Numbers

• Months spent in Southern California: 7.5
• Miles on our year-old car when we bought it: 6,000
• Miles we've driven on our year-old car: 7000
• US$ amount lost on the sale of our car: not telling
• GBP amount lost on the sale of our car: considerably less owing to more favourable exchange rate at purchase
• Amount made on sale of random goods on Craigslist and at yard sale: approx $700. Guess people are buying second hand goods these days. But not clothes, even some of our stuff that's in really good condition, strangely.
  
• Trips outside the Californias: 1 (and that last week, to Colorado for a conference. Brr.)
• Trips within the Californias: 6 - 4 in SoCal and 2 in Baja.
• Useless OPK sticks: many, many.
• OPK sticks that actually worked: about 6
  
• Useless pregnancy tests: about 4
• Progesterone supplement tablets left over: about 30 i.e. a month's supply
• Months spent trying to get pregnant: 6
• Months spent NOT trying to get pregnant: 1
• Days till I leave work: 2
• Papers written since I have been here: approximately 5
• Grant proposals written since I have been here: approximately 3
  
• Days till we leave SoCal: 3
• Days till we leave NoCal where we are stopping over: 7
• Adoption agencies contacted: approx 20
• Adoption agencies in the US who have replied to us to say they cannot work with us: approx 8
• Adoption agencies in the US who have not replied to us: approx 10
• Adoption agencies in the US who have replied to say they CAN work with us: 2
• Number of these that are in California: 0
• Social workers who have said they can do our US home study in the UK: 1 (and that's the only one I contacted)
• Adoption agencies in the UK who have said that they can work with us: 1 (the non-UK work is parcelled out geographically so it's not too surprising that there is only one)
• High today in SoCal: 18C (low 12C)
  
• High today in NW England: 13C (low 4C)
  
• Approximate winter low in SoCal: 4C
• Number of radiators in our house in SoCal: 0
• Number of radiators in our house in NW England: er, 10?
• Approximate thickness of walls in our house in SoCal: 0.02mm
• Approximate thickness of walls in our house in NW England: 1m