#2017recap

[rupertsupportfamily]

Rupert Grint’s 2017 Moments: ‘Snatch’ marks the first job as an executive producer for Rupert

[cake-ademia]

My Bestoftumblr list thing

-click on the month above each photo to be taken to the original post-

December ♥ 24241

November ♥ 71

October ♥ 39

September ♥ 417

August ♥ 83

July ♥ 154

June ♥ 125

May ♥ 370

April ♥ 78

March ♥ 298

February ♥ 2

January ♥ 142

This thing is fun to do so here it is. 

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[sajenicoleblog]

#2017recap Miami nights with @balleralert @ethnicitymodels and @realberniceburgos • • • • • • • • #melaninpoppin #miami #bowlingwithballers #berniceburgos #nevernotworking #2018isgoingtobelit

[elisalromagnoli]

My favorite book that I read in 2017 was by far ‘A Long Way Gone’ by Ishmael Beah. (5/5) This memoir is heart wrenching and eye opening. Definitely on the list of ‘books everyone needs to read once’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #memior #alongwaygone #2017recap #readingtime #ig_reads #goodreads #nonfictionbooks #booklr #bookstagramcommunity #bookstagrammer #amreading #amstoryteller #bookjoy #mustread

[nowgoforth]

2017: Drowning, treading, making waves

It’s enlightening to read all of the drafts that I never published on this blog; some were too personal, some too rambling. Apparently, one of them was my replay of last year. Pretty sure I ran out of time last year and felt it was too late to share. But I’m going to post one this year, in spite of my worsening memory, and highlight some of my learnings and experiences.

This year…

...I lost my team and gained a new one.

Over the course of a month, both of my peers quit. They had different reasons, but it was still a blow. Although one stayed on for an extra month and worked remotely, he was moving back home and didn’t take on too much of the load. I spent March in a daze, doing my best to answer ALL the tickets alone. Everyone who works in support has some hellish moment that they can point to — I think of my year as “before March” and “after March”.

Luckily, my boss at the time quickly brought in two candidates she had sourced, and they changed the game when they started. They took Product Ops to the next level, as my boss planned, and quickly blended into the seams of Lever’s culture. They gave me hope that we could still hire A players.

...I struggled a lot with supporting our support team.

At the same time that I lost my team, we were *finally* hiring for our Tier 1 Support team. The timing couldn’t have been worse. There was no one to build materials, documentation, structure, and a feedback loop. Product Ops spent the year answering the Support team’s questions every day, and still answering the many tickets that were escalated to our queue. It was frustrating and unsustainable. My biggest regret this year is not planning for the day when we’d hire support reps, and then not sounding the alarm immediately after the first cohort was hired.

We eventually hired a Support Manager who just couldn’t be better. He listened to me and my team from day one, built a feedback process, and relieved some of the stress we were experiencing. We still have a long way to go in terms of documenting tribal knowledge, but it WILL happen and our teams will continue to evolve!

...I moved back to SF and into our own studio.

Yes, I just moved to Berkeley last August…our roommates decided to move to Oakland, and I just didn’t love the place they picked. Plus, if you’re going to move, you might as well move closer to work ;) Our space may be small and overpriced, but we haven’t killed each other and yeah, I’m 10x happier being a city girl a bus ride away from anywhere I wanna go.

...I traveled to Joshua Tree and Paris.

My family and my brother’s friend road tripped to Palm Springs, so my dad could use the National Parks pass we bought for him last Christmas. I wasn’t that amazed by the trees, but loved the rock structures and it was a fun little trip. I genuinely like hanging out with my family.

Paris…oh, Paris…I was not physically prepared for how much walking we’d do. Paris was the first international trip for my boyfriend and I, and we realized how different we were in our traveling styles. I love packing in popular sights, whereas he wants to relax and do nothing. It was a trial, but we got through it. I didn’t fall in love with Paris, but I do think I’d like to give it another try someday.

...I gave yoga a chance.

On our trip to Palm Springs, I found out that my brother’s friend was a yoga fanatic. He talked soooo much about yoga that I felt moved to try out a class. I had never liked yoga for various reasons, but I finally understood why so many people practice it. I attribute this turnaround to finding Jenna, a beautifully in-touch and soulful instructor at Wheel House, which was already one of my favorite studios in the city. The first few times I went, she played just the best song during the end of the class when you lay on your mat, and it spoke directly to my heart. I felt open, receptive, like everyone could see everything in me.

I then discovered two amazing instructors on YouTube, and I haven’t found anyone better than them: Yoga with Kassandra and Allie at The Journey Junkie. I became totally dedicated to Allie in particular and joined her online Facebook group and her 21-day program. (Yeah, was I the last one to find out that there are veritable communities in online Facebook groups?? It’s an entire selling point of online wellness businesses!)

For many months, I had a love affair with yoga. At the time that it started in May, I had been feeling stifled, adrift, without purpose. Regularly practicing yoga gave me a sense of peace, allowed me to tune into my body and mind in different ways, and gradually gave me the kick in the pants to get on with my life.

...I flirted with becoming a health coach and yoga teacher.

In October, I volunteered at the soft opening of a women’s clubhouse called The Assembly. There is so much potential in this fitness/coworking/hangout space, and women so need a way to find our community in this city. I’m excited to keep volunteering and supporting their growth when they officially launch in January!

After checking out The Assembly, I came across the concept of a “health coach”. I thought it might be a stepping stone to opening my own wellness space in the future, and I enrolled in an online institute to become one. During the first month, I realized that I had just been searching for a way to progress towards *something*, anything. The program wasn’t for me. I was a bit ashamed of “quitting”, but my boyfriend reminded me that the act of enrolling in and leaving the program was a learning experience that I could fold into my plans for my future. (And I became good friends with my lab partner, who lives across the country!)

Of course, I fluttered onto the next thing and without much direction, I put a deposit into a yoga teacher training program. I loved yoga, so why wouldn’t I want to deepen my practice? I was also really interested in learning more than the physical poses — the philosophy and anatomy aspects are often overlooked.

A couple weeks after, I stumbled upon the Instagram accounts of teachers who proclaimed that the yoga profession needed to adapt, there were more ways to do the poses everyone teaches. Smarter ways to move our bodies. I started to question what I had been practicing. I knew I hadn’t been hurting my body, but was I doing everything that I could to support its future? 

Annnnnd then I did hurt myself, trying to better my chatarunga pose at home. Now, that isn’t all yoga’s fault, it was also my ego thinking that I didn’t need modifications. But I didn’t feel the pain until afterwards, which scared me into realizing I wasn’t very strong at all. I’ve been doing strength training and “boring” but so-needed mobility workouts ever since. I’ve been feeling powerful and happy, and yes, now yoga feels too slow to me again. I’m sure I’ll find the balance someday.

GEEZ, this is one hell of a long post. I’m exhausted! There’s actually more I could write, which shows that I should probably blog more often. If I missed anything important, well…I’m sure they were documented in some way somewhere else. I guess a lot happened this year after all. Funny how the memory works.

Now, for next year…

My word for the year is “movement”. It could also be “progress”, but I am not married to any particular goal, I just don’t wanna sit around on my ass all year again.

I want new challenges and new responsibilities in my career. I want to feel like I’m experimenting, growing, and learning more about what satisfies me. I legit considered leaving tech this year, but all of the changes I’d been seeking? Well, turns out they just didn’t want to be rushed. They’re coming together right now, and some cool things are in the works. More to come next month ;)

I want to keep moving my body in different ways and progressively getting stronger and more mobile. I need to put more care into my health because hello, I’m getting older. In the same vein, I’d like to cook a little more often and try new ways to make my gut happier. I don’t talk about my IBS a lot, but for the first time in years, I’ve had a breakthrough, thanks to a probiotic. So fingers crossed I stay less bloated and more regular!

I want to seriously practice meditation and let go of a lotttttt of shit. I think I’d be a lot happier and more pleasant to work with, if my emotions didn’t control my reactions.

Goals will change and evolve, but my general intention for 2018 is to actively pursue life. I think that’s enough for one year :P

[theadesignstudio]

#davidbowie #quote #2017bestnine #bestnine2017 #bestnine #reflection #tbt #newyear #nye #happynewyear #newyearseve #typography #nikon #collage #photorecap #2017recap #thankyoufollowers

[dreenicorn]

💖2017 BEST NINE💖 Thank you EVERYONE for your support this year!!! 🤗 I hope with the New Year brings many more opportunities to create new and fun illustrations. As the saying goes "Don't wait for opportunity. Create It." Much success to ALL of you in the New Year! 😄 #2017recap #lookback #happynewyear #artistsoninstagram #digitalart #illustration #finishedpieces #traditionalart #2017bestnine

[cherriboiii]

Here are some features of my 2017 Recap on my blog now ✨💃🏾 Link in bio🌻 #2017 #bestof2017 #2017recap #sub4sub #fashionblogger #smallyoutuber #smallyoutubersupport #fashion #style #fashionblog #styleblog #styleblogger #versace2017 #versace #supermodels #naomicampbell #cindycrawford #timemagazine #silencebreakers #metoo

[arthuroproductions-blog]

As 2017 is coming to an end I am just reminiscing on all the amazing things we accomplished R2 Familia! We grew to almost 2,000 subscribers in our first year on YouTube ! We landed our first Tv show and many commercials in my first year as an actor!!! 2017 was a very exciting year but nothing to what 2018 has in store for us let’s keep being dreamers!and do what we love and things will start to happen! 😁 thank you for everyone’s support it means so much and couldn’t be doing what I’m doing if it wasn’t for you!❤️ #youtuber #2017recap #newyearnewme #youtube #actorslife #followyourdreams

[insanedingo]

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Inktober 2017 . Just a short video recap of all the ink stuff I did for inktober last year. (Even if a few landed a bit afterwards) Taking a look back I feel like I really have improved. I did not have as much time on my hands as last time but it was alot of fun to do and I'm glad I took it on again. Now I'm looking forward to 2018's challenges. :) . #inktober #inktober2017 #artchallenge #artcompilation #2017recap #ink #insanedingo #inkdrawing

[czechclaudia]

As a last part of my 2017 recap I decided to share with you my 2017 Best nine moments according to Instagram😊🙌🏼📸❤ I had amazing time in Jordan with @lorochkamuratova 😊😍❤ Thank you to all the beautiful hotels for the incredible stays & amazing hospitality. To @holidayinamman , @hiltondeadsea , @cpdeadsea , @suncitycamp , @icaqabajordan , @movenpickjo , you all made my stay really unforgettable😍🙏🏼❤ We did such amazing road trip around Jordan from Amman to Dead Sea, back to Amman & again to Dead Sea, to Petra, to Aqaba, then to Wadi Rum, back to Aqaba & back to Amman☺😎🙌🏼🚘❤ I will definitely be back to Jordan soon😍🙌🏼✈ In October I also did pink Macbook Air & iPhone & camera giveaway with @myloopsforyou 😊❤ I am always happy to give away to all of you as a thank you for all of your support, so I will definitely do some more giveaways next year🙌🏼 In November I was invited by Ministry of Tourism - Government of India @incredibleindia , @mamodelsdubai , @diamontejets , @my_attiitude , @cdescapes as one of the Beauty Queens as Quest of honour to fly to India for the Hampi Festival 2017😊👸🏼👑🙌🏼✈❤ I had great time with all the other Beauty Queens especially @melodyselvon , @dorisdollyx in Hampi & Bangalore😊👸🏼👸🏽👭💃🏼❤ Thank you to @shangrilablr @hyattplacehampi for amazing hotel stays😊 After my trip to India I had 2 very busy weeks in Dubai full of amazing events such as Arab Fashion Week, restaurants reviews & exhibitions such as Dubai Air Show. Then I returned back to India this time with my manager @jay_agency for another fashion show, Beauty Queen appearances, magazine covers & editorial photoshoots, this time to Cochin & New Delhi & I also made it to beautiful Munnar in God's own country Kerala😊😍⛰❤ I spent almost 2 months in India during my 2 visits & ended up my trip beginning of 2018 by visiting one of the New 7 Wonders of the world - Taj Mahal, which has been for so long time ik my Travel Bucket list😊😍🕌❤ It was really amazing start of 2018 for me😊🙏🏼❤ I can't wait for everything what New year 2018 will bring😊👸🏼🙌🏼😍💃🏼✈❤ #2017recap #bestmoments2017 #2017bestnine #2017bestninemoments #thetravellingbeautyqueen #jordan #india (at ALL OVER the World)

[hellojessicabrown]

2017 Reflection into 2018

2017 was not a great year for a lot of people. There was heart ache unimaginable for the world and then there was the little lights in between that kept people’s hope.

I however didn’t have a bad year. On the contrary. It was a huge growth year for me and one I will look back on fondly. 

Jeremy and I started off the year slowly like we usually do. Recovering from holidays, getting back into a routine and saving up money for upcoming things we would like to do.

We were hitting volleyball hard. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and some Saturdays were committed to playing. By the middle of the year we were burnt out and rethinking playing so much. At the moment we only play a max of two nights a week.

I moved my blog over to Bluehost and paid for a domain that I wanted to run with. I learned how to get everything the way I wanted and started learning the ins and outs with social media and pinterest. It was exciting and new. Now I know I really enjoy writing for me.

In April, for our wedding anniversary, Jeremy and I headed to Vegas for a three day weekend. We stayed at the Mirage and made sure to do a ton of walking and sight seeing. My favorite part of the trip was seeing Cirque de Soliel’s “O” at the Bellagio. We tried to buy tickets from the booth on the street and a guy told us it was outdated...we went anyway and I loved it. 

When we returned home we had tickets to see our favorite band Panic at the Disco! We had gotten VIP floor seats after the show was canceled the year before. The swag bag was fun and the show was unforgettable. 

By the middle of the year I had saved up enough money to buy myself the Silhouette Cameo 3 that I had wanted for a very long time. I’ve since learned vinyl, glass etching and heat transfers for shirts. I cannot wait to dive deeper into learning and hopefully open my own Etsy shop by the end of this year. Homemade gifts will soon be the norm.

At the end of May I started interviewing for a new job and by the middle of June accepted a new position. It was hard to make the switch but I have never regretted it. I started the new job July 3rd and have now been there for six months. It is the most rewarding fulfilling job and I cannot see where this year takes it.

Right after starting my new job I refocused my workouts. I was training for the wrong reasons and needed to refresh. I signed up for Beach Body on Demand and have loved it. I started working out for the way I feel, not to punish my body to make it look a certain way. I work out for my mental heath and that’s best for me. PiYo and Turbo Fire are my two favorites.

The few days leading up to September were some of the most fun. Jeremy found out he had an opportunity to go back to Ireland for work so we scooped up the opportunity, bought tickets and flew out 3 days later on September 1st. Ireland was a dream come true and will be very hard to beat but I know that any trip we take together will be awesome.

We managed to also go camping twice last year and will hopefully keep up with that again.

Jeremy met siblings that he has never seen at the end of the year and we hope to visit them again over Memorial Day weekend.  

All in all, I’d say it was a pretty good year. Jeremy and I were talking resolutions and decided that we need to get some goals together. 

He would like to start reading more and I would like to continue down the road of speaking to myself kindly. I’d like to dive more into yoga and see where I can push my body to. We want to take Ke$ha on more adventures and will start with our anniversary trip in April. 

I’m sure we will add more later but for now I am happy and content and looking forward to 2018.

[sketchbookpillow]

Are you ready to reach into the unknown? What will the new year bring for you? I’m excited for more adventures in 2018! #wanderlust ::: Fresh off the press, my first blogpost this year featuring my top 7 moments from 2017! #DECONSTRUT . . . . . #newpost #ottawablogger #2017 #newyear #2017bestnine #2017recap #memories #moments #2018 #fairylights #brandonwoelfel #moodygram #igworldglobal #bokeh #canoncreatorlab #canonphotography #canoncanada #moodyvibes #twinklelights #glow #starrynight #photography #teamcanon #fullframe #ig_captures

[thelifethymemarket]

2017 Recap 🔅 • • • • #2017recap #organicfood #veganfood #veganrecipes #veganlife #organiceating #organicproduce #instafood #instagood #instadelicious #instahealth #healthylife #healthyfood #healthychoices #healthyfoodshare #healthyproduct #festival #highlights #lifethyme (at Lifethyme Natural Market)

[iamtimefrozen]

Bonus round!!! How could I go through the faves of 2017 and leave out Allison and Andrew! Our first wedding of 2017 was in a beautiful old church that reminded me of a scene in an old western! #timefrozenphotography #2017recap #ctweddingphotographer #bridalportrait (at Greenwich, Connecticut)

[selenank]

Saved by Grace. Live by Faith. ☝️ Love God. Love each other. Another year passed and left behind so many memories. #2017recap #itsallabouthim #God