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<\/a><\/p>\nExplanation after the jump:<\/p>\n
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Top Row (all rows are from left to right):<\/p>\n
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- Hard Rock Cafe Stockholm – souvenir from when I lived there (’00-’01)<\/li>\n
- Epcot Living Seas – home for the summer in ’02<\/li>\n
- Seattle – got on Microsoft Intern interview trip (spring ’03 – no hire)<\/li>\n
- Islands of Adventure – more Florida trips<\/li>\n
- Epcot World Flags – ditto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Second row:<\/p>\n
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- “Jag talar svenska” – interpreter pins sold in Utah for the 2002 Winter Olympics<\/li>\n
- Snowboarder – also 2002 Winter Olympics (I was going to school at BYU at the time<\/li>\n
- Swedish\/American flags – from my time in Sweden, ’99-’01<\/li>\n
- American flag – don’t even need a reason for this \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
- Shamrock – tired of getting pinched on St. Patty’s<\/li>\n
- Raccoon – got while volunteering at Odyssey of the Mind in Tampa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Third row:<\/p>\n
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- Stockholm city hall – lived in Stockholm 10\/00-10\/01<\/li>\n
- HIF (Helsingborgs Idrotts Forening) – the shield for the championship football (that’s soccer to you Yanks) team in Helsingborg, Sweden, where I lived from 11\/99-5\/00<\/li>\n
- Shield w\/keys – shield for the town of Lulea, Sweden, where I lived from 5\/00-7\/00<\/li>\n
- Sverige (Sweden)<\/li>\n
- Stockholm<\/li>\n
- Question mark – ? not sure<\/li>\n
- Moroni – one symbol in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/li>\n
- Seagull – state bird of Utah<\/li>\n
- Dolphin – another Odyssey of the Mind<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Fourth row:<\/p>\n
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- Mermaid from Copenhagen (blurry) – I visited Copenhagen before I left Sweden in 10\/01<\/li>\n
- Moose in Finland – I lived in Jakobstad\/Pietarsaari, Finland from 7\/00-10\/00<\/li>\n
- Helsinki Cathedral – I got to visit Helsinki (for a couple hours) when I was in Finland<\/li>\n
- IB – I was in the International Baccalaureate program in high school<\/li>\n
- Stitch playing ukulele – Disney trips, plus I went through a serious Hawai’ian\/Polynesian phase<\/li>\n
- Guy with sword – Renaissance fair<\/li>\n
- Dragon – ibid<\/li>\n
- Flamingo referee – another Odyssey of the Mind<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Bottom row:<\/p>\n
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- Cubs jersey – got when visiting Chicago in 10\/03 to scout graduate schools<\/li>\n
- Red Sox – got visiting my cousins in Boston in 8\/99<\/li>\n
- UF Gators – got when visiting a friend at UF in summer ’99<\/li>\n
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers – got while riding the bandwagon during the Alstott\/Sapp\/Dunn years<\/li>\n
- “Lighting the Way” – gift for donating to BYU’s annual fundraiser<\/li>\n
- Moab, Utah – took a trip there with my wife and mom in summer ’04<\/li>\n
- Dead Horse Point – ibid<\/li>\n
- Cougar Y – I’m a BYU alumnus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
So there you have it – an abridged history of my life from the mid 90’s through 2004. Clearly I stopped with the pins since there is nothing (except the Cubs) from Chicago, and I’ve lived here for almost four years.<\/p>\n
Do you have any quirky collections that tell your life history?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As part of my husbandly duties on Mother’s day, I did some cleaning and came across my pin collection. Yes, I went through a phase (that’s apparently over – keep reading for details) where I would collect pins from the places I traveled to. I kept them in a little tin that I hadn’t seen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-fun","category-pictures","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazgP-3L","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}