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gift exchange

23:32 Thursday 24 December 2015 JST

I bought the bear Lin wanted (after telling her repeatedly that I would not). It's been in a bag on the shelves next to my bed for nearly a month I guess.

Last night before Lin got home, I took her oldest bear from its spot in the living room and exchanged it with the new bear, which has somewhat darker fur, but still "light brown" moreso that "dark brown"

Lin arrived hom and we sat on the couch to chat and she didn't notice the bear! Yay my plan worked!

After a while I was like, "so when am I going to get my presents???" and she said "close your eyes" and gave me a cool headlamp with rechargable batteries!

To present her with her present, I said, "open your eyes," hoping she might think to look at the bears whose sibling she wants. She might have, but didn't notice, her perception having been overwritten with my having said I wouldn't buy her a bear this year.

She didn't see the bear and was like, "surprise! it's nothing!" when I said "surprise!" hoping she would see it.

After a bit I said "okay close your eyes" and went to get the new bear's bag container her old bear and her other present, which I presented first. I sang a freestyle close your eyes song to the tune of the Bangels' "Eternal Flame".. something like

close your eyes,
hold out your hand
baby
and I will go get your present

I hope you enjoy your present

do you understand can you feel the anticipation? because it's the one that I got for you

I hid the bear bag by the couch and gave her the flat present which was wrapped with a photocopy of some English article I had used for my students. Lin tried reading that to determine what was inside, and opened it after a that proved to reveal nothing interesting.

"Surprise!" Super special massage coupon, featuring some black boxes next to the names of the months. She parsed it as I realized there was nothing keeping her from drawing more squares on the thing.. and then she was like, "hey wait a minute! How long is the massage? The ones Travis gets for Yumi say how long the massage will be!"

"one minute each!"

"What??"

I ended the conversation by putting the bear bag in her lap. She saw the shop branding and was like, "yay!!" and hugged it.

The youtube video id is here: dNH7V7vXjTQ Please don't post the vid on social media.

So yeah, good times!