{"id":12429,"date":"2026-01-03T03:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12429"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:18:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:18:45","slug":"sat-jan-3-2026-huh-a-weekend-guess-ill-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/01\/03\/sat-jan-3-2026-huh-a-weekend-guess-ill-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat. Jan. 3, 2026 &#8211; huh, a weekend.   Guess I&#8217;ll work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool, but warmer than lately.  It really warmed up yesterday and that carried through to today.  Or it should have, we&#8217;ll see when I wake up.  In fact it got hot and sweaty by late afternoon.  I guess our little cold front has passed.<\/p>\n<p>I did a few things yesterday.  Costco, gas, pickup.  Cooked dinner.  I need to do some domestic bliss today though.  <\/p>\n<p>Haircut, laundry, cleaning&#8230; if not today then soon.  I&#8217;ll probably get the rest of the lights and decor down too.  I usually want to leave them up as long as possible, but for some reason I&#8217;m not feeling it right now.   Maybe it&#8217;s the artificial tree?  First year we don&#8217;t have a [formerly] live tree, and I miss the smell and the hassle of filling the water.  It&#8217;s a pretty good fake, expensive and real looking, but still a fake.  Does that have an effect?<\/p>\n<p>Or it could be the kids being a bit older.   Dunno.  Magic is missing a little bit.  Or it could just be me.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the list is long and my patience and motivation are short.<\/p>\n<p>Stack it up.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool, but warmer than lately.  It really warmed up yesterday and that carried through to today.  Or it should have, we&#8217;ll see when I wake up.  In fact it got hot and sweaty by late afternoon.  I guess our little cold front has passed.<\/p>\n<p>I did a few things yesterday.  Costco, gas, pickup.  Cooked dinner.  I need to do some domestic bliss today though.  <\/p>\n<p>Haircut, laundry, cleaning&#8230; if not today then soon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/01\/03\/sat-jan-3-2026-huh-a-weekend-guess-ill-work\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sat. Jan. 3, 2026 &#8211; huh, a weekend.   Guess I&#8217;ll work. &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":[15,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429","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=12429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12430,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429\/revisions\/12430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}