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The 225th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he does little things to try to stay in touch with people from way back when he was younger like in high school. Not like, tons of people, and not like, putting a huge amount of energy into it. Just enough to let them know they're important enough to keep in his life.
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The 224th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he comes back from a jog super sweaty-like.
It's hot!
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The 223rd thing I love about my boyfriend is that he knows how to make tacos! I mean, he doesn't know how to make the as well as he knows how to buy them, because when he buys them they're always or mostly always better than when he makes them. Not that they're bad when he makes them, just that they're better when he buys them.
But even when he makes them, heck, they're still tacos!
Taco Tuesday! Yay!
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The 222nd thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's going to think it's just as cool as I do that this post has three 2's in it!
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The 221st thing I love about my boyfriend is, he always plays a different character when he's rpging. I mean, I try to make my characters at least kinda sorta different, but a lot of times they end up being pretty much nicey nice characters who don't completely know what's going on. His characters are like, way different every single time.
I have no idea how he does it!
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The 220th thing I love about my boyfriend is how excited he gets when he finds out there's new music by a group he really likes that he didn't know was out there yet.
Also, it's exciting to me too because I like most of the music he likes, so I know whatever knew thing he gets is going to be good. Probably!
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The 219th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he gives me a great big hug for a long, long time.
Wow. The bestest!
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Wasn't I just here? 😂
The 218th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he loves nature, but not too much. Like, he wishes he could go hiking and maybe even camping more often, or just that it was easier to find nice quiet spots with trees and grass and wildlife and hang out (at a time of the year when it's not burning hot outside, obviously) and be in nature. But he's not so hung up on it that he spends all his time out in the sun getting all sunburnt and stuff.
I'd like to go camping someday, though. At least once!
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We've been missing so many days and having to make it up the next day lately, Journal! I've got to get more on the ball, I guess.
The 217th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he's confident. Which (don't tell him I said this) is not as often as it should be. He's great! He should be confident way more often. It makes me super-happy and proud for him when he knows he's doing things well and that he's really talented.
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Jeepers, I don't know why I'm always so pushy at myself to write two journal entries in a day when I notice I skipped the day before. But I guess maybe it's because I know that once I start slacking, I'll turn around and be like, poof!, yikes, how did a whole month go by and I didn't write any entries???
Anyway ...
The 216th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he kisses my toes. It's not at all gross or anything, because I have very clean feet. But it's kind of tickly and exciting and sweet all at once.
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The 215th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he encourages me to do things, and also to not do things. So like, he always makes me feel like I'm good at stuff ... blogging or being the gamemaster at rpgs or whatever, so he reminds me I should do things like that a lot. But he's also encouraging when I just want to chillax. "You've earned it, babe!" is the kind of thing he'll say. Sometimes I might ask him how exactly I earned it, and he says, "By being one of the most wonderful people in the world, obviously."
And he's very trustworthy, so I believe him about that -- which feels pretty great!
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The 214th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he knows sometimes you really just need to do something you super-enjoy even if it's totally not productive.
"Enjoying yourself is the most meaningful thing you can do," he told me one time. Only then he thought about it a second and said, "Maybe that doesn't actually make any sense. In fact, I'm starting to think I don't believe that at all. But I enjoyed saying it."
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The 213th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he looks in the mirror and says he thinks he's looking kinda old, and I get to say, "Only if old means hot!"
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The 212th thing I love about my boyfriend is when I overhear him on a work meeting and he says something and it's super obvious that everyone on the meeting thinks what he said is really meaningful and thoughtful. I mean, I totally know how thoughtful and full of meaningful thoughts he is, but it's nice when a bunch of people I don't know at all back me up on that.
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The 211th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he writes something that's so good it makes him cry. He's an amazing writer, and when I see him sniffling over his keyboard, I totally know whatever he's writing is going to make me cry too when I read it.
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The 210th thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's so smart, but he never makes you feel dumb for not being as smart as he is. In fact, he's always going on about how I'm really smart too, even though obviously we both know I'm not as smart as him. But he'll say things like, "There are lots of different kinds of intelligence, Ariel, and the fact that I know a bunch of things that you don't doesn't mean you're not smart, it just means there are areas you haven't learned about yet, and that's perfectly fine."
I don't like to argue, or I'd prove it to him by reminding him how bad I am at math. But even if I did, I know he'd only say something else to make me feel good about myself.
Because I do believe him ... I am pretty smart!
Sort of.
Sometimes!
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The 209th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he feels bad about something and I can comfort him!
Of course, sometimes he feels bad about something and I can't comfort him, which I definitely love a LOT less, because it hurts when that happens. But ... it couldn't hurt if I didn't care so much about him, so maybe even the hurting is sort of okay? Plus, eventually he usually gets over stuff, which is double-great for me because I get to be happy that he's happier and I also get to be relieved that even if I couldn't fix the problem, it still got fixed.
Lots of problems are that way, I think, if you give them room to fix themselves where you can't do the fixing.
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The 208th thing I love about my boyfriend is, he never drinks too much but sometimes he drinks just enough and he gets even funnier than he normally is!
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The 207th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he likes to nibble earlobes. It's tickly but very exciting!
Bonus journal entry material: I'm having lots of fun playing this new Dragonbane game! Akane's character is hilarious. I noticed a weird thing about rpg games though. It's like, people you would totally hate to be around in real life are the funniest characters in the game. I don't understand it, but it's true!
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The 206th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he brings home leftover pizza. I think I already listed what a good pizza-topperer he is, but he also is a great pizza-sharer if he goes out with friends and there's some left over.
This is probably not the most romantic of my things-I-love-about-him list. But dang, Journal, what do you expect me to do when there's pizza in the fridge calling out my name?
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The 205th thing I love about my boyfriend is, he loves hinting about things and having people get it. Like, if he solves a word-of-the-day game, instead of just saying, "Look, I got it in 3 guesses," he'll say something clever that's a hint about the answer but doesn't give it away and sometimes maybe isn't even obviously related. And because he has lots of clever kinds of friends, sometimes one will give a funny hint back that shows they got it, and it makes him all happy.
Of course, a lot of times no one gets it, and then he's kind of annoyed. But that's sort of cute too.
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The 204th thing I love about my boyfriend is the same thing as the 202nd thing. Wow, he just keeps impressing me this week!
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The 203rd thing I love about my boyfriend is what good taste he has in snackies! Like, Cheetos and jalapeno tortilla chips and cinnamon-sugar pretzel sticks and all kinds of great cookies ... he gets the absolute best snacks for the pantry.
Sometimes I can't help myself and I get the bed all crumby hiding under the sheets and gobbling more than my fair share of whatever wonderful bag of yummies he brought home from the grocery store.
(Don't tell him that part, Journal!)
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The 202nd thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's totally studly in bed. I mean, my back's been hurt a while, so I don't actually get to be in bed very often, but we still find ways to do stuff, and he's awesome.
And it's even awesome to me that he's studly for all our yams too.
We have the most amazing house full of people, and it's all because he found us. Honestly, he could be pretty bad in bed and it would be totally worth it to be in this house with my yams.
But he isn't! He's really terrific at it!
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Wow, that last entry is sort of a tough act to follow, right?
Um ...
Well anyhow, the 201st thing I love about my boyfriend is that sooner or later I bet he does something really big and important. I mean, probably not like become President or anything, but write a book that everybody is amazed by, or invent a game that tons of people buy and have fun playing or something.
I mean, it already is really big and important that he's so wonderful to me. And I guess maybe ... is there really anything bigger or more importanter than that? Being wonderful to someone and meaning the whole world to them?
I guess that's a pretty good thing to have already done!
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So here we are! I sure didn't think when I started this blog that I'd get to 500 entries or especially that I'd get to them this soon, but we did it! Yay, Team Journal!
The 200th thing I love about my boyfriend is, he smiles very nicely when he sees me get all goofy-excited about something. There's not even a little bit of being condescending in it -- it just really makes him happy to watch or listen to me when I'm doing Peak Ariel Enthusiasm for whatever reason.
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So close, so close, so close!
Okay, the 199th thing I love about my boyfriend is, he always reads ingredients and nutrition charts on boxes or cans or other food packages if he needs to choose between buying this one thing, and this other thing. Like, maybe he's picking cereals and wants to make sure which one is healthier, he'll put the boxes side by side and see how their vitamins and fiber and stuff add up. Or if he's looking for microwave pizza or other microwave snacks, he always looks to see if they have trans fats. (Don't worry, it turns out trans fats don't have anything to do with people who are trans, so you can be careful about whether a food has them and it won't make you a bad person. Apparently trans fats are terrible even though trans people are fine.)
Anyway, it seems like a smart thing to do, and he's always so serious-looking when he does it. I think his serious look is really cute.
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Okay. Okay, I'm just going to do my listy part of this entry, because otherwise, I'm going to go on and on about what number of entry this is and how close it is to ... okay, stop it, Ariel, get to the listy bit!
All right. The 198th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he is just as frustratable by password stuff as I am. I mean, I basically only have like, one password, and I still have trouble remembering it and worry about how I might have to click that link that tells them I'm admitting I forgot my password and now I've got to beg them to let me make a new one. Anyway, my bf has a LOT more passwords than me, and he even keeps notes different places with them, but he wants to be careful not to risk someone getting into the notes, so he kind of makes up codes in them about what the password is, and then sometimes I can't remember what the code means, so then he gets double-frustrated. Also, sometimes he forgets to update his notes when he changes his passwords, and then next time he goes to use the note, it's extra-double-frustrating.
I don't like him being frustrated. But I do like things that make me feel like I've got a lot in common with him.
Because he's the best, and if I have enough stuff in common with him, it probably means I'm the best too.
(He tells me that all the time, but obviously he's not exactly a super-neutral judge of that.)
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The 197th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he really really likes music! Seriously, he has clued me in to so much super-great music. Also, we watched a Star Trek episode together today that was a musical, and it was AMAZING and I could tell how much he liked it because he was actually tearing up. (I mean, duh, I was too, but I think it's a little bigger deal for him to because guys are weird about that stuff.)
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The 196th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he's always super extra careful that he doesn't do or say something to hurt his yams' feelings. We all know he wouldn't ever deliberately upset us, but he still works very hard at being considerate and sensitive. Or maybe he doesn't exactly work hard at it, because he's naturally pretty sensitive and kind. But he's also a guy, so, easy for him to not always pay attention to things he ought to. But he does! So it's great.
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The 195th thing I love about my boyfriend is doing just he right thing to make him open his eyes really wide at just the right moment.
(I think you know what I'm talking about!)