- "i'm so poor I can't even pay attention"
- "i'm so tired i'm left-handed"
- "if you could have anything in the world right now, what would it be?" "an oreo mcflurry" "you're a cheap date, baby"
- "life wouldn't mean much without you"
- "that toilet paper is terrible, it’s like it’s so thin it only has one side, you know?"
- "you're a weirdo, baby. one of them genius weirdos. you live in your own dimension."
- "you're my champion"
- all the million times he took us and our friends out on the boat as a kid
- taking us to see the fireworks at the marina on independence day
- coming on field trips with me as a chaperone in elementary school
- coming to eat lunch with me sometimes in elementary school
- him carrying me back and forth in the wheelbarrow to the boat yard when i was a kid
- him complementing my gumbo the two times i made it for him saying it was the most delicious anything he'd ever had in his entire life
- him getting out of the shower and laughing and saying "i feel like a new woman"
- him holding my arms and spinning me around in the pool endlessly as a child
- him indignantly saying "i paid $4,000 for them teeth!!" every time i tried to open something with my teeth as an adult since he'd paid for me to have braces when i was transitioning into middle school
- him pointing out a photo on my mom's wall of my second grade yearbook photo every single time he was at her house saying it was his favourite picture of me because both of my front teeth were missing at the same time
- him sneaking up on my mom with a live lobster he'd bought to cook for her on her birthday one year and scaring the shit out of her with it
- him taking me to oishii for my birthday every year as an adult and us both getting the same thing every single time because we're both autistic
- how much he liked hips don't lie by shakira
- listening to sia's 1000 forms of fear album in my car at a billion volume with the windows down
- me walking into the living room with him draped sideways over his recliner drinking an 8 oz. mini can of budweiser watching bridget jones' diary
- our family going out to shell island to do a grill at night one time and us encountering a baby armadillo in the sand dunes
- (regarding a car chase scene from the transporter ) “well, now would be a really good time to rob a bank, they’ve got every cop in the city chasin’ this guy”
- talking to me about his spacial-sequence synaesthesia
- telling me memories he had about his life and his career as a musician
- us trying to get ready to go to dinner together and him saying "hold on, i gotta find a better shirt than this dog-gone GOWN i’m wearing!"
- (while watching disney's animated alice in wonderland, regarding the queen of hearts) “the way she walks around like she’s somethin’ else, just like a real fat woman with her big ol’ boobies swingin around and her head wavin’ back n’ forth. (laughs) the way they draw that is just amazing, like how they only draw one cell at a time, how do they make it so smooth before they finish it?”
aug 16 2023 ∞
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