does morning tae bo/tae chi with older ladies at the park who don’t care he’s the shane hollander (ilya calls them his girlfriends)
post marriage: will try any new food once as a rule
has a travel agent (“they know how to best optimize itineraries” “nerd”)
gets a cat and loves watching the cat and anya interact
wears headbands because hair touching his face is over stimulating
tries those healthy pinterest recipes (“hollander please tell me this is real chocolate mousse” “it’s real!! as in it really exists… it greek yogurt based’” “noooo whyyyy”)
calls ilya baby (infront of people too)
enjoys vacuuming way too much
at some point he becomes a major contributing editor in the hockey wikipedia community (this started bc he wanted to make sure nothing on his page was inaccurate and to update his picture so it’s nice and presentable)
when ilya likes some thing shane will buy TOO much of it (“i got you strawberries” “you got me 14 containers of strawberries” “you said you liked them!”)
the canadianisms of his accent slip out when he’s tired - he calls toronto “tuhronno”; this pleases ilya endlessly
big fan of russian cuss words - uses them in casual conversation
actually really likes when people tease him accurately (it makes him feel seen)
cannot wear mismatched socks
very good at arm wrestling
had a rubik’s cube hyper fixation for a few weeks in middle school - still has the skill and ilya makes him do it multiple times (“shane show them how fast you can solve the rubiks”)
loves any app/site that logs information; exercise, movies, shows, books etc - and he loves getting the year end analyses
starts to knit because he wants a hobby outside hockey (and he wants more ways to express his love to people - ilya turns their house upside down when he misplaces the hat shane knit for him) (but he always sites the cognitive benefits of knitting as the reason)
has to remind himself he’s not in trouble