{"id":174,"date":"2014-04-20T00:08:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T00:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanyelshadow.wordpress.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2015-06-15T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T06:11:08","slug":"thoughts-of-the-week-20414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts of the week &#8211; 20\/4\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. This week has been a series of downs. Boo.<\/p>\n<p>2. Apparently there is a scientific or something reason that &#8216;Let it go&#8217; is so catchy. I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s very popular in my house.<\/p>\n<p>3. I need to pick up the extended versions of Lord of the Rings. I&#8217;ve agreed to have a couch date to watch it.<\/p>\n<p>4. I painted my nails for the first time in ages. I was going for an Easter manicure. I&#8217;m inspired by a couple of blogs &#8211; Men can wear nail polish too being one of them.<\/p>\n<p>5. I&#8217;m missing going to the gym while I&#8217;m at home. Hopefully I can fit it back into my schedule when I go back to work.<\/p>\n<p>6. We don&#8217;t do Easter eggs, we do filled chocolates for the hunt instead. Unfortunately this year KK\u00a0has heard enough about it that eggs are the thing to get.<\/p>\n<p>7. DMH knows I&#8217;m not crash hot on chocolate so I got a motorcycle cover instead.\u00a0Best present he ever got me.<\/p>\n<p>8. We&#8217;ve been to the beach twice this week despite it being raining. I&#8217;ve got a<br \/>\nmarvellous idea for making a sea glass wall.<\/p>\n<p>9. I&#8217;m trying to project pan some of my skin care stuff. I just suck at using it up or remembering to use it at all.<\/p>\n<p>10. I went house shopping again. We&#8217;ve moved the budget down because no one will give us a loan despite having a spotless saving history. Hopefully there are some more good things out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. This week has been a series of downs. Boo. 2. Apparently there is a scientific or something reason that &#8216;Let it go&#8217; is so&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=174\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts of the week &#8211; 20\/4\/14<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nzXS-2O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60,"url":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=60","url_meta":{"origin":174,"position":0},"title":"Food Waste Friday - cucumbers and eggs","date":"February 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been reading The Frugal Girl for a while now. 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