Thanks, MrBond.

I'd like to try the recipe idea. Although I think he'll just get annoyed that I'm making noise in the kitchen, because if he gets home late, he wants to go straight to sleep.

I texted him a simple message, "If you're stopping off at home first before we meet tonight can you please pick up the checkbook?" He said sure, so I just said thank you. That's simple enough, right?

When I greet him tonight, I am going to SMILE. Chuck said this was most important. Today, I wore my hair in a way I've never worn it (or haven't worn it this way in at least a year). I put on a new pair of earrings. I look weird (haha) but different. I think in a good way. I think it will surprise him GREATLY.

It is so difficult to figure out what will work, because he has been so stoic. No emotion, at all. Just monotonous and uninterested and flat. I can't break him yet.