:: countdown ::

They keep asking me if I'm counting down. How many days are left, Mandy? I don't know. Is that OK? I don't know.

It's not that I'm not excited, it's just that I don't believe in counting down. Which things would I count down to? New job? Trip to Indonesia? My next birthday? And what does that make the in-between days -- filler, like the styrofoam peanuts in a package?

I don't want to live like that.

But all this talk made me want to know. It's 9, 21, and 231 days, respectively.