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.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-Two

The three hundred and forty-second thing I love about us is when I do or say something that makes you wrinkle your nose in that mind-blowingly adorable way.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty-One

The three hundred and forty-first thing I love about us is sleeping in very, very late after staying up very, very late.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Forty

The three hundred and fortieth thing I love about us is knowing I never have to backspace away a thought here for fear you might not like it.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Thirty-Nine

The three hundred and thirty-ninth thing I love about us is breathing the air in a room you've been in and thinking, Part of this breath is hers.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Thirty-Eight

The three hundred and thirty-eighth thing I love about us is thinking of all the things I'd get you for presents if we had room for them.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Thirty-Seven

The three hundred and thirty-seventh thing I love about us is whispering your name in your ear in the soft glow of daybreak.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Thirty-Six

The three hundred and thirty-sixth thing I love about us is shopping for groceries without a list.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Thirty-Five

The three hundred and thirty-fifth thing I love about us is seeing the look on your face when you try a sip of an alcoholic drink you don't like. And also seeing the look on your face when you try one you do.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Thirty-Four

The three hundred and thirty-fourth thing I love about us is having a quiet house all to ourselves. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does ... bliss.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Thirty-Three

The three hundred and thirty-third thing I love about us is knowing that when you see the number of this entry, you'll think, "Oh, shoot, that's a cool number! I should have kept going and maybe I would have gotten that number." And then you'll immediately remember, "Oh, wait, I was doing the even numbers. Never mind!"

Thing Number Three Hundred and Thirty-Two

The three hundred and thirty-second thing I love about us is the joy I feel at the sound of your laughter.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Thirty-One

The three hundred and thirty-first thing I love about us is breaking the last cookie in the box in half to share instead of me saying you should take it and you saying I should take it.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Thirty

The three hundred and thirtieth thing I love about us is how alive your every word makes me feel.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Twenty-Nine

The three hundred and twenty-ninth thing I love about us is gorging on pie and then lying around moaning about how maybe we shouldn't have done that.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Twenty-Eight

The three hundred and twenty-eighth thing I love about us is seeing your eyes light up whenever you get really excited about something you're talking about.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Twenty-Seven

The three hundred and twenty-seventh thing I love about us is hovering over you on hands and knees, seeing your wondrous face framed by golden hair, and leaning down to kiss you, long and deep.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Twenty-Six

The three hundred and twenty-sixth thing I love about us is that even when I am apart from you, I can picture every part of you, as clear and bright as the sunrise on a cloudless day.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Twenty-Five

The three hundred and twenty-fifth thing I love about us is picking out a candle that we both agree has the perfect scent and then lighting it together when we get home.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Twenty-Four

The three hundred and twenty-fourth thing I love about us is running one finger down the center of your back, all the way from the top of your neck to the bottom of your tailbone.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Twenty-Three

The three hundred and twenty-third thing I love about us is staying up very, very late talking until you're so sleepy you can't stop yawning, and you obviously need to go to bed, but for some reason, you keep saying you're fine and you're not ready to turn in yet.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Twenty-two

The three hundred and twenty-second thing I love about us is studying the whorls inside your ears or the fine hairs of your eyebrows when you're absorbed in watching something on television.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Twenty-One

The three hundred and twenty-first thing I love about us is putting my fingertip to your nose and seeing you cross your eyes to look at it.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Twenty

The three hundred and twentieth thing I love about us is imagining the sand beneath our feet in a moonlit desert and knowing how lush and full of life the two of us together would make that beautiful desolation feel.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Nineteen

The three hundred and nineteenth thing I love about us is sharing dessert.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Eighteen

The three hundred and eighteenth thing I love about us is knowing how pleased you'll be to see that I've caught up by writing all these posts today, followed immediately by some exclamation about how much work it's going to be to comment on all of them, followed in the end by you being proud of yourself for finishing all the replies.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Seventeen

The three hundred and seventeenth thing I love about us is touching my fingertips to your fingertips.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Sixteen

The three hundred and sixteenth thing I love about us is how easy it is to make myself catch up on these entries after being kept away from Arielleland for half a week. It's so delightful turning over in my head all the things I might say.

Thing Number Three Hundred and Fifteen

The three hundred and fifteenth thing I love about us is when you-know-who is out of town and I have you (almost) all to myself.