Over-gifting

Do you see this box?  It's filled with books for Christmas for me and only me.  Seem a bit excessive?  Well, you should know my loving husband went overboard because of a slight misunderstanding.

If you know me you know that I absolutely love reading.  I borrow books, check them out from the library, and get them super cheap on amazon, but the books that tend to be hardest to get that way are some of my favorite LDS authors.  (Just a side note- some are over the top cheese and I can't take them, but I have a few authors that I really like).  For some reason the stars aligned and every author that I love had a new book out this Christmas.  I couldn't decide which ones I wanted (since I wanted them all), so I circled them in the catalog mailing and told Joel to chose whichever ones he wanted, so there would be some element of surprise for Christmas.
I thought he would buy 2, maybe 3 if I was really lucky....and then the box arrived yesterday.  Joel asked me if it was ok if he wrapped them in front of me, and I said I wanted to be surprised.  He looked a little confused, and I asked, "Joel, um, how many did you get?"  In the most pathetic voice possible he said, "I got all of the ones you circled.  I thought you wanted ALL of them."  Apparently he missed the whole selection process.  I couldn't believe he spent that much money!  When I asked him if he thought it wasn't a bit much when he was ordering them, his only reply was that he thought if I was ok with it then it must be ok. (I'm usually the penny pincher in the family).
So the long and the short of it is that we may have to live off of beans and rice for a couple of weeks, but I am stocked with LOTS of reading material for the winter.  Joel claims it'll only last me 3 weeks at the most, but I'll spread it out. :)