{"id":2139,"date":"2011-02-23T16:40:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T23:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2011-02-23T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T23:40:19","slug":"goin-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2139","title":{"rendered":"Goin&#8217; good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/atthispointinmylife\/5463066096\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5216\/5463066096_4694c90b14.jpg\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/atthispointinmylife\/5463066096\/\">These shoes were made for hikin&#8217; and that&#8217;s just what they&#8217;ll do!<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/atthispointinmylife\/\">Suddenly Single<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nMy girls are with Gma and Gpa this week for their break. <br \/>\nI got a call at 9:30 last night from Alyx, &#8220;Mom, my tummy hurts.&#8221;  Being 3 hours away there wasn&#8217;t much I could do. &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to sleep, Aly!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I called her this morning and she said, &#8220;I think I had too much popcorn and candy at the movies last night.&#8221;   to which I thought, &#8216;spoiled brat.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>My involuntary vow of poverty has me trudging. To trudge: the slow, weary, depressing yet determined walk of a man who has nothing left in life except the impulse to simply soldier on. <br \/>\nEat popcorn and candy&#8230;AS IF THAT IS AN OPTION!  I&#8217;m living on trail mix, tuna and lemon water. Not because it&#8217;s a new diet fad, but because that is all I can afford until payday.   I lost three pounds yesterday, but I almost passed out on the treadmill. <br \/>\nThere has to be a happy medium somewhere in my life.<\/p>\n<p>HAPPY. I forgot to mention happy.  Yes, I am broke as a joke, my friend is struggling with issues that I can&#8217;t help her with, and my stress level is through the roof&#8230;but i&#8217;m happy.  <br \/>\nSome shit went down, but it got worked through and through the fine art of communication, things are back on a road we can both travel on without looking for the first exit sign.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been praying a lot lately.  It&#8217;s mostly for my step-step son and his family, but it&#8217;s gotten me in the habit of handing things that are not in my control to a higher power.  <\/p>\n<p>I found out a way to not stress out at night. I walk my trails and figure out where I am going on Saturday. It&#8217;s been working. I was asleep early last night with dancing switchbacks in my head ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These shoes were made for hikin&#8217; and that&#8217;s just what they&#8217;ll do!, originally uploaded by Suddenly Single. My girls are with Gma and Gpa this week for their break. I got a call at 9:30 last night from Alyx, &#8220;Mom, my tummy hurts.&#8221; Being 3 hours away there wasn&#8217;t much I could do. &#8220;I&#8217;m trying&#8230;<\/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-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","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=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}