I Am This Woman

Using the “new” math, which is very much now like the old math, only with a lot less calculation and more relevance and “show work” prompts.

12: months of high-stress job

2: family members who died

19: days off per year

21: days taken off to bury loved ones

23: net pounds lost, plus and minus 5

5: states visited

2: states lived in

6: months lived in both Arizona and Texas

800+: photos snapped

10+: videos shot

1: videos uploaded to YouTube

1: Grand Canyons visited

1: foreign countries visited (Hungary)

1: cameras lost

1: cameras purchased

90: pounds of Kid

2: grades completed or entered (5th and 6th, respectively)

pi: number times radius squared to get area of a circle, which shape PIES come in… coincidence? I think NOT.

5: new DVDs

2: new DVD sets (Dr. Who, Planet Earth)

10: weeks my Netflix account is on HOLD

1: cup of caffeinated coffee, accidently brewed and drunk on Christmas Day, with all attendant side effects and detriments

14: weeks of wanting a Wii

16: weeks of saving allowance

1: happy Wii owner on Christmas morning

1: first salon pedicures (and the addiction begins!)

2: birthday cakes and candles

16: episodes of appointment TV – Lost, of course

10: days since my Christmas holiday began

3: days until my Christmas holiday is over

2: days left of Holidailies

10: favorite posts

15+: new favorite bloggers

1,000: yards of yarn bought over Christmas break

12: colors in the current knitting project

6: current projects on the needles

2: hours left till today’s deadline for Holidailies

5: number of times I’ve told the Kid it’s bedtime

2130: military time for the Kid’s bedtime

2400: timehack of mom’s “lights out” during the holiday

6: books in Chronicles of Narnia

1: number of books in Chronicles of Narnia read to the Kid at bedtime

infinity: number of times left to say “I love you” to the Kid

Snowy Woods, originally uploaded by tigerwillow.

One thing not captured by the camera is the silence, the hush that all the snow creates. For me, there is a delicate balance between the beauty and solitude of snowy woods and the ever-creeping, pain-inflicting cold. If I’m warm enough for now, and within 10 minutes of hot chocolate and a fire, I can marvel at the loveliness.

Or I can enjoy the photo sent by my Hungarian friend.