2 of the 1,532 reasons why my boyfriend is so cool.

Number 1: He pretends that the power is out with me, even when it came back on 5 hours before. We didn't buy a lantern for nothin'!

*Cooking soup on the stove by the light of a lantern (pretending the power was still out didn't include not using the stove or furnace).

*Playing backgammon by the fire. Yes, that is a headlamp that he wore all night. By the way, I won.

Number 2: He happily helps me get my car out after I've gotten it stuck in a snow bank at the bottom of my driveway because I was driving too fast (the picture with my car perpendicular to my driveway is when he got it stuck trying to fix my mess).