1. He thinks it suits her that her favorite alcoholic drink turned out to be a rum shooter.

2. She thinks it suits him that his is an appletini.

3. Every Friday night, they buy a 6-pack of beer and fool around on the couch for hours to the background dialogue of whatever half-decent movie is playing on their thirteen channel cable.

4. They never get bored.

5. His mom finally learned to limit her calls to four times a day.

6. Whenever she calls when Freddie is at class, Sam pretends to be a salesperson until she hangs up. She finds it to be a good distraction from studying for her own classes at Bunker Hill Community College.

7. He finally convinced her to apply, and now she's thriving in her Restaurant Management major. (She won't admit it, but she's loving it.)

8. He tells her how proud he is of her every day. And every day she shrugs it off, but he means it.

9. She tells him how nubby he is every day. And every day he rolls his eyes, but she means it.

10. They have a giant autographed poster of the World's Fattest Priest in their apartment.

11. Freddie got it for her for her twentieth birthday, and was able to catch Sam's tearful reaction on his PearPhone. She made him delete it, but not before rewarding him for his sentimentality.

12. He sort of regrets it now, because she insisted the best place for it was in the bathroom. He has to pee with his eyes closed.

13. Their apartment is a tiny one-bedroom closet with a cold shower and a broken oven. Their neighbors to the right play an electric guitar until 3:30 in the morning, and their neighbors to the left own a rooster. The paint is peeling, the electricity goes out at approximately five thirty P.M. every Thursday and Saturday, and there is a hole in the roof next to the couch.

14. They wouldn't trade it for anything.

15. They are proud to say they have thoroughly, ahem, broken in every piece of furniture in the apartment. Multiple times. Loudly.

16. Every Monday he meets her after her first class with a cup of coffee and bacon wrapped in a paper towel. She takes it without a word, but he knows she appreciates it, because she always offers him half.

17. They don't have to avoid the library anymore.

18. He's had a red sapphire engagement ring sitting in the cupboard under the sink for a month and a half. (She'd never find it because it's mixed in with the cleaning supplies).

19. The woman at the jewelry store informed him that hardly anyone chooses red, which was the deciding factor that made him pick it.

20. He still hasn't decided how to ask yet. All he knows for sure is he is not using food. It would never make it to her finger

21. The thing she thinks she is most excited about is going to his graduation. So far she has accumulated a blowhorn, megaphone, foam finger, and two different color sparklers (red and gray – MIT colors). She hid them next to that ring box under the sink.

22. He can't hide anything from her – he should know that by now.

23. Their wedding is planned for April 15 – a spring wedding was the "least risky", according to his mother (summer is bee season, the snow will crush them in winter, and the trees are much less stable in the fall).

24. After two weeks of begging, the only thing she has decided to form an opinion on is their honeymoon: Canada, for the fat cake factory.

25. He is never letting her go again. Normality be damned.