There are many reasons why I can never plan a surprise birthday party for Matt, like several of my girlfriends have successfully executed for their significant others. First, he loves his birthday. He’s been known to send out Evites three months in advance because he gets that anxious. He’d be crushed if he did all this planning and built up all this excitement and then I swooped in and stole it from him with my own SURPRISE!
Second, he’s always up in my grill. Due to my A.D.D., I keep no less than 25 tabs open on my computer screen at all times. Seeing this gives Matt a nervous tick and he feels an overwhelming urge to hit Option-Command-W. He’s always wanting to close out my windows. He doesn’t purposely look at what I’m browsing—believe me, it’s not that juicy … blogs, wedding stuff, WebMD for my ailments—but it’s all right there. He would know if I Googled “How to throw a surprise party.”
Lastly, I simply suck at keeping secrets from him. I always need to tell Matt everything, every thought process, every detail. I feel all tortured inside when I’m hiding something and I always let it leak out with an awkward, “Sooooooooo …… NOTHING.” And then he’ll say, “What?” And I’ll let out a sigh of relief and say, “Well since you asked ….”
This very long intro leads into the fact that because Matt’s BIG 30th birthday is coming up, I, against all odds, tried to plan a surprise party. I was prepared and determined. I really thought I was gonna pull it off until the other day when I was listening to my voice messages. On speaker phone. With Matt sitting next to me.
Message 1 – Mom
delete
Message 2 – Mom
delete
Message 3 – Mom
delete
Message 4: [A man's voice] “Hi Michelle, this is Ben from Backstage Bar & Grill …”
QUICKLY DELETE!!!!!!!!!!
I looked at Matt and said, “Oh yeah, I met a guy at a bar named Ben …. ”
Matt shook his head and was like, “You shouldn’t have deleted that message. How will you know the latest on my surprise party?” He then said he had seen my “research” on my computer.
Doh. I suck.
P.S. Another reason why I can’t plan a surprise party is because I tell the internet everything.
P.P.S. Don’t worry. This whole post is totally part of my grand surprise party-planning scheme. Muahahaha.
Haha. Oh man, I’m so similar. I have to tell Julia EVERYTHING. Last summer, I made her this video as part of her birthday present, and ended up giving it to her a week in advance because I just couldn’t waiiiit. Sigh, keeping secrets is so hard.
LOL! You’re such a good fiancee. I would LOVE IT if my husband threw me a surprise party, but he’s not into such things. Sigh.
hahah this post cracked me up! Matt seems to be much like me in his birthday excitement planning skills. I’m choosing to call them skills instead of “crazies” b/c it just sounds nicer k?
I LOVE BIRTHDAYS! And whoa, 30? I can’t wait to hear how this bash, surprise? no surprise? turns out!
ahhahah… ohhh nooo… le sigh.
Since Yubo doesn’t read your blog (he doesn’t read mine either really)…Yubo’s big 3-0 is also coming up and I wanted to plan a surprise party but I SUCK at surprises. My 20 open tabs also make Yubo go into convulsions. But luckily, he’s given up trying to reform me so he mostly just stays away from my computer in order to spare himself the physical pain he feels when he sees it.
You are a good significant other. Trying to throw a surprise party is a sign that you care. Too bad my significant other doesn’t read your blog and if he did he certainly doesn’t read your comments, otherwise he would know that I want a star trek themed surprise party, and to surprise me it doesn’t have to be even remotely close to my actual birthday, in fact it doesn’t even have to be a birthday party, just a surprise and a party. Just to know that he cared enough to try to plan something amazing. Are you listening world wide web? I want a surprise party, star trek themed with animals.
As far as tabs I have about 4 windows open with different tabs on each. This new computer allows me to look at two complete pages next to each other 4 if I’m hooked up to an external monitor.
“Sooooo…. NOTHING.” THAT’S SO ME, TOO!! I’m a terrible liar. Also, I love Backstage!
haha yeah when i tried to plan a surprise party for matt last year it totally got spoiled and not even by me!! i was so mad. seriously i think boys are just harder to surprise no matter what.
Yuuuup. Why are boys so good at this? It’s like when I decided to get Andy an iPod Touch for his birthday, and TWO WEEKS beforehand, he tells me he wants to go to the Apple store. “Why?” I ask. “To get an iPod Touch,” he says. {sad face} Surprise blown.