In the style of everybody else I know I thought I'd post my year in review. 2006 was a crazy, crazy year for me.
January:
- Rode my first decent EFA dressage test
- Said goodbye to family and friends
- Moved to Columbia MD for three months to work at OmniTI.
February:
- Began work in MD, working on Ecelerity webconsole
- Made new friends, found a place to ride, met lots of new horsy people
- Fell over on the ice a lot
- Fell in love with working at OmniTI
March:
- Finished work on Ecelerity 2.1
- Got disgustingly homesick
- Got promoted to Director of Web Development, and made tentative plans to stay in MD
April:
- Tore the cartilage in my knee and began eight miserable weeks on crutches and doped up on painkillers
- Thanked the powers that be for my friends who helped me in this crisis when I was on the opposite site of the planet from my husband and support system
- Was visited by Luke
- Spoke at MySQL UC, on crutches
May:
- Chris became a Principal
- Finally had knee surgery and could walk again
- Started riding again
June:
- Spoke at NYPHP
- Babysat the office while everybody else was out of town
- Spoke at ApacheCon in Dublin
July:
- Went home for the first time since January
- Went to OSCON and gave a tute and a talk
August:
- Returned to MD, further homesickness ensued.
- Went to Germany for long awaited vacation with Luke
September:
- Travelled to Microsoft for the Web Dev summit
- Moved to our new, bigger office in Columbia, started hiring a few more staff to fill it
October:
- Spoke at ApacheCon in Austin and DCPHP
- Rode in my first US horse trials (and was 5th)
- Had a hideous car accident
November:
- Appointed Principal and took a trip home to celebrate
December:
- Moved into my own house in MD at last
- Divisional Champion at a jumper show
- Trip home, Christmas, need I say more?
It's been a year of amazing ups and downs. Here's hoping 2007 has just as many ups and less downs.
I took a photo as a marker of where I am right now:
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
-Benjamin Franklin
Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
- Arundhati Roy
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