I Am SO Lucky!

Not very many people get to be with somebody as wonderful as you, Elle.

In fact, I can count them and there are only exactly five besides me!

Smoochies!!!

An Ode to Doing

Assertion
Inversion
Insertion
Exertion
Immersion
Immersion
Immersion

The certain

Perfection

Of your person

Endless

We're forever.

Even if our list is done now!

Thing Number Three Hundred and Fifty

The Three Hundred and Fiftieth Thing I Love About Us Is: You.

You mean the moon and the stars and the world to me. The exquisite calm of a forest lake where all the beauty of nature stands reflected. The view from the height of the highest monument humanity has ever raised. The passionate heat of volcanoes. The glee of a stunned crowd cheering their team's impossible last-second victory against a challenge no one expected them to master.

The glory of adoration. The exuberance of affection. The sweet buoying power of acceptance

You are every experience, live every emotion, and embody each and every quality I could desire from my existence.

You are my Best Thing in the Universe ... and I love you with all my heart.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Nine

The three hundred and forty-ninth thing I love about us is when one of us says, "Almost ... there ... oh! Oh, I'm ... so ... close ... "

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Eight

The three hundred and forty-eighth thing I love about us is the pure certainty I feel within your arms that I am safe.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Seven

The three hundred and forty-seventh thing I love about us is holding you loosely in my arms to look into your eyes.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Six

The three hundred and forty-sixth thing I love about us is that this year will be our fifth anniversary.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Five

The three hundred and forty-fifth thing I love about us is sharing entrees in a restaurant because yours has something in it you're not crazy about and mine has something in it I'm not crazy about, but we can each pick those things out and trade them so that everything is just perfect.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Four

The three hundred and forty-fourth thing I love about us is hearing the shower turn on, knowing you're in there under the steaming spray of water, naked and golden, and then getting to decide whether to go in and join you, or just go wait in the bathroom with a big fluffy towel waiting to wrap you up in it and in my arms.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Three

The three hundred and forty-third thing I love about us is that neither of us is the sort of person who'd play chess, but if one of us was, the other would gladly put up with a chess game once in a while despite being almost guaranteed to lose. Although I'm not sure which one of us that would be ... I can easily envision you bent over a chessboard with your brow furrowed and your nose crinkled in thought, and it might be because you'd actually be good at chess if you tried, or it might be just the natural response you'd have to chess whether good at it or not, and in either case you'd probably win pretty often because even if I were the better chess player, I'd be more interested in seeing that look on your face than in winning.