{"id":190,"date":"2014-08-25T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanyelshadow.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/25\/general-update-for-august-2014\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T07:51:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T07:51:23","slug":"general-update-for-august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"General Update for August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been very poor at updating. How hard is it to come up with 10 thoughts of the week? Apparently very difficult as I’m still passing those by.<\/p>\n

And Food Waste Friday – a cause really close to my heart? Well, I don’t really want to talk about the food waste that’s been happening in my house, with one person who is a real trial-and-error for feeding and me who isn’t interested in food at all.<\/p>\n

Have I posted about relationships? DMH\u00a0and I aren’t really DMH and I anymore, now it’s Eli\u00a0and I.<\/p>\n

Cooking? Sewing? Baking? Domestics? The closest I’ve gotten is trying to make a strogganoff type sauce with light sour cream and no meat, just mushrooms, and failing miserably (that contributed to my food waste, I simply couldn’t bear to eat the leftovers).<\/p>\n

I’ve moved houses, put things into storage and used a moving company. I’m selling major furniture pieces on eBay. And yet, I still haven’t posted.<\/p>\n

I’ve gotten holes in my budget, been in negative for at least one month. I’ve tried to start budgeting for a different future, but I haven’t made any headway.<\/p>\n

I’ve been told I have a US accent, KK\u00a0has a British accent and Eli\u00a0has an Aussie accent all by one Latvian man.<\/p>\n

All in all, I’m failing at blogging and writing too. Today was a bad day. My 1 year review didn’t go well, and I need to rewrite some things majorly. Life seems very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been very poor at updating. How hard is it to come up with 10 thoughts of the week? Apparently very difficult as I’m…<\/p>\n

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