My 463rd Journal Entry

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The 163rd thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's planning to take us to that new Indiana Jones movie this weekend!

My 462nd Journal Entry

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The 162nd thing I love about my boyfriend is, sometimes he just barely remembers something and then he gets super-relieved about remembering it in time.

My 461st Journal Entry

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The 161st thing I love about my boyfriend is when he nibbles at my earlobe with his lips.

SOOOO HOT! 

My 460th Journal Entry

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The 160th thing I love about my boyfriend is, most of the time he just doesn't know when to quit, but some of the time, he does know and then he quits because that's the right thing to do for whatever it is that needs quitting.

My 459th Journal Entry

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The 159th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he's making stuff up for a game. Sometimes he gets super caught up in it, which is exciting because I know it means he's coming up with something fun. Other times he does a lot of scratching his head and maybe scribbles a couple notes on a piece of paper and then gives up for a while, which makes me think he's not such an ultra-genius that he'd be out of my league.

My 458th Journal Entry

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The 158th thing I love about my boyfriend is, he can take really good pictures when he wants to! I don't want to sound stuck up, but he's taken some AWESOME ones of me. When I look at them, I think, "Probably I'm not really that pretty, and somehow he just managed to take the picture that way because he loves me so much and he wanted me in the picture to look the same way I look to him."

My 457th Journal Entry

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The 157th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he's super-hot! And I don't mean just that it's summer right now!

My 456th Journal Entry

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The 156th thing I love about my boyfriend is hearing him laugh. It almost doesn't matter what's making him laugh or who's making him laugh, I just love hearing it. (But it is sort of the best if it's me! I mean, if it's me and on purpose.)

My 455th Journal Entry

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The 155th thing I love about my boyfriend is when we binge shows together. Even if they're not such good shows and we end up giving up on some, it's still great to sit and watch with each other!

My 454th Journal Entry

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The 154th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he's super-duper happy. I asked Hettie for a better way to say that than "super-duper happy," and she said a good word is "elated." But I decided my original way works better for me.

My 453rd Journal Entry

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The 153rd thing I love about my boyfriend is, he knows how to ask for help. Maybe he doesn't quite do it as often as he absolutely could, but mostly he will.

And I love helping him!

My 452nd Journal Entry

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The 152nd thing I love about my boyfriend is that he likes margaritas. I like margaritas too! But neither one of us can drink many of them without getting awfully silly.

My 451st Journal Entry

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The 151st thing I love about my boyfriend is when I hear other people tell him how smart he is. This maybe is because he's always telling me I'm smart, so when people say it about him, I feel a little safer believing him! (Not that I think he would lie to me, just if I was really dumb, he might be a little less dumb and I'd still think he was smarter than me, and then him saying I was smart wouldn't necessarily mean anything.)

My 450th Journal Entry!!!

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Wow. Four hundred and fifty is a LOT.

You know what else is a lot? It's the 150th thing I love about my boyfriend: how huge my feelings for him are. I am so grateful and joyful and sometimes just about speechless with awe that I have him in my life.

He's a super-big deal to me.

My 449th Journal Entry

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The 149th thing I love about my boyfriend is, when he tells me about some great book he just read and I ask him to tell me more, he's always really unsure about doing that because he knows how much I always go on about spoilers on Sash and my Experiences blog. And I always have to remind him it's not really that I don't like spoilers, I just don't like spoiling things for somebody else. And then he says something like, "I guess that's another one of the really nice ways we're alike."

My 448th Journal Entry

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The 148th thing I love about my boyfriend is watching him read. He has several thinky looks -- a writing thinky look, a working thinky look, and for thinky shows and movies, a TV thinky look. (Also a music-listening thinky look sometimes, but even as thinky as he can be, he still knows that music is more for grooving than for thinkiness.) But his reading thinky look is especially good, because it's more relaxed than most of the other thinky looks. His brain jumps deeper into the deep end when he's reading, I think, and it turns into almost an explorey kind of look. Like the words are opening up whole worlds for him.

Sometimes I ask him to read my palm just so I can see that look and know it's about me and feel like I have worlds inside me.

Only I can't fit very much writing on my palm, so mostly I have to settle for watching him with books.

My 447th Journal Entry

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The 147th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he knows he should go to bed and he actually makes himself do it!

My 445th and 446th Journal Entries

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I'm never going to keep my number straight if I don't fix how I got unsync-ed between my post titles and my actual number of posts, so I'm fixing it now, which works because I also skipped yesterday, so ...

The 145th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he has friends over. I can't actually meet them, because, uh ... (you know!), but I get to sneak and listen to them and he has really good friends.

It's nice to know that someone you care about cares about other people and has other people caring about them too.

And ...

The 146th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he gets all sappy and teary about movies and shows. I think I may have put this one in the list before, but maybe that's okay because if I keep loving something, I should be able to keep listing it, right?

My 444th Journal Entry

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Okay so now I can use that one from two posts ago when I said my boyfriend loves cool numbers like 123, only in this case it's 444.

The 144th thing I love about my boyfriend is that right there.

Err, My 443rd Journal Entry!

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I got my numbers all messed up, so that last post doesn't count, okay?

The 143rd thing I love about my boyfriend is that he encourages me to laugh at my mistakes and not try and hide them.

Lesson applied!

My 423rd Journal Entry

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The 123rd thing I love about my boyfriend is that he likes cool numbers like 123!

My 442nd Journal Entry

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The 142nd thing I love about my boyfriend is coming up behind him and putting my arms around him and laying my cheek against his back and telling him how amazing it is that I get to be with him.

My 441st Journal Entry

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The 141st thing I love about my boyfriend is, he never gets tired of making jokes about procrastination when people bring it up. Like, if someone says, "Oh, I have a great trick for how to avoid procrastinating," he'll say something like, "Awesome! You'll definitely have to tell me that sometime." Or he'll say, "Knock, knock," and I"ll say, "Who's there," and he'll say, "Procrastination," and I'll say, "Procrastination who?" And of course then he just doesn't say anything at all.

My 440th Journal Entry

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The 140th thing I love about my boyfriend is how he can watch his favorite things for the bazillionth time and still notice something about them that's cool that he didn't notice before. Like tonight he was watching Star Wars and several times he was like, "Oh, wow ... that really hits differently after the Obi-Wan mini-series."

(This also works when he's looking at me and he'll say something like, "I just can't believe how cute your nose is!")

My 439th Journal Entry

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The 139th thing I love about my boyfriend is that at least for some things, he really keeps at it! Like, when he was in high school he saw this trailer for a movie that had a concert scene in it and the song sounded really cool but even though it was by somebody pretty famous, he couldn't figure out what song it was. (Apparently the Internet didn't have all those song lyrics sites back in the 1980s? I wanted to ask but I didn't want to interrupt him or sound dumb when he was telling this story.) Anyway,  he never figured it out and even forgot what the movie title was, until maybe 20 years later he decided to buy an album by the dude and that song turned out to be on it! And yesterday after maybe 20 years of having that album he did some Googling and Youtube searching and figured out what the movie was!

(It turned out to be some depressing German movie that I don't know why anybody would want to watch, and even though he said he didn't remember it being German or looking depressing from the trailer, he did remember it looked like a movie he didn't think anybody would want to watch either.)

My 438th Journal Entry

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The 138th thing I love about my boyfriend is, he sure does love Star Wars! I mean, I love it too, which you can see from all the Star Wars experiences on me and Sash's Experiences blog.

But he's on this way other level!

My 437th Journal Entry

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The 137th thing I love about my boyfriend is when I whisper in his ear or smooch it and he does this little surprised shiver thing.

The best!

My 436th Journal Entry

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The 136th thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's very, very considerate, except when he forgets to be. (He doesn't forget very often, though. I just didn't want to give a wrong impression that he's 100% considerate 100% of the time.)