{"id":10490,"date":"2023-12-11T05:18:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T10:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=10490"},"modified":"2023-12-11T00:49:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T05:49:23","slug":"mon-dec-11-2023-christmas-is-coming-sooner-than-you-think-and-were-already-part-way-thru-hanukkah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2023\/12\/11\/mon-dec-11-2023-christmas-is-coming-sooner-than-you-think-and-were-already-part-way-thru-hanukkah\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon. Dec. 11, 2023 &#8211; Christmas is coming sooner than you think (and we&#8217;re already part way thru Hanukkah)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool and damp, but maybe no rain. National forecast has us in the clear for a few days.  And even though it ended up being a bit blustery yesterday, the sun was out.   It&#8217;d be nice to have a couple of nice days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t do anything at all productive yesterday, except fold laundry.  Pretty dang slack.  Whole house was in veg mode and I went right along.  It seems to happen to me periodically, that despite pressing concerns and a list that only gets longer, I end up taking a day or two off.  Could be that I&#8217;m still finishing out this last bout of cold or whatever it was.  Pretty much everyone I talk to says they were sick last week or the end of the week before, or they&#8217;re still sick.   Thanksgiving travel?   Diwali?  Or just seasonal colds?  I&#8217;m no epidemiologist and I don&#8217;t play one on TV, but it was pretty mild, if widespread.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m back in the saddle with a couple of pickups, some stuff moving here or there, and some shopping to do.  And maybe I&#8217;ll get a task or two off my list for home stuff.  Certainly clearing space for the Christmas tree has been moved up my list, since it didn&#8217;t happen during the psychic shutdown yesterday.   There are always pop up tasks that need attention.  <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine having to go looking for things to do.  I know some people have that problem, but it&#8217;s inconceivable to me.  <\/p>\n<p>Well, do what you have to, do what you can, and do what you like.   Body, mind, and soul depend on it.<\/p>\n<p>And stack.  &#8216;cuz that&#8217;s easy.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool and damp, but maybe no rain. National forecast has us in the clear for a few days.  And even though it ended up being a bit blustery yesterday, the sun was out.   It&#8217;d be nice to have a couple of nice days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t do anything at all productive yesterday, except fold laundry.  Pretty dang slack.  Whole house was in veg mode and I went right along.  It seems to happen to me periodically,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2023\/12\/11\/mon-dec-11-2023-christmas-is-coming-sooner-than-you-think-and-were-already-part-way-thru-hanukkah\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Mon. Dec. 11, 2023 &#8211; Christmas is coming sooner than you think (and we&#8217;re already part way thru Hanukkah) &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,15,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cookingbaking","category-culture","category-march-to-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10491,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions\/10491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}