One Year

As Josie can attest, I intentionally and unintentionally keep track of random inane things such as my car's gas mileage (I have the excel sheet to prove it), how much money I've found on the ground so far this year (also included in a excel spreadsheet), and so on. I really like looking at numbers and could analyze and compare football and baseball stats on ESPN.com all day (I once had a excel spreadsheet for this...). Anyways, now that you know this incriminating evidence of my nerdiness, I might as well show you my latest set of information that I have been keeping track of (once again, a spreadsheet).

As of today, it has been one year since Josie and I were married. It feels like we have been married longer than that, but the last year has flown by. During the last year, we have moved a lot and lived out of suitcases quite often. We both graduated from college and moved to a foreign country. Since we have been on the go a lot, I was curious to figure out how many different places we had stayed the night. Our first week being married, over a span of 5 nights, we stayed 5 different places. Overall, this is what I found about where we've stayed (more or less in Chronological order).

Idaho Falls Hotel	1
Las Vegas, Nevada	4
Salt Lake City, Utah	1
Preston, Idaho at the Larson’s	6
Idaho Falls at the Ryan’s	6
Lincoln, Idaho at Aunt Terry’s	136
Airplane over the Atlantic	1
Budapest, Hungary	3
Hotel in Kaposvar	20
Austria	4
Germany	2
Czech Republic	2
Kaposvar, Hungary apartment	179
Total	365

I found that in the last year, we have stayed 36 nights in a hotel (10% of the time!), crazy. Also, as of June 25th, we have been married longer in Hungary than in America, that must make us a Hungarian couple. I am looking forward to year 2's stats and hope to regain our status as an "American couple."

I am enjoying married life and feel really lucky to be with Josie and to have a job (two things I doubted I would ever have). I have learned some things this last year including the following:

- Who Fred Astaire is.

- That when Josie likes what she is eating, she sits up straight by quickly raising one shoulder at a time until her back is straight.

- It is never too late for cereal (I already knew this I guess)

- Going on trips is more fun with a wife.

- That movies are to Josie as football stats are to me.

- That musicals are to Josie as playing catch is to me.

- That Josie is more talented than she lets on.

- That I find myself doing weird, dumb things just to hear Josie laugh.

- That Josie likes playing games, doesn't care if she wins, just likes playing.

- Josie looks as good in the morning as she does when she goes to bed (I always look like I tried to fight a tornado during the night.....and lost) She has found the secret how to win.

- Josie is unassuming, easy to please, and the little things in life make her happy. Lucky for me.

- "It's a Wonderful Life" is a movie, and a good one.

- Jane Austen's words are another language that I have yet to decipher.

- Josie can fall asleep anytime/anywhere, especially if we are in the car.

Obviously this list is not comprehensive, just little things I have learned. Happy 1 year anniversary to us.

It didn't take me long for me to make my first mistake as a married person. It was actually my first step out of the temple and right onto Josie's dress.