Goodbye 2015, and hello 2016! I swore I\u2019d write one of these retrospective posts a year ago, so here it goes.<\/p>\n
I did some traveling this year, largely for either work or weddings. In 2015, I attended the weddings of Rica & Jon, Tim & Roz, Jazz & Dom and Siena & Andy. My mom also cashed in on taking a big birthday trip and we went to the Galapagos as a family. I apparently took 22 days off from work. Yay unlimited vacation policy.<\/p>\n
Places I\u2019ve Been:<\/strong><\/span> In 2015, I resolved (whatever that really means) to do a couple things:<\/p>\n Books I\u2019ve Read:<\/strong><\/span> (55, assuming I can count) Another exercise in concentration — finishing by knit & crochet projects (without buying more yarn) Annnnd that\u2019s 2015. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s other stuff worth that may be notable, but this feels awkward enough so I\u2019ll stop here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Goodbye 2015, and hello 2016! I swore I\u2019d write one of these retrospective posts a year ago, so here it goes. I did some traveling this year, largely for either work or weddings. In 2015, I attended the weddings of Rica & Jon, Tim & Roz, Jazz & Dom and Siena & Andy. My mom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,152],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-151","tag-year-in-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nManila (ish), Philippines
\nBoracay, Philippines
\nHong Kong
\nLas Vegas, NV* (two trips, one work and one for GP Vegas)
\nPortland, OR*
\nQuito, Ecuador
\nGalapagos Islands, Ecuador
\nGuayaquil, Ecuador
\nDallas, TX*
\nAustin, TX*
\nSacramento, CA
\nPasadena, CA
\nNew York, NY*
\nBoston, MA*
\n* Work trips<\/p>\n\n
\nRead more books — I started to notice that my already short attention span was deteriorating from reading Facebook posts and Buzzfeed lists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nComplications: A Surgeon\u2019s Notes on an Imperfect Science<\/strong> by Atul Gawande
\nMoth Smoke<\/strong> by Mohsin Hamid
\nLandline<\/strong> by Rainbow Rowell
\nThe Blood of Flowers<\/strong> by Anita Amirrenzvani
\nBangkok Daze<\/strong> by William Sparrow
\nFear of Flying<\/strong> by Erica Jong
\nThe Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness<\/strong> by Karen Armstrong
\nMiss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children<\/strong> by Ransom Riggs
\nThe Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism<\/strong> by Naoki Higashida, K.A. Yoshida
\nGo It Alone!<\/strong> by Bruce Judson
\nThe Marriage Plot<\/strong> by Jeffrey Eugenides
\n18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done<\/strong> by Peter Bregman
\nThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up<\/strong> by Marie Kondo
\nIt\u2019s What I Do: A Photographer\u2019s Life of Love and War<\/strong> by Lynsey Addario
\nThe Wind Up Bird Chronicle<\/strong> by Haruki Murakami
\nPredictable Revenue<\/strong> by Aaron Ross
\nThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/strong> by Junot Diaz
\n#GIRLBOSS<\/strong> by Sophia Amoruso
\nThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/strong> by Rebecca Skloot
\nTwelve Years a Slave<\/strong> by Solomon Northup
\nAll the Light We Cannot See<\/strong> by Anthony Doerr
\nThe Invention of Wings<\/strong> by Sue Monk Kidd
\nThe Divergent Series<\/strong> (all the books\u2026 1-4.5?) by Veronica Roth
\nNever Let Me Go<\/strong> by Kazuo Ishiguro
\nMortal Instruments Series<\/strong> (1-6) by Cassandra Clare
\nCreative Confidence\u00a0<\/strong>by Tom Kelley & David Kelley
\nTheir Eyes Were Watching God<\/strong> by Zora Neale Hurston
\nReady Player One<\/strong> by Ernest Cline
\nTrigger Warning<\/strong> by Neil Gaiman
\nMaze Runner Series<\/strong> (1-3) by James Dashner
\nThe Idealist: Jefferey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty<\/strong> by Nina Munk
\nThe Challenger Sale<\/strong> by Matthew Dixon
\nHeads in Beds<\/strong> by Tomsky Jacob
\nThe World Until Yesterday<\/strong> by Jared Diamond
\nHeather Wells Series<\/strong> (1-4) by Meg Cabot
\nBehind the Beautiful Forevers<\/strong> by Katherine Boo
\nThe Collector<\/strong> by John Fowles
\nEvery Day Is For the Thief<\/strong> by Teju Cole
\nEmperor of All Maladies<\/strong> by Siddhartha Mukherjee
\nStation Eleven<\/strong> by Emily St.John Mandel
\nSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind<\/strong> by Yuval Noah Harari
\nThe Three Body Problem<\/strong> by Cixin Liu & Ken Liu<\/p>\n
\nFinished Objects – Knit + Crochet<\/strong><\/span>: (17)
\n3 Bicycle Wheels<\/a> hats (gifts for Jonny, Yama and Shamiq)
\nOrzhov gloves for Shamiq (my own pattern)
\nCrochet hexagon baby blanket (gift, made up a pattern)
\nfreeform-ish Triangle shawl (gift)
\n3 crochet pot holders
\ngrey knit hat (color block, no pattern) for me
\ngrey knit hat (triangles, no pattern) for Shamiq
\nshades of grey (ha) crochet shawl (no pattern)
\nHabu lace scarf (no pattern)
\nblack and brown Cupido Cowl<\/a> (adapted)
\nHerringbone Cowl<\/a> (adapted)
\nshort-row hat for shamiq (no pattern)
\nSong of the Sea Cowl<\/a> (merry christmas, mom)<\/p>\n