Gift Giving Guy

Eight is a lucky number. Why else would the Beijing-hosted Summer Olympics begin on 8/8/2008 at eight minutes and eight seconds past 8 p.m.? This week my wife and I celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary with the theme of luck and the traditional anniversary gifts of bronze and pottery. If you are seeking gifts for your eighth, here are the presents we exchanged.

• Nicholas Sparks’ new novel The Lucky One from Amazon.com
• A giant gourmet fortune cookie drizzled in chocolate from Good Fortunes
• A set of four bronze-beaded placemats and bronze-beaded coasters from Z Gallerie Home Furnishings
• Handmade mixing bowl in rustic yellow from Little Bit of Bybee pottery
• A 37-inch Samsung LCD High-definition TV from Amazon.com (ordered before we knew about Amazon dropping its post-order price policy guarantee)
• A dozen fall-colored roses delivered to work in a pottery vase