{"id":1314,"date":"2014-03-03T23:19:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T04:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2014-03-03T23:19:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T04:19:03","slug":"writingpersonal-monday-my-old-enemy-we-meet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"(writing\/personal) Monday, my old enemy, we meet again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying really hard to keep updating this blog. \u00a0I feel bad that it seems to be only on Mondays &#8211; I promise, I will get onto more of a schedule soon. \u00a0Life has just been&#8230;well, life, lately.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hubby is still job hunting, and any good thoughts (or job prospects!) that you folks can send our way would be awesome. \u00a0He&#8217;s looking hard, and in the meantime, I get to enjoy things like the house being cleaner than normal, and my laundry being done. \u00a0Honestly, if we could afford it, I&#8217;d love to keep him as a house husband. \u00a0He&#8217;d be happier too. \u00a0We need to win the lottery or something.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still writing (yes, this is totally counting as words today, because it is after 11 pm and I&#8217;m brain-dead after a Monday), and I&#8217;m up to 23 days, I believe. \u00a0Not even hurricanes or hurricane-related hangovers stopped me, so one day of weird chats (and dear lord, were they weird. \u00a0Especially the guy who wanted to make sure he was still employed, because he couldn&#8217;t change his contributions online. \u00a0From his work computer. \u00a0While he sat in his office. \u00a0I swear, I can&#8217;t make this stuff up!) is not going to stop me. \u00a0And as my friend LC pointed out last week, the fact that I have a life means I have more inspiration. \u00a0And I do!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to get\u00a0<em>Into Thin Air<\/em> out this week. \u00a0It&#8217;s on my list, and Wednesday after my PT appointment, I&#8217;m planning on heading to the studio and getting it out. \u00a0This is a labor of love &#8211; I really, really love these characters, and I think the story and the concept are awesome. \u00a0It&#8217;s a new universe, a new plotline &#8211; and I can&#8217;t wait to share it with you. \u00a0I&#8217;m thinking Wednesday I might post a scene for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Health update! \u00a0We think the kidney stone passed while I wasn&#8217;t looking (a 4mm stone, or so they thought. \u00a0My friend Bob uses pearls smaller that that in his jewelry. O.o) but I go to the urologist on Wednesday to find out. \u00a0There&#8217;s no pain anymore, which is good, but apparently now I&#8217;m prone to them (kidney stones, that is). \u00a0Joy. \u00a0It&#8217;s been stupid cold here, so my knees are not happy. \u00a0I think Wednesday might also be swim day, as I have a 3 hour block of time in between urologist and PT. \u00a0And the pool is warm. \u00a0I just have to find my swim suit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But right now, I&#8217;m not going to think about sore knees, or bills, or anything like that. I just wanted to thank you guys. \u00a0All of you, who believe in me, who like the stories and the characters that I bring into life. \u00a0I want to be thankful that I can continue to write. \u00a0And I want to remind myself, and everyone else out there, that I always have my writing, and that&#8217;s a very, very cool thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even if it is stupid cold out. \u00a0(Seriously, it&#8217;s -17 degrees F before the wind chill. \u00a0WTF? \u00a0It&#8217;s March! \u00a0It&#8217;s baseball season! \u00a0This is NOT AWESOME!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying really hard to keep updating this blog. \u00a0I feel bad that it seems to be only on Mondays &#8211; I promise, I will get onto more of a schedule soon. \u00a0Life has just been&#8230;well, life, lately. &nbsp; Hubby is still job hunting, and any good thoughts (or job prospects!) that you folks can &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1314\">>>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":[41,3,74,12,50,8,22],"tags":[78,7,56,34,60,84,66],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-metrics","category-pendragon","category-personal","category-swimming","category-weekly-updates","category-writing","tag-health","tag-life","tag-metrics","tag-pendragon","tag-personal","tag-swimming","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314"}],"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=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}