{"id":4165,"date":"2017-01-01T20:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T01:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2017-01-01T20:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T01:02:35","slug":"happy-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/happy-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2017!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, so, uh, did you miss me? Because I kinda missed this blog. But I could never seem to make the time to write in it. Especially as the months went by and I would say &#8220;well, now it&#8217;s been so long&#8230; is this really what I want to write about for my first post after such a very long hiatus?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, it&#8217;s a new year. Let&#8217;s turn over a new leaf. Except you know my leaves. My leaves usually involve a long apology for disappearing, followed by&#8230; a long disappearance. But, I can at least say hi.<\/p>\n<p>Hi!<\/p>\n<p>Life has been good. Busy, but good. Work is sumultaneously fulfilling and exhausting. Lilian is mostly a source of real joy, but also likes to push every single one of my buttons. I&#8217;ve been making a lot of craft projects, but not really sleeping enough. And I signed up to run a half marathon in June, because life was starting to feel slightly less complicated. Let&#8217;s just say that it&#8217;s a very good thing that I married a man who has the patience of a saint, and who knows I&#8217;m a lot less grumpy when I go on regular jogs and make things with my hands.<\/p>\n<p>Kristian gave me a fancy new Cricut cutter (if you have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about, just google it) for Christmas and I&#8217;ve been like Bart Simpson and his label maker with his thing (you should probably go ahead and google that one as well). I was very pleased with the ironic sweatshirt that I made with it&#8230; until I came downstairs with it and Kristian asked me what I did to his favorite shirt. The moral of that particular story is that you should always doublecheck before ironing things onto a hand-me-down from your husband. Also, being good at eBay is a surprisingly useful skill.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BOi13dHB5tE\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Made myself a new hoodie #cricut #hipster #irony<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A photo posted by Hope Roth (@beerandpie) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2016-12-28T02:40:38+00:00\">Dec 27, 2016 at 6:40pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" defer=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kristian got two brand new sweatshirts out of the whole deal. So I think he&#8217;ll forgive me&#8230; eventually.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re currently visiting my grandmother, which seems to have become our New Years tradition. It mostly involves Kristian cooking a steak and us all drinking wine, so it&#8217;s a pretty nice little tradition. Grandma stayed up until midnight this year, but Kristian and I were both in bed by about 10:30. Did I mention that we haven&#8217;t been sleeping enough?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We gave my grandma an Amazon Echo for Christmas and it&#8217;s been wonderful to see how delighted she is with it. When I set it all up for her, she asked me if I could connect her Pandora account to it. How many grandmas do you know who have a Pandora account and an Echo? As I type this, I can hear her chatting away with it. I&#8217;m just so proud at how quickly she picked it all up. I wasn&#8217;t surprised, though. Grandma was a computer programmer back in the day. She&#8217;s a real&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hoperoth.com\/tech\/index.php\/2015\/07\/17\/barbara-roth-technology-pioneer\/\">technology badass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Myself, I recently learned how Snapchat works from my four-year-old. So, I&#8217;ve got that going on for me right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, so, uh, did you miss me? Because I kinda missed this blog. But I could never seem to make the time to write in it. 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