{"id":163,"date":"2006-01-04T12:48:57","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T20:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustinjessen.com\/2006\/01\/04\/back-to-the-ol-grindstone\/"},"modified":"2006-01-04T12:48:57","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T20:48:57","slug":"back-to-the-ol-grindstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/back-to-the-ol-grindstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the &#8216;ol grindstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re 4 days into 2006 and I still haven&#8217;t said Happy New Year to my three faithful readers!\u00c2\u00a0 Please forgive me, and I hope you will continue to visit and read my ramblings throughout this wonderful year.<\/p>\n<p>2005 was incredibly eventful for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I did lots of cool things and met a lot of cool people. Some for work, some not.\u00c2\u00a0 Work itself has been pretty amazing.\u00c2\u00a0 Producing events for a wonderful company is a dream come true, and the thought that I&#8217;ve been doing it for more then a year now really astounds me.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s bitter-sweet though.\u00c2\u00a0 Through my move into new adventures I&#8217;ve had to pass on some of the old adventures that I loved so much.\u00c2\u00a0 The Candlelight processional came and went, Rose Parade bands all shuffled through the park without me, even Santa Clause returned to the north pole before I could go out and say hello.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose it was all meant to be.<\/p>\n<p>So lets get back up to speed.\u00c2\u00a0 When Janey and returned from Utah we realized we hadn&#8217;t made any plans at all for New Years Eve.\u00c2\u00a0 I had just assumed I would be working, but as it turned out I wasn&#8217;t needed.\u00c2\u00a0 So Janey accepted an invitation to go over to her cousin&#8217;s house where some other family and friends were gathering.<\/p>\n<p>It was a nice little get together, though Janey and I are both certain that we would throw a much better party.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure someday in the future we will live together in a big enough place to throw a party. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So I guess that really brings us up to now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00c2\u00a0 the only other big event that I can think of coming up is the birthday of my <a title=\"FindMiMi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.findmimi.com\">wonderful girlfriend<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 She was born on Jan. 5th\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right, tomorrow is my girl&#8217;s birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re planning on celebrating a little later this year (next week).\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;s been wanting to go down to some pier where you choose your own fish from the market and they cook it.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not even sure where it is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but it&#8217;s her day and her celebrations, so I&#8217;ll make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about it for now.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks for reading.\u00c2\u00a0 And I&#8217;ll be back soon.<\/p>\n<p>R.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re 4 days into 2006 and I still haven&#8217;t said Happy New Year to my three faithful readers!\u00c2\u00a0 Please forgive me, and I hope you will continue to visit and read my ramblings throughout this wonderful year. 2005 was incredibly eventful for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I did lots of cool things and met a lot of cool &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/back-to-the-ol-grindstone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to the &#8216;ol grindstone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}