I’ve been with my boyfriend, David, for 18 months now. … 18 months, how long is that? Two pregnancy terms? The lower end of how long they say it takes to graduate from career college? It's a weird amount of time that seems like a lot, and then, at the same time, isn't really that long at all.
But those 18 months have been the happiest of my life. I’ve entered the world of a man and, for the last three weeks, have shared my living space with one (we moved into our first apartment together last month). By living with him, I haven't found out anything that I don't already know - he's obsessed with checking his e-mail and buying DVDs and correcting people's word choices and sleeping in - but he really doesn't have any annoying personal habits that have changed my mind about him. What I have discovered, though, is that he's my best friend and the only person to whom I've ever felt attached.
He is, in my eyes, the perfect male specimen.
So on this anniversary edition, let’s count the reasons why I love my boyfriend:
1. My boyfriend is not anything like guys in beer commercials. And that he doesn’t like “TWINS!” and hasn’t dated a woman for her “big, beautiful, BRAINS” (wink, wink).
2. He holds me with his arms draped over my hips.
3. He doesn’t need a hemi in a big burly truck to feel like a man.
4. He loves his cat.
5. He can flip things in a frying pan, without a spatula, when he’s cooking. It's mesmerizing.
6. He inches over to me in bed to cuddle.
7. He can say things like, “Shut up, Michelle, you don’t know what your talking about,” and I know that he’s ONLY KIDDING!
8. We haven't had the whole "putting the toilet seat down argument" because he puts it down every time.
9. He is always right about everything ... restoring our computer fixed our virus, you don't need to put anchors in the wall when hanging a mirror, and It's It ice cream bars DO have raisuns.
10. When he plays The Beatles' "Till There Was You" on guitar, I'm convinced he wrote it just for me.
11. He'll get me a glass of water if I'm too lazy to get one for myself.
12. You'll never catch him at a taping of "The Man Show."
13. He bought me an "Iron Chef" T-shirt after I jokingly said I wanted one for my birthday.
14. He's really good at keeping a straight face for Old West old time photos.
15. He's in a band.
16. He sings his songs all emotionally in his band.
17. He wrote a song about me.
18. We can play games like "Who would you rather do?"
19. That I'm comfortable with Salma Hayek being his ultimate "Who would you rather do?" winner, knowing that he won't actually go out and do her.
20. He writes in his LiveJournal about how much he loves me.
21. We can talk about our future and not get all weirded out and relation-shippy"
22. He cried at "Big Fish."
23. I can trust him with my life and my emotions.
24. He whined about wanting to have an article about himself on my Web site.And the list will keep on growing.
I love you! Happy Anniversary! - your girlfriend