It’s my four year anniversary of living in DC! I’m trying to really let that sink in.. four. years. in Washington DC! That’s longer than I even lived in Chapel Hill for all of college. It’s definitely home to me now (though I’m a firm believer that you can have many “homes”), and I still love living here. Sometimes I take the city for granted, but there are many more times when, for example, I cross the Memorial Bridge and immediately see the Lincoln Memorial + Washington Monument and think… wow. Is this real life?!
I’m so grateful for the opportunity to live in this city, to work where I work, and to have the friends and the community that I have. I’m so very blessed, of course!

And now, DC by the numbers:
Number of years in DC: four
Number of homes lived in: one
Number of roommates: three
Number of jobs: two
Number of parking tickets: three
Hours sitting in traffic: countless
Hours spent on metro: roughly 2,000 hours, I think – wow
Amount of money spent on the metro: Wow. I just did the math, and it’s close to $15,000. SCARY.
Number of times I’ve been inside the Capitol: two
Number of times I’ve been inside the White House: zero (working on this!)
Number of times I’ve been up in the Washington Monument: three (it’s currently shut down)
Number of inaugural balls attended: one
Number of presidential motorcades I’ve seen: six
Number of happy hours I’ve been to: countless, for sure
Number of earthquakes: one
Number of blizzards: one
Number of bike rides around the city: five
Number of small groups/Bible studies I’ve been in: two
Number of book clubs: two
Places I regularly volunteered: two
Number of weddings in DC: one
Number of weddings outside of DC: close to twenty
Number of new friends: countless : )
Any other “numbers” of life in DC you’re interested in hearing about?! Were any of these numbers surprising? What is the longest you’ve lived anywhere? I’d love to hear!
Nice trivia, Stephanie! Ha, some of those numbers make me laugh . . .except for the Metro $. Ouch! I have another one . . . “Number of Govt. Shutdowns: 1”!;-)
~Emily from The Orange Slate
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@Emily – haha! so true. I also am trying really hard not to think of the money (and time) wasted on the metro…