by the numbers

• miles run last month: 40.6 (I've already run half that in the first week of August)
• books I still want to finish before the summer is over: 8
• days until school officially starts (with kids): 19
• Olympic events watched this week: 1,248,754 (well, maybe not that many)
• pounds lost since school got out: 14 (wahoo!)
• times my daughter has changed her mind about which after-school activity to do this year: 9
• the high temperature today: 89 (much better than last week)
• fights broken up in my house today: 5
• number of home improvement project we should have done this summer: 13
• total seasons of How I Met Your Mother available on Netflix: 6
• number of seasons we've re-watched this year: 5
• percent salary increase given to NC teachers the last several years: 0%
• percent salary increase given to NC teachers this year: 1%
• percent salary increase deserved: 50% (but 1% is better than none, right?)

What's a number related to your life today?