Nauseating Words

Just in case you're wondering: Yes, this is me avoiding the last page of my paper. Sue me.

Okay, I have several pet peeves in this world. For instance: when people use the word "legitly," extreme indecisiveness, loud chewing, and the incorrect use of the word "your." (That's just to name a few. I think I have an unhealthy amount of pet peeves.)

But there is one pet peeve that happens most often over social networking sites. It happens when two people fall in love. All of the sudden, every post or status update has to do with their significant other.


I'm not talking about an occasional, simple post where a mature adult is expressing their gratitude for their spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend. That's a completely different thing.

What I'm talking about are the countless people that constantly post things such as: "OMG I'm so totes blessed with the greatest bf in the whole world and I'm so lucky and he's my everything and rainbows and butterflies!! omg."

Okay, so that might be a little exaggerated. But you get my point. You all know the posts I'm talking about. I'm all for people being in love. I myself have turned into a cheesy fool since meeting Kam and I'm fully aware of what love can do to a person. It makes you say nauseating things.

But keep it off of Facebook, please.

I say very seemingly nauseating things to Kameron all the time, but I try to only say them privately to him, or I'll say things to friends about him, but not to the rest of the world. When it happens more privately, things actually have meaning. The cheese becomes something cute and meaningful rather than embarrassing because it gets posted in everyone's news feeds and people want to throw up. 

In fact, Kam and I like to do the exact opposite of the aforementioned offense. A few examples:

• Kam's RSVP for our wedding on Facebook is currently "Maybe Attending"

• When I posted a picture of my engagement ring, I captioned it with: "It's okay, I guess."

• I wrote Kam a Facebook post telling him we needed to go to a comedy show on Jan. 28th, but felt like there was something else going on that day, but that it probably wasn't important. 

• We joke about how the only reason Kam got engaged was because he's paying me. (Slacking on the payments, Kam...)

• I always tell people the number one reason I'm marrying Kam is for money. Love is about seventh on the list.

So you see, we're not the lovey-dovey Facebook couple that seems to be taking over the world. And I'm so grateful for that. If anything it shows me I'm marrying the right dude. We have the same sense of humor and it's perfect.

I'm not going to make a countdown to my wedding on Facebook and I'm not going to gush over how excited I am that I get to marry my best friend, even though I've never been more excited for anything in my entire life.

I don't have to change my Facebook status to prove to anyone that I'm in love.

But I still reserve the right to blog about it.