{"id":12281,"date":"2015-01-23T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=12281"},"modified":"2015-01-22T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T03:10:08","slug":"happy-friday-randomness-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=12281","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shredded.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12290\" alt=\"shredded\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shredded.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shredded.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shredded-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday! To all our lovely <a title=\"2015 Secret Valentine Exchange!!\" href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=12139\">SVE<\/a> participants, how&#8217;s your planning going? I&#8217;m currently trying to get a few other projects wrapped up, but am looking forward to diving in to gift-making and have outsized ambitions to ship a package out before the end of next week. Will it happen? We shall see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One of the projects I finally checked off was <a title=\"Happy Friday + Randomness\" href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=12129\" target=\"_blank\">tidying<\/a> our monstrous paperwork. It was a bear, I tell you, but oh-so-necessary since I had to hunt down info for health insurance and found the state of our paperwork woefully inadequate. I shredded and shredded copious amounts of documents and old statements that are no longer relevant, and I filled our huge recycling bin to the brim. The relief I feel is HUGE. Plus I found old 401K accounts that we&#8217;d completely forgotten about. Not much in there, sadly, but it was like discovering a tiny bit of treasure. Joy.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly but surely, my mind is getting a little less cluttered as I clear away the physical detritus.<\/p>\n<p>****************************************<\/p>\n<p>I made K a little hair accessory that she tried on yesterday. She turned to me and said, &#8220;Is it chic or so last week?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>****************************************<\/p>\n<p>Have a delightful weekend, everyone! I&#8217;m delving into non-bloggable sewing and major book stuff (I know I don&#8217;t talk about it much mainly because I feel awkward about it, but I&#8217;ve been quietly working on my second book behind the scenes and deadlines are nipping at my feet). I may have to be extremely sparse for the next few weeks, but you know how I like to stick to my schedule so I&#8217;m playing it by ear.<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m purging away<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Finding sparks of joy each day<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Odd, but rewarding*<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*I keep running into more and more people who have read and loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-Decluttering\/dp\/1607747308\" target=\"_blank\">The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying<\/a> &#8212; I&#8217;m totally drinking the Kool-Aid, so fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! To all our lovely SVE participants, how&#8217;s your planning going? I&#8217;m currently trying to get a few other projects wrapped up, but am looking forward to diving in to gift-making and have outsized ambitions to ship a package out before the end of next week. Will it happen? We shall see&#8230; One of the projects I finally checked off was tidying our monstrous paperwork. It was a bear, I tell you, but oh-so-necessary since I had to hunt down info for health insurance and found the state of our paperwork woefully inadequate. I shredded and shredded copious amounts of documents and old statements that are no longer relevant, and I filled our huge recycling bin to the brim. The relief I feel is HUGE. Plus I found old 401K accounts that we&#8217;d completely forgotten about. Not much in there, sadly, but it was like discovering a tiny bit of treasure. Joy. Slowly but surely, my mind is getting a little less cluttered as I clear away the physical detritus. **************************************** I made K a little hair accessory that she tried on yesterday. She turned to me and said, &#8220;Is it chic or so last week?&#8221; **************************************** Have a delightful weekend, everyone! I&#8217;m delving into non-bloggable sewing and major book stuff (I know I don&#8217;t talk about it much mainly because I feel awkward about it, but I&#8217;ve been quietly working on my second book behind the scenes and deadlines are nipping at my feet). I may have to be extremely sparse for the next few weeks, but you know how I like to stick to my schedule so I&#8217;m playing it by ear. I&#8217;m purging away Finding sparks of joy each day Odd, but rewarding* *I keep running into more and more people who have read and loved The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying &#8212; I&#8217;m totally drinking the Kool-Aid, so fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12281"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12292,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12281\/revisions\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}