Lucky Number 13

What has happened in our last thirteen years? Here is our married life in numbers:

three continents
thirteen countries
four cities lived in
two states lived in
twenty-five states and two provinces visited
six moves
ten funerals
eleven weddings
seven-and-a-half windshields
four car accidents
three lawnmowers 
three snow shovels
nine computers
fifteen iProducts
nine hard drives
three degrees
three septic tank disasters + an unknown number of basement floodings
twenty-four jobs and one internship 
one salaried job  
seventy months unemployed
ten fountain pens
two large format cameras, two medium format, and innumerable 35mm one darkroom (now in trunk)
ten years' supply of needlework projects
eight tornado warnings
six Midwestern blizzards
two polar vortexes
one thundersnow 
eighteen rounds of finals survived
one set of preliminary examinations passed 
one dissertation defense passed 
one dissertation deposited 
lots and lots of pepsi throwback 
lots of soda in general
thirty-two trips home
fourteen trips to Utah
ten trips to Columbus 
five trips to Germany
thirteen callings
two stereo receivers
six speakers
two CD player
one record player
many, many LPs
one oak desk
four bicycles
four hundred eighty-eight days apart
two hundred sixty books acquired this year
two fourth doctor scarves 
three diagnoses
one surgery 
one pilgrimage to worship the mouse
two knitters
. . . and still no babies