Number of separate family Christmas celebrations attended: 3
Number of purses given to Miss T for either Christmas or her birthday: 3
Number of computer games received by AE for Christmas: 2
Number of Wii and/or Gamecube games received by AE: 6
Number of Wii/Gamecube games received by N: 3
Ergo, the total number of video games received as gifts this holiday season: 11
Number of hours I spent rocking Guitar Hero (solo) at my in-laws’ house: 2.5
Number of stores in my hometown in which seasons of NCIS are available on DVD: 1
Number of stores that carry the season of NCIS that I actually want: 0
Glasses of wine consumed by me, per evening: 2 (on average)
Number of dresses given to Miss T for either Christmas or birthday: 8
Number of tiny humans available to wear cute girly dresses: 1
Number of days in the week: 7
Number of egg salad sandwich cravings I have had in anticipation of getting one at the local fancypants deli: approximately 1 per day for the last month
Number of egg salad sandwiches consumed by me: ZERO, BECAUSE THE DELI HAS MYSTERIOUSLY REMOVED IT FROM THE MENU
Number of family members that got engaged on Christmas Day: 1
Number of molars sprouted by Miss T: 3
Number of compliments regarding my kids’ piratey-themed garments given by my mother, despite her previous horrified assertion that pirates and/or skulls are worn exclusively by gang members: 2
Number of crackers consumed by Miss T during her first encounter with Ritz: 9
Number of U.S. dollars required to purchase an entire tiramisu cake from Carino’s: 43
Number of times AE has been told to stop picking his nose, for the love of God: 2,394,092
Wait?? Sandy’s Sweets? No more egg salad? Alert the autorities…
sounds like a successful Christmas. we’ll have to ask y’all for reviews of Wii games, we’ve had it fora a year and a half and have 5 games total….
Thank goodness for the “Number of days in a week” stat; I might have missed that question on Jeopardy!! Who got engaged? BTW… please with Miss T a happy belated birthday from the Reskes. I knew it was Saturday, but somehow the weekend just got away from me. Hope she had a great day!
cracking up at the nose picking
hahah!!
Didn’t Sandy’s Sweets close during the summer between junior high and high school? Regardless of the actual date, it’s been well over a decade. I declare Val officially senile.
You left out some important numbers.
Number of meat products in log or stick form received as gifts: 3
Number of times I actually lost at Trivial Pursuit (albeit the highly suspect new version): 2
Number of times our son mixed up the number of days in Hanukkah and Kwanzaa: at least 84
Sounds like a great Christmas all around – except that lack of egg salad business – hey did you ask about it, because I continually order things that are not on the menu at various places, they’ll still make it, it’s just not up there.