{"id":205,"date":"2008-11-02T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/11\/from-the-department-of-random-sunday-musings.html"},"modified":"2008-11-02T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T22:21:00","slug":"from-the-department-of-random-sunday-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/11\/from-the-department-of-random-sunday-musings.html","title":{"rendered":"From the Department of Random Sunday Musings&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things I&#8217;m thankful for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The internet, and the way it keeps people connected in spite of the stubbornness of physical geography.<\/li>\n<li>The usual (food, shelter, family), only this time with less taking-for-granted and more actual thankfulness.<\/li>\n<li>Polar Fleece. What on earth did people do before they invented this stuff? The couch is one big pile of polar fleece blankets right now.<\/li>\n<li>The way the cooler weather transforms P. into a cuddle-bunch.<\/li>\n<li>Text messages. Cell phones still thrill me even after all these years.<\/li>\n<li>Good friends. This could fit under &#8220;the usual,&#8221; but at the moment it really deserves its own line. I&#8217;ll stop now lest I get insufferably mushy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things I look forward to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spring (I know, I know. It&#8217;s a long way off, yet.)<\/li>\n<li>The end of this election season. If I hear &#8220;I&#8217;m so-and-so and I approved this message&#8221; one more time, I&#8217;ll probably explode.<\/li>\n<li>Being undaunted by stairs.<\/li>\n<li>Meeting a friend for the first time IRL* in a couple of weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Having at least a few Things Of Substance to say on my other blog.<\/li>\n<li>Walking briskly. I used to love walking briskly. Especially in Fall.<\/li>\n<li>Making Macaroni &amp; Cheese this Wednesday. Yummm&#8230; (though I&#8217;m not looking forward to the grocery shopping that will have to precede this activity)<\/li>\n<li>Not having to rely quite so heavily on the patience of a good friend. I despise being needy. (Though I am more grateful for the support than I can ever say.)<\/li>\n<li>Traveling to see my family in a few weeks (and meeting my parents&#8217; new puppy).<\/li>\n<li>A day off of work tomorrow. Depending on how things go, it might be full of equal measures of pampering and house work. Of course, it might be full of a whole lot of Nothing At All, but hopefully not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">* translation: &#8220;in real life&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I&#8217;m thankful for: The internet, and the way it keeps people connected in spite of the stubbornness of physical geography. The usual (food, shelter, family), only this time with less taking-for-granted and more actual thankfulness. Polar Fleece. What on earth did people do before they invented this stuff? The couch is one big pile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/11\/from-the-department-of-random-sunday-musings.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From the Department of Random Sunday Musings&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}