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<\/center><\/p>\nJuly 19th was my 17th blogiversary and it passed quietly because of school and things in my personal life. As a way of ignoring the crappy health news I got today, here are are some ways my life has changed since I started blogging on July 19, 2000<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 1 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I’ve come full-circle in terms of relationships.<\/strong> When I started this blog, I was dating Jon. Then we went through our long engagement, marriage, a short separation, and now divorce. It’s a painful realization in a lot of ways but it also provides me with a record of the good times that I can look back upon eventually.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 2 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I have lived in five states.<\/strong> I had spent my life in California and was living with my parents over the summer before my senior year of college. Since then, I have lived in: Ohio, Minnesota, Montana, California (again), and now Washington. I’m glad to have had these experiences in seeing how people across the country live.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 3 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I am no longer vegetarian.<\/strong> I added meat back into my diet in December 2000 and while I don’t eat a lot of it, I have not given it up again except for Lenten purposes<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 4 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I have stopped coding largely by hand.<\/strong> For the first year, I coded by hand and then went to Livejournal, two iterations of Greymatter, Movable Type, back to Greymatter, b2, and then WordPress 12ish years ago. It’s good to know how to do some of it still so I can fix sidebars but I’d have to learn PHP to be able to create my own themes.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 5 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I’m Episcopalian again.<\/strong> At the time I started blogging, I was attending my Episcopal church at home and then attending an evangelical church at school. Eventually, I attended an LCMS<\/a> church, went ELCA<\/a> for 10 years, AALC<\/a> for three years, and then became Episcopalian again.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 6 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I have 1.5 degrees and am getting another one.<\/strong> I graduated with my B.A. 11 months after starting the blog, worked on an MTS, and am now doing an ATA.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 7 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n I’m missing a body part or two.<\/strong> I gave up my gallbladder in 2005 and there is less liver than there was originally due to scar tissue from the gallbladder issues.<\/p>\n For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at This Ain’t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 19th was my 17th blogiversary and it passed quietly because of school and things in my personal life. As a way of ignoring the crappy health news I got today, here are are some ways my life has changed … Continue reading