{"id":337,"date":"2007-11-18T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=337"},"modified":"2007-11-18T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T19:37:00","slug":"mmm-cinnamon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2007\/11\/18\/mmm-cinnamon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mmm cinnamon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing better on a Sunday morning that smelling the smell of fresh cinnamon raisin bread baking while some french vanilla coffee percolates. MMmmmmmmm it&#8217;s so lovely \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also started enjoying getting errands done in the early morning hours on a Sunday. It&#8217;s nice to go to the grocery store (a chore I normally despise) when hardly anyone is around. Even Wal-mart seems empty and less frantic during that time. This morning, I was off to the paper to put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theindependent.com\/stories\/11182007\/fea_wgastrike18.shtml\">my column<\/a> online. No one ever strips the TV column for online because usually it&#8217;s just a wire piece. But when we write one in-house, no one includes it. So since this column was on the strike, and I wanted fans4writers peeps to be able to read it, I had to make sure to get it online.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, it&#8217;s definitely another gorgeous lazy Sunday in this house. Shannon is busy teaching herself how to quilt (working in a fabric store has had this affect on her) so she&#8217;s been cutting and measuring and sewing all morning. Weird hearing the sounds of a sewing machine in this house because I can&#8217;t sew to save my life.<\/p>\n<p>I had to make a bag in Home ec back in high school. A plain old two handled bag. I got a C on it. I just don&#8217;t have the patience or talent. I can sew a button back on and that&#8217;s about the extent of my abilities. But Shan&#8217;s really taken a liking to most things crafty and it&#8217;s fun to watch her create stuff.<\/p>\n<p>She just came in to show me the second block of fabric she&#8217;s sewn. I can&#8217;t wait to see the finished quilt! Her first quilt is going to be a gift for her French teacher whom she adores and will have taught her for four years. See, Shan didn&#8217;t stop at the required two years of French class. She&#8217;s taking it all four years. My girl wants to be an Etymologist when she grows up (that&#8217;s words, not bugs \ud83d\ude09 ) so she is planning to study quite a number of foreign languages.<\/p>\n<p>Great for me because chatting to her in French has helped me remember the language myself. I took it for 5 years, then I had a friend who grew up in Morocco so she helped keep me from going rusty, and then when we lived at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rising-sun.demon.co.uk\/\">the pub in Engerland<\/a> (ugh looking at that site I built in 1998 makes me cringe. Wish he&#8217;d let me redo it now I&#8217;m all professional-y) some of the staff that lived with us were French and so I enjoyed listening to them bitch about the rest of us not knowing I could understand them \ud83d\ude42 Muahaha I&#8217;m evil.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve got zero plans for the day apart from watching various episodes of Angel for the hell of it, and making a batch of Spaghetti later. <\/p>\n<p>I love days like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing better on a Sunday morning that smelling the smell of fresh cinnamon raisin bread baking while some french vanilla coffee percolates. MMmmmmmmm it&#8217;s so lovely \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ve&#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\/337"}],"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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}