{"id":266,"date":"2004-01-11T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/01\/11\/happy-anniversary-to-me\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:55:31","slug":"happy-anniversary-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/01\/11\/happy-anniversary-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s after midnight, which means it&#8217;s January 11th, and officially the anniversary of the day I moved to Sweden 7 years ago. My sister-in-law and I talked a bit about it tonight when we were over there for her son&#8217;s 7th birthday (I went straight from the airport to the hospital to see the new baby). She asked me if I regretted the move at all or if I felt like this was home now. No and yes, which it felt nice to be able to answer her. I miss the States sometimes, especially Chicago, but missing it and wanting to move back there are two completely different feelings. I don&#8217;t feel any real or compelling desire to move back to the U.S. at this point, although when the kids were born, I remember thinking that I wanted them to have some American childhood as well as the Swedish one. Then I realized that I <b>was<\/b> giving them one, so it didn&#8217;t matter quite so much.<\/p>\n<p><b>Things I&#8217;ve accomplished in these 7 years:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mastered a foreign language<\/li>\n<li>helped start a club that now has over 100 members<\/li>\n<li>survived 2 pregnancies, given birth twice, and began learning the process of becoming a good parent<\/li>\n<li>bought my first house<\/li>\n<li>gotten a Swedish driver&#8217;s license in the era when it was a nightmare from hell to do so<\/li>\n<li>gotten the first job I applied for in Sweden<\/li>\n<li>built a house (well, not ME personally, but you know what I mean)<\/li>\n<li>mastered HTML and learned web design<\/li>\n<li>been the editor\/writer\/designer of a monthly print &#038; web newsletter for 5 years<\/li>\n<li>began keeping a reading list, FINALLY<\/li>\n<li>joined a choir again, FINALLY<\/li>\n<li>began a journal<\/li>\n<li>started work on an art project, my collage book<\/li>\n<li>made some life-long friends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s after midnight, which means it&#8217;s January 11th, and officially the anniversary of the day I moved to Sweden 7 years ago. My sister-in-law and I talked a bit about it tonight when we were over there for her son&#8217;s 7th birthday (I went straight from the airport to the hospital to see the new baby). She asked me if I regretted the move at all or if I felt like this was home now. No and yes, which it felt nice to be able to answer her. I miss the States sometimes, especially Chicago, but missing it and wanting&#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":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6356,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}