{"id":4156,"date":"2007-12-31T16:41:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T00:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/31\/wrapping-up-2007\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T08:47:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:47:20","slug":"wrapping-up-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/31\/wrapping-up-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping up 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5669,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/domesticism.blogspot.com\\\/2007\\\/12\\\/2007-reflections.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5670,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/archives\\\/date-taken\\\/2007\\\/calendar&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/archives\\\/date-taken\\\/2007\\\/calendar&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A little under eight hours left to go in the year, and as I look back, most of what stands out in my mind is just how incredibly <em>busy<\/em> this past year has been, for Prairie and for myself. That&#8217;s not to say it&#8217;s been a bad year &#8212; it hasn&#8217;t been at all, and in fact, overall I&#8217;d say it was quite a bit better than the year prior &#8212; but we just <em>never<\/em> seemed to stop moving. I was balancing a 12-credit load at school and two part-time jobs, Prairie was handling a number of teaching and tutoring positions at NSCC, and it seemed like any &#8216;free time&#8217; we had was immediately filled with everything that we couldn&#8217;t get done otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as things wrap up, life is looking pretty promising for the future. Still busy, to be sure, but busy for some very good reasons. I&#8217;m down to my final two quarters before graduating from NSCC with my Associate of Arts degree, and Prairie&#8217;s getting started with her new job at CWU Des Moines. We have rough plans to take a road trip this summer for some &#8216;just-us&#8217; vacation time, and come next fall, I should have transferred into UW to go on towards getting my master&#8217;s degree.<\/p>\n<p>Lots behind us, and lots coming up, but it&#8217;s all looking pretty good from here on out.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Other bits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prairie&#8217;s posted <a href=\"http:\/\/domesticism.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/2007-reflections.html\" title=\"Domesticism: 2007 Reflections\">her year-end thoughts as well<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/archives\/date-taken\/2007\/calendar\/\" title=\"Flickr: djwudi's photos taken in 2007\">Over 2007<\/a>, I posted 2,394 photos (an average of 6.5 photos per day, though it&#8217;s obvious from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/archives\/date-taken\/2007\/calendar\/\" title=\"Flickr: djwudi's photos taken in 2007\">calendar<\/a> that I wasn&#8217;t posting anywhere near daily), and pushed my total uploaded photo count on Flickr to 11,104.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little under eight hours left to go in the year, and as I look back, most of what stands out in my mind is just how incredibly _busy_ this past year has been, for Prairie and for myself. That&#8217;s not to say it&#8217;s been a bad year, but we just _never_ seemed to stop moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}