Harper's On Colorado by venitha

• Number of days I spent in Colorado: 10
  
• Number of days that it snowed: 5
• Number of miles I drove: 813
  
• Number of miles I flew (roundtrip from Singapore to Denver): 18739
  
• Radio voice I've missed (and continue to miss) the most: Bob Edwards
  
• Radio voice I've missed the least: George W. Bush
  
• Artist most commonly gracing my rental car's CD player: Dido
  
• Number of suppers I ate that included asparagus: 4
  
• Number of Wendy's Frostys I ate: 1
  
• Number of Girl Scout cookies I ate: scads
  
• My/Jim's/Kalyn's/no one's favorite Girl Scout cookie: Caramel Delites/Thin Mints/Caramel Delites/Reduced-fat Lemon Pastry Cremes
  
• Calories in one Caramel Delite cookie, in spite of its clever subliminal spelling: 70
• Number of babies (born in our 9-month US absence) I kissed: 2, Kate (precious) and Sarah (adorable)
  
• Appliances I could have kissed good-bye: the lightning-fast 15-year-old washing machine, the gas grill, and the treadmill
  
• Number of nearly sweat-free miles I ran: 35
  
• Number of doctor's appointments I had: 4
  
• Number of times I loudly and publicly said the word fuck upon being informed that United Healthcare claims my health insurance was terminated at the end of 2005: 5
  
• Number of times I have loudly and publicly said the word fuck in Singapore, completely unrelated to my nemesis, United Healthcare: scads
  
• US dollars that United Healthcare has deducted from my 2006 paychecks in premiums: 169
  
• Best present I brought back for myself: 1Gig SD card
  
• Best present I brought back for Jim (my take): manly man-purse
  
• Best present I brought back for Jim (his take): Thin Mint cookies
  
• Number of nights Jim and I both slept in our bed in Singapore in March, including last night, when Jim arrived back from Taipei at 8pm and I arrived back from Colorado at 2:30am: 3
  
• Number of days Jim and I both slept in our bed in Singapore in March, including today (far less exciting than it sounds): 2

venitha