{"id":2166,"date":"2013-01-31T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/31\/not-an-excuse\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:35:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:35:24","slug":"not-an-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/31\/not-an-excuse\/","title":{"rendered":"NOT AN EXCUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to stay up really late. I&#8217;d write long blog posts after 10 pm and get them posted right before midnight. If my subject required it I&#8217;d spend a lot of time researching information to use in my writing. Or I&#8217;d read and read and read all my blogs and sites and use that as fodder for writing. Nowadays, I have to WREST the computer away from my kids or stay up late to use it, and sadly&#8230;I&#8217;m ready for bed by 10. In fact, most of the time, I&#8217;m ready for bed WELL before 10. Even if I do read for another 20-30-40 minutes, I&#8217;m almost always in bed by 10 these days. Even on weekends, I don&#8217;t manage to stay up much later than that. <\/p>\n<p>Is anyone else suffering from winter dry skin? I swear to god, it&#8217;s driving me bananas. Thank goodness my daughter will scratch my back for me if I ask nicely and then return the favor and she will help me put lotion on my back and I have a backscratcher for emergencies, but AAAGH, I swear. It&#8217;s horrible.<\/p>\n<p>My dining room table is still covered in Lego. And a big box of photos to sort. And my blog book still isn&#8217;t uploaded because our stupid Internet ran out at the end of the month again. It doesn&#8217;t actually RUN OUT, it just gets really slow and impossible to do anything that requires uploading or buffering. No videos, and no image-heavy websites. But! Tomorrow is a new month and it&#8217;s a short one and hopefully it will be a sunny one in which I get lots of projects FINALIZED so I can quit spending time on them and devote more hours to reading. And walking. In the sun. C&#8217;mon sun!<\/p>\n<p>Pie Night, by the way, has been officially scheduled for March 16th. And then I was told that our AWC activities coordinators fell down on the job and didn&#8217;t get a table booked for the annual St. Patrick&#8217;s Day dinner and now they want me to make the Pie Night St Patrick-themed. I am not down with this actually. I&#8217;m resisting the idea. What is that? Because St. Patrick&#8217;s has always mainly been (it seems to me) and excuse for people to get smashed and because I am boring and crotchety and also very very sober, I don&#8217;t really want that to be the focus of pie night. When the focus should be on PIE.<\/p>\n<p>Pie pie pie pie mmmmmmmmmmmmmm pie.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? I think I sound not only boring and crotchety and sober but OLD and GRUMPY, too. Get off my lawn you kids!<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>We are gearing up for a lot of travel in the next 2 months. I am going to Paris for a couple of days and then to Madrid and Turin for 4 days total in February for a mini training roadshow in our Southern Europe region. Anders is going to Bangkok for 2 weeks in early March and then Karin is going to Dallas for a week over Easter break to play in an elite girls soccer tournament. I am bummed that we can&#8217;t go with her but my mom and my sister &#038; family will be there to cheer her on. I&#8217;m starting to have small palpitations thinking about her flying international without me\/us. Eek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to stay up really late. I&#8217;d write long blog posts after 10 pm and get them posted right before midnight. 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