{"id":218,"date":"2009-02-06T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:35:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:35:46","slug":"i-have-a-lot-to-do-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"I have a lot to do today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re getting ready to have company. I&#8217;ve long maintained that having guests is a very good thing &#8212; otherwise the soap dishes would <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">never<\/span> get cleaned.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, though, DH and I have both been stuck in an unfinished project cycle. Besides the normal chaos in our house and yard, we&#8217;ve both started some fairly major projects that got bogged down, and we&#8230;uh&#8230;put them on the back burner. Let them simmer, so to speak. Okay, we got tired of them. All the UFP (unfinished projects, as opposed to the knitter&#8217;s UFO [objects]) would be only minor deals if it were our usual guests coming to visit. My immediate family comes to visit fairly regularly, and they&#8217;re pretty gracious about the clutter. But the company that&#8217;s coming this month is some cousins who might prefer to <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">not<\/span> have power tools in the guest bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re hustling to get a few things finished. Installing the shower door in the guest bathroom (hence the power tools), cleaning our the guest room closet (aka my knitting stash), fixing up Popeye&#8217;s pen (that&#8217;s another post altogether). And, of course, work and business <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">do<\/span> go on, meaning Rich goes to work and I have to act with some modicum of responsibility towards my customers and contractors.<\/p>\n<p>So right now is the leading edge of a day that had <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">better<span><\/span><\/span> be busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re getting ready to have company. I&#8217;ve long maintained that having guests is a very good thing &#8212; otherwise the soap dishes would never get cleaned. Lately, though, DH and I have both been stuck in an unfinished project cycle. Besides the normal chaos in our house and yard, we&#8217;ve both started some fairly major [&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\/218"}],"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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}