My dear readers, I am here to inform you about why my boyfriend is wonderful. Why? Since I want to gloat. It’s also been a hard week and I feel like I’ve been really negative thus, ta-da!, I’ll focus on something (or someone) which is particularly awesome in my life: Mack!

Meet Mack:

He’s my boyfriend and he’s pretty cool! A few of the (many) reasons why I love my boyfriend can and he’s pretty cool are:

• He cooks. It’s not that I can’t cook or really suck at it. I follow the woman’s movement of getting us out of the kitchen! I don’t want to stand against all that women fought for…. or okay, I just don’t like cooking. But he cooks! And he’s been darn good at it, too!
• He deals with my neurotic nature. I know I’m weird, freak out easily, a worrier, and can generally be a pill but he puts up with it. Hell, even sometimes my own mother tells me to take a chill pill but he’ll deal with me (or at least pretend like he’s listening, so I’m fooled). That is pretty nice, I think.
• Has a wicked sense of humor. I have what you call a dry/sarcastic sense of humor (or as one friend put it, “morbidly black”). Not only can he dish it out, but he can take it. Mack won’t miss a beat when he gives me a hard time and will talk right back to me when I’m being my sarcastically wonderful self.
• Loves family. Mack has amazing relationships with his family and loves researching his families history. He also digs my family and will hang out with them and be a good sport about it. Also: my nephew adores him. I think even more than me (traitor).
• Spoils me. Just today he surprised me by getting concert tickets I’ve been moaning over for the past week. Flogging Molly will be down in Orlando for my birthday next weekend and what does he do? Goes behind my back to surprise me. My black mood I’ve had all week? Instantly lifted.
• Shares the same interests as me (or at least appeases my strange tastes). Does Mack have interest in my endless fascination with people watching? Potentially not, but he at least pretends like he finds it interesting. What about my obsession with CSI and Ghost Hunters? I don’t think he particularly cares but he’ll at least watch them with me. Mack will also go on long walks (or drive with me to random locations) and stand patiently while I take endless photographs of nature. Nice boyfriend? I think so.
• Loves my stupidly-smart cats (even if it is against his will). When I got Blue somehow, someway, Blue and Mack really bonded and Blue became Mack’s cat. Similarly with Bucky. Brutus, on the other hand, has a real love-hate relationship with Mack. When we first started dating, Brutus adored Mack, but now treats him with open hostility. How does Mack handle the hate? Letting the diva have his way and even pretends like he doesn’t notice when Brutus cuddles up to him in the middle of the night. He teases me that I make the cats neurotic but loves them, and me, anyway.
• Loves helping animals. I think since we have started dating, we’ve rescued two turtles, two birds, and who-knows how many other animals. Unfortunately, he won’t let me keep every stray animal we find, but at least he’ll help me make sure they’re safe. And, he cares.

I can go on, but seriously? I don’t need him to tell me to make a blog post (with the topic “how awesome Mack is”) to discuss his many virtues.

Plus, it’s not nice to brag too much.

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