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2010 Foreshadowings Review

2011 Year In Review

Similar to last year, I’m going to do another year in review for 2011.  I like lists and I like them even more when they are grouped so the format will be the same as 2010.  Everyone ready?  Let’s do this:

January

• I did some foreshadowings, results of which will be a later post
• Kicked off an Epic iTunes music quest
• Restlesssoul turned 8 years old 
• Took a spontaneous weekend trip to the ‘Couve and ate Caribou at Le Croc

February

• Started coaching runners for Team Challenge
• Started listening to Oldies music all the time 
• Quit my job at VMware
• Had one of my favorite all-time conversations with Leslie

March

• Started working full time at Point Inside!
• Jimmy’s Bachelor Party in Scottsdale, AZ
• Went to my first ever Spring Training game (Go Mariners!)
• Ran a road race that was really more about drinking beer

April

• Rang in my 30th year with a shuffleboard and sounders party
• Did some live band Karaoke with Mike McCready of Pearl Jam
• Won a field pass for a Sounders game
• Worked a ton
• Ran/Coached a ton

May

• My first WWE Raw event with Leslie, Streeter, and Megan
• Learned a valuable lesson
• Worked a ton
• Ran/Coached a ton

June

• Saw my new nephew, Ethan, for the first time!
• Went to a wedding in West Virginia with Adam Duritz (and Leslie)
• Discovered the 90s on 9 XM Radio channel
• Discovered Turntable.fm!
• Dropped a tree on my car
• Finished my epic iTunes quest
• Got some sweet shots of Penny doing agility

July

• Best man at Jimmy’s Wedding in Portland, OR
• Took the Team Challenge team to Napa for a 1/2 Marathon!
• Made it to my 50th state (Alaska!)
• Saw my first whale
• Saw way too many bears and way too close

August

• Grandma J’s funeral, RIP Grams!
• Laser Gaga with Leslie
• Won some tickets to the Michigan Football home opener
• “Starred” in a documentary about Mike McCready
• Kim’s Facebook wedding of the century
• Discovered Instagram!

September

• Got into this new fad called stocking.  I hear it’s the new planking
• Watched Michigan play at home under the lights for the first time in history and somehow managed to not lose to Notre Dame while only playing for 1 quarter. Bless you, Denard!
• Scored a VIP backstage pass to a Pearl Jam concert in Vancouver. (Thanks Mike!)
• Got one of the best(?) fortunes ever.
• Puyallup Fair! Funnel Cakes!

October

• Celebrated 1 year of marriage!
• Won the US Open Cup for the 3rd year in a row
• Went to Columbus for Joe’s wedding, met some interesting people
• Celebrated Penny’s 3rd Birthday!
• Got my new MacBook Air (love it).
• Started reading Three And Out, very frustrating and depressing book.

November

• Made a mixtape for the first time in forever
• Went to Michael Jackson: The Immortal Cirque Du Soleil show (my first!)
• Watched my cousin run in the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Spokane, WA (Go Aimee!)
• Took Leslie to Indy for Thanksgiving for the first time
• Launched Pupgrade!

December

• Found probably my favorite song of the year. Definitely going on the next mixtape
• No more Gowalla (le sigh)
• Brand spankin’ new office for Point Inside!
• Lost to my wife in fantasy football playoffs.  Half proud of her, half embarrassed for myself.
• Scored me some sweet handerpants at a white elephant gift exchange!  Can’t wait to nightblog.
• Did some sweet New Years skiing at Alpental

That is a ton of links but I think it just about wraps it up for 2011!  Great year and I’m looking forward to 2012.  I’ll have my foreshadowings up soon.

Foreshadowings

Since I’m trying to be more “bloggy” lately, I’ll go ahead and throw out a new years resolution post.  However, instead of just making a yearly list of “get in shape”, “read 10 books”, and “eat healthier” I will make it both things I want to do and things I am going to do.  I will have to give it a new name too since “New Years Resolutions” doesn’t quite sum it up. How about “New Years Foreshadowings”?  Yes, that will do.  Done.  So here we go, on with the show!

Things that will happen this year:

1. 5 (6? Maybe a 7th?) Weddings between June and October.  One in Seattle, one on the west coast, and the rest on the other side of the country.
2. Learn to snowboard.
3. Leave my twenties behind & Celebrate 1st year of marriage.
4. Take a tropical/warm weather vacation somewhere
5. See Michael Jackson: THE IMMORTAL World Tour on Nov 9 (very excited!)

Things that should happen this year:

1. Start coaching.  Be it soccer or running I am really ready to stop playing as much and start getting back into the coaching aspect.  
2. See a Michigan home football game (from a luxury box?)
3. Make a career move.  Intentionally ambiguous so that a promotion, job title change, new job, starting my own thing, or going back to school all count.
4. Take a cooking class.
5. Get new skis and start really skiing

Things that probably will not happen, but I hope they do:

1. Go to Alaska via boat.  I have been to 49 of the 50 states and Alaska is my last one.  My Father-in-law runs charters up to and from Alaska every once in a while on his boat.  I have placed my name in the deckhand hat so fingers crossed that he gets a charter this summer
2. Travel internationally. Related to the previous entry, I have never been to a foreign country (Canada doesn’t count).
3. Write a Kindle Single.
4. Go fishing.
5. Climb Mt. Rainier.

There you go.  Let’s see how good I am at foreshadowing this year.  See you on Dec 31, 2011!