{"id":9364,"date":"2012-04-03T21:43:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T02:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=9364"},"modified":"2012-04-03T21:43:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T02:43:05","slug":"daybook-when-life-is-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20120403-9364.htm","title":{"rendered":"Daybook: When Life is Busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, I have a super-abundance of ideas to blog about and not anywhere near enough days in which to put the blogging. That&#8217;s still probably true, but for the past several weeks I&#8217;ve had no time to organize my thoughts into blog format. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been saved by the never-ending Haggadah series (which was written as one long post about a month ago and then split into what you&#8217;ve gotten over the past several weeks)-but my pre-prepared posts have run out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m officially on empty.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplewomansdaybook.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simple Woman&#8217;s Daybook<\/a>, a lovely look at what&#8217;s going on <strong>today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Outside my window&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nDarkness. Darkness when I left for work and darkness when I arrived back home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am thinking&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nThat self-pity is not an attractive look on me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am thankful&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nThat God loves me enough to bring me into difficult seasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the kitchen&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nLeftover dishes from the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am wearing&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nThis evening&#8217;s dinner on my shirt. One of the (many) down-sides to eating on the run.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am creating&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nMy Haggadah for the Seder I&#8217;ll be celebrating this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am going&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nCrazy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am wondering&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nWhether I will be able to get enough done tomorrow to allow me to actually take off the day I allotted as vacation (to prepare for my Seder) this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am reading&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>Without a Doubt<\/i> by Kenneth Richard Samples<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am hoping&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nThat I can wake up at a decent hour tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am looking forward to&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nGoing to a friend&#8217;s wedding in Colorado in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am learning&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nAbout Prader-Willi, the Trinity, and woodworking<\/p>\n<p><strong>Around the house&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nClothes that haven&#8217;t been laundered, sawdust and splinters from making some leaves for my dining room table, and a yard that&#8217;s begging for a cutting<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am pondering&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nThe number of hours in the day<\/p>\n<p><strong>A favorite quote for today&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Your circumstances are not your life. Christ Jesus is your life.&#8221; ~Cindy<\/p>\n<p><strong>One of my favorite things&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nA warm bath on a chilly night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A few plans for the rest of the week:<\/strong><br \/>\nTaking Friday off (maybe?), having 20+ over for a Seder, decorating some blown eggs (maybe?), and seeing my brother (but not his new wife, sad face) before he leaves for Okinawa<\/p>\n<p><strong>A peek into my <strike>day<\/strike> life&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t want to see my day, unless you&#8217;re really keen on calculations of weight loss and tube feeding formulations or completing reports or auditing supplement use&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"images\/20120403-01.jpg\" alt=\"Little Miss\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m sure no one would ever NOT want to look when I&#8217;ve got a picture of the Little Miss to share. <\/p>\n<p>She came up for my 27 Dresses birthday party a couple weeks back and I had fun taking pictures of her after the party was over.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Don&#8217;t forget to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplewomansdaybook.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">more daybooks here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, I have a super-abundance of ideas to blog about and not anywhere near enough days in which to put the blogging. That&#8217;s still probably true, but for the past several weeks I&#8217;ve had no time to organize my thoughts into blog format. I&#8217;ve been saved by the never-ending Haggadah series (which was written as &#8230; <a title=\"Daybook: When Life is Busy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20120403-9364.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daybook: When Life is Busy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}