My 555th Journal Entry

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Wow. I LOVE this entry number!!! There's just something super-duper-cool-per about it being all 5's. Maybe I shouldn't get so excited about this kind of things but I CAN'T HELP IT! We're not that far away from 600 entries now, but I think this is a cooler entry number than 600 will be. (Even though 600 will be cool, for sure.) 

What do you think?

Well, the 255th thing I love about my boyfriend is that right now he's writing again. And it's something SO TERRIFIC. I can't wait for him to finish it so I can read the whole thing the way you're supposed to an not just bits and pieces of it over his shoulder.

My 554th Journal Entry

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The 254th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he's looking for something for a game. Like, he knows it's got to be around here somewhere, and he goes looking through all the game stuff and then he keeps finding old notes and characters and stuff and looking at them and saying, "Whose character even was this?" or, "Man. We've played a lot of games, haven't we?"

My 553rd Journal Entry

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The 253rd thing I love about my boyfriend is that he's very expressive! He has like, this huge need to express things, which I guess is why he's such a good writer and a pretty good artist and used to do music stuff pretty well too. It's also probably why he gives me (and our polys) so much support for blogging. He knows it's good for people to communicate -- like, mentally and emotionally ... I even bet physically. (Someone's got to have done some sciencing about that, if I wasn't being lazy about looking it up.)

Obviously, some of the best things he expresses are how he feels about me.

I guess that probably makes me biased toward the idea of people expressing themselves!

My 552nd Journal Entry

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The 252nd thing I love about my boyfriend is when he comes back from a trip!

That's all, just him being back.

It's great.

My 551st Journal Entry

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The 251st thing I love about my boyfriend is that when he was a lot younger he figured out some things about getting older, and now that he's getting older those things are really helpful to him. Like, he doesn't talk about this exactly, but I've read a lot of the stuff he wrote when he was younger so I know the kinds of things he figured out, and sometimes some of the things he says about how he's getting older make me go, "Hmm! Just like he wrote in that story!"

My 550th Journal Entry

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The 250th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he gets it that he's being good at one of the things he's really good at.

He's really good at a lot of things! But for some reason, he doesn't always get that.

When he reads this though, he'll definitely get how good he is at making me happy!

My 549th Journal Entry

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The 249th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he really, really, really tries to talk to use good faith discussing things with people who disagree with him, even though it almost always turns out they're not willing to use good faith back. He really does try, bless his heart!

My 548th Journal Entry

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The 248th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he finds new TV shows for us to watch. Whoo-ieee!!

My 547th Journal Entry

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The 247th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he looks into my eyes and says, "Oh my god, your eyes!"

He really likes them I guess!

My 546th Journal Entry

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The 246th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he goes to bed at night and we just keep talking and talking and talking!

My 545th Journal Entry

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The 245th thing I love about my boyfriend is holy smokes I'm just 10 entries away from number 555!

Dang, totally distracted myself there, but I'm leaving it that way.

555 blog posts!

That's super-cool, right, Journal? Thanks for being here for all of them!

All right, so where was I?

Okay, yeah. The 245th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he scratches the cat's head just right to make it purr really really loud.

I always think, I could be that cat!

My 544th Journal Entry

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The 244th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he kisses the bottoms of my feet. They're super-clean, I promise!

I don't know why it's so great, but it is.

My 543rd Journal Entry

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The 243rd thing I love about my boyfriend is when he goes back and reads over my old journal entries and is tickled by them.

I definitely write for me almost all the time when I'm journaling. But ... I'm also usually writing for him too. Because I know sooner or later he'll read whatever it is I'm writing into a post, and he'll think, "I have such a wonderful, funny, cute, creative, beautiful girlfriend!"

And then on top of thinking it, he'll make sure he says it to me.

Don't get me wrong, Journal! I would a hundred percent still write in you even if I didn't think it would end up getting me told how wonderful, funny, cute, creative, and beautiful I am.

But it's a nice extra that it always ends up happening sooner or later.

My 542nd Journal Entry

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The 242nd thing I love about my boyfriend is that I think he's getting pretty close to solving my hurt back problem!

My 541st Journal Entry

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The 241st thing I love about my boyfriend is when he brings home sushi from the sushi place to share.

Mmmm! Sushi!

My 540th Journal Entry

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The 240th thing I love about my boyfriend is when I tell him he ought to do something (or not do something) and he totally pays attention because he knows I'm right. Like, last night at bedtime, he was like, "Oh no, we forgot your journal entries! We'd better go back upstairs and restart the computer and let you do them." And I was like, "Don't be crazy! You worked way too hard today and got your neck all out of whack typing and using the mouse too much. You need to rest and get better, not make it worse by doing more computer stuff to help me with my journaling!"

(Also, we would have had to go allllll the way back upstairs after we were already in bed, which seemed to me like a pretty obviously terrible idea.)

My 539th Journal Entry

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The 239th thing I love about my boyfriend is that even if it bugs him to have to stay late and help somebody out from his work, he still does it, because he's just not the kind of guy who leaves people hanging up to dry. I mean, he does grumble about it sometimes when it happens, but then I tell him he only gets asked as much as he does because he's so smart and so nice and those are both great things to be so he shouldn't complain too much.

My 538th Journal Entry

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The 238th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he says, "Wow!" about me.

My 537th Journal Entry

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The 237th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he appreciates me. Like, I'm important to him and I can feel that all the time. 

My 536th Journal Entry

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The 236th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he likes mangos! I never had mangos before we hooked up, and whoa, baby, are they amazing! So I'm pretty darn grateful he introduced me to them.

My 535th Journal Entry

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The 235th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he's so creative! I mean, he just does so many creative things ... writing and drawing and making up games ...

It's super!

My 534th Journal Entry

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The 234th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he calculates things out. Like when he helped Claire figure out today how long it would take to watch all the Star Treks.

The answer was, too long!

My 533rd Journal Entry

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The 233rd thing I love about my boyfriend is, he's super-genuine. Like, if you let him, he will be very real with you.

My 532nd Journal Entry

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The 232nd thing I love about my boyfriend is when he wakes up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep and instead of tossing and turning or going and playing a game on his phone, he writes a super-wonderful and sweet email to me so I'll get it the next morning!

My 531st Journal Entry

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The 231st thing I love about my boyfriend is he sometimes goes overboard on things that are just about enjoying himself, and then he says, "Oof, well, next time I won't go quiet that overboard," and then not too   many next times after that, he does again.

Anyway, I'm kinda like, "If you don't every once in a while go overboard, how do you know where the absolute tip-toppiest of just enough is?"

My 530th Journal Entry

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The 230th thing I love about my boyfriend is that even though sometimes something bothers him that I can't really help fix, usually he can get just far enough over whatever it is that I can pull him the rest of the way into feeling better.

He doesn't think he's a strong person, but I know he's strong enough, which is all that matters, right?

My 529th Journal Entry

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The 229th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he's pretty good at explaining things. He knows a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff, and he does a really good job helping people understand different bits and pieces of that stuff when he finds out they don't quite get it.

In other news, it's Labor Day, and since I don't normally do too much laboring at all, I figure I'd better labor a little more at this post than I normally do. So I added this part on to the listy part. I mean, it wasn't a lot more labor, but it was some.

(Hettie just told me that that's not the point of Labor Day at all. Now I'm a little embarrassed. But not enough to go back and change it.)

My 528th Journal Entry

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The 228th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he always tries to be nice to telephone customer service people even when their automated services drive him crazy just trying to get to a human being.

My 527th Journal Entry

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The 227th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he shares something he's been working on with me (and usually with our yams), and it's awesome.

My 526th Journal Entry

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The 226th thing I love about my boyfriend is running my fingers through his hair when it gets too long. He says it used to get even way longer than he ever lets it get now, and boy do I ever wish I'd been around back then.

Not really because I would have gotten to run my fingers through his longer hair.

Just because then I would have gotten to be with him longer than I have so far!