{"id":6597,"date":"2012-02-10T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6597"},"modified":"2012-02-10T14:28:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:28:54","slug":"happy-bloggy-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/happy-bloggy-birthday-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Bloggy Birthday to Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">S<\/span>o February is definitely birthday season in our house &#8212; Simon last week, Lucas this week, and my mom a couple of weeks from tomorrow.  But there&#8217;s another birthday squeezed in there &#8212; SEVEN years ago last week I wrote my first blog post. Who could have ever guessed where it would lead?  I can&#8217;t even begin to enumerate all the great things that have happened in my life due to this crazy little blog, but who would have guessed it would have lead to a career in social media and a part-time photography business? Those are no small potatoes!<\/p>\n<p>A few of you have been here from the very beginning, when the blog lived on blogspot and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/web\/web.php\">wayback machine <\/a>says blog looked like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Capture-blog-2005-500x423.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Capture - blog 2005\" width=\"500\" height=\"423\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6599\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Capture-blog-2005-500x423.jpg 500w, http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Capture-blog-2005.jpg 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(I don&#8217;t miss that design, but it was fun to see my little footprints I loved so much back then!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Capture-blog-2005-feetsies-500x389.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Capture - blog 2005 feetsies\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6598\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Capture-blog-2005-feetsies-500x389.jpg 500w, http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Capture-blog-2005-feetsies.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you joined the party a little later, you might remember this design:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Capture-blog-2007-500x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Capture - blog 2007\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Capture-blog-2007-500x237.jpg 500w, http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Capture-blog-2007-1024x487.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Capture-blog-2007.jpg 1343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d almost forgotten about the crayons!  And funny, that was my &#8216;look&#8217; for two years.  Tempus fugit, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of fugiting tempuses, I try to update this &#8220;time traveller&#8221; meme every couple of years, just because it&#8217;s fun to look back and see what a lousy prognosticator I am. <\/p>\n<p><strong>15 years ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Living in sin with Beloved in our tiny two-bedroom attic apartment in the Glebe.<\/li>\n<li>About a year away from finishing my degree.<\/li>\n<li>Driving an antiquated but dearly loved little black Mazda 323 hatchback everywhere<\/li>\n<p>.<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10 years ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fatly, blissfully pregnant and already on my maternity leave in anticipation of Tristan&#8217;s arrival one month hence.<\/li>\n<li>Fresh from an assignment with Industry Canada, my first official job in communications with the government.<\/li>\n<li>Busy teaching myself HTML and building our first family website on Geocities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5 years ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trying very hard to get over the loss of one pregnancy and just a few months shy of discovering another.<\/li>\n<li>Just about to find out that I would be creating a social media team for the CRA.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/\">Blogging about <\/a>dead iPods and stomach viruses and the search for decent daycare<\/li>\n<p>.<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1 year ago today I would have been:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working with the Army and becoming increasingly unhappy.<\/li>\n<li>Turning my toe anxiously in the carpet as I tried to decide if I was &#8220;good enough&#8221; to officially try to sell myself as a family and portrait photographer. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/\">Blogging about <\/a>photography and Ottawa and our quirky home in Manotick<\/li>\n<p>.<\/ul>\n<p><strong>This year I am:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So very happy to be back with the CRA where I belong, and extremely happy to be leading the social media team. Again! \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Still a little overwhelmed by the success of the whole photography thing &#8212; did I tell you I got FIVE bookings this week? That&#8217;s almost a third of all the jobs I did in all of 2011!!<\/li>\n<li>In shock that Lucas &#8212; my baby! &#8212; is off to junior kindergarten later this year<\/li>\n<p>.<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Today I:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got the world by the tail. <\/li>\n<li>Am toying with the idea of a blog redesign.<\/li>\n<li>Would like to lose about 10 lbs before summer<\/li>\n<p>.<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Next year I hope:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To continue to grow all facets of the photography business.<\/li>\n<li>To be planning a vacation for somewhere that involves an ocean.<\/li>\n<li>To get back to blogging more like I used to back in the day<\/li>\n<p>.<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In five years I hope:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To be within a decade of (gasp!) retirement.<\/li>\n<li>To stop being freaked out by the idea of being within a decade of retirement.<\/li>\n<li>To have all three boys in school full time (gasp! with one in high school!) and free of the daycare dilemma forever!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(You know what I learn from doing this meme every couple of years? I am really good at setting and pursuing short-term goals, but I continue to be a lousy<br \/>\n at making any sort of long-term plan. <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/11\/in-which-she-engages-in-a-bit-of-navel-gazing-and-self-discovery\/\">ENFP<\/a> anyone?)<\/p>\n<p>This is a fun meme, and it&#8217;s fun to look back on where I&#8217;ve been and how far off my expectations and ambitions have been!  And hey, can you believe I&#8217;ve been doing this for SEVEN YEARS?!?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So February is definitely birthday season in our house &#8212; Simon last week, Lucas this week, and my mom a couple of weeks from tomorrow. But there&#8217;s another birthday squeezed in there &#8212; SEVEN years ago last week I wrote my first blog post. Who could have ever guessed where it would lead? I can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/happy-bloggy-birthday-to-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Bloggy Birthday to Me!&#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":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-is-all-about-me","category-meta-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597","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=6597"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6631,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597\/revisions\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}