{"id":2826,"date":"2022-01-06T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/06\/clear-skies-clear-mind\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T18:29:10","slug":"clear-skies-clear-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/06\/clear-skies-clear-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"CLEAR SKIES, CLEAR MIND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the start of a long weekend, after only 3 days of work following Christmas vacation. Feels pretty decadent, especially considering how long I slept in this morning. I woke up at 7, and was very sneezy and stuffed-up, and at 8 I gave up and read in bed for awhile, before falling back asleep. I think it was my body telling me I needed the extra rest because I felt much better after I got up. Anders (who has been sick all last week) just got the results back from his PCR test: negative, so at least whatever he and Karin had wasn&#8217;t COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Today is gorgeous, sunshine and clear blue skies, but very cold. We actually had snow yesterday in the late afternoon, and I figured it was a manifestation of my super powers: I had just put my snow boots and heavy winter coat away in the front hall closet! hahaa! I&#8217;d much rather have snow than rain, which is what it was doing the entire day beforehand (and later as well). <\/p>\n<p>Debbie had called me on Tuesday to ask if I was available for dinner with her and Camilla last night and since I had the day off today, I was very happy to say yes. Sometimes Camilla cooks, but she didn&#8217;t have time yesterday so instead we ordered from Restaurang Nils and went and picked it up. We spent a really nice evening talking about all kinds of things. I&#8217;m very lucky to have these two excellent friends here in my life. I honestly don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;d do without them.<\/p>\n<p>Martin and I went for a walk about the village about 30 minutes ago, and it was so nice to be in the sunshine and moving. I&#8217;ve been a bit of a slacker the past couple of weeks but really need to get going on my walking again. Karin is coming over this afternoon, and I hope we can get our thank you cards written so I can get them mailed next week, and then Anders&#8217; sister and husband are coming for dinner. We&#8217;re having a favorite dish: chicken with a gorgonzola topping, rice, and salad, and Anders is making cheesecake for dessert. Yum! <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I will call my mom, and maybe finish up my blog book, which I finally got PDF&#8217;d and into layout. I&#8217;ve been sort of thinking about goals and resolutions this year, as I didn&#8217;t plan to do anything like my 5K every month from last year. I am really not sure what I&#8217;d like to accomplish this year, other than getting to see my family. Maybe an update of my cookbook? Maybe another &#8220;best of&#8221; from my Livejournal? Hmmm&#8230; I don&#8217;t care about words of the year or anything like that, but a doable goal for the year is like a 12-month to-do list, and you know how I feel about to-do lists. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the start of a long weekend, after only 3 days of work following Christmas vacation. Feels pretty decadent, especially considering how long I slept in this morning. I woke up at 7, and was very sneezy and stuffed-up, and at 8 I gave up and read in bed for awhile, before falling back asleep. I think it was my body telling me I needed the extra rest because I felt much better after I got up. Anders (who has been sick all last week) just got the results back from his PCR test: negative, so at least whatever he&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,21],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-goodthings","tag-thisisjusttosay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","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=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2954,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}