{"id":1008,"date":"2013-05-22T22:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T02:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2013-05-22T22:50:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T02:50:42","slug":"writingto-dohealth-thoughts-on-the-eve-of-a-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"(writing\/to-do\/health) Thoughts on the eve of a long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been back to work on the Day Job for three half-days. \u00a0Today, I&#8217;m exhausted (although I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because of the two hours at the dentist today to repair a broken tooth or just low stamina), but I have the next FIVE days off, so I&#8217;ll be able to sleep in, do some necessary refueling, and see how I feel next week. \u00a0Luckily, my doctor is happy to extend my part-time status if needed. \u00a0Finding a good doctor is so key &#8211; I&#8217;m very lucky with mine. \u00a0Seriously, if you have health issues and your doctor doesn&#8217;t talk to you or listen to you, fire them. \u00a0Otherwise, you&#8217;re just setting yourself up to fail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, I&#8217;m doing some planning. \u00a0I want to redesign the website (because I&#8217;m aware it sucks. \u00a0There&#8217;s a reason I&#8217;m not a website designer, I&#8217;m a writer). \u00a0I&#8217;m going to actually PLAN it out, though, rather than just try and do it online. \u00a0I&#8217;m also doing some writing plans, which will involve calendars and metrics and all sorts of fun stuff. \u00a0I&#8217;m determined to keep my writing going, and this year is the year when I write stuff that I can then pitch to people. \u00a0I&#8217;m not kidding when I say I have nothing held back. \u00a0I&#8217;ve sold everything that I have finished. \u00a0I have nothing to pitch. \u00a0That is not a good situation to be in. \u00a0So this year is the year of writing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I also need to start working on some publicity things for\u00a0<em>Last Rites.<\/em> \u00a0I&#8217;m working on the page proofs this week, and then I will have some interesting news for you guys. \u00a0And some teasers! \u00a0And maybe, just maybe, some other things that you might be interested in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now, I&#8217;m going to bed. \u00a0Because I&#8217;m mean that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been back to work on the Day Job for three half-days. \u00a0Today, I&#8217;m exhausted (although I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because of the two hours at the dentist today to repair a broken tooth or just low stamina), but I have the next FIVE days off, so I&#8217;ll be able to sleep in, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1008\">>>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,41,65,3,12,18,17,22],"tags":[67,78,4,7,56,60,63,46,66],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals","category-health","category-last-rites","category-metrics","category-personal","category-to-do","category-website-stuff","category-writing","tag-goals","tag-health","tag-last-rites","tag-life","tag-metrics","tag-personal","tag-to-do","tag-website","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}