Hmmpost

Being our 19th wedding anniversary this Friday, I’m in the shopping mode. Can’t write about what I’m doing for my wife as she reads this blog and would see the telegraph. Will say that I won’t be buying her anything through GiftGirl.

The idea behind GiftGirl is straightforward: just pick options from a dropdown menu like how much you want to pay, who the girl is (wife, long time girlfriend, friend, colleague, sister, mother, etc.) and you’re shown a selection of gifts that match. There are preset templates for things like ‘west coast girl’ and ‘bohemian girl’ — somebody please tell me what a bohemian girl is?  I know Bohemian Rhapsody is a great Queen song that was in Wayne’s World. Google informs that the definition of bohemian is: "unconventional in especially appearance and behavior" so answered my own question. Can safely say there aren’t many (any) bohemian girls that I know very well. Do you know any and, more importantly, would they be into any of the gifts. Looking at the screenshot I’m not sure my wife would have wanted any of the things suggested above, but I’m wise enough after over 20 years together not to try and put any words in her mouth or thoughts in her head — ever. Not to get too sappy here, but one of the things I found appealing about her was that she couldn’t be programmed into some box-like algorithm like GiftGirl offers. Don’t think you could put me in a box service like this either. Still, I’m guessing this type service will appeal to some folks. At least has to appeal to the webmaster who could tag all these gifts with his/her affiliate code.