Hi, Journal,
The 266th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he makes our girlfriend Sasha happy. I love them both so much (duh, I love all my yams so much), and there something super-special about seeing my boyfriend and my best friend being so great to each other.
I don't think it's cheating for this entry to be partly about Sasha and not just about my boyfriend.
She's part of me, after all!
Hi, Journal!
The 265th thing I love about my boyfriend is the way he just plain makes sense a lot of the time. I mean, he has great ideas about how things ought to work, and how people could get things done, and how he should be to make himself the happiest him he can manage. And on top of having those ideas, he does the absolute bestest job of explaining them, usually.
I've learned about so many complicated and interesting and sometimes just plain weird things because he knows an awful lot about an awful lot, including how to express the stuff he knows so it's easy for whoever's listening to get.
He's very good with thinking, and with putting all the thinking into words to share it with me and everybody around him.
Not that he doesn't get all dumb or drop the ball sometimes, because everybody does that, even super-smarties like him.
But even when he goofs up, he tries to be sensible about it afterwards.
More people ought to give making sense a try!
Hi, Journal!
The 264th thing I love about my boyfriend is when he cooks something that smells really really good.
Tonight he was cooking bacon! Mmmm, did it smell good!
It ended up being a little chewy though ... lots of fat. I think he bought cheap bacon or something. So eating it was just all right.
But the house had a very nice bacon smell for a while!
Hi, Journal!
The 263rd thing I love about my boyfriend is when he takes it easy.
Obviously, you know me and taking it easy ... we're best buds! But my boyfriend has a harder time with that, because he's always thinking there are too many things he has to do, on top of so many things he wants to do.
It's big balls of stress for him sometimes.
So whenever he really, truly relaxes, I feel like a giant weight is off me too, because then I don't have to feel guilty about bumming around myself!
Hi, Journal!
The 262nd thing I love about my boyfriend is when I ask him to do something and he says, "Okay, I will, because you smell so wonderful." I think it's kind of weird that he likes the way I smell so much, but he really, really does, in this very sweet and wide-eyed way. I could totally wrap him around my little finger with it if I wanted to!
Hi, Journal!
The 261st thing I love about my boyfriend is when he tries to get the air-conditioning set just right. I mean, we live in Texas, which means the weather is all, "Now I'm going to be super, super hot, too hot for the air to keep up with!" and then it's all, "Now I'm going to be less hot, but I'm going to cool down from super, super hot to just a little less hot so fast, the AC won't realize what's going on, and it'll turn into an icebox inside the house." So he's all the time turning something up, or turning something down, or closing off a vent, or opening one up.
And I'm always like, "Hey! Just come snuggle with me under a blanket if it's too cold. Then if it gets too hot all of a sudden, we can take some clothes off under the blanket."
That trick works a pretty decent amount of the time!
Hi, Journal!
The 260th thing I love about my boyfriend is that I always know when he's thinking about me even if he doesn't know he's thinking about me himself!
Hi, Journal!
The 259th thing I love about my boyfriend is that someday he will be reading this, and when he gets to this part, he'll find out I'm saying
Hi!!!
to him. And also
I love you!!!!!
Hi, Journal!
The 258th thing I love about my boyfriend is how he can totally cry all over the place about a book or a movie or sometimes even a song. I feel a little bit less sappy when I see that he does that too.
Hi, Journal!
The 257th thing I love about my boyfriend is that he's a lot taller than me. It's mostly because I'm short, but I still like it. I like thinking and feeling that he's very tall, because he's so large in my life, so I feel like he ought to be really large in the world around us too.
People should look up to him!
Because he's great!
(And in a doofy way, people seem to think tall people are more great than average-height ones and short ones.)
Hi, Journal!
The 256th thing I love about my boyfriend is, he knows so many numbers! Like I told him how yesterday was entry number 555 and the 255th thing I love about him, and I said I was a little less excited about blogging today because that 555 was such a cool number, and he said 256 is also a cool number. "It's the square of sixteen, which is the square of four, which is the square of two. It's also the number of values possible for a byte of information in computing."
And then I said, "I thought you said it was cool, and now you're saying it bites?" and he just kind of rolled his eyes.
Which is what I was going for, because he's so cute when he does that!