Step One: Discuss where to eat dinner. Lovely local Italian place with very nice food? Lovely local Chinese place where the waiters know you by name?
Step Two: Decide on Red Lobster.
Step Three: Order the Endless Shrimp. Both of you.
Step Four: Wuss out after one order of shrimp. Oof.
Step Five: Go to Barnes and Noble. Lurk. Decide, shockingly, that there’s nothing either of you really needs at the moment.
Step Six: Stand around in the parking lot and talk about how neither of you is looking for a relationship because you’re both going on to a PhD program. Oh, wait! That wasn’t now! That was exactly precisely four years ago!
Step Seven: Decide to go to Target. Let your honey buy pants (for him), ice cream (for both), and stripey socks (for you). Also socks with sock monkeys on them (for you). Also pink fuzzy slippers with pom-poms (for you). Because there’s no better anniversary present than silly footwear. And it’s even better if you get them a day early because one of you has a Wednesday night seminar.