{"id":251,"date":"2004-01-04T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/01\/04\/mix-well-then-spread\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:55:31","slug":"mix-well-then-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/01\/04\/mix-well-then-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"MIX WELL, THEN SPREAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have such mixed feelings about the whole LJ Friends thing. On the one hand, I really enjoy the community aspect and look forward to comments and reading what others are into and up to, but I&#8217;m not much into the politics and even though it&#8217;s stupid, I admit to feeling a little sting of rejection when someone drops me from their Friends list, even though I do it myself, in an increasingly futile attempt to keep my online life under control. Ultimately, I don&#8217;t care, and my needs for validation are taken care of quite well in many other ways, and I&#8217;m well aware that people add and drop &#8220;friends&#8221; for many different reasons, most of which aren&#8217;t personal. I think it&#8217;s some sort of remnant from 8th grade (where else?) that makes me want to be &#8220;friends&#8221; with everyone or at least be thought of as interesting, or cool, or worth reading. Sounds pathetic, but that&#8217;s not how I mean it to sound.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to post more pictures, but only have my measly 10MB webspace at the moment which isn&#8217;t a place where I put things permanently. I really, really need to get working on the family webpage update or soon the pictures will be too out of date to bother with. Like the roll of film from Anders&#8217; REAL camera (read: not digital) that we just developed and found pictures from Martin&#8217;s 4TH birthday on. doh!<\/p>\n<p><b>Current occupations that my children aspire to:<\/b> INVENTOR (Martin), HOCKEY GOALIE (Karin)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s growing dark, after a lovely sunny winter day, albeit with no snow. I have a feeling this is going to be a completely snowless winter for those of us in Sk\u00e5ne. Double drag.<\/p>\n<p>I had a meeting with our club president today, to talk about setting up an online store with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CafePress<\/a>, and we decided that now would be as good a time as any to design a new club logo to put on the t-shirts and other goodies we plan to offer. So, add that to my to-do list, which is rapidly spiraling out of control and making me want to flop down face-first across my bed. I hope other club members will submit designs so that mine isn&#8217;t the only one to choose from!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reading Diane Ackerman&#8217;s <b>Cultivating Delight<\/b> in small gulps, because to read it too fast or all at once would destroy the sense of wonder I get out of her writing. Every single page contains a line or a paragraph that I want to write down in my notebooks. Two snippets to illustrate my point:<\/p>\n<p><i>Most people lie down at night and open the dream gates for a while in sleep&#8217;s bizarre time-out, fret factory, and repair shop.<\/p>\n<p>Let me praise dandelions&#8230;They carpet the fields with a yellow so loud it croons in the sun.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Anders has gone to see a professional hockey game in Malm\u00f6, for the first time since we moved to Sweden, and I&#8217;m a bit jealous, as I would have liked to have gone along. I like watching hockey live. I rarely watch sports on TV, but they just crackle with energy in an arena. I don&#8217;t think my knees could take another 2.5 hours in the cold, however, after yesterday. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have such mixed feelings about the whole LJ Friends thing. On the one hand, I really enjoy the community aspect and look forward to comments and reading what others are into and up to, but I&#8217;m not much into the politics and even though it&#8217;s stupid, I admit to feeling a little sting of rejection when someone drops me from their Friends list, even though I do it myself, in an increasingly futile attempt to keep my online life under control. Ultimately, I don&#8217;t care, and my needs for validation are taken care of quite well in many other&#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":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6371,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/6371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}