{"id":4560,"date":"2018-11-30T07:18:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T12:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2018-11-30T07:18:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T12:18:15","slug":"fri-nov-30-2018-friday-again-and-so-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2018\/11\/30\/fri-nov-30-2018-friday-again-and-so-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fri. Nov. 30, 2018 &#8211; Friday again, and so soon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  60F and wet, indicated, and I believe it.  My hands feel like paddles, my knees ache.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday of November.  Time to get the Advent calendars out for the kids, time to get a visit from an Elf spy who lives on a shelf&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I find the Elf on a Shelf creepy in the extreme, and the idea of a sneaky little spy watching all the time is something I have problems with on any number of levels.  The kids love it, and it can be a lot of fun too, and we started, so now we&#8217;re stuck for a while.  26 days.<\/p>\n<p>Prepping this week was minimal.  I&#8217;m feeling WAY behind the curve.  I did make two big grocery runs this week, but that was mostly current and upcoming normal consumption.  I really didn&#8217;t get much for storage.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still coughing occasionally.  I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s lingering crud from the vacation, or something new brewing but it&#8217;s right on the edge of developing into something.  The elbow continues to be an issue.  Without modern and powerful antibiotics, I&#8217;d have been in trouble.  That&#8217;s worrying too.<\/p>\n<p>So health is a priority, getting the holidays out of the way, while still enjoying the time with the kids is a juggle, and there is SO MUCH STUFF TO DO.<\/p>\n<p>I better get started on today&#8217;s pile.<\/p>\n<p>n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  60F and wet, indicated, and I believe it.  My hands feel like paddles, my knees ache.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday of November.  Time to get the Advent calendars out for the kids, time to get a visit from an Elf spy who lives on a shelf&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I find the Elf on a Shelf creepy in the extreme, and the idea of a sneaky little spy watching all the time is something I have problems with on any number of levels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2018\/11\/30\/fri-nov-30-2018-friday-again-and-so-soon\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Fri. Nov. 30, 2018 &#8211; Friday again, and so soon&#8230; &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":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","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=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}