I suggest you spend the gift card on something from this category ;)
One that seems like a good buy is of course this one, which you had already seen on the site. If you like neckbands better though, this one is the same but with a different strap. Personally, I would go for this one, but it really depends on what you're looking for. Besides Plantronics, there are some other brands too that are not General Electrics, so you could also look at this one, or this one, or even this one (I think it looks really funky XD).

Circuit City has this 24 minute pickup thing where you can order your item online and then pick it up after 24 minutes. If you wish to do this, the closest Circuit City to you is the one in Towson. Alternatively, there are also stores near Essex and Catonsville. I hope it's not too far way... I'm not sure what the distance is. However, they should be open today from 10 AM to 7 PM, so if you feel like it you can pick it up straight away :) Alternatively, you can get free shipping to your place that will deliver in about a week. For all this to work you have to spend over $25, but I'm sure won't be a problem :P

There's been a few iterations before I finally decided on your birthday gift, and I thought I'd write up a nice little story about it.

Originally, I wanted to give you a font. I know you really like fonts, so that would make it a perfect gift. However, since trouble arose in that area because I didn't know which ones, and you already have many of the cool ones seeing you have the Adobe Type Library. I knew there were fonts you had been looking at, but I didn't know which ones. I tried to glean this information from you without letting up the surprise, but that didn't work out. On top of that, fonts come with licenses, and after closer inspection they made it rather hard to use one as a gift (amongst other things). For starters, the licenses were non-transferable, but they also had some nasty restrictions on usage. I'm also aware you prefer font families over just fonts (and I'm also aware that I probably butchered the use of "font" in this paragraph) which makes sense of course, so giving just a font might not have been the best option regardless. Although Jeannette just cutely called it a "starter set" XD

I had called in the help of Jeannette for good font sites, since she knew a thing or two about them, and she suggested I should find something else. From fonts we got to font software. I knew you had (a version of) Fontographer, which doesn't do OpenType. And I know you like OpenType ;) So when I found this little program called Foglamp, which turns your Fontographer .fog files into OpenType fonts. However, after some reseach I found out that it cannot take advantage of the better properties of OpenType (more characters, etc.) because it still depends on Fontographer. So that kinda made it useless. However, there's an evaluation version (for the Mac), so I think you perhaps might want to check it out :) (I'm not sure if the link works though... there are more on the page but they all time out for me. However, the Windows links do work, so maybe it's something that only works on the Mac?)

Another idea I had was to look for some sort of promo/gift code thing to allow you to get the font you wanted. I didn't come across any respectable font sites that had this sort of service though, so that was shot out of the water too. However, the more general idea remained, and Jeannette spammed me with US stores that did gift cards. I didn't want to give you just a gift card, because (in my opinion) that is kinda lame. However, I realised the answer was right there all all along... so I browsed to the headset section to see what they had ;) We had been discussing this recently, and the store I finally settled on does internet orders, which they ship for free or which you can pick up after 24 minutes. This worked nicely because I didn't have to bother you for your address in order to get it to you :)

I wanted to give it a personal touch though, so I let your Cogtree stuff inspire me. I hope you like the drawing :) And if you look at the top of the page... I also got your rose some friends :D

I hope you like your gifts :) The only thing now that remains for me to say is... Have a great and happy birthday Laury-laur!!!