{"id":485,"date":"2008-07-04T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T01:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/04\/485\/"},"modified":"2008-07-04T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T01:22:09","slug":"485","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/04\/485\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a date Wednesday night, my first in, well, longer than I can remember (usually the woman just moves in or vice versa).&nbsp; It went so well&#8230; got my hopes up&#8230; they are not being dashed, but this woman moves so slowly I can&#8217;t tell she&#8217;s moving.&nbsp; It will be good if it works out&#8230;&nbsp; but it has been a stress on me, one more thing to think about when I needed one or two fewer things on my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Some people offered to take me to a cookout followed by watching the City&#8217;s fireworks show, but I really need the time off to get my center back.&nbsp; Picked up something to kill off a few brain cells, and I&#8217;m kicking back.<\/p>\n<p>I did talk to my boss for a few minutes.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t talk for too long, because it was an international call.&nbsp; She&#8217;s a sweetie, and she&#8217;s been so much help to me over the years that I really want to do good work for her.&nbsp; I&#8217;m fairly much caught up in my work, but one of my less-important jobs has gone undone for so long that it&#8217;s getting more important to get it done. Probably do that tomorrow, gotta rest up today.&nbsp; I LOVE working for Eternal Press, everyone is so helpful and friendly (and the few who aren&#8217;t will probably take themselves out of the mix, and the company, soon enough) that it feels like a real family or gathering of best friends.&nbsp; I just wish we were all in the same place instead of spread all over the globe.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t really make any money last quarter, but then I only worked the second half of the quarter and don&#8217;t have my hands on that many books by the end of the quarter.&nbsp; Things are going to get a lot better.<\/p>\n<p>Extra hugz to Flamez, she needs them right about now.&nbsp; She has been a good friend since she was so young I shouldn&#8217;t have been talking to her (but didn&#8217;t know that at the time)&#8230;&nbsp; Life can get rather life-like, sweetie, don&#8217;t take it harder than you have to.<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a date Wednesday night, my first in, well, longer than I can remember (usually the woman just moves in or vice versa).&nbsp; It went so well&#8230; got my hopes up&#8230; they are not being dashed, but this woman moves so slowly I can&#8217;t tell she&#8217;s moving.&nbsp; It will be good if it works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}