Lego

watching Leon: The Professional for the first time with Casey

watching someone’s favourite movie with them and watching how they react or how invested they are in the story; seeing the little bits of them that are scattered throughout the movie, in its themes and music and feel

George Costanza’s answering machine (x)

quiet afternoons alone with a bowl of noodles and a movie I’ve never seen

seeing the moon in the sky during the day, especially in the morning

the way our hands fit together perfectly

standing together in the kitchen, making Chappagetti while she hummed The Entertainer

pumpkin patches

Christmas tree farms

the streams of the white and red lights of cars down a busy street at night

walking home from the bus at night “angry” at each other; walking after her as she ran away, occasionally stopping to turn around and shoo me away with the water bottle

my The Lord of the Rings Lego set: Gandalf returning to the Shire at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring

driving by farm fields covered in snow

snow on the forest floor and on the branches of trees

being hungry and coming home and eating cold chicken with our fingers; off the carcass like scavengers

well put-together sentences that end up exactly as intended

wrapping Christmas presents; once they are wrapped, looking at them in piles all over the floor

I like watching one of someone’s favouirite movies and looking for the bits of them that you can find in the movies.

the smell of fresh cut grass

cutting the lawn in my bare feet

eating chocolate along with the characters while watching The Prizoner of Azkaban

“it came like lightning out of a clear sky”

John & Hank Green

IKEA

LEGO Harry Potter (with Casey)

seeing old couples walking, holding hands and smiling together

the smells I associate with “home”

making coffee and snacks in the kitchen at night, going upstairs and lying on the mattress on the floor; drinking coffee, playing LEGO Harry Potter

freaking out about LEGO Harry Potter 5-7—It looks SOO GOOD! 

her Spyro/’The Rock’ face

proper grammar in text messages

when she calls me “boy”

stopping at Barnes and Noble in St. George, leaving nerdfighter notes in copies of TFioS

sunbeams shining down through the clouds

Darrell Scott — A Crooked Road (x), It’s A Great Day To Be Alive (x), Hank William’s Ghost (x)

lying awake at night, listening to a thunderstorm raging outside; coming on in waves of intensity — the full-on storm with loud raindrops and loud clashes of rolling thunder followed by quiet moments when it seems as though the storm is fading into the distance

Hank & Katherine

Bosnian indigo (x)

Harry Potter lore — Ollivander and wand lore, monster lore, and histories

looking through my scriptures and finding a page that is colourful from highlights and there are notes filling the empty spaces of the margins

doing puzzles

looking along things

reorganizing

mythology

“Speak For Me” by John Mayer (x)

getting a package in the mail and opening it

visiting my favourite places with my favourite people

being on the road first thing in the morning, before anyone else; seeing the sunrise, or the moon still in the sky

the first thing thought when you wake up early 

texting her first thing in the morning, with whatever thoughts are on my mind that day

coming up behind her while she is cooking, putting my arms around her waist and hugging her, resting my head on her shoulders, breathing her in

Matt+Casey

loving Harry Potter and being able to share that

having a best friend to share everything with; someone who understands and accepts all of you, being able to share everything with them—being completely yourself

A Very Potter Musical—Quirrell and Voldemort; Snape, “That’s absurd”

the Harry Potter music

The Hobbit—seeing the Hobbit trailer in theaters and getting excited!

the opening song from A Very Potter Musical 

excessively quotable movies or shows

“Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful ‘thingness’ to turning the pages”

seeing writing in your own handwriting in the margins of books; going back and seeing what you wrote months, or years before

the opening credits to a James Bond film; when the music is perfect and together with the images they tell the story

Something I love about Casey: We were watching Leon: The Professional together—which is one of her favourite movies—and I would look over at her and see how deeply into the movie she was. She was really quiet and really focused. She was just so immersed in it. 

i saw an old couple walking together holding hands today; it made me smile :)