Tell me about yourself – Anniversary edition

As I mentioned before, it’s kinda starting to hit me that the year is almost over. It took me FOREVER to get used to it being 2011 and spent the first half of the year still dating things as 2010 and talking about how calling it Twenty Eleven sounded like the stupidest thing ever.

But now once I have comfortably settled into my 2011 life, I have to deal with it ending. And I’m not good at endings.

Seriously.

I still have not watched the series finale episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which aired, oh, 8 YEARS AGO because if I watch it then it’s over. Like totally, completely, out-of-my-life over.

True story.

Doesn’t matter that I now get my SMG fix through her new show Ringer (Anyone seen that? Thoughts?), but the fact remains – I don’t like endings.

The pointy end of the year also reminds me that around this time, I somehow managed to convince a boy to spend his life with me and we happily hopped, skipped and jumped into a life of wedded bliss.

Bliss actually might be laying it on too thick, but it has definitely been a lot of fun.

My friend Pepper, just did a lovely tag with a twist – by revealing seven things about her other half, Mint (and if you just died thinking of the cuteness of the names together, you’re not the only one).

So, I decided to TAKE A LEAF (#seewhatIdidthere) out of her book, and dedicate my very own tag with a twist to Evs in homage of the four years that we will have been married in a week or so.

(Yes that is Toby’s head stuck under Dex’s hahaha)

I mean, it’s only fair – he puts up with me, I put up with him and as the oft-invisible but oft-mentioned part of my blog, I think he deserves to get some love as well.

So here we go – everything you’d want to know about Evs.

1. He has an alter ego – an evil twin inexplicably named Eduardo who only comes out at times when he shaves everything except his upper lip. According to him, Eduardo is the one who leaves the clothes on the floor, never asks if I want a hot chocolate and always, ALWAYS does the dishes. Plus he has a creepy Mexican voice that I think he is trying to channel Puss-in-Boots. Not working Eduardo .
2. He has the most insane photographic memory of any person I know. Obscure TV theme song from the 90’s – he knows it. Random facts about any topic under the sun – just ask him. He kicks ass in trivia ALL THE TIME. (This also gets slightly annoying when he is trying to earnestly explain to me the origins of some Norse god and I’m trying to watch The Good Wife)
3. Speaking of songs, he has a dodgy music playlist. Yep, all those dodgy songs from the 80’s and 90’s, he has a special playlist for and relishes the look on my face when he cranks it up. To clarify, my face is usually a “Are you f&@#%n SERIOUS?” look with a raised eyebrow. In my defence, he is playing FOREIGNER and KENNY LOGGINS. Dodgy.
4. This is totally random but he wears contacts – in ONE EYE ONLY.
5. He is simultaneously laid-back and ultra-organised at the same time. I have no idea how he does it. I’d like to learn from him but when he organises us to catch up to talk about it weeks in advance, we end up doing other stuff. Usually better stuff. And then he DOESN’T CARE.
6. If I didn’t know better, I’d be highly suspicious of the bromance between him and my brother-in-law Sam. Two weeks ago they went on their annual mancation with some other mates. And yes, they do a mancation where they do “manly” stuff like playing poker until the wee hours of the night and getting thoroughly drunk, but *I* think is an excuse to get together to bitch about their wives. Manly-like.
7. Like Pepper’s Mint before us, Evs will eat anything I cook. Even when I am trying out “weird’ recipes that ask for tofu and quinoa  and insist on eating vegetarian at least once a week, he will eat it all and happily. He is such a meat-and-potatoes guy but indulges my quest for healthy eating and strange vegetables. Then he reciprocates by making the most awesomest spaghetti bolognaise ever. I swear by his recipe. And then sneak vegetables into the sauce .

Ok done. Now he will either never talk to me again or declare that I am the best wife ever.

Seriously though, four years has FLOWN by and considering we have been together for about ten years in total, I am kinda surprised we haven’t killed each other yet.

I guess that’s what they call love.

P.S. I still haven’t watched the last Harry Potter film. It lives on people, it still lives on….

What show/series could you not bear finishing? Feel free to take up the tag – reply in the comments and link through!