{"id":1954,"date":"2010-12-31T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/31\/retrospective-3\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:40:21","slug":"retrospective-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/31\/retrospective-3\/","title":{"rendered":"RETROSPECTIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jhische.com\/dailydropcap\/I-11-cap.png\" title=\"Daily Drop Cap by Jessica Hische\" align=\"left\" alt=\"I\" \/> find closure in the year-end retrospective that I&#8217;ve been doing on this journal for\u2014goodness!\u20148 years. It&#8217;s fun to look back and count up and tote up and list the things that happened, the experiences that shaped the year and the literary and musical discoveries I made.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the window, the world is white: still so much snow on the ground and the sky is white as well. The hoarfrost of yesterday is gone, but a heavy fog descending promises more for later. Two Swedish couples, very good friends of ours, are coming to celebrate New Year&#8217;s Eve with us; Anders has been in the kitchen banging pots and chopping things since this morning. I smell roasted hazelnuts and raspberries, among other things. It&#8217;s been a lazy week, for which I&#8217;m thankful.<\/p>\n<p><b>Family &#038; personal highlights of 2010<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My cousin Cate moving to Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Martin starting at an International School in Lund<\/li>\n<li>Surviving all the business travel Anders had this year; 10 weeks alone between January and June!<\/li>\n<li>A month in the States and getting to see both my brother and sister<\/li>\n<li>3 days in Chicago and getting to see Val, Sharon &#038; Will and Kathey &#038; Russell<\/li>\n<li>An iPhone for my birthday!<\/li>\n<li>Two weeks with Mom in Massachusetts in October, plus a visit with <a href=\"http:\/\/mytopography.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christina Rosalie<\/a> and my Uncle Sam and Joanne<\/li>\n<li>A beautiful week exploring Italy<\/li>\n<li>My brother &#038; Simone&#8217;s announcement of her pregnancy<\/li>\n<li>Martin entering teenagerhood!<\/li>\n<li>The renovation of the playroom into a true entertainment center<\/li>\n<li>Karin&#8217;s switch to the girl&#8217;s soccer team in S\u00f6dra Sandby<\/li>\n<li>A new boss at work that is already doing her best for us<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2010, I read 100.5 books with an average of 8.5 per month&#8230;down from last year, but I suspect that if I were counting PAGES my total would be FAR above. \ud83d\ude42 And if I didn&#8217;t read as MANY books as last year, I definitely read more excellent ones!<\/p>\n<p><b>Best books of 2010<\/b> (in no particular order and including no re-reads)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Seas by Samantha Hunt<\/li>\n<li>The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean<\/li>\n<li>The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova<\/li>\n<li>Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede<\/li>\n<li>Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan<\/li>\n<li>The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan<\/li>\n<li>Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link<\/li>\n<li>Little Gods by Anna Richards<\/li>\n<li>Graceling by Kristin Cashore<\/li>\n<li>Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<li>Blink by Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<li>The Little Book by Selden Edwards<\/li>\n<li>Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffennegger<\/li>\n<li>Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier<\/li>\n<li>Chalice by Robin McKinley<\/li>\n<li>Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t keep track of the films I saw in 2010 so won&#8217;t bother to list any this time&#8230;I suppose I need to start writing them down if I want to have a list at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><b>Best musical discoveries in 2010<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rabbit!<\/li>\n<li>Marie Digby<\/li>\n<li>Timoteij<\/li>\n<li>Chantal Kreviasuk<\/li>\n<li>Amy MacDonald<\/li>\n<li>Erin McCarley<\/li>\n<li>Vertical Horizon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Some manageable goals for 2010<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get back on track with walking and healthy eating<\/li>\n<li>Trip to Germany in late summer<\/li>\n<li>Garden renovation!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy New Year to everyone I know! May your New Year be filled with all the good things you deserve and some you don&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p> <font size=\"-2\">(Drop cap courtesy of Jessica Hische&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailydropcap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Drop Cap<\/a>)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>find closure in the year-end retrospective that I&#8217;ve been doing on this journal for\u2014goodness!\u20148 years. It&#8217;s fun to look back and count up and tote up and list the things that happened, the experiences that shaped the year and the literary and musical discoveries I made. Outside the window, the world is white: still so much snow on the ground and the sky is white as well. The hoarfrost of yesterday is gone, but a heavy fog descending promises more for later. Two Swedish couples, very good friends of ours, are coming to celebrate New Year&#8217;s Eve with us; Anders&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,27],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-goodthings","tag-holidaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4431,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/4431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}