all of me
*Extreme* gushiness and sappiness to follow:
Things I Love About My Wife on my O-So-Office-Space-Workday
1. Her laugh. There are several different kinds of these, and I love them all equally. There's the one she has when something's just sort of more-than-average amusing, usually when we're watching TV. She'll crinkle her eyes, smile almost to herself, and bury her face in her pillow. Then there's the full-throated laugh she has when she can't contain herself and throws caution and propriety to the winds. The one I love the most, though, is kind of in-between: it's a laugh that's hard to put your finger on, but it's guileless and sweet. There's love in that laugh -- and it also helps that I've usually done something dippy beforehand.
2. Her smile. Corollary to #1. It's no exaggeration to say that it's the air I breathe. You can see it in a few of our wedding pictures. There's this one picture, extremely contrived pose and all, where we're both lying down on a stump next to each other. One of us is holding a flower. It's a good picture, mainly because it's in black and white and you can't see our compulsively-chewed nails from that distance, but the unearthly magic in that smile of hers...
3. The three gray hairs she desperately wants dyed out -- there will probably be a salon appointment made after she reads this -- but these, along with her laugh lines, show me I'm alive, with her, in the best way possible. Alive.
4. Her hugs: all-enveloping, luxurious, all-giving. They always take me by surprise.
5. The nape of her neck.
6. She is endlessly fascinating, and endlessly wonderful.
7. ...and this last is a selfish reason: she always indulges me, even if I spout off in public like a degenerate. Sorry, honey. ;)