{"id":598,"date":"2013-01-13T19:45:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T03:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=598"},"modified":"2013-01-13T19:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T03:45:39","slug":"and-were-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2013\/01\/13\/and-were-back\/","title":{"rendered":"And we’re back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’ve decided to be much more vigorous in writing on my blog mainly because it’s a channel for many things, a practice pad for many more, and a chance to dump my thoughts out of my head and onto the proverbial pad. As a result, Sunday’s will become life update days, Monday’s will be Amelia’s Piano update days, and then I’ll figure out the rest as it comes.<\/p>\n

We’re back in San Francisco!<\/p>\n

We’re living in Noe Valley, which is an amazing little spot in San Francisco. We walk to Whole Foods, one of a million coffee shops, restaurants, or bars, two different parks, a library, and the highway is just minutes away. It’s ideal. This is where we’ve decided to start to look for housing, and I think Micky and I are both really excited about it.<\/p>\n

It has taken from Tuesday to Saturday for the kids to adjust to the jet lag. I have to give both of them massive credit as I think they did a wonderful job. It helped that we’re such awesome parents, but no need to rag on myself :-p<\/p>\n

(Oh, I just thought that Wednesday should be Weight Update Wednesday… good one)<\/p>\n

Work is going well, and opportunities are definitely there to be grabbed. Simultaneously, my personal project, Amplifize.com<\/a>, has a strong community, and is a really great place to hang out if you like talking about cool web content with a group of self-labeled smart people \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

My uncle Aydin Yardim from my dad’s side came to visit this weekend, and we had a great time. He came Friday night, and Micky had cooked lasagna, and we ate fancy dessert from Whole Foods. I made a Winter Squash Penne with Mint Salad from Jamie Oliver’s “15 minute Recipes” cookbook. It took us an hour :-\/ with 2 of us doing it :-\/ :-\/<\/p>\n

Another interesting first this week… Miss Amelia fell flat on her face and got a nasty bloody nose. Mr. Luka has 2 bottom teeth.<\/p>\n

Oh, and NC State beat #1 Duke to go tops of the ACC!<\/p>\n

So I’ll leave you with a bit of a slide show, a big smile, and a lot of optimism for the year ahead. I have new year resolutions to write up, a cool project for Amelia’s birthday to work on, and a secret, new project that I hope to launch in February to look forward to. It’s going to be a great 2013!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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