...and that's putting it mildly. Firstly, there's this guy called Neil Finn, who you all know I adore. How can you not love this? Neil/CH live goodness (I tried to embed one of these and my blog software kept giving me error messages... argh!)

Well, my wonderful husband scored guest list slots for a very small, special Crowded House show in NYC tonight. As an annivesary surprise for me! I will be seeing Neil live in about eight and a half hours. Not that I'm counting or anything. That would be so freaky fan-ish, right?

Apparently Mike is just trying to enable the freaky fan in me or something. I've been flipping out since he told me last night.

For our anniversary, we'd agreed not to exchange gifts or buy each other anything. This is not to say that we weren't acknowledging the day, because we certainly were. I think we both thought that we didn't need to exchange gifts. A card and a nice meal would be sufficient. So I treated Mike to dinner last night. Nowhere fancy, just a place we like nearby. Then he proceeds to surprise me with three things (none of which required him to buy me a gift, as he reminded me -- he just "sent emails"):

1) He contacted The Tragically Hip's manager to have the band do something for me as a surprise. The manager had them sign a box set for me and he sent t-shirts for both of us.

2) Mike also contacted Tommy Shaw of Styx (who is a friend of his) and asked if the band could sign something to surprise me -- a photo or t-shirt or something. Apparently Tommy's reply was: "Oh, I have the perfect thing." The perfect thing turned out to be a FENDER GUITAR SIGNED BY THE BAND. OMG! I have to figure out where to display it. And how to PLAY it! I just sent Tommy a thank you note and was like, “So, do guitar lessons come with this or what?” I was kidding… but still... a GUITAR!

3) And last, but hardly least, the Neil/Crowded House thing. For which I almost have no words. I've been having a major back-and-forth email freak-out with Cathy since last night about it. I think it's possible she's as excited that I'm going tonight as I am.

All I did was get Mike a card and take him out to dinner. I think I'll have to blow the roof off with something amazing for his birthday this year to catch up to this. He is such a keeper.