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Jen was so excited yesterday.

She had a surprise birthday party that was thrown for her when we got back for Bert's Big Adventure on Monday night. Yeah. It was so cool. I really have never been surprised before, and I was totally surprised. Wendy's little face was the first person I saw when I walked in. I was like so confused. I'm like, why is Wendy here? Like I just thought that I was going to dinner with my new boyfriend and was like totally completely unexpected. And it was such a nice surprise. It was so fun. As a sidebar, I see that you're much more at peace with using the word boyfriend. I'm trying. I don't love that word. I've always had a weird thing with that word. Like I think after you've been married and then divorce and then you go back to that again, it's just a weird, like, very middle school word to me. Right. I can understand that. It's just a bizarre word. But, no, I'm not afraid of the commitment part of it. But it's just the word. It just seems juvenile. Juvenile. Yeah, I'd prefer to say partner or, you know what I mean, or like something more adult.

Right. is just seems juvenile. Juvenile. Yes. I'd prefer to say partner or, you know what I mean? Or like something more adult. Right, right. So that's my only issue with it. But yeah, so we were just planning to do a dinner and then the big surprise happened. I could not believe. I literally was so blown away. Well, she was beaming when she walked in here, because, you know, so many people showed up for a surprise party, but she hinted to us yesterday that her new boyfriend did something

really sweet for her, but we never found out what the details were. Yeah, it was just the most thoughtful

gift that I might have ever received. And this is sort of a lesson that we try to teach guys

when we talk about stuff all the time and

gift giving and being thoughtful and that kind of thing. It was probably like a month ago.

We had been out and we were at a place that featured a local artist and there were all these

different paintings on the wall from this local artist. And I was just really mesmerized by this one painting on the wall

and it had been I just like spent probably too much time just gushing over this one painting

and thought it was really amazing really beautiful and just kind of like moved on or whatever

so then after the the whole surprise party or whatever we got home and come to open my gift

and it was that piece of artwork so I got gone like back to that place like had totally remembered, and it was that piece of artwork. Nice.

So, cool. Like, back to that place. Like, had totally remembered it. And it was one of those things that I felt like I had sort of said in passing, but I really had talked about the reason why I liked it, and the painting is called Articulate. And, you know, it's kind of what we do. And I don't know. I just loved it so much. And I couldn't believe that he remembered that and actually went back and got it. And like, I was so touched. I just, like, it made me cry when I opened it. I was like, I cannot believe you remembered this. And like, I cannot believe this painting is like in my room right now. Like, this is so awesome. Because there are guys listening right now going, what's the big deal? It's a piece of art. But it was the thought, right? It's that he listened to you and he picked it up.

Listen and remembered and like made the effort to go back to that place and get it and everything. I was, it blew my mind. It blew my mind. I was like so overwhelmed. It was awesome. Awesome. So there's a lesson to be learned there. And I don't know how we teach guys to listen because I know I'm not good at it.

but we talk all the time about women feeling special and that made her feel special because he was listening to what she said he appreciated what she liked he wanted to make sure that if she liked this so much that she owned it herself and so yeah that was perfect so good for him and it's not the money that's spent it's the thought like you can save yourself guys you could save yourself a whole

bunch of cash right by doing something thoughtful yes oh my gosh i mean that meant more than you

know a million dollar diamond you know what i mean that meant so much more than that i don't believe

that i don't believe that for a second well maybe that wasn't a good analogy no but we get the

sentiment in the whole thing that's cool cool verse really really cool this is the bird show