My birthday had come only a few weeks after Walter and I had met. He had shared a year of law school with my brother and they had both participated in the talent show that year. He had the video and had promised to convert it to DVD for me so that I could see my brother's performance. (He was also on the DVD for his (so called) comedic impressions of some of his professors. I figure I didn't find it funny considering I didn't know the professors he was poking fun at). Either way, a birthday card and DVD arrived about a week after my birthday. If we're talking about gift quality, it's not what I would have considered a great gift - not from a guy who is supposed to be trying to impress you within the first couple of months of a relationship. But, having said that, I was thankful that he remembered my birthday, that we had spoken on my actual birthday and that he had taken the time to send me something. It was clearly a case of 'it's the thought that counts'. I didn't mind so much.
I, on the other hand, am a bit more creative when it comes to gifts (as long as I have time). He loved song lyrics. He could remember the most obscure lyrics and know exactly which song they were from. Although it was sometimes annoying, I admired his ability to remember things like this. I certainly did not have that talent! After finding about 60 songs that I liked that could potentially be used, I started to extract a line or two from every song in order to compile a letter. Each sentence/phrase was from a different song, which turned into a 4-paneled card. I burned the songs on a few cd's and used the titles to create a mini-story of how we met. I thought it was cute. And he had fun guessing all of the songs (which he managed to know just about all of them)!
Lesson: Creativity wasn't his forte... but that's okay. It was minor and I could live with it. Moving forward was definitely the right thing to do - I kept an open mind and kept going.
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