{"id":3277,"date":"2014-01-01T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2014-01-01T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T03:38:08","slug":"happy-new-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/happy-new-year-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago I was gasping for breath, making lousy business decisions with too little oxygen fueling my brain, and wondering how\u2014if\u2014I would ever get my fever down.<\/p>\n<p>This year I got to spend New Year&#8217;s with friends and family, laughing, telling stories, playing with Tarot cards and Rune stones (research for the sequel to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/groundedseries.com\">Grounded<\/a><\/em>) and generally having a great time.<\/p>\n<p>What a difference a year makes.<\/p>\n<p>Lots is changing\/happening for me in 2014:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thing 1 will enter high school.<\/li>\n<li>We will, most likely, have to move (again).<\/li>\n<li>I will\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cognitiveanchoring.com\">start (have already started) blogging a book on Cognitive Anchoring<\/a> (and how knitting is soooooo good for your brain).<\/li>\n<li>We will be releasing the next <a href=\"http:\/\/wwmdfk.com\"><em>What Would Madame Defarge Knit?<\/em><\/a> book (the Shakespeare book).<\/li>\n<li>I will (God willing and the creeks don&#8217;t rise) release the sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/groundedseries.com\"><em>Grounded<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I will stop posting new episodes of Just-the-Books podcast in order to focus on gainful employment (!) and still have time to continue writing and hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\"><em>CraftLit<\/em><\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?page_id=5566\">Premium Podcast<\/a> (doing <a href=\"http:\/\/craftlit.libsyn.com\/podcast\"><em>Bleak House<\/em><\/a> right now&#8230; and forever&#8230;).<\/li>\n<li>In February 2014 I&#8217;ll start <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Gaskell\">Elizabeth Gaskell<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_and_South_(1855_novel)\"><em>North and South<\/em><\/a> on <em>CraftLit<\/em>. I&#8217;ll also have more audio chats with our friend-of-the-show and Victorian Lit\/Elizabeth Gaskell professor, Larry Uffelman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly grateful for you being on the weird ride with me that 2013 was. Good things like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cooperativepress.com\/products-page\/books\/what-else-would-madame-defarge-knit-2\/\"><em>What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?<\/em><\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/groundedseries.com\">Grounded<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gum.co\/swYN\"><em>Novel Socks<\/em><\/a>, weird things like my 3am crowdsourcing to find a diagnoses after my pneumonia vaccine apparently paralyzed my arm. All of it\u2014glad you were there.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it was a weird year. I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s past. And I&#8217;m\u00a0<em>really<\/em> looking forward to 2014 and seeing you there with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago I was gasping for breath, making lousy business decisions with too little oxygen fueling my brain, and wondering how\u2014if\u2014I would ever get my fever down. 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