Our Marriage by the Numbers

We celebrated our anniversary yesterday. Being the good social scientists that we are, we thought we should run a little analysis on our marriage. Here are some frequencies we generated:

Years married: 11
Houses owned: 2
Cars owned: 6
Dogs: 1
Cats: 4
Birds: 2
Children: 2
Masters degrees: 2
Jobs: 8 (4 each)
Cars stolen: 1
Break-ins: 2
Tiffany lamps: 8
Overseas trips: 2
States resided in: 2
Churches attended: 3

Of course, a qualitative analysis would yield a thicker description our our collective life, but these numbers say quite a bit. As Jerry notes, we've pretty much accomplished the major things that married people are supposed to do (according to our social scripts) and then some. It's been a good 11 years. Assuming Jerry makes it to 75 (average life expectancy of U.S. males) and I outlive him, we've got at least 42 years to go. I have no doubt we'll find ways to fill the time...