Living with a Boy: An Update.

It feels like Jon and I have been living together forever, even though we just moved in together a few months ago. Let's just say it's been quite the adventure. We learn things about each other that we hadn't known (or noticed) prior. I've even started making a list of food Jon doesn't like (or "doesn't prefer," as he says). 
I feel like we settled in pretty easily together, which I guess makes sense considering we've been together for almost four years now. Everyone kind of started to freak me out saying that living together will be different and all of that other skeptical mumbo jumbo. I don't think people realize how special Jon and my relationship is, and by special, I mean that we don't operate like most couples, and I love that about us. 

BLOG LIFE VS XBOX LIFE Before we moved in together, I really thought that my blogging time would be cut tremendously, but there actually hasn't been much change in that department other than the fact that I usually blog at the dining room table instead of at my desk because my desk is in the guest room and I feel so isolated back there, and the puppies aren't allowed in that room. It's a madhouse. So I'm just all by my lonesome. If you were wondering if Jon gets jealous or sad or lonely when I'm giving my time to my blog, the answer is 'no.' We worked it out to when I'm blogging, he's playing video games. Seriously a dream come true. For both of us. 
Speaking of puppies...

We brought Molly to PetSmart for her first nail cut, and even though she kept pulling her paws away, she was such a brave little girl. How adorable is her face in this picture?!

Farah is officially not homeless. Jon got her a pink collar (that's after me talking him out of getting her a blue one. "People will think she's a boy!") and a dog tag. How cute is she?!

GROCERY SHOPPING Jon probably eats about three times as much as I do, and while he likes to eat (almost) everything at any time of day, I have food cycles. In college, I spent about two years eating pizza rolls about five times a week, but a pizza roll hasn't touched my tongue since graduation. I go through phases of liking certain foods, and there's no way for Jon (or me) to keep up with what foods I'll be craving. Right now, I never want to stop eating Zapp's potato chips. I hope this phase lasts for awhile, because we just bought a huge box of them at Sam's, and it would be tragic if my taste for them ran out before the box emptied. 
We go grocery shopping about twice a month, and we pretty much run out of food before we decide to go again. It's so weird because one day we'll have all this food, and then all of a sudden it's like we're back in college and don't feel like driving to the grocery store. We have an agreement that we go grocery shopping together though. Can you imagine Jon going to the store and getting everything that I don't like to eat? I'm a pretty picky eater, even though I like to pretend I'm not, and a girl's gotta eat. 
CLEANING Living with Jon has made me more lazy. Trust me, it makes me sad and I even get annoyed with myself. When it comes to life on my own, I'm all I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T, but when I'm with Jon, I seem to rely on him so much. It's always been like that. And he's always been super sweet about it. For some reason, I do things now that I never did when I lived at my parents' or with roommates. I leave water bottles everywhere and get annoyed with him when he leaves dishes in the sink, even though I'm equally capable of putting them in the dishwasher or when he doesn't fold the laundry when he was the one that washed them and I had no part in the matter. I wish I could explain my irrational brain, but there really is no explanation. 
SHOPPING Jon was such a trooper and spent a few hours shopping with me the other day. There was this bag sale going on at this store called Uptown Cheapskate where you can stuff as much as you can into one bag and it just costs $10. Heck yea, I had to go. I actually ran into the only other local blogger in the area (though she hasn't blogged since February). After that, we stopped at the mall to go to Forever 21, and then I dropped him off at home before I went to the other mall right next to our place to stop by Charlotte Russe. It was a big shopping day.

On the other side of shopping, we made a list of big and small purchases we want to make for our place, namely a bed frame, decor and other random things, and afterward, I felt so responsible. So far we've purchased oil burners and a tablecloth and placemats. I'm obsessed with our new tablecloth. Is it nerdy that for about three days, we would randomly look at the tablecloth and get giddy excited? It was like our first sign of being real adults. 
DATE NIGHTS We started getting into a pretty vanilla routine of me coming home, us watching Netflix and then we do our own thing before going to bed. We decided to stop being lazy and start actually doing things every once in awhile. We decided to have date nights once a week where we get out of the house and actually do something. This past weekend, we went to Painting with a Twist and had an absolute blast with the other people in the class. We each painted a part to a painting and now it's hung up on our wall. I would love to do that with him again. It was so fun!

Our finished paintings after Painting with a Twist. Jon's looks much better than mine, but I love how they look together.

Living with Jon has been an adventure to say the least, and I'm loving it. During the first year of our relationship, we had a lot of knock-down drag-out fights, but after awhile, we got so tired of that and decided it wasn't worth it. Now I can proudly say that all of our little tiffs have to do with laundry or the dogs or something equally silly. I'm so grateful that living together hasn't brought back those day-long fights with no speaking. I feel like it's actually strengthening our relationship and making me more excited to be married to him one day and spend the rest of our live together.
Okay, enough cheesiness.