{"id":2304,"date":"2014-09-02T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/02\/first-world-problem-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:35:11","slug":"first-world-problem-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/02\/first-world-problem-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST WORLD PROBLEM OF THE WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t figure out if I should go to Boston and work the week BEFORE Thanksgiving week or the week AFTER with the assumption that I will be at my sister&#8217;s with my mom FOR Thanksgiving week itself. The trip is already approved by my boss with the week of vacation attached, and my family has grudgingly, though not without a far amount of grumbling on the part of the children, accepted my absence for Thanksgiving, which means moving our own annual Turkey Day celebration up by 1 or 2 weekends or down by 1 (which causes it to land in the same weekend as Martin&#8217;s birthday).<\/p>\n<p>The people I am going to work with in Boston don&#8217;t have a preference. My team doesn&#8217;t have a preference. My mom and my sister don&#8217;t care either way since they are mostly excited about Thanksgiving week&#8230; what to do, what to do. I guess I will have to get prices on the 2 alternatives and let the expenditure make the call.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been home for Thanksgiving since I moved to Sweden 17.5 years ago. While I would really like it much much better if I could bring Anders and the kids with me, that isn&#8217;t an option (they&#8217;re in school, also we <b>just<\/b> spent a fortune on vacation in the States), so I have to suck it up and enjoy it all on my own, muahaha!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little worried about my sister&#8217;s dogs who were, shall we say, not at all convinced I was the perfectly warmhearted kind loving person that I am, but I&#8217;ll let her deal with that.<\/p>\n<p>Woot! Thanksgiving in Murica! Bring on the stuffing!<\/p>\n<p>But first&#8230; work week before? or week after? Hmmmmmmm Just realized that either way I&#8217;ll miss the November AWC meeting and holiday cookie exchange. Bummer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t figure out if I should go to Boston and work the week BEFORE Thanksgiving week or the week AFTER with the assumption that I will be at my sister&#8217;s with my mom FOR Thanksgiving week itself. The trip is already approved by my boss with the week of vacation attached, and my family has grudgingly, though not without a far amount of grumbling on the part of the children, accepted my absence for Thanksgiving, which means moving our own annual Turkey Day celebration up by 1 or 2 weekends or down by 1 (which causes it to land&#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":[26,14,21],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-americanabroad","tag-goodthings","tag-thisisjusttosay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","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=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3886,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}