Good god, I think I have blogger’s block.<\/p>\n
~ taps fingers on desk ~<\/p>\n
~ scratches chin ~<\/p>\n
~ tilts head back, stares at ceiling, mutters hmmmmmmmm ~<\/p>\n
~ sighs ~<\/p>\n
~ gets out the jumper cables ~<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
# of days gone by during which I forgot to pay the mortgage: 10<\/p>\n
# of apologies I received at work today: 2<\/p>\n
# of declarations of love I received at work today: 1<\/p>\n
What the declaration of love was for, which sort of negates the excitement: a spiffed-up Powerpoint presentation<\/p>\n
Special home-made Spanish lunch I was invited to tomorrow which I had to say no thank you to because the shrimp will have their legs on: *waaah!*<\/p>\n
# of shudders the thought of shrimps with their legs on in my food gave me today: 42<\/p>\n
# of people reading this who are rolling their eyes convulsively right now: eleventy two<\/p>\n
# of Madeleine L’Engle books which have apparently been written behind my back since the last time I checked: 8<\/p>\n
# of pages of totte<\/a>‘s book which I’ve read so far: 50 (ha! bet you thought I’d forgotten, M!)<\/p>\n # of days left until my mom returns: 4 or 5 or 6<\/p>\n # of Reese’s Fast Break bars out of the 36-bar box my brother brought home from the States with him 2 weeks ago that he has eaten in that time: 3<\/p>\n # of Reese’s Fast Break bars out a 36-bar box that I<\/b> would have eaten by now in the same amount of time: all of them. Duh.<\/p>\n # of mice we have living inside and behind our kitchen cabinets: MILLIONS! SAVE ME. That mouse last month was a harbinger<\/i>!<\/p>\n Words used recently by myself and other people that made me happy: agog, eschew, harbinger*<\/p>\n Not sure if this is way cool or the beginning of the end of the world as we know it: Merriam-Webster’s Open Dictionary<\/a><\/p>\n ~ puts the jumper cables away, steps back with hands on hips, nods ~<\/p>\n *by galestorm<\/a>, e11en<\/a>, and me, respectively.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good god, I think I have blogger’s block. ~ taps fingers on desk ~ ~ scratches chin ~ ~ tilts head back, stares at ceiling, mutters hmmmmmmmm ~ ~ sighs ~ ~ gets out the jumper cables ~ *** # of days gone by during which I forgot to pay the mortgage: 10 # of apologies I received at work today: 2 # of declarations of love I received at work today: 1 What the declaration of love was for, which sort of negates the excitement: a spiffed-up Powerpoint presentation Special home-made Spanish lunch I was invited to tomorrow which...<\/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":[8],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-blogalicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5497,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/5497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}