{"id":1299,"date":"2006-12-17T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/17\/i-was-going-to-countdown-but-i-only-had-fours-and-fives\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:46:47","slug":"i-was-going-to-countdown-but-i-only-had-fours-and-fives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/17\/i-was-going-to-countdown-but-i-only-had-fours-and-fives\/","title":{"rendered":"I WAS GOING TO COUNTDOWN BUT I ONLY HAD FOURS AND FIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 4 more days until the solstice and the days will begin lengthening again!<\/p>\n<p>Only 4 more days of work before Christmas vacation!<\/p>\n<p>Only 5 days until my brother and Simone arrive for a week!<\/p>\n<p>Only 5 more little presents to buy and I&#8217;m done!<\/p>\n<p>Only 5 more days to payday, thank goodness!<\/p>\n<p><b>Things That Made Me Happy This Weekend<\/b>: talking to my oldest best friend Becky last night and hearing how well things are going for her this year after a couple of really rough ones; reading the pregnancy announcement of a dear online friend; receiving a box from my grandmother with 2 tins full of her gingersnaps in it; getting 2 of my 4 books finalized and uploaded.<\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t baked Christmas cookies yet, since the weekends have been so full so that, along with wrapping presents, are the 2 final items on my Christmas-preparation list. After catching up with <a href=\"http:\/\/justcallmemausi.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/absocookielutely.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mausi<\/a> today, I&#8217;m inspired to do a few new cookie recipes, to go along with the traditional Sugar Cookies, Reindeer Poop, Chocolate chips and Christmas Icing Sandwiches. Maybe we&#8217;ll try Lacy Crisps, too, which is an old family favorite, although the one and only time I tried them I swore I&#8217;d never do them again because they are MURDER to get off the cookie sheet without rucking up into a squished pile.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in nearly 2 months, the little weather widget I have on my desktop is forecasting partly sunny for a couple of days in the coming week, instead of RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN. Please, let it be so.<\/p>\n<p><b>Star Light Star Bright Birthday Wishes to <a href=\"http:\/\/jakubicka.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">jakubicka<\/a>!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 4 more days until the solstice and the days will begin lengthening again! Only 4 more days of work before Christmas vacation! Only 5 days until my brother and Simone arrive for a week! Only 5 more little presents to buy and I&#8217;m done! Only 5 more days to payday, thank goodness! Things That Made Me Happy This Weekend: talking to my oldest best friend Becky last night and hearing how well things are going for her this year after a couple of really rough ones; reading the pregnancy announcement of a dear online friend; receiving a box from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,27],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-goodthings","tag-holidaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5104,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/5104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}