{"id":2353,"date":"2014-12-31T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/31\/retrospective-6\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:35:09","slug":"retrospective-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/31\/retrospective-6\/","title":{"rendered":"RETROSPECTIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/J-1-cap.png\" title=\"Daily Drop Cap by Jessica Hische\" align=\"left\" alt=\"J\"> ust went back and checked and it seems I started writing my year-end retrospective in 2007. Seven years of looking back at my year and seeing what I&#8217;ve done and read and listened to. It&#8217;s nice to have a record for posterity, don&#8217;t you think? And since today is the last day of 2014, this week I can start formatting 2014 into a book for print. One more green-spined book to add to my collection of printed obiter dictums!<\/p>\n<p><b>Family &#038; Personal Highlights of 2014<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Being promoted to Senior Corporate Graphic Designer at work<\/li>\n<li>Martin breaking his arm<\/li>\n<li>Karin being asked to become a district referee, one year early<\/li>\n<li>Anders&#8217; ski trip in the Czech Republic<\/li>\n<li>Karin passing her moped driving license test<\/li>\n<li>Making it through an entire year soda-free<\/li>\n<li>Martin joining the writing staff of his school IB newspaper<\/li>\n<li>Visit from John &#038; family and trip to V\u00e5nevik<\/li>\n<li>3 week trip to Toronto and Michigan<\/li>\n<li>Liz&#8217;s BIG birthday<\/li>\n<li>Trip to US including Thanksgiving with Sarah&#8217;s family and mom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2014, I read 93 books, the same amount as last year, and though I&#8217;m halfway through two more, neither one will be finished today. Looking at the list, it seems I did a LOT of re-reading of old favorites.<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Books of 2014<\/b> (in no particular order and not including re-reads)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Impulse<\/i> by Steven Gould<\/li>\n<li><i>Mr Penumbra&#8217;s 24-hour Bookstore<\/i> by Robin Sloan<\/li>\n<li><i>Eleanor and Par<\/i>k by Rainbow Rowell<\/li>\n<li><i>Gulp<\/i> by Mary Roach<\/li>\n<li><i>Life After Life<\/i> by Kate Atkinson<\/li>\n<li><i>We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves<\/i> by Karen Joy Fowler<\/li>\n<li><i>One Summer: America, 1927<\/i> by Bill Bryson<\/li>\n<li><i>Someone Else&#8217;s Love Story<\/i> by Joshilyn Jackson<\/li>\n<li><i>The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry<\/i> by Gabrielle Zevin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As usual, I didn&#8217;t keep track of movies at all, though Martin convinced me to <i>watch How to Train Your Dragon<\/i> recently and I loved it, and its sequel. Computer animation is amazing. Also, I confessed to having liked <i>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/i> and <i>The Lego Movie<\/i>. Oh! And <i>Edge of Tomorrow<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p><b>Best Musical Discoveries of 2014<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nina Gordon<\/li>\n<li>Jenny Lewis<\/li>\n<li>He is We<\/li>\n<li>Holly Brook<\/li>\n<li>Walk Off the Earth<\/li>\n<li>Savoir Adore<\/li>\n<li>Priscilla Ahn<\/li>\n<li>Emm Gryner<\/li>\n<li>Hafdis Huld<\/li>\n<li>Anette Olzon<\/li>\n<li>Dala<\/li>\n<li>MoZella<\/li>\n<li>Hayley Sales<\/li>\n<li>Kate McGill<\/li>\n<li>Lissa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Some manageable goals for 2015<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>KEEP walking<\/li>\n<li>Trip to somewhere WARM for Karin<\/li>\n<li>Fireplace and great room renovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are spending New Year&#8217;s Eve with our friends Barbara &#038; Paul. We celebrated with them last year as well, but this year it is only the 4 of us plus the kids. Karin would probably have been with Alex but since he&#8217;s in Gambia and since we won&#8217;t let her spend it with friends on her own, she&#8217;s stuck with us for at least one more time. <\/p>\n<p>Martin has only requested that he not be forced to participate in Barbara&#8217;s mandatory Wii Dance competition&#8230;I&#8217;ll support him in that desire since I don&#8217;t want to do it either. We are bringing a double deck of cards in the hopes of instigating an evening of Colorado Crazy Eights instead&#8230;wish us luck! Either way, it will be an evening of laughter, fun, good food and fireworks. I hope everyone who reads this has a fantastic end to the year, as well. Here&#8217;s to 2015!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ust went back and checked and it seems I started writing my year-end retrospective in 2007. Seven years of looking back at my year and seeing what I&#8217;ve done and read and listened to. It&#8217;s nice to have a record for posterity, don&#8217;t you think? And since today is the last day of 2014, this week I can start formatting 2014 into a book for print. One more green-spined book to add to my collection of printed obiter dictums! Family &#038; Personal Highlights of 2014 Being promoted to Senior Corporate Graphic Designer at work Martin breaking his arm Karin being&#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-2353","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\/2353","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=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}