{"id":3588,"date":"2013-03-22T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2013-03-21T19:53:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T02:53:06","slug":"looking-back-looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=3588","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back, Looking Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

A year ago today (well almost.. give or take a time zone) I had an appointment with the US Consulate in Sydney. A Morning interview that would make me as nervous as all hell<\/a>, caused adventures<\/a> but in the end got me where I am today. That was the day that my Visa application was approved and that I got to finally make the move over here to the USA a reality. Up until that day a year ago it was all not real. After that moment. Everything was real, there was no going back.<\/p>\n

Well a lot has changed since a year ago, I am over here now, I have a new life, a new way of doing things, new friends, new truck!. This is a life and a decision I do not regret in anyway (no matter how much I complain about the cold). That day a year ago in Sydney was the decision that changed my life for the better.<\/p>\n

Now looking forward as I have a year left on this visa, I am changing a few things on the blog. Updating it to a new look to fit in with a new me. Eventually I will try and update that logo up there and fix things up a bit, make the blog stand out. I don’t want to move this blog to much away from what it has always been about. Me. My life, just enjoying the way I want to do things and writing down the mindless drivel that i think about.<\/p>\n

So stay tuned, look forward with me as I work my way into a 2nd year here in the USA. A time where I will need to work out ways to keep me around, cause I hate to say it Australia…. I don’t want to go home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year ago today (well almost.. give or take a time zone) I had an appointment with the US Consulate in Sydney. A Morning interview that would make me as nervous as all hell, caused adventures but in the end got me where I am today. That was the day that my Visa application was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-expat","category-life-in-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RU0-VS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3589,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}