How do I get started again?

So how do you start blogging again when it has been over a year and a half since your last post?

So much has happened in the last 18 months that the only way I can think of to get started up again is just to start posting bullet points and hope that gets the habit started again...

• Finally got off my crutches (as you know from my last post)


• Continued rehabbing my knee both in physical therapy and by working out in the gym at school


• Finished business school classes on Thursday


• Started work with Mercer Management Consulting the following Monday and was staffed on a case the next day (in retrospect, I should have taken a little bit of time off first)


• Graduated business school two Fridays later


• Finished our new house and moved in - pretty close to the scheduled end date


• Anne and I celebrated 10 years of marriage in August of 2006. We took a weeklong Caribbean cruise in October to celebrate


• Isabelle started school for the first time and loved it. Chase started preschool and loved it as well.


• Worked on an airline case for first nine months on the job. Met and worked with some great people and weathered some pretty dicey situations with a client in difficult financial straits, but in the end, the outcome for our work and the client's prospects was quite favorable.


• Got a dog (inherited Maggie from my parents, since she was needing some attention from a house full of kids)


• Took the whole family to a family reunion in Knoxville, TN to watch the Cal - Tennessee game with 108,000 screaming fans at Neyland stadium. What an experience! (and what a horrible loss!)


• Anne finally got her giant Christmas tree (seriously - it's like 16 feet tall and requires like 8 boxes of ornaments, two ladders, and an extra rider on your homeowners' insurance policy to decorate!)


• Went from airline work to retail work around the first of the year and have been there ever since...oh, and the client is in England, so I've been flying back and forth between London and Dallas twice a month since February!


• Mercer Management Consulting combined with several of its sister companies and rebranded under the name Oliver Wyman, the namesake of one of the sister legacy firms and actually one of the firms that Mercer had acquired several years earlier.


• Took a ten day family vacation to Kauai with cousins, aunts, and uncles, and had a blast - again!


• Made the trip (by myself this time) out to Berkeley to watch Cal exact revenge on Tennessee for the pounding they endured at their hands last year


• Have recently decided to transfer to the London office for a year or two - more on that later...

Anyway, hopefully that will get me started again - maybe in my next few posts I can come back and fill in some of the blanks, but for now, I'll just add a photo taken during our Kauai trip this past summer...