{"id":2942,"date":"2016-01-08T08:45:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T15:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2016-01-08T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T15:46:07","slug":"friday-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2942","title":{"rendered":"Friday Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/24066974555_c6c83f14df_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2943\" src=\"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/24066974555_c6c83f14df_z.jpg\" alt=\"24066974555_c6c83f14df_z\" width=\"549\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/24066974555_c6c83f14df_z.jpg 640w, http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/24066974555_c6c83f14df_z-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Friday morning and I was thinking how tonight I will come home and finish taking down my tree and preparing for the new year ahead of me.<br \/>\nNew years was amazing. One of the bests I can remember. \u00a0I had a great dinner with my mom, sister and brother in law. \u00a0When I got home I got to talk to my best friend from high school. \u00a0It was beyond words I can use to explain how incredibly special that conversation was to me. \u00a0&#8220;Missing&#8221; her just doesn&#8217;t cover it. When I heard her voice it was like a part of my soul filled up. \u00a0 The first day of the year I got to see her. \u00a0What a wonderful way to start of the new year. \u00a0The next day I got to hang out with my other friend, Bo from high school. \u00a0 High school for me was in the 1980&#8217;s so it&#8217;s a great feeling to &#8216;remember&#8217;.<br \/>\nThe friendships I had back then were like (what I would guess) people that go through boot camp with and then end up at war, fighting side by side. \u00a0 \u00a0The stories we have are hysterical and heartbreaking. \u00a0Putting our stories together and filling in the holes of our memories.<\/p>\n<p>The whole, &#8216;not giving a shit what people think&#8217; is still stirring around in my brain. \u00a0This life, the short grain of sand in the big scheme of things is tugging at me. \u00a0I&#8217;m ready to not give a shit anymore and just live this bitch until the wheels fall off.<br \/>\nSometimes when I start getting too much in my head, I think, &#8220;Who fucking cares?&#8221; \u00a0and then I think about the shit that people will talk if I decided to live my life like I really want to&#8230;and that kills the dream, BUT THEN this voice pops into my head. \u00a0It&#8217;s Tabitha and she&#8217;s saying, &#8220;Go away, you are nobody.&#8221; \u00a0 EXACTLY, all those people that will have my name on their lips, talking their shit are nobody. \u00a0In the BIG PICTURE of this life I really only care what my sister thinks about me. \u00a0She is my compass and she points me in the right direction. \u00a0My girls&#8230;well, lets be honest&#8230;they know that their mom is different, lives by the rules, but is constantly finding ways to break them. \u00a0 They understand I am not like other moms. \u00a0I love differently.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah. Who gives a shit if I decide to just pack it all in and just live this life until it&#8217;s over?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s Friday morning and I was thinking how tonight I will come home and finish taking down my tree and preparing for the new year ahead of me. New years was amazing. One of the bests I can remember. \u00a0I had a great dinner with my mom, sister and brother in law. \u00a0When I got home I got to talk to my best friend from high school. \u00a0It was beyond words I can use to explain how incredibly special that conversation was to me. \u00a0&#8220;Missing&#8221; her just doesn&#8217;t cover it. When I heard her voice it was like a part of my soul filled up. \u00a0 The first day of the year I got to see her. \u00a0What a wonderful way to start of the new year. \u00a0The next day I got to hang out with my other friend, Bo from high school. \u00a0 High school for me was in the 1980&#8217;s so it&#8217;s a great feeling to &#8216;remember&#8217;. The friendships I had back then were like (what I would guess) people that go through boot camp with and then end up at war, fighting side by side. \u00a0 \u00a0The stories we have are hysterical and heartbreaking. \u00a0Putting our stories together and filling in the holes of our memories. The whole, &#8216;not giving a shit what people think&#8217; is still stirring around in my brain. \u00a0This life, the short grain of sand in the big scheme of things is tugging at me. \u00a0I&#8217;m ready to not give a shit anymore and just live this bitch until the wheels fall off. Sometimes when I start getting too much in my head, I think, &#8220;Who fucking cares?&#8221; \u00a0and then I think about the shit that people will talk if I decided to live my life like I really want to&#8230;and that kills the dream, BUT THEN this voice pops into my head. \u00a0It&#8217;s Tabitha and she&#8217;s saying, &#8220;Go away, you are nobody.&#8221; \u00a0 EXACTLY, all those people that will have my name on their lips, talking their shit are nobody. \u00a0In the BIG PICTURE of this life I really only care what my sister thinks about me. \u00a0She is my compass and she points me in the right direction. \u00a0My girls&#8230;well, lets be honest&#8230;they know that their mom is different, lives by the rules, but is constantly finding ways to break them. \u00a0 They understand I am not like other moms. \u00a0I love differently. So yeah. Who gives a shit if I decide to just pack it all in and just live this life until it&#8217;s over?<\/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-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","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=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}