{"id":160,"date":"2010-08-07T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:35:15","slug":"report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a report of all today&#8217;s activities. For those of you who were with me in North Carolina (or who have heard me speak of this before), you know that sometimes Rich tends to act like I&#8217;ve demanded a full report on what he&#8217;s been doing and what has planned. He recites a list (&#8220;I fed the cats. I offered to let J go outside, but she didn&#8217;t want to go. I made myself some oatmeal, then ate it while I checked my email&#8230;.&#8221;), and often does it <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">first<\/span> thing in the morning, sometimes before I&#8217;ve even gotten out of bed. On those occasions, it&#8217;s hard to not shriek at him to shut up at least until after I&#8217;ve used the bathroom. I guess all I usually do is moan and pretend he&#8217;s not there.<\/p>\n<p><span>Anyhoo<\/span>, I&#8217;ve had a bad attitude most of the afternoon, after a perfectly pleasant lunch with Terri. Dunno why. I finally decided that I&#8217;d abandon work and go paint the bathroom. I did that. It didn&#8217;t help my bad attitude, but the bathroom&#8217;s painted now, so I guess it evens out.<\/p>\n<p>Then I felted, or tried to, three swatches of yarn that I might be using to make the lovely matching litter containers for my new car. (Hey! Don&#8217;t you judge me \u2014 I bought that car then went six weeks and four days without it while it was at the dealer waiting for a part. I&#8217;ll make as big a deal over it as I want to!) FYI, camel does <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">not<\/span> felt <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">at all<\/span>. Interesting, for an animal fiber. Alpaca does, but it was weird and bumpy, so much so that I couldn&#8217;t tell which part of the swatch was garter stitch and which was stockinette. The wool swatch was too tightly knit to felt much. After running it through the washer, I tried agitating it by hand in some hot water. No luck. I guess I&#8217;ll have to try the wool yarn again, on bigger needles.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">RAINING<\/span>! The temperature has dropped to a balmy 84\u00b0 and I&#8217;m about to go sit on the porch swing and watch it rain. That is, BTW, the whole reason we <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">have<\/span> a porch swing.<\/p>\n<p>I expect an upward turn in the attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a report of all today&#8217;s activities. For those of you who were with me in North Carolina (or who have heard me speak of this before), you know that sometimes Rich tends to act like I&#8217;ve demanded a full report on what he&#8217;s been doing and what has planned. He recites a list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}