{"id":205,"date":"2005-04-20T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2006-04-03T23:01:02","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T06:01:02","slug":"ten-whole-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"ten whole days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/10066964\/\" \/><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/10066964\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Marina took this\" src=\"http:\/\/photos6.flickr.com\/10066964_47b71ae6f4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the ten whole days my little girl hasn&#8217;t had an accident at night.<br \/>\nA life without pull-ups? could I be asking to much?<br \/>\nI know, I know&#8230;I have two girls about ready to start their periods so it&#8217;s not like I have a life without absorbency issues.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a rough couple of weeks. I&#8217;m still working through it. I seem to have a better handle on it this go around.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun made me laugh today as we were watching a commercial for Eharmony. The old guy was talking about how you get to know someone from the very start.<br \/>\nHe said, &#8220;Dear God, who wants to get to know someone from the very beginning? Can you have a few emails where you think the other person is somewhat normal?&#8221;<br \/>\nI laughed and remembered back to when we met. Somehow we managed to avoid the &#8220;look over here so you don&#8217;t see how horrible THIS part of my life looks&#8221; phase.<br \/>\nHe said; imagine if the online ads actually reflected the real us:<br \/>\n&#8220;Hey, i&#8217;m a guy with a sinus problem looking for a woman with anxiety attacks! Oh man, I can&#8217;t believe I found her!&#8221;<br \/>\nand then he pulled me in as close as he could with his sore neck and I cuddled up as close as I could without burning him with my heating pad.<\/p>\n<p>I was inspired today. I was reading a blog and I was inspired.<br \/>\nI have been kicking around this idea for about a year and I never called to follow up on it.<\/p>\n<p>Today I did.<\/p>\n<p>I called the local senior citizen apartments and I left a message with the lady who runs shit there (i&#8217;m sure she has an official title)<br \/>\n&#8220;I want to give up some of my time helping out the people there that have computer questions. I want to teach them how to use the internet. If they have any questions I want them to call and if I can I will come over and help them out. I&#8217;m not charging anything, I just want to help.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe woman was so excited because the older people there call her on a weekly basis and ask her questions she doesn&#8217;t know the answers to.<br \/>\nI got a call tonight and it was from an older woman who wants to know how to save pictures that she gets in emails.<br \/>\nI told her I could help her, but she said she has doctor appointments every day next week. I&#8217;m going to go over next week and help her out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting out of the house. I&#8217;m talking to people. I&#8217;m going to get to teach people how to connect and I just know she&#8217;s going to teach me something I didn&#8217;t know either. I can&#8217;t afford therapy, but I have a feeling this is going to heal me in ways a doctor and medicine never could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the ten whole days my little girl hasn&#8217;t had an accident at night. A life without pull-ups? could I be asking to much? I know, I know&#8230;I have two girls about ready to start their periods so it&#8217;s not like I have a life without absorbency issues. It&#8217;s been a rough couple of weeks. I&#8217;m still working through it. I seem to have a better handle on it this go around. Shaun made me laugh today as we were watching a commercial for Eharmony. The old guy was talking about how you get to know someone from the very start. He said, &#8220;Dear God, who wants to get to know someone from the very beginning? Can you have a few emails where you think the other person is somewhat normal?&#8221; I laughed and remembered back to when we met. Somehow we managed to avoid the &#8220;look over here so you don&#8217;t see how horrible THIS part of my life looks&#8221; phase. He said; imagine if the online ads actually reflected the real us: &#8220;Hey, i&#8217;m a guy with a sinus problem looking for a woman with anxiety attacks! Oh man, I can&#8217;t believe I found her!&#8221; and then he pulled me in as close as he could with his sore neck and I cuddled up as close as I could without burning him with my heating pad. I was inspired today. I was reading a blog and I was inspired. I have been kicking around this idea for about a year and I never called to follow up on it. Today I did. I called the local senior citizen apartments and I left a message with the lady who runs shit there (i&#8217;m sure she has an official title) &#8220;I want to give up some of my time helping out the people there that have computer questions. I want to teach them how to use the internet. If they have any questions I want them to call and if I can I will come over and help them out. I&#8217;m not charging anything, I just want to help.&#8221; The woman was so excited because the older people there call her on a weekly basis and ask her questions she doesn&#8217;t know the answers to. I got a call tonight and it was from an older woman who wants to know how to save pictures that she gets in emails. I told her I could help her, but she said she has doctor appointments every day next week. I&#8217;m going to go over next week and help her out. I&#8217;m getting out of the house. I&#8217;m talking to people. I&#8217;m going to get to teach people how to connect and I just know she&#8217;s going to teach me something I didn&#8217;t know either. I can&#8217;t afford therapy, but I have a feeling this is going to heal me in ways a doctor and medicine never could.<\/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-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}