{"id":1578,"date":"2012-01-09T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:13:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T19:13:35","slug":"hello-2012-or-what-i-was-up-to-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/2012\/01\/hello-2012-or-what-i-was-up-to-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello 2012, or What I Was Up To In 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1584\" title=\"Our new neighbor.  Her name is &quot;Kitten Butt&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kerischneider\/6686372441\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"250\" \/>\n\n-->Hello, internet, I&#8217;ve missed you.<\/p>\n<p>Last winter I started off the year with the belief that I was going to blog regularly.\u00a0 I thought that if I expanded my blog topics to include, well, everything, that I&#8217;d never run out of things to blog about.\u00a0 What I didn&#8217;t realize was that it wasn&#8217;t a shortage of topics that was keeping me from blogging &#8211; it was a shortage of time and desire to blog.\u00a0 That said, I&#8217;ve really missed having a place to talk about all the new and great things that have been going on in my life.\u00a0 So, without further ado&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, I:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turned 35 years old<\/li>\n<li>Finished first drafts on not one but two(!) novels<\/li>\n<li>Bought a house with my husband &#8211; our first!<\/li>\n<li>Moved to West Seattle<\/li>\n<li>Went to my first (and second) writing conference<\/li>\n<li>Went on my first writing retreat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So it was a pretty big year of firsts for me.\u00a0 Most of my summer and fall were spent house shopping and making the new house a home.\u00a0 Now we&#8217;re all moved in and I&#8217;m thrilled we won&#8217;t have to move again if we don&#8217;t want to.\u00a0 I love the new house!\u00a0 It&#8217;s little but it&#8217;s really cute and is perfect for us.<\/p>\n<p>I have named 2012 as &#8220;The Year of Making Things Happen.&#8221;\u00a0 One of the things I hope to make happen this year is this blog.\u00a0 Another is my photography &#8211; I&#8217;ve got a lot of unprocessed photos that I&#8217;ve started to clean up, so look for those in my flickr feed soon.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also been doing a lot of cooking and baking, so I&#8217;ll be posting recipes and such here also.\u00a0 As for the rest of my time, I&#8217;ve got two novels to revise and prepare for submissions to agents, so it&#8217;s going to be a busy year for me.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, internet, I&#8217;ve missed you. Last winter I started off the year with the belief that I was going to blog regularly.\u00a0 I thought that if I expanded my blog topics to include, well, everything, that I&#8217;d never run out of things to blog about.\u00a0 What I didn&#8217;t realize was that it wasn&#8217;t a shortage&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[452,455,466],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}