Anyway, most of this past week was at home relaxing after we got back from the last bit of Cuba. Anyway, today was a lazy day otherwise and some sports to watch at night.Ī while back I realized that the weeks weren’t adding up…I’m at week 50 and the year is over…hmmm I must’ve done the math wrong somewhere, I’ll have to see if I can rectify that. Then someone did it again in Cienfuegos (the two separate pictures) and I laughed pretty hard. A few years ago, in China, there was a few month stretch where I had people randomly sketching me left and right, of course they wanted some money but it was like they were popping up everywhere! So when someone sketched Amy and I (the color sketch) in Havana I chuckled as I recalled those days in China. I did, however, have these sketches to look back at and laugh. It was a great end to 2016!ĭecember 30: I was spending some time today looking though photos from our trip when all of the sudden my computer just shut down and I can’t get it to turn back on. We saw the “viejos” getting set up and started hearing signs of the fireworks to come at midnight. We got lucky and avoided any of that silliness! We had a nice dinner and a few drinks and then took a walk around 11. They will beg for beer money, to the point of blocking traffic. These are the “viudas” or widows, apparently of the men who are being burned that night. Based on the amount of these that we saw around town, there are going to be a lot of fires at midnight! The other thing we saw was all sorts of men dressed up as women, wigs and all. These were a little scary, as it turns out these get burned tonight at midnight to represent the end of the “bad” past year and hoping that the new year a will bring better things. First off, there are people selling life-size effigies made out of old clothes and newspaper. I asked an Ecuadorean colleague about them and got some explanations. We’ve seen some weird things around here, weird to us anyway. So, not only did my resolution make my year better each day but it will be able to lift me up when I’m feeling down in the future □ĭecember 31: Well, here it is, the last day of the year. Even now, as I look back through the year there are a lot of pictures and memories that make me smile and bring me happiness. However, thanks to my resolution to take one picture every day of something that made me happy, I was able to (and will be able too) appreciate those moments.Ģ016 was a great year! There were times where taking a picture on a particular day was a challenge, especially some of those lazy weekends where I didn’t do much of anything! However, knowing that I needed a picture did, at times, drive me to get up and doing something I enjoyed just so I had a picture…a win-win. Most of the memories, looking back, were of mundane things that would have (perhaps) otherwise been passing occurrences. To stop and reflect and appreciate the things going on around me. The reason I started this resolution was to focus on the positive each and every day. I didn’t know how it would go or if I’d have the endurance to make it through, but I did! What follows from here is my year in review, in reverse order. I began this year with my first ever New Year’s resolution. This section is the result of my first ever New Year’s resolution, it documents my 2016 and my many moments of happiness in reverse chronological order. I wrote at the end of 2015 about happiness and shared some ideas about all the amazing things life has to offer. As a generally happy person this wasn’t a hard thing for me to commit to but it’s going to be a test of my organization and dedication to see if I can get a picture each day. This section is dedicated to focusing on and documenting things that make me happy in my day-to-day life.
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