Apologies: 4, all face to face (to boss, trainee, friend, fellow.) 16.
I love yous: 3, 2 face to face (to coworker, friend, sister.) 11.
Tears: HAHAHAHA I'm going to win. I have cried countless times this week. This morning I cried because I couldn't tie my robe. Yesterday I cried seven times. Before that, I wasn't keeping track, but at least twice a day. So...I'll just say 16 times, so 32.

Wait, do I get extra points for sobbing?

Embarrassment: 4.
Competitive: 6.
Bookmarks: 12.
Talking to animals: Nope. I did have a conversation with some bread dough this morning.

Emails: 2, work and gmail.

Total: 71, plus 2 for the tiebreaker.

I'm pretty sure I lowballed my crying estimate.

3 points for each time you (sincerely) apologized to someone in the past week. (an extra point if it was face to face.): 4 points. Due to ridiculous traffic, I barely made a presentation for which I was one of the presenters, and was very sorry to have caused any anxiety.

3 points for each time you've said "I love you" to someone this week (plus an extra if it was in person.) (In this case, you get your points even if it wasn't sincere.) I tell the Bear this pretty regularly. 12 points?

2 points for each time you had tears in your eyes this week (but not because you got something in your eye.) Can be tears of joy or sadness. Zero.

1 point for any day this week in which you felt embarrassed. Kinda felt like a dork in my bike clothes plus assorted warm stuff layered atop it yesterday. 1 point.

1 point for any day this week in which you felt competitive. I am like this every day. 7 points.

1 point for each time you used a favorite as a bookmark this week. 1 point. Mostly I seem to have favorited because I agreed with people this past week.

2 points if you spoke (out loud) in English to an animal today. Well of course! I always talk to my amazing Aussie! Often talk to the cats, too. 2 points


Total: 27 points
Tie-breaker: Number of email addresses you use (for yourself) with any regularity. : That would be four.

I get 4 for the face to face apology. I said something couldn't be done in a day and it was and I was wrong and said so.

Do tears of pain count? If so I get another point.

I'm in a constant state of embarrassment, so I get a lot of points there, but I'll take 3 to be sporting!

I'm competitive, but not lately. 0 points.

I talk out loud to the cat all the time.

I have too many email addresses to even remember. I check most of them daily.

I think I am doing this wrong because I have no idea how many points that is. I'm guessing 9.

I think about 27 points for I love yous and 2 points for speaking to an animal. 29 total.

Tie breaker 4.

The 6:15 am "Fuck off" to the cat wanting breakfast nets me all of 2 points.

3 points for each time you (sincerely) apologized to someone in the past week. (an extra point if it was face to face.) Estimate: 12

3 points for each time you've said "I love you" to someone this week (plus an extra if it was in person.) (In this case, you get your points even if it wasn't sincere.) Estimate: 15

2 points for each time you had tears in your eyes this week (but not because you got something in your eye.) Can be tears of joy or sadness. Guessing sinus issues don't count, so zero.

1 point for any day this week in which you felt embarrassed.

1 point for any day this week in which you felt competitive. 2

1 point for each time you used a favorite as a bookmark this week.

2 points if you spoke (out loud) in English to an animal today. 2

31

Tie-breaker: Number of email addresses you use (for yourself) with any regularity Personal, work, school: 3

Update: the video of the deaf woman hearing herself made me cry. 73, plus 2.

Nul points!

Tiebreak: 4 (work, personal human mail, personal commercial mail, online nickname).

Oh wow, I'm really supposed to count the number of times I said I love you? I hand out I love yous like water, both to my boyfriend and close family. So I'd say at least thrice a day in person -- so that's 4*7 = 28, plus the odd I love you to my mom, dad and aunt -- so maybe 9 for that? So approximately 37 points.

I cry from laughter a lot -- probably twice this week -- 4 points.

I remember feeling embarrassed on Wednesday when one of my friends asked my boyfriend if he could find her a nice guy from his soccer buddies -- 1 point.

Feeling competitive: about stupid grad school academic things, once; playing games with boyfriend, once -- 2 points.

Total: 44 points.

Number of email addresses: 2

Apologies: 0
I love you: 210 (the mister and I discussed this, he said 20 per day, I went with a more conservative 10)
Tears: 6 (one happy, two sad. Facebook keeps telling me to add puke&cry as a friend)
Embarrassed: 1 (not gonna say, too embarrassed)
Competitive: 0 (I'm not a competitive person)
Favourite as bookmark: 0 (they're always favourites, usually because I LOL'd)
Speaking to animals: 2 (thank dog it's not each time, that'd be even harder to figure than "I love yous"

Total: 219

Tiebreaker: 4 email addresses

I think I may actually have a chance at winning for once! (Oh sure, now the competitiveness shows up!)

Oooh I miscalculated. 3 times a day of in person love yous = 3*4*7 = 84 points!

So now my total is 91 points.

I think I'm getting a bit competitive too, deborah.

Apologized: 0
"I love you": 12 [only talked to my dad and the animals this week]
Tears: 4 [a friend's eldest doggie recently died :o( ]
Embarrased: 1 [is it possible to go a week without it?]
Competitive: 0 [not much to be competitive about around here]
Favorite: 2
Spoke to an animal: 2 [both dogs and the cat]

Total: 21

Tie: work, gmail x 2, yahoo x 3 = 6

Forgot my school email, and cried twice more.

77, with three tiebreaker points.

Zero points, but something like 12 tiebreaker points.

0
0 (unless a card snailmailed to sick friend counts)
3 tears - read some good books this week..
Embarrassed often ... 4?
0
0
Talk to critters .... At least 28 times. More likely in the hundreds. The cats are my entertainment and companions.

5 emails - 3 mine and 2 for luddite neighbors who don't have internet but need to know their weekly grocery e-specials.

So 35 ish?

Looks like Deborah wins it. (And she's entitled to that competitive point too!)

An impossible points for me. About a quarter of my job is apologizing. I can't even imagine anymore what it feels like to be able to count the number of times I have to make a sincere, detailed, and usually at least partly genuine apology. Fucking job.
It's a similar situation with "I love you", but inverted; I have only a few people to whom I can say that, so I'm glad to say it all of the time.
I cry whenever I stop doing long enough to think.
I am embarrassed about myself the moment I encounter another person, whether it's about my looks or shabby clothes or awkwardness.
I felt competitive once this week, during a phone interview, due to the knowledge that I am probably competing with about a hundred other equally qualified people for an entry-level job.
Three favorite-bookmarks.
One animal who understands English.

OMG!