The sappiest.

This post is going to be sappy, and it's probably just one of the many, many, MANY sappy posts that I will write about Tyler Jordan, the boy. Here are the reasons why I love him today, Tuesday, July 30, 2013. There are many reasons really, loads, thousands, infinity, but today I will just mention a few.

So I was able to pay rent this month, on my own. Without my dad's help. This. This my friends is huge. I was able to pay tithing and then pay rent, all on my own. The beautiful feeling of independence wrapped me up like a blanket. Anyway, but when the rent check is dropped, the checking account takes a beating. Don't get me wrong, I am staying well fed. I have food at home, but sometimes I just don't want a PB&J or cereal. So I leave home hungry. Not good. Especially since Tuesdays are my busiest day and I don't have loads of time or moneys to go buy overpriced food in the cafeteria. Anyway so with time and moolah constraint and with sleepy eyes and a hot hub, I get grumpy and extremely hungry throughout the day.Thankfully, I am dating the best guy around (yes, I went there all you sappy saps who love talking about their BF's on every social network ever...it happens, I'll turn into one of them.) In a moment of hungry desperation and irrational grumpy-ness, Tyler appeared before my eyes with a bag of goodies. So here are the reasons why I love him loads.

1. Bagels, preferably the pizza and asiago kind, but if he were to come with a cinnamon sugar one with strawberry cream cheese, I would not complain. Bagels are slowly becoming our breakfast thing. Our quick snack thing. Our thing. Yeah. So you could imagine my joy when I saw those tucked away first in the goodie bag.

2. Vitamin Water in Dragonfruit because all the rest just don't compare. We will gladly share a bottle of this stuff, but it's always a luxury when you have one of your own. Seeing that made me want to kiss him on the mouth right then and there in the lib. But we won't get all gushy.

3. Chocolate Chip Clif Bars. Or any Clif Bar. I always give him a hard time about Walmart's Great Value Granola Bars and their distinct cardboard/nothingness flavor. I really should stop giving him such a hard time after this.

4. Lastly, Peanut Butter M&M's, my kryptonite, to be dramatic and silly. I love those things and could eat bags and bags and bags of them. That sealed the deal (not even trying to make a marriage reference right there).

So take note boys, though these may be just the simplest and silliest reasons to love someone they still count. Bring your girls goodie bags and ladies it wouldn't be so bad if you did the same for the him in your life. Thank you Tyler, I owe you a lot of foot rubs, to which you will disagree but secretly want anyway. Have a Terrific Tuesday (Wednesday), friends. Stay gold.

A favorite or two.

First of all, I need to get this favorite out of the way or I'll simply explode. WORLD WAR Z! Let's. Get. Real. I don't know why this wasn't mentioned in a favorites before, oh I know why, it's because I haven't written one of these buggers in like 50 years. Anyway yes, World War Z is making it to number 1 on this favorites list. Let me start this far too long paragraph on why I loved that movie so much. So Super Ty and I have seen about 7 movies in theatres together, let me list them all. The Great Gatsby, Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, After Earth, Despicable Me 2, Pacific Rim, and the best one of them all World War Z. Being the cheap college students that we are, we have to hear extremely awesome reviews or have previous history with the title of the film to actually pay the full 6-10 dollars for a ticket. Great Gatsby made us too depressed and pseudo-trippy. Iron Man 3 was front row and Tyler HAD to see it. Man of Steel was a villain throwing a tantrum and buildings dying. After Earth (a dollar theatre find, so I shouldn't complain too much) was Will Smith at his worst. Despicable Me 2 was funny, adorable, but our eyes were far too droopy to enjoy it to the fullest. Pacific Rim, we were soooo incredibly excited for because we heard amazing things about the show and then...wah-wiggidy-wah. Those Kaiju whatever the ef those were...too big and WAY TOO LOUD. Plus the acting? Yeah, no.

Well then what about World War Z. Oh Brad Pitt. Oh World War Z. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for being the redeeming quality for summer movies, because the heavens surely know that this summer has royally flopped when it has come to going to the theatre. World War Z had a great cast, great acting, great cinematography, great music, great lighting, but most of all...the STORY WAS INCREDIBLE and great it was great too. Zombie apocalypse? Yeah. So good. The intensity and intelligence of that film makes me want to go watch it again. Right now. There were so many jumpy moments but also moments where you could sit and think...wow Brad Pitt is such a BA family guy, I like his grungy cool hippy dad look...Or you could be completely seriously thinking, how the hell are they going to get away from those creepy things, or what's in Wing-B? Or holy crap there is a zombie in that dark alley and on that airplane. And what is the cure? What is it? How are they going to stop this insanity!?! Seriously guys, go watch it. No regrets if you do, I promise. Cross my heart.

Second, The Last of Us. Staying on that zombie craze, Tyler bought this game a while ago and I have been watching him play. It reminds me of when I would watch Frankie and Spencer play Final Fantasy when I was little. It's like watching a movie. Joel and Ellie on an adventure to get to the Fireflys and avoid salty bandits, creepy zombies, blind zombies called clickers, and the infamous bloaters that I haven't encountered yet. It's a joy ride. Tyler's roommates get into it too. Call us nerdy, lazy college students. We don't care. P.S. we don't even play longer than an hour at most. We're cool like that.

Third, Mom, Krystal, and Grandma came for a visit yesterday and we gorged on SLAB Pizza. I don't even need to say anything more because it's pretty self explanatory.

Fourth, actually I do. We took a little trip to Traverse Mountain Outlets with them and Tyler bought two shirts (this is huge guys, this kid never buys new clothes that aren't from family thrift shoppe or DI) and I might have gotten two things from a clearance section but that doesn't even matter. The prices were killing it. For reals. 

Fifth, and lastly, I want to leave you with a favorite song of the week. Furr by Blitzen Trapper. The beauty of this song can't be beat.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to escape the pungent smell of menudo coming from the lunch being eaten behind me.

Have a safe and beautiful weekend, friends.

Stay gold.

P.S. Have you heard Vampire Weekend's Blurred Lines cover on BBC Radio? I can't even.