{"id":1143,"date":"2006-08-22T09:49:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2006-08-22T09:49:29","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:49:29","slug":"dancing-the-jig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"*dancing the jig*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/222070647\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/80\/222070647_7925385b12_m.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/65\/222070899_9ab9970920_m.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/70\/222070750_505e267468_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning was painless.\u00a0 Oh Dear God in heaven THANK YOU.<\/p>\n<p>Can you hear that? It&#8217;s called &#8216;sweet sweet silence&#8217;.\u00a0 I can actually hear the dog in the kitchen licking the tile.\u00a0 I can hear the silent hum of my computer. I can hear the Starbucks coffee as it hits my stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Things I can do right now:<\/p>\n<p>1. Go pee with the door wide open and not have to be yelling, &#8220;I&#8217;m peeing!!&#8221; the whole time in fear of someone walking in.<\/p>\n<p>2. I can take a shower and sing without a crowd of young girls at the door staring at me like I am slaughtering a small animal in there with me.<\/p>\n<p>3. I can walk out the door without having to explain where I am going to 5 different children I come across on my path to the car.<\/p>\n<p>4. In theory, I could clean the house and it would stay that way until 3pm. I say, &#8216;in theory&#8217; because there is no way in hell i&#8217;m going to waste this time&#8230;CLEANING.<\/p>\n<p>5. I don&#8217;t have to look for ANYTHING. I could just sit here and not have to worry about anything that is floating around in this strange vortex of missing objects.<\/p>\n<p>6. I could call my sister back, but calling her back within an hour of her calling and leaving a message would, at her ripe old age, give her a heart attack.\u00a0 I might need to wait a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>7. I could take off my clothes and walk into the kitchen. I won&#8217;t because it scares the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>8. I could open a candy bar and not have to worry about being quiet about it because my children have super sonic hearing and can hear a Hershey&#8217;s wrapper opening a mile away.<\/p>\n<p>9. I could at any point today walk into the kitchen and not see Tyler on the computer or playing his video game that I have told him to put away a hundred times in the last week alone.<\/p>\n<p>10. I could try that, &#8216;folding and hanging&#8217; of clothes that Soozie spoke of.<\/p>\n<p>I will do none of this because i&#8217;m just going to sit in the middle of the bed and close my eyes and listen to the dog licking the tile in the kitchen for the next\u00a0 5 hours.<br \/>\nThis is going to be a good school year.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/222070647\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning was painless.\u00a0 Oh Dear God in heaven THANK YOU. Can you hear that? It&#8217;s called &#8216;sweet sweet silence&#8217;.\u00a0 I can actually hear the dog in the kitchen licking the tile.\u00a0 I can hear the silent hum of my computer. I can hear the Starbucks coffee as it hits my stomach. Things I can do right now: 1. Go pee with the door wide open and not have to be yelling, &#8220;I&#8217;m peeing!!&#8221; the whole time in fear of someone walking in. 2. I can take a shower and sing without a crowd of young girls at the door staring at me like I am slaughtering a small animal in there with me. 3. I can walk out the door without having to explain where I am going to 5 different children I come across on my path to the car. 4. In theory, I could clean the house and it would stay that way until 3pm. I say, &#8216;in theory&#8217; because there is no way in hell i&#8217;m going to waste this time&#8230;CLEANING. 5. I don&#8217;t have to look for ANYTHING. I could just sit here and not have to worry about anything that is floating around in this strange vortex of missing objects. 6. I could call my sister back, but calling her back within an hour of her calling and leaving a message would, at her ripe old age, give her a heart attack.\u00a0 I might need to wait a day or two. 7. I could take off my clothes and walk into the kitchen. I won&#8217;t because it scares the dogs. 8. I could open a candy bar and not have to worry about being quiet about it because my children have super sonic hearing and can hear a Hershey&#8217;s wrapper opening a mile away. 9. I could at any point today walk into the kitchen and not see Tyler on the computer or playing his video game that I have told him to put away a hundred times in the last week alone. 10. I could try that, &#8216;folding and hanging&#8217; of clothes that Soozie spoke of. I will do none of this because i&#8217;m just going to sit in the middle of the bed and close my eyes and listen to the dog licking the tile in the kitchen for the next\u00a0 5 hours. This is going to be a good school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}