12 Things about The Thing

Someone suggested that since I'm unmotivated to think up anything on my own that I do a '12 things' list about The Thing. I tried not to do basic information kind of stuff because that's boring. Anyway...I present to you, The Thing:

1. I've been to music stores that don't have as much music as The Thing has. Seriously. He's been putting his cds on his computer(s) because he didn't have room for them all. He has a Mac, a pc and 3 external hard drives. He sent me an Excel file which lists all of the songs he has copied over so far; 47,146. He still has entire 4 shelf bookcase to go. Plus anything he buys in the meantime.

2. He's addicted to toothpicks. He used to smoke on occassion, like when he was drinking, but hasn't touched one in many months. Instead, he chews on toothpicks. All the time. I love to lean in to kiss him while he's chewing on one just to watch him. He flips it up and over back into his mouth and into his cheek so it's out of the way solely with his tongue.

3. He's also addicted to skin care. That man has a line of products that shames my own...he will never age.

4. Whenever I get on a funny/smartass-y roll, he starts singing the circus theme song and says 'It's the Fauve show!'. Cracks me up every time.

5. He hates cheese. Not even the taste, because I don't think he's ever even tried it. Just the whole look, smell, concept of cheese grosses him out.

6. He buys and keeps cheese in his refrigerator because he knows I like it. However, he keeps it in one of the drawers, all by itself, so it won't touch anything else in his fridge.

7. Plays the guitar and has the most amazing singing voice. However, he is terribly shy about it. The first time I heard him singing and playing, it was quite by accident. I was just getting out of the shower and he was in the other room listening to music - one of my favorite cds. I was singing along while I fixed my hair until I heard the music stop suddenly...and restart...
Yep, it had been Thing. He was fucking amazing. Unfortunetly, he stopped as soon as I came out of the bathroom. It took months (*see #11) for him to sing in front of me.

8. Thing is a Taurus. However, from what I've read, he seems to have all the good Taurus traits and none of the bad. Score for me!

9. Same goes for being the First-born....

10. Thing has the ability to laugh at himself and life. If he makes a mistake, has a quirk, or something bad happens...he deals with it. Well. And can see the humor in anything. This is one of my favorite things about him and is something I am not at all used to seeing in anyone, especially someone I'm dating.
Thing left a voicemail message for me at work one day. He was driving down the road and one of his tires fell off. Due to this, he ended up going through an intersection in to oncoming traffic on three wheels. I saved the message and replayed it for weeks, whenever I found myself getting stressed out. His reaction to the whole incident was classic Thing. While obviously shaken with his near death experience, in the process of telling the story, he made a joke about it; "I'll call you after I replace my tire. Maybe I can still catch mine before it rolls down to the bottom of the hill." And he laughed.

11. He is the most romantic person I've ever known. My favorites are the little things like buying cheese for my visits or during the winter when he used to draw little hearts in the snow on my car or like just now when I received a text message from him...he's been counting down the time until he arrives at my house tonight.
Then there's the make-your-heart-melt stuff like the time he borrowed Thing 2's house one weekend he was out of town...you know, the house from the night we met. Thing took me out to dinner & a show, then took me to 2's house for the night...and he sang to me. [sigh] yep, for almost an hour he played the guitar and sang to me some of our favorite songs.

12. Even though he must be curious as hell, he respects me enough that he has never read this blog...with the exception of a few posts I sent him. And that is so fucking cool.