Unfair odds

Well my girl told me that she'd found my valentines day gift yesterday and that it was an auction on trademe that finished at 9. Cool I thought. I then started looking for something for her too.
I did a search on trademe with the words 'valentines day' and came across a digital picture frame and I thought, hey, that's cool, I could load it up with pictures of her and me and our trip down south.
I was happy so I told her I had an auction finishing around 9 too. I asked her what time hers finished exactly and turns out hers was 9.17.
Mine was 9.17 too.
We both started getting suspicious at that point.
We asked each other a few cryptic questions and found out we were looking at exactly the same thing.
Now at this point I'm thinking "no way!" but my poor girl was thinking "oh ffs what the hell do I do now!"

Ok, not such a great start really but these things happen, I mean if both of us do a search for "valentines day" we're both going to be looking at the same stuff and when 90% of it is crap, either naff jewelry or flowers (and she's specifically asked for no roses) there's not a lot let on trademe at that point.

So I had a backup item on ebay, and Miss C didn't really like eBay all that much so I thought I'd be safe with what I'd picked, it was really rather cool. I figured for a girl who likes Invader Zim as much as I do, a talking Gir would be pretty sweet.
So I put the auction in my watchlist and asked the seller what the postage would be to New Zealand.
That evening I get a text from Miss C saying she's found something for me on eBay, so everything is good. She also says that someone else from New Zealand had asked about the postage too, crazy huh.
Yea, I wont go into the details but you guessed it, we were looking at the exact same thing.
Now I can understand the trademe thing, we were using the exact same search words and trademe is 'only SO big'. But eBay? There has to be 10's of MILLIONS of auctions up at any one time. For us to pick the same thing, that's just CRAZY!
I don't know what the odds are but I'm sure they're pretty out there.

So last night my poor girl was in a bit of a state. There was the whole valentines present saga as well as her crappy work situation AS WELL AS the fact that she's gotten a bit upset that last year I had a good valentines day and she doesn't think she can top it.
The truth is, I got some DeSpa chocolates that I didn't like, I didn't even end up eating them and I won a skydiving trip on the radio (which we didn't take till half way thru the next month anyway.
I really don't think she's got anything to compete with.
She's also doesn't think she can top my birthday present from last year, dinner at the Whitehouse and 'my favourite cologne.
For starters, it wasn't actually my favourite cologne, it was the ex's favourite cologne, it was pure luck that I liked it too.
And as for the Whitehouse, yes it was a nice dinner but it's most definitely overpriced and even so it was less than a $100 dinner for two (I know because the ex had a voucher, that's the whole reason we were going there for dinner) , otherwise I wouldn't have been surprised if it had been Big Mac combos at McDonald's "Go on, upsize it, you're worth it". No actually it wouldn't have been Big Mac combos, it would have been chicken nugget combos, she had a thing for that god awful processed chicken, the stuff that they make out of all the undesirable parts of the chicken, assholes and giblets.

She's slowly coming round to the idea that I'm much happier with her than I've ever been and that I have a past but I live in the present and she means so much more to me than any present she could buy me.
If she wore nice underwear and put a bow on her head I'd be more than happy with that!

So the weather's a bit naff today, looks like it's going to rain. A good day to be stuck at work.