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wow! 2006… what a year, huh? it’s pretty cool for me to look back on this year in particular and actually be able to see a change. i feel that most of my new year’s celebrations don’t usually include much reflection. i’m not sure why that is, but this year it feels much different. from where i am now, i’m able too look back and actually remember where i was and what i was doing “this time last year.” it’s weird, but very cool. i think this year feels so different because it was the first year away from home and FULL of change.

about this time last year i was down in btown celebrating the new year at dan stoner’s house. meredith and i were preparing our move out to seattle and things were quite a bit different than they are now.

in only ONE year (365 days) meredith and i moved from indiana to seattle, first living in the austin house. we lived there for about 3 months and then moved into the honey bucket. we lived there for about 4 months and then moved into the hotbox, and we’ve only been living here for about 4 months now. that’s a lot of moving in 1 year!

it’s interesting to see that we’ve slowly been moving even further west with each move. maybe by this time next year we’ll be living on the coast. ha!

meredith has had like three or four jobs and i’m on my second. she’s been taking care of autistic children (and reporting abusive caregivers in the process), working nights on a crisis hotline, and practically living at a dog ranch. me on the other hand? i was the web designer at a scuba shop on westlake for about 6 months and then nintendo decided to pay me to play video games 40 hours a week. currently i’m in the call center, but i hope to go back to game testing a few weeks.

i helped launch zinedistro.org and then went to sxsw to promote it. i also designed, developed, and launched ListYourList almost exclusively on my own. after a deep saturation into the world of computers, i got a little sick of it all and successfully transfered about 10 different websites off my server. at this point i am not personally hosting any websites, and i literally can feel less weight on my shoulders.

a few months ago i started a HUGE push to upload all of my photos onto flickr. i’m about half way done at this point, and plan on getting that totally wrapped up before summer because…

my new year’s resolution is to take about 4 months off (may – aug), and i want to spend most of that time outside taking a shit load of pictures with my soon to be new camera (canon rebel xti).

i’m sure i did other cool things this year. do you remember anything in particular that i left out? leave me a comment and let me know.

happy freaking new year