{"id":174,"date":"2005-08-03T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=174"},"modified":"2005-08-03T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T02:05:00","slug":"countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2005\/08\/03\/countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well! That was a bit of a break eh? It&#8217;s been crazy busy lately in my life, a fact for which I&#8217;m actually grateful. I love being busy and feeling like I have a purpose. One of our guys left the department a couple of weeks ago and I&#8217;ve been getting to do his stuff along with mine which equates to working late and working at home a little.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s refreshing though because although it&#8217;s hard work, it&#8217;s work I love. I&#8217;m so lucky to be able to work in a job I actually *like*. So many people end up stuck and unhappy and I was sure headed that way. Thank Elvis for the Internets \ud83d\ude42 It saved me.<\/p>\n<p>Sooooo what&#8217;s been happening&#8230;. Well aside from lots of work, I&#8217;m looking forward to tomorrow as I will be making my final car payment (woohoo!) and from then on getting an extra $200 bucks a month back. Plus my insurance rate drops so that&#8217;s even more dosh in my pocket. Maybe that will help ease things up and let me get back on track with everything. otherwise I&#8217;m starting to think it&#8217;s time for a part-time job of some kind.<\/p>\n<p>The kid will also be registering for High School tomorrow *sob* My baby&#8217;s growing so fast. She&#8217;s totally looking forward to starting whereas I was a nervous wreck. I hated starting a new school year once I got up in my high school years. Probably because I moved so much and frequently had to start in a new school. It was so hard to forge friendships in places where everyone&#8217;s known each other since kindergarten.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m happy she&#8217;s looking forward to it. The Gs are buying her a computer (Believe me I was utterly gobsmacked when they told us) to start high school with. She&#8217;s over the moon about that. She&#8217;s taking French (which pleased me no end because I can help herr with that easy. I had it for five years and then lived with french peeople in England.) and drama, symphony orchestra, and the core classes like geometry and english etc. She&#8217;s going to have an exciting year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping she takes an interest in journalism because UNL down the road is one of the top journo schools in the country. I think she&#8217;d be good at it as well. Plus one of the writers at my paper is also a journo teacher at Senior High and I think it&#8217;d be fun for her to be in his class.<\/p>\n<p>Ok so that&#8217;s my update for now. Oh, I&#8217;ve started a new blog called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/invirtuallife.blogspot.com\">IVL<\/a>&#8216; which will be my blog for the paper which is another reason I&#8217;ve been so quiet here. IVL is gong to take a lot of my time. It&#8217;s where I get to talk about my experiences as a longtime &#8216;Netizen and I&#8217;ll pass on fun and funky websites I know about, talk about how to get along online, tips, tricks, things like that. So check it out.<\/p>\n<p>\/shameless plug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well! That was a bit of a break eh? It&#8217;s been crazy busy lately in my life, a fact for which I&#8217;m actually grateful. I love being busy and feeling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}