1. causing fear or discouragement; intimidating
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Daunting
Dane has this incredible ability to blindly stumble across any surprise I have brewing in my head for him. I'm pretty sure in our five years of marriage and the three years of dating before that, I have only managed to successfully surprise him a handful of times. The strangest thing is, he has never tried to figure out any of these surprises!
Last month I decided that for his birthday this summer I was going to take him to Chicago Music Exchange to pick out an acoustic guitar. I knew he missed playing and would love to have an acoustic to play again. I was going to make a day of it...lunch at DMK Burger, picking out a guitar, and then an awesome dinner somewhere. I was planning this now so I could start squirreling away money over the next few months. It was going to be awesome....until he realized how much he missed playing and started talking about how he wanted a guitar again. I came clean about my plan because I didn't want him to have to wait half a year to make this dream a reality. At least I was able to surprise him by saying he should start looking for one.
Literally the next day we were driving to Chicago Music Exchange to check out a Taylor he found on their website. As we drove home with it in the back of the car, he looked like a kid that had free reign at a candy store. He was downright giddy.
Part of the deal was he had to start teaching me how to play. That's where the daunting part comes in. I'm not talking about fear or discouragement, I'm talking about the intimidating definition of daunting. Music is pretty much a foreign language to me. I'm at the can-somewhat-understand-a-normal-coversation phase of this language development, but application is a completely different story. Bless Dane's heart, he doesn't give up trying to teach me new chords, even if I have trouble remembering the previous chord. I asked him how I was doing he said I was getting an A in content but a B in class participation. Apparently, I'm a little sassy. I have not idea what he's talking about, but you know what they say...teachers make the worst students. I'm just still hoping there isn't any truth to his threats of calling my parents for a parent-teacher conference!
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