{"id":176,"date":"2014-04-26T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanyelshadow.wordpress.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2015-06-14T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T02:14:07","slug":"thoughts-of-the-week-2742014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts of the week &#8211; 27\/4\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been a bit disrupted. Just like the week before. Ah well. Let&#8217;s see if I can come up with 10 positive thoughts of the week.<\/p>\n<p>1. I am completely grateful for DMH\u00a0this week. I&#8217;ve had some horrible times lately, and DMH\u00a0is fabulous.<\/p>\n<p>2. Eli\u00a0hasn&#8217;t seen all of Lord of the Rings or Donnie Darko. I&#8217;m looking forward to a couch date.<\/p>\n<p>3. I finally got around to dying my hair last night. I&#8217;ve got a green patch and a blue patch. I haven&#8217;t actually washed the dye out yet, so I&#8217;ll see what it turns out like.<\/p>\n<p>4. KK and I have still been building lots of Lego. I have no self-control. Eli\u00a0bought a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set that we didn&#8217;t have. Instant love!<\/p>\n<p>5. We went to a sculpture garden for a free outing. Sometimes I don&#8217;t understand what makes art. Giant white bobbles in the ground for KK\u00a0to climb in? Cool, but not art.<\/p>\n<p>6. We&#8217;ve caught up to the current\u00a0Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series episodes. Now we&#8217;ll have to wait until they come out on TV.<\/p>\n<p>7. I am being successful with clearing out clothes from everyone&#8217;s wardrobes. I&#8217;ve also adapted three too big T-shirts into ones that fit nicely. Pretty proud of my work.<\/p>\n<p>8. We&#8217;re growing a single bean plant in the bathroom. It literally sprouted an inch overnight and is growing like crazy. I&#8217;m not actually sure what we&#8217;re going to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>9. While I appreciate Anzac Day, and the commemorative spirit, I often wonder whether the money for parades would be better spent actually doing something for the veterans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>10. The Disney music channel is on repeat at our house. It&#8217;s driving me nuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been a bit disrupted. Just like the week before. Ah well. Let&#8217;s see if I can come up with 10 positive thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=176\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts of the week &#8211; 27\/4\/2014<\/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":[8,10,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nzXS-2Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":166,"url":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=166","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":0},"title":"Thoughts of the week - 13\/4\/14","date":"April 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"1. I'm loving Pandora. 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