{"id":6,"date":"2004-10-08T13:01:27","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2006-04-03T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T18:25:18","slug":"wife-swap-the-osbornes-and-the-bradys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"WIFE SWAP: THE OSBORNES AND THE BRADYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just one day of complete quiet without feeling guilty for it would be heaven.<\/p>\n<p>On my birthday that was all I ever asked for. I just wanted to sit in the bathtub with a People Magazine, some candles, some smell good stuff and just relax.<\/p>\n<p>I watched &#8220;Wife Swap&#8221; last night. The bottom line of last night&#8217;s show was, &#8220;You think that the grass is always greener on the other side.&#8221; I&#8217;m one of those types that knows that it&#8217;s astro-turf on the other other side.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a girlfriend, a mistress, a wife, a friend. and I know that each one of those has its good sides and its bad sides too. I can&#8217;t say I have ever been in a relationship that I was 100% happy in. There was always something there that made me always wonder, &#8216;what if&#8217;.<br \/>\nI guess I am making the choice to not to dwell on the what ifs and just take it one day at time.<\/p>\n<p>My house is always chaos. I&#8217;m not use to this on an everyday basis. I like things crazy and fun, but this is like the longest slumber party EVER. I&#8217;m working on month 7 of having 7 people in my house.<br \/>\nShaun said something the other day he said, &#8220;You&#8217;re use to having three kids. I&#8217;m use to having two kids. Neither one of us is use to having 5 kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t like the Brady Bunch. This is the Osborne&#8217;s X 2.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get use to it. I can&#8217;t believe my mom did this for as long as she did. She had 5 kids by the time she was my age. I can&#8217;t imagine any of the kids being infants though. Oh god, shoot me!<\/p>\n<p>OH, I had a dream last night that Kathy died. I woke up with tears all over my face. My mom kept telling me that I was the executor of the will and I needed to decide who got what. I walked over to her old dolls and I started crying harder because she told me when I was a little girl that when she died she would give me the cupie dolls. I was SO upset. It&#8217;s getting to the point where I don&#8217;t want to sleep anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one day of complete quiet without feeling guilty for it would be heaven. On my birthday that was all I ever asked for. I just wanted to sit in the bathtub with a People Magazine, some candles, some smell good stuff and just relax. I watched &#8220;Wife Swap&#8221; last night. The bottom line of last night&#8217;s show was, &#8220;You think that the grass is always greener on the other side.&#8221; I&#8217;m one of those types that knows that it&#8217;s astro-turf on the other other side. I&#8217;ve been a girlfriend, a mistress, a wife, a friend. and I know that each one of those has its good sides and its bad sides too. I can&#8217;t say I have ever been in a relationship that I was 100% happy in. There was always something there that made me always wonder, &#8216;what if&#8217;. I guess I am making the choice to not to dwell on the what ifs and just take it one day at time. My house is always chaos. I&#8217;m not use to this on an everyday basis. I like things crazy and fun, but this is like the longest slumber party EVER. I&#8217;m working on month 7 of having 7 people in my house. Shaun said something the other day he said, &#8220;You&#8217;re use to having three kids. I&#8217;m use to having two kids. Neither one of us is use to having 5 kids.&#8221; This isn&#8217;t like the Brady Bunch. This is the Osborne&#8217;s X 2. I&#8217;ll get use to it. I can&#8217;t believe my mom did this for as long as she did. She had 5 kids by the time she was my age. I can&#8217;t imagine any of the kids being infants though. Oh god, shoot me! OH, I had a dream last night that Kathy died. I woke up with tears all over my face. My mom kept telling me that I was the executor of the will and I needed to decide who got what. I walked over to her old dolls and I started crying harder because she told me when I was a little girl that when she died she would give me the cupie dolls. I was SO upset. It&#8217;s getting to the point where I don&#8217;t want to sleep anymore.<\/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-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}