The TRUTH About My Boyfriend

• Nick is a dreamer.  Most people assume that being Swedish he’s grounded and super-practical,  but he spends a lot of time in his head.
• He loves tea!  He has a cup of tea tattoo’d above his ankle.
• Whenever he feels like he has done something wrong, he makes this big eyed/raised eyebrow expression and the corners of his mouth turn down.  Makes me laugh every time.
• He rented Under Tuscan Sun so many times the video store clerk just told him to keep it.
• He is very comfortable in jeans, he can sleep in them and wear them all day.
• He worked as a language teacher in Spain for 4yrs, teaching English as a second language.  He was always poor but says it was the happiest he’s ever been with work.
• Once in D.C., I saw him do the bend & snap.  He refuses to do it again, I’ve been begging for almost 2yrs.
• Nick is obsessed with animal noses, particularly cats.  He loves touching them.
• He has an amazing body and rarely has to work out.
• When he’s drunk he’ll sometimes imitate Christian Siriano.
• He is musically inclined but never really indulges it.  I think he’s possibly an amazing cello player but I don’t really know for sure.
• His father is a bigshot in the Chiropractic world.
• Nick probably kisses me at least 25 times a day.  He calls them besitos and warned me when we met that they would be excessive.
• When we go to restaurants he takes his time looking over the menu even if we’ve been there before.  He doesn’t like to rush through the process, I think it’s a European thing.
• His favorite movie is My Big Fat Greek Wedding, he quotes the characters all the time.
• He gets free dinners @ Chipotle in midtown b/c the manager thinks he’s hot.
• He loves watching “Ni Hao, Kai-lan“ and even talks back to the screen.
• He drove 14hrs nonstop from Iowa to NYC (with a trunkful of his things and screaming cats in the backseat) to start our life together.  He likes to remind me of this when bargaining for something he wants.
• Nick is a stickler for correct grammar and gets really annoyed when people say, ”and I’s”. 
• His musical tastes are varied and follow no pattern.  He missed a LOT of the late 90’s American pop craze, so is often catching up.  He pretends to be appalled when I blast oldschool 90’s hip-hop but I think he secretly likes it.
• He will never feel truly fulfilled until he owns multiple homes around the world and can work from any of them via the web.  This is really important to him.
• He takes a long time on his hair before leaving the house.  It always looks nice.
• Nick reads many books on nutrition and holistic health.  He can spout endless facts on all of it at the drop of a hat.
• He believes his cats are his daemon, like in The Golden Compass.  I tell him you can’t have 2 daemons but he insists they are both his.
• He pretends to be annoyed by drag queens but actually loves them.  A NYC drag queen named Gusty Winds has a huge crush on him. 
• He will not dance.  Not at clubs, house parties, or weddings.  No.
• He recently discovered a cantina in NYC that serves a pineapple jalapeno tequila cocktail, which is now his absolute favorite drink.  Just the mention of it makes him excited.
• He hates getting caught in the rain.
• Whenever I go on a bitter rant, Nick makes me say 3 nice things about whatever I just bitched about.  He never lets me off the hook until I do it.
• When he gets angry, his face gets red and his accent kicks in.  I once saw him go off on some rude lady on a plane and afterwards he looked like a Tomato.
• He likes it when he sees people (esp strange old ladies) having a great time all by themselves.  He says it makes him want to go be their friend.  As a result of this, he believes he and Ruth Fisher would be best friends if she were real.
• He believes Ruth Fisher is real.
• He would love to live in Positano, Italy.
• He doesn’t think he is the hottest thing since sliced bread.  But he is. 

My Swedish Dreamboat

These are precious nuggets of gold to me, I’m only giving you a few.  There are many sides and layers to my beautiful and amazing (AMAZING!) boyfriend if you only take the time to get to know him.

Wasting No Zen

January 5th, 2010 / No comments

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Palindrome

January 2nd, 2010 / No comments

Nick and I went to lunch at New Wave today and then went to see “It’s Complicated”.  The movie was really cute, Nick thought it was too much like “Something’s Gotta Give” tho.  Meryl Streep really can’t seem to do anything wrong and as ready as I was to dislike Alec Baldwin, I gotta say he really did an amazing job.  Didn’t reshuffle his usual 30 Rock persona, played every single emotional moment sincerely.  There were a few moments he had to cry and I swear, it made me uncomfortable in that way you feel awkward seeing a grown man cry.  Strange I felt that way since my dad cried all the time when I kid, but whatever.  After the movie we got new bedsheets @ Bed Bath & Beyond and wandered around Best Buy for a bit.  We tried walking into Olive Garden and Dallas BBQ but both were packed with long lines and it was so fucking cold out, so we just came uptown, stocked up on groceries, and are made dinner.  Well he did.  He’s been cooking a LOT for me lately, I feel so spoiled.

Got a txt from somebody at work.  One of my coworkers gave 2 weeks notice today.  2010 is already popping with change.  Btw, today was January 2, 2010, a palindrome.  01022010.  Very rare.  Make a wish.

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