{"id":3636,"date":"2010-02-02T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2010-02-02T09:43:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T14:43:01","slug":"blog-is-five-years-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/blog-is-five-years-old-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog is five years old today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, can you believe it?  <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/omg-im-a-blogger\/\">Five years ago<\/a> today, I dipped my toe in the Internet Ocean and have been dog-paddling madly across the sea ever since!<\/p>\n<p>Five years!  Wowza.  And to celebrate, I dust off an old favourite meme that I&#8217;ve done at least two or three times before: the Time Traveler meme.  Because that&#8217;s what anniversaries for, right?  Taking a moment to look back down the path you&#8217;ve trod and shaking your head in wonder that you ever made it through at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15 years ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>about a month away from meeting the man of my dreams.<\/li>\n<li>living in a rented room in a house on Holland Avenue.  (It was supposed to be a shared house, but I never really felt like any space except the bedroom was mine.)<\/li>\n<li>scrambling to find a way for the government to transfer me back to London so I could be near my family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10 years ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>starting the first in a series of medical appointments that would result, in about two months, with our official &#8220;infertility&#8221; diagnosis.<\/li>\n<li>making arrangements to buy our tiny garden home off Uplands from the landlord we&#8217;d been renting from for a year.<\/li>\n<li>about to start an assignment with Industry Canada, my first official communications position and the first fork in the road that led to my current job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5 years ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>starting back to work after a one-year maternity leave with Simon.<\/li>\n<li>getting organized for Tristan&#8217;s first out-of-house birthday party at Cosmic Adventures, at age three.<\/li>\n<li>sending <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/omg-im-a-blogger\/\">my very first blog post<\/a> guilelessly off into the Internet!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1 year ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>starting back to work after a one-year maternity leave with Lucas.<\/li>\n<li>coming back to a new job in an area of communications I hadn&#8217;t worked in before, in a newly-reduced four-day work week.<\/li>\n<li>publicly revealing my <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/an-old-blog-a-new-project\/\">two-week-old<\/a> 365 project!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>This year I am:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>absolutely delighted with my new job as Web manager for the Army.  (Didn&#8217;t see that one coming last year!!)<\/li>\n<li>still searching for that elusive balance between work outside and inside the home, but making progress.<\/li>\n<li>very, very busy but very, very happy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Today I:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>am feeling like I&#8217;ve got the world by the tail.<\/li>\n<li>am preparing for a meeting downtown tomorrow with Google.  Yes, that Google!<\/li>\n<li>am wearing a spectacular new purple (!) bra that I acquired this weekend from Bra Chic. \ud83d\ude09  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Next year I hope:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to be a permanent member of the Army team (just waiting for the paperwork to get resolved) and stop feeling like a deer in the headlights every time an issue comes up.<\/li>\n<li>to continue having fun with my social media, blogging and photography addictions.<\/li>\n<li>to be doing more or less exactly what I&#8217;m doing now &#8212; but better!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(You like the vagueness here?  Goal-setting was never one of my strengths!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>In five years I hope:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to be thinking about looking for a four-bedroom house.<\/li>\n<li>to be more comfortable in a management role.<\/li>\n<li>to have all three boys in school full-time and finally be free of the trials and tribulations of daycare once and for all!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun to have a record of these year after year, and see the amazing twists and turns in my own life over the last decade or so.  Let me know if you play along!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, can you believe it? Five years ago today, I dipped my toe in the Internet Ocean and have been dog-paddling madly across the sea ever since! Five years! Wowza. And to celebrate, I dust off an old favourite meme that I&#8217;ve done at least two or three times before: the Time Traveler meme. 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