with some of the chocolates Sara got me for v-day and cuddling up with the new super soft heart-shaped pillow that accompanied them. My day had been somewhere between 26-30 hours long and I needed to recoup. Thankfully, I made sure to take the following days off, so we could spend them together as well and I’m very glad I did. I think for my first try, I managed to achieve my goal for Birthentine’s day and it definitely seemed to have gone over quite well too.
And of course, I can always improve upon it next year. ;D
Happy Birthentine’s Day Sara
<3