us, by the numbers

our relationship, numerically-

17: the age we both were when we first started dating. (dorky photo here.) i'd only been 17 for a month or so, he'd turn 18 a few months later. i was a junior, he was a senior.

27: the age we both are now.

3: the number of proms/senior balls we went to together. my prom, his senior ball, my senior ball.

3: the number of hours that separated us for most of my senior year.

3: the number of hours that separated us for my 4 years of college.

195: the approximate number of miles between albany (where pat lived) and geneva (where i went to school). most of those miles were on the straight, flat, boring new york state thruway.

4: number of months we were separated by an ocean while i studied abroad in london.

3,372: number of miles pat flew to visit me in london. during his visit we toured the city, took the eurostar to paris, and realized that if we could make it through those 4 months we could make it through anything.

6: number of schools we've collectively attended since april 1998 (guilderland high school, elmira college, hobart & william smith, hudson valley, suny albany, umass amherst).

10: on april 8, 2008, the number of years since we first made our dating status official.

178: days until our wedding.

222: days since we got engaged.
 
2: apartments we've  co-habitated.

2: cities we've lived in together.