{"id":108,"date":"2009-01-30T15:43:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T23:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2010-06-24T15:04:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:04:33","slug":"kissing-this-month-goodbye-also-whining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/kissing-this-month-goodbye-also-whining\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissing This Month Goodbye, also whining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this month has been kind of stressful and I am SO BEAT right now that it&#8217;s all I can do to not lay down and take a nap right here in my cube.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have the biggest cube, so it wouldn&#8217;t be that much of a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>This week in particular has been quite, uh, less than awesome.\u00a0 I was out of town last weekend visiting my sister on Friday and then she came to stay with me on Saturday, and we got some bad cancer news about a family member and that has kind of preyed on me all week.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been really tired all week and had two after-work-hours board meetings, one of which was four hours long in a cold clubhouse.\u00a0 I&#8217;m kind of surprised that I&#8217;m not sick, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p>KNOCK ON WOOD<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, I did a little economy-stimulating in the last couple weeks.\u00a0 For two months I&#8217;ve been searching high and low the greater East Bay for a Nintendo Wii, and lo, I snagged the last one at Target a couple weeks ago. Then, a couple days later I was buying a vacuum and lo, there on the shelf in Walmart was one of many Wii Fits.\u00a0 So I bought that too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve lost 3 pounds using the Wii Fit. I know, right?<\/p>\n<p>I just found Mario Galaxy the other day (the last one at Fry&#8217;s &#8211; a trend maybe??) and have been playing that.\u00a0 I heart that game a lot, even though I&#8217;ve played the first few levels twice already on friends&#8217; Wiis, so this is all a repeat for me right now.\u00a0 I STILL need to hook up internet at my place (am piggybacking the local wireless) and get the Wii online so I can share all my ridiculous Miis and download old school games.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at my yarn wall:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sock Yarn \/ Expedit by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/3214693044\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3417\/3214693044_ec6f6b1693.jpg\" alt=\"Sock Yarn \/ Expedit\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is my sock yarn.<\/p>\n<p>I am not done unpacking and may never be.\u00a0 I am stuck in a quagmire of boxes, though they are certainly neatened up.\u00a0 Also: where are the grotesques that I made in ceramics?? WHERE DID I PACK THEM OH THOSE MANY YEARS AGO?<\/p>\n<p>I know not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/kissing-this-month-goodbye-also-whining\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this month has been kind of stressful and I am SO BEAT right now that it&#8217;s all I can do to not lay down and take a nap right here in my cube.\u00a0 I have the biggest cube, so it wouldn&#8217;t be that much of a stretch. This week in particular has been quite, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/kissing-this-month-goodbye-also-whining\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kissing This Month Goodbye, also whining&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,170,6,196,41],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-house","category-moaning-and-groaning","category-real-life","category-yarn","tag-wii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}