Here are two joke maps.

The first is from a D&D game my husband ran several years ago: As play progressed, he slowly unveiled what awaited us in the Tower of Horrors, yet at the end of the first play session we still had a large chunk of the map left unexplored. I decided to preemptively fill in the blank areas with things such as a secret door leading to the Bifröst, a tarp ("It's a tarp!"), an in-game reference to Sam & Max's "Just You And Me (And Ted E. Bear)", a day spa complete with a rubber duck filled bubble bath and a half-giant sized massage table, and a room full of magical kittens. We ultimately got none of those things.

I don't know why I drew this second map, or what it was in reference to, but it also has secret kittens. Other highlights include an area with a save point and no enemies, an area one does not go, certain doom, lots of big treasure, and one place with "Ehh, okay treasure, I guess..."

It's an idiotic movie, but we still love "A Night at the Roxbury," and we still head bob in unison every time "What is Love" plays on the radio. So when my husband got a job on Dock Street, I decided to draw this parody note, "A Day at 1 Dock-sbury," with him wearing sunglasses and head bobbing to "What is work? Baby don't shirk me, don't shirk me, no more..."

[pen and marker drawing of a turtle wearing sunglasses singing "do do do dooo do feelin' groovy!"]

A horrifying, yet endearing, mashup of Pokémon Go with Moe from The Simpsons.

["Pokémon Moe": a pen and marker drawing of Moe saying "Pika..." while wearing Pikachu ears, Pikachu face paint, and a lightning bolt bow tie]

I still have over 50 doodles backlogged, and I swear this is the last immature joke left in the queue.

[pen and pencil drawing of a Boo enemy from the Super Mario franchise, decorated with bee stripes and wings. Text reads "Get It? ::winky face:: (wink, wink)"]

This note is appropriate, since we currently have an entire peck of apples threatening to go bad on our kitchen counter, leftover from picking a few weeks back. We can only make so much maple apple crumble.

["Bad Apple": pen drawing of an intimidating-looking apple saying "Bite me."]

This note was inspired by an anecdote from my husband's teenage years. It involved a music teacher, a circle drawn on a whiteboard, and a series of Christmas carol puns. He asked me to draw a note referencing the story, specifically requesting "heavenly peas." I have tried my best.

[two angelic peas with wings and halos fly around an open pod containing three sleepy-faced peas]

A series of images from his 31st birthday, in which I pulled out all the stops. I set up an elaborate treasure hunt, I decorated with the finest accessories the Dollar Store had to offer, and I had a grand surprise waiting for him at the end of the trail.

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top row, left to right
1. Two notes hang under the "Happy Place" sign on our front door:
A birthday hunt awaits you here. 6 gifts are hidden somewhere near. Follow clues around the house until you find your loving spouse.

Clue #1: Though small I'll catch your cares with ease. Start out where you rest your keys.

2. The first prize is a small ceramic trinket dish resting on his bedside table. It is inscribed, "pray more. worry less."
Clue #2: No need for Travelocity where I roam, I'm in the guest room of your home.

3. The next gift is a gnome plush with a big hat and super long legs, lounging on top of the guest bed.
Clue #3: You'll never miss us in the dark. We're prowling where you keep your Quark. (the cheese, not the ferengi)

4. Gift three is a bundle of various glow in the dark dinosaur toys including one Grow and Glow figurine, and a two-pack of dinosaur bone model kits. I wrapped them in tissue paper and hid them in the fridge.
Clue #4: DASH now to the TV screen. There I'll greet you "bween, bween, bweeeeen!"

bottom row, left to right
1. On top of the TV is perched treasure four, an imported figurine of Tron Bonne using a servbot as a chair.
Clue #5: In the top drawer by your computer, waits a litter than couldn't be cuter.

2. The next prize, found in his computer desk drawer, is a package of holographic kitten stickers.
Clue #6: In the office a treasure find. Learn to see what once was blind.

{insert minor explanatory detour}
The whole time he had been on an adventure quest around the house, I had been silently hiding in my office with The Big Gift.

As many of you know, my husband is colorblind. He considers it his only party trick, but I know there are times he wishes he could see the intricacies and vibrancy in color that everyone else around him experiences. So I bought him a set of EnChroma glasses, which aid in filtering color perception for people with colorblindness, often allowing them to experience certain hues for the first time. I was expecting them to blow his mind.

Unfortunately, the glasses did not end up doing as much as I'd hoped. While certain things, like his plaid shirts, registered as noticeably different, it was more of a "Huh, that's kind of cool. This shirt looks less dull than usual" and not a tearful "Green! I can see green! Look at this shirt! Have you ever seen a more wonderful shirt in all creation?!" Most things looked more or less the same. Sadly, we ultimately ended up returning the glasses at the end of the trial period because we just couldn't justify the price tag for the little they did for his specific condition.
{end detour}

3.+4. Long view and closeup of the party decorations. I splurged on every bright and colorful thing I could find, hoping to give him plenty of fodder for his new glasses to soak in: multi-colored paper stars, paper streamers, a hot pink princess tablecloth, rainbow candles, two different Happy Birthday banners, a hoard of balloons, and a generous smattering of dice. Even though the glasses didn't work out, we had fun pelting each other with balloons for the next few weeks.

Birthday card, I think from 2016. It plays on tropes from the anime Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi.

[pencil-drawn card featuring Arumi as a petulant cake demon with candles for horns, and Sasshi about to *nom* her frosting hair. It is labelled "Magical Birthday Ar-cake Abenobashi"]

I had a mousepad that was just a rounded square pad of graph paper, so one day I started doodling a cutesy Scrabble game onto it, using words like "love," "you," "bunches," "have," "wonderful," "husband," "sexy," "sexy," "darling," "hold," "mine," "mine," "kissing," "snuggle," and "keeper." In the corner it says "I won" followed by a heart and a smiley face.