{"id":10278,"date":"2015-01-14T08:24:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T13:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=10278"},"modified":"2015-01-14T12:27:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:27:40","slug":"time-travel-the-201510th-anniversary-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/time-travel-the-201510th-anniversary-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Time travel &#8211; the 2015\/10th anniversary edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">C<\/span>an you believe the blog is TEN YEARS OLD this month? I&#8217;ve been blogging for a <em>decade<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/header-history-collage-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"header history collage\" title=\"header history collage\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/header-history-collage-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/header-history-collage-500x332.jpg 500w, http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/header-history-collage.jpg 1045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not the only milestone anniversary I&#8217;m celebrating in 2015. Mothership Photography is five years old this summer. In March, I&#8217;ll be celebrating the 25th anniversary (!!) of my first day of work with CRA and Beloved and I will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the day we met.  That&#8217;s a bonanza of things to celebrate, so I&#8217;m hoping to do a whole series of retrospective posts in the next little while. I figured I&#8217;d launch it with this little meme I first published in <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/02\/07\/time-travel\/\">2005<\/a> and revisited in <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/time-travel-redux\/\">2006<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/time-travel-recycled-and-re-used\/\">2009<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/blog-is-five-years-old-today\/\">2010<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/happy-bloggy-birthday-to-me\/\">2012<\/a> &#8211; heh, I have always been a little guilty of repeating myself.  <\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s the 10th anniversary edition of the time traveller meme!<\/p>\n<p><strong>25 years ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nStill in the &#8220;practice marriage&#8221; to my first husband<\/li>\n<li>\nJust moving back to Ottawa after a failed attempt to move back to my hometown of London, ON<\/li>\n<li>\nUnemployed (for the only time in my life) after having quit my job as a cashier supervisor at Zellers in hopes of getting a job with the government. I&#8217;d quit university to work full time at Zellers a few years before.<\/li>\n<li>\nAbout to move out of my in-laws&#8217; house to an apartment in Vanier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>15 years ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nA newlywed, coming up on our first anniversary and our infertility diagnosis<\/li>\n<li>\nFreshly graduated (<em>magna cum laude<\/em>, no less!) from the University of Ottawa<\/li>\n<li>\nLiving in a tiny condo townhouse off Hunt Club<\/li>\n<li>\nWorking on assignment with Industry Canada in my first comms job in government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10 years ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nJust coming back to work in public affairs at CRA after my maternity leave with Simon<\/li>\n<li>\nWondering how I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d ever balance work and life with two toddlers<\/li>\n<li>\nLiving in a townhouse in Barrhaven<\/li>\n<li>\nAbout to launch Postcards from the Mothership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5 years ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nFinishing up my first year of working part-time four days a week, and (temporarily, as it turns out) working with Army News on web and social media<\/li>\n<li>\nJust about to move from Barrhaven to Manotick<\/li>\n<li>\nOn the cusp of launching Mothership Photography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1 year ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nStarting my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153one decade to retirement\u00e2\u20ac\u009d countdown but still enjoying my work as the social media lead for CRA<\/li>\n<li>\nScouring the internet for PEI cottage rental information<\/li>\n<li>\nFinding out about my photo being used on the first of three <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/01\/23\/five-years-of-project-365-and-my-photo-on-a-book-cover\/ \">book covers<\/a> last year <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>This year I am:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nSuper excited to have booked not one but TWO weeks in PEI later this summer<\/li>\n<li>\nPretty much obsessed with PEI <\/li>\n<li>\nCelebrating 25 years since my first day of work with what was then Revenue Canada Customs, Excise and Taxation<\/li>\n<li>\nStill in love with my camera, and blogging, and social media in general<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Today I:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nAm proud that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also learned in the past year or so how to cook and eat real, whole foods and cut processed foods out of our family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s diet almost entirely<\/li>\n<li>\nAm cooking recipes for dinner I learned from Chef Michael Smith<\/li>\n<li>\nMet my activity goal of 10,000 steps<\/li>\n<li>\nFeel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty much on track on this whole \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lead a good life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d thing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and am so grateful for that fact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Next year I hope:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nThat my life has more PEI, more photos, more gratitude, more family joy, more home cooking \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and maybe five less pounds \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>\nAnd &#8212; maybe a kitchen reno, finances willing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In five years I hope:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nTo be within four years (gasp!) of retirement\t<\/li>\n<li>\nTo have nurtured the blog and photography business to greater successes<\/li>\n<li>\nTo have taught myself graphic design skills I can use for both the photography and blog businesses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And speaking of time travel, you know what else is significant about 2015? It&#8217;s the year Marty McFly visited when he and Doc Brown visited the future from 1985. We just watched Back to the Future parts I and II with the boys over Christmas &#8211; speaking of revisiting, if you haven&#8217;t seen them lately, they really do stand up to the test of time! Turns out that&#8217;s what I was doing 30 years ago &#8211; watching Back to the Future for the first time in theatres as a shy, awkward, boy-crazy dreamer who only wanted to get married and have babies. If only I&#8217;d had the faintest idea how much more awesome life would turn out than I could have imagined back then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe the blog is TEN YEARS OLD this month? I&#8217;ve been blogging for a decade. And that&#8217;s not the only milestone anniversary I&#8217;m celebrating in 2015. Mothership Photography is five years old this summer. In March, I&#8217;ll be celebrating the 25th anniversary (!!) of my first day of work with CRA and Beloved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/time-travel-the-201510th-anniversary-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time travel &#8211; the 2015\/10th anniversary edition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,103,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-asides","category-flashback-faves","category-it-is-all-about-me","category-meta-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10278"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10323,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}