My 344th Journal Entry

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Dangity-dang, yesterday was another oopsy day where I missed writing in my list. But now that I've had several of those, I think I'm deciding they're really just fine ... as long as I make up for it the next day and don't get way behind!

The forty-third thing I love about my boyfriend is his hair. He's always all worried it's thinner than it used to be and greyer than it used to be, but I really like it. It's soft and all distinguished looking and really not as grey at all as a lot of guys his age!

The forty-forth thing I love about my boyfriend is if I ask him something like, "Hey, is grey spelled gray or is grey spelled gray?" he will definitely know the answer. (This time I didn't ask him though, I just kept changing it back and forth until I got tired of trying to figure it out and just left it with an "e".)

My 343rd Journal Entry

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The forty-second thing I love about my boyfriend is, he finds the best stuff on youtube!

I don't know how he does it, but honestly, he comes across some really wonderful stuff on that site! 

My 342nd Journal Entry

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The forty-first thing I love about my boyfriend is how concerned he is about everything! Like, when there are problems in the world, it concerns him. And if he thinks he's not spending enough time with me, it concerns him.

He definitely gets over-concerned sometimes, but even that is almost okay because it gives me a chance to squeeze him and tell him he should lighten up!

My 341st Journal Entry

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Okay, this skipping blogging some days thing is getting out of hand! It's my turn on the Arielleland list today, and since we missed yesterday, I have two things about my boyfriend I have to post, and that's three whole things instead of just one or two!

Anyway ...

The thirty-ninth thing I love about my boyfriend is that when I tell him he'd better help out in making sure I blog every day, he'll be pretty good about doing that.

And the fortieth thing I love about my boyfriend is sharing a milkshake with two big fat straws!

My 340th Journal Entry

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The 38th thing I love about my boyfriend is, he always thoughtfully buys things at the grocery store for us! Tonight he came home with mochis for Akane and a bag of cookies for me and Elle.

Mmmm!

My 339th Journal Entry

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The thirty-sixth thing I love about my boyfriend is, going for walks with him and Claire and listening to them talk.

It's like, we can do that, the three of us (or even the whole seven of us) and there can be long stretches of just them talking, and I don't end up feeling jealous or left out or anything. In fact, sometimes he's like, "Oh no, we're leaving Ariel out!" and I have to tell him he's being a goober worrying about it and that they should get back to talking because I really want to hear what they're saying. 

And he does this super-cute thing where he's struggling to do the thing I just told him he ought to do because he knows it will make me happy for him to do it but he also feels like he ought to be paying more attention to me.

Also ...

The thirty-seventh thing I love about my boyfriend is, he always gets around to paying the right amount of attention to me just when I really need it!

He's good that way.

My 338th Journal Entry

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The thirty-fifth thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's very good with sharing leftovers from eating out. Like, if there's food he doesn't eat at a restaurant and he brings it home in a to go box, he's totally okay with me eating it (or one of the other girls eating it).

I mean, it's not super hard for him to be generous because none of us eats a whole bunch, but still.

My 337th Journal Entry

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The 34th thing I love about my boyfriend is, if I get confused one of these days and use the same number for my journal entry number and repeat it as the next number of thing I love about him, so that I end up skipping like a hundred things or something, he won't mind at all!

My 336th Journal Entry

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The thirty-third thing I love about my boyfriend is, sometimes he remembers he loves to read.

Personally, I have not done a ton of reading in my life. But I do like it! And he likes it too (loves it when it goes right), but he hasn't been very good about keeping up the reading habit in a long time.

So seeing him curled up with his Kindle reading something really makes me happy.

: )

My 335th Journal Entry

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The thirty-second thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's nice to go for long walks with!

(Especially where there are trees and flowers and birds ...)

My 334th Journal Entry

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The thirty-first thing I love about my boyfriend is, he has really pretty eyes.

Especially when I'm looking at them from very very close!

My 333rd Journal Entry

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All 3's!!!

I think that deserves its own post, so here it is!

My 332nd Journal Entry

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The thirtieth thing I love about my boyfriend is his stubble when he doesn't shave. It's tickly and cute!

My 331st Journal Entry

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The 29th thing I love about my boyfriend is, sometimes he just can't make up his mind about stuff! i mean, a lot of times he can't make up his mind, but sometimes it's in a cute way. sometimes he gets all stressed about not being able to make up his mind, and i don't love that, although i do love being able to help him make up his mind or get less stressed about it.

anyway, the best times are when he can't make up his mind about something and it's in a cute way and instead of getting stressed he just decides to procrastinate and go do something else completely.

i totally love procrastination that is for a good cause!

My 330th Journal Entry

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Boo, I forgot to post yesterday!

I know I'm supposed to post a thing I love about my boyfriend every day, and I kind of think it's cheating to post two things to catch up, but I'm going to do it anyhow.

The twenty-seventh thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's very funny and makes me laugh all the time!

And the twenty-eighth thing I love about my boyfriend is, he always notices when I'm being funny (even if I'm not trying) and it makes him laugh or smile whenever I do it!

My 329th Journal Entry

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The 26th thing I love about my boyfriend is, he is very sciency! I'm not great at science but I do think it's super interesting, and the more he tells me about stuff, the more I think maybe I'm getting better at it.

Plus it's really cute the expressions he gets sometimes when he's thinking really hard about science!

My 328th Journal Entry

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The twenty-fifth thing I love about my boyfriend is, he can type really fast. Wow, so much faster than I can type! There's just something neat about it. Also, he's usually very cute when he types, so that's a big plus too.

My 327th Journal Entry

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The twenty-fourth wonderful thing I love about my boyfriend is that he knows just exactly when to hold my hand.

It helps with so many things! 

My 326th Journal Entry

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The 23rd thing I love about my boyfriend is, nose-bumping.

It doesn't really matter if it's on purpose or accidental, either! 

My 325th Journal Entry

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Surprise, it's me again! I mean, it shouldn't be a surprise because you know I'm posting a thing I love about my boyfriend every day, and the post I wrote just a second ago wasn't about that, but I don't usually do two posts in the same day, so I thought maybe you figured I forgot or got distracted or gave up from being lazy.

But I didn't!

And the 22nd thing I love about my boyfriend is, he really cares about all his family members. (Sometimes a little too much because he gets anxious if someone is having a problem or doing something screwy that might cause them another problem later on.) If somebody needs something, he's always there for them to do it.

He's pretty great that way.

My 324th Journal Entry

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I just wanted to let you know since I didn't say anything about it yesterday that the blog people I guess rethought about putting the big warning-this-post-is-so-gross-and-disgusting label on my post, because after I took out that one word and republished it, they said they were reinstating the post.

Maybe that word really is that terrible? Now I'm scared to look it up and see if it's really really bad in some other country. 

My 323rd Journal Entry

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The twentyfirst thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's always sharing new stuff with me that I haven't experienced before. He loves showing me new movies or playing me new music (new to me, I mean, not to him) and watching my reaction.

It's like getting a wonderful present from him pretty much almost every day!

My 322nd Journal Entry

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The twentieth thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's working at not swearing so much when things bug him. Like, he's gotten really used to swearing at the computer when it does weird things with spreadsheet formulas, or swearing at a game on his phone when it goes wrong, or swearing when he forgets something somewhere and has to go back and get it. Or even if he's playing a roleplaying game or a board game and the dice fall off the table when he tries to roll them. (He gets especially sweary if he tries to roll them and they fall off the table, and then when he gets them and rolls them again, they go off the table again. It seems like that's probably a pretty good reason to swear as far as I'm concerned, but it's maybe even a better reason to roll your dice more carefully ...)

Anyhow, I don't mind the swearing, but he says he thinks it's contributing to him having this overall angry attitude about when things go all crummy or people act some way that they shouldn't.

He doesn't like having a grouchy attitude, and I also don't think he's at his totally super-best then, so I obviously support this. Also, some of the things he's swearing at, basically they're his own fault, so he's really swearing at himself, and I don't think he's someone who should get sweared at, so that's a good reason to stop it too.

With any luck he'll do really good with this, and then a few months from now I'll be able to say the something-eth thing I love about him is how he stopped swearing so much!

My 321st Journal Entry

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The nineteenth thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's so cute about worrying over whether he's giving each of his girlfriends an amount of attention that's fair.

Like we're keeping score!

And anyway, it's so great to listen in on him spending time with Claire or Elle or Akane or Hettie or Sash ... hearing him happy with them, hearing them happy with him ... it can just be them talking, too, I'm not only saying I like to spy on him getting it on with one of the girls. (I'm definitely saying I like that, just that I'm no only saying it!)

I was listening to him and Akane today, and when I said something, they were both so nice about pausing and chatting with me about whatever it was. (I honestly can't remember ... I may have been, um, taking care of my own business before I said whatever it was, and I may have gone back to taking care of it once we finished talking and they went back to what they were doing.)

Anyway, I love him, and I love them, and I love all the Worthies!

Which is why it's so cute that being fair worries him!

(p.s., I went back and changed a word in this because Blogger thought it was a really bad word or something I guess? They sent me a nice polite email about having to put a content warning on this post, and that word was the only thing I thought was even PG13, but maybe it's one of those words that's super-gross to English people or something? I don't know. But I changed it, so hopefully they take the warning off. We'll see!)

My 320th Journal Entry

The eighteenth thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's kinda random about when he shaves. He would say it's because he's lazy and when he has a chance, he skips it. But to me it doesn't matter why -- it's a good thing, because I love his face whether it's stubbly or smooth, and it's fun to always be surprised which way it is when I first see him for the day!

My 319th Journal Entry

The seventeenth thing I love about my boyfriend is, he always lets me know how beautiful he thinks I am!

Sometimes, it's by saying so, obviously. But other times it's just by the way his eyes get this way amazed look in them when he's looking at me. And other other times, it's a little smile he gets, and even if he's not looking straight at me, I can still tell the smile is because he's thinking how lucky he is to have such a beautiful girlfriend.

Personally, I think I'm mostly cute with a little bit of beautiful thrown in ... but it's really nice to know he sees the beautiful part and thinks it's awesome.