Saturday, November 23, 2019

Stay-at-home Statistics

While my husband has been gadding about Europe and the Middle East, I've been working like a dog (and my dog Prewash has been staying home snoozing, so she's not working like a dog, even though she is one!)  He's chalking up new countries and new museums and new acquaintances, but I've got my own tally of experiences, y'know. My husband and I keep our own kinds of stats.  Here are some of of the ones I somehow keep track of :

  • 33:  the number of days he's been gone so far
  • 33: miles I've driven the car since he left 
  • 59: miles I've run with my friends since he left.
  • 1: the number of loads of laundry I've done while he's been gone
  • 0: the number of loads of laundry I've done in the decade before he left.  (He is, after all, the Lord of the Laundry).
  • 20: number of NYT crossword puzzles I've done (I save the MTW ones for him, and do the others myself)
  • 0: number of times I've been to a regular grocery store
  • 1: number of times I went to the corner store (to get icing for my daughter's wedding cake)
  • 5: times I went to our local farmer's market
  • 1:  kitchen trash cans I've emptied into the garbage can.  
  • 0: garbage cans I've taken to the curb
  • 65: thermostat setting during occupancy hours.  I'm kind of experimenting with this; it's a bit on the chilly side for me, but I'm getting used to it.
  • 470: milliliters of blood I donated
  • 11.2: my HGB levels recorded at my doctor's office, saying that donating blood put me into "borderline anemic" territory
  • 27: mg of Iron I'm taking daily now
  • 3: the number of days until he returns.

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