I realized recently that I’ve told you all about why my mom and Bova are amazing, but I’ve never written anything similar about Steven. Which is weird, because he is definitely amazing!! Usually I would debut such a list around his birthday, but that tends to get swallowed up in mine, which is the day after and vastly more important (let’s be real). So in the middle of June it will have to be!!
1. Steven is an amazing cook!
Homemade pasta day!
Steven is a great cook, especially if you want something more complicated and fancy than other people would attempt at home. Sure, you might be eating dinner 3 hours later than expected, but it will be delicious and quality-controlled on the minutest scale.
Everything that can be done by hand is
This attention to detail is also the reason why:
2. Steven is amazing at painting nails!
Well, he is
I am terrible at painting nails. At least I will be until painting your entire finger blue by accident comes into fashion. Steven takes painstakingly tiny strokes, and seems to have infinite patience. It means the process may have multiple lengthy steps, but the results look great!
This is like five different coats, what!
3. Actually, Steven is just amazing at defying gender roles in general
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Natch I would never be with someone who was all “I only want to bro out and watch sports and you better change your name to mine so everyone knows I own you now etc”. But that’s an insultingly low bar so we’re not going to talk about that. Steven is amazing because he is actively interested in things and enthusiastic about things he enjoys no matter what anyone else thinks. “Do you want to learn to knit? “Sounds fun!” “Painting my nails is so hard.” “I can paint your nails–I have some cool ideas to try.” “Crap, I don’t know how to iron this bridesmaid dress without ruining it.” “I got it.”
Also there’s that whole My Little Pony/rainbow hair thing
4. Steven is not so great at crosswords, but he still tries which is amazing!!!
On Sundays (and Wednesdays, randomly) the News and Observer has TWO crosswords, so Steven and I always go to Panera, eat bagels, and do one each. Then we switch.
Mountain dew is the breakfast of champions
Even working together, we rarely finish either of them, but it’s being a regular at Panera that counts.
5. Steven is amazing at being stupid
And it’s amazing
You didn’t mention the dumpster diving? Steven is an amazing son-in-law as well. He is the best.
Yeah, that dude is awesome. I would totally high five him.
I am happy to welcome Steven into the elite club of people who are amazing! He is totally amazing! We need a special handshake.
And he’s amazing because he wrote me detailed directions on how to make a quesadilla (yes, I still have those directions) and he only laughed at me a little bit! He’s the best!! 🙂
Haha I forgot about that!