{"id":297,"date":"2004-01-27T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/01\/27\/when-work-gets-you-down\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:55:22","slug":"when-work-gets-you-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/01\/27\/when-work-gets-you-down\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN WORK GETS YOU DOWN&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>List the good things about the day in bullet points!<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My Tuesday morning massage which reprieved me from a half hour of the meeting I was stuck in today from 8:30 until 1:30<\/li>\n<li>Planning a dinner date for next week with our friends Emily &#038; Martin<\/li>\n<li>Karin&#8217;s coughing non-stop and running a low-grade fever, meaning we&#8217;re probably staying home tomorrow (not a good thing that she&#8217;s sick or that we&#8217;ll probably have a bad night, but I can stay home from work with a clear conscience \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>A phone call from my mom, during which both kids talked to her in English and Karin asked for a Bionicle mask or pajamas<\/li>\n<li>Martin singing me a love song half in English and half in Swedish when I kissed him goodnight and tucked him in bed<\/li>\n<li>Receiving 2 books from <a href=\"http:\/\/ozswede.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">ozswede<\/a>, one of which I&#8217;m already done with. Thanks, Marie!! The illustration with the two single beds pushed together and the caption &#8220;<i>and I thought he really liked me<\/i>&#8221; and the one of the weegies worshipping at the alter of the p\u00f8lse had me laughing my head off!<\/li>\n<li>It snowed just enough this afternoon to coat everything with sparkles<\/li>\n<li>A new issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bamagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Before &#038; After Magazine<\/a> (thanks, Mom!), who also just published a book of articles from their amazing archives, which I just ordered<\/li>\n<li>Anders making chicken with wok vegetables for dinner<\/li>\n<li>Grape jello!!<\/li>\n<li>Being able to help out a friend who is going through a tough time with a horrible divorce<\/li>\n<li>2 more poetry submissions for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosaicminds.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mosaic Minds<\/a>\n<li>Finding out about several books-to-movies that are upcoming (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/crimsonkitty.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">crimsonkitty<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/inblackink.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">inblackink<\/a>!)<\/li>\n<li>Looking forward to choir tomorrow and sushi (yes, again. WHAT?!) on Friday with <a href=\"http:\/\/galestorm.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">galestorm<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Going to bed on time for once<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>List the good things about the day in bullet points! My Tuesday morning massage which reprieved me from a half hour of the meeting I was stuck in today from 8:30 until 1:30 Planning a dinner date for next week with our friends Emily &#038; Martin Karin&#8217;s coughing non-stop and running a low-grade fever, meaning we&#8217;re probably staying home tomorrow (not a good thing that she&#8217;s sick or that we&#8217;ll probably have a bad night, but I can stay home from work with a clear conscience \ud83d\ude42 A phone call from my mom, during which both kids talked to her&#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-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}