meant to post this yesterday, but i wasn't amazing enough

Borrowing a page from the marvelous Moore's, here's our year in numbers:

1 - home sold
3 - inches Blake's grown since last Christmas
3 - different prescriptions for Blake's rapidly changing (improving) eyesight and wandering eye
55 - Rob's average weekly hours BEFORE the retail season hit
267 - Rob's average weekly hours DURING the retail season
2 - months it took for our espresso machine to pay for itself
1 - pregnancy test taken this year (negative as was desired at the time)
10 - pounds I've gained since working out regularly
100 - times a day I remind myself ^^^ that it's all muscle
several hundred - iPads Rob's sold for Vann's
0 - iPads we own, much to Rob's chagrin
5 - cameras Rob's sold for us
45 - games on my iTouch, also known as the one-eyed babysitter
20,000 - miles we've put on the CR-V
20+ - showings on the condo
0 - offers on the condo
30 - laps Blake ran at his school's Fun Run
5 - days a week Blake's in school
7 - days a week he'd like to be there
10 - pieces in our favorite sushi roll (the Jawdropper) that we divvy up with surgical precision
1 - dogs Blake wants
1 - cats Blake wants
1 - dogs Rob wants
0 - cats Rob wants
0 - dogs I want
1 - cats I want
1 - dogs Rob has brought home with hope in his eyes
0 - dogs we own
30 - temporary tattoos applied
1 - deer Rob shot while hunting
2 - deer Addie shot while hunting
1 - deer Rob tagged and brought home
0 - deer Addie tagged and brought home
0 - Justin Bieber songs we know
many - Metallica songs we know
1 - new nephew added this year (a total of 8 nephews, 2 nieces)
2 - power outages lasting long enough to make us wish for a wood-burning stove
2 - mice we've caught INSIDE our condo
3 - mice we've caught outside our condo
1 - loose tooth so far
2 - public health hazards
~30 - books I've read
1 - fireball emanating from the grill requiring me to use our fire extinguisher for the very first time
0 - incidents of tetanus in the family

Happy new year! And for those wondering, I've been doing just fine today. Probably because of your prayers.