{"id":12814,"date":"2015-03-20T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=12814"},"modified":"2015-03-19T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T00:34:31","slug":"happy-friday-randomness-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=12814","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horse-illo.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12815\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horse-illo.jpg\" alt=\"horse-illo\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horse-illo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horse-illo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday! I meant to have\u00a0a sneak peek of my upcoming children&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1570619549\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1570619549&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sanaishi-20&amp;linkId=ALUYYJI2VI6WOTSI\">book<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=sanaishi-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1570619549\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> today, but due to some unexpected snafus and technical problems on my part, I was foiled\u00a0&#8212; I&#8217;m hoping for better luck next week!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on the custom illustrations from what is now an embarrassingly <a title=\"A Debt-Free Life Finale + Custom Illustration Giveaway! [CLOSED]\" href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=12049\" target=\"_blank\">long time ago<\/a>, and as my mother-in-law would say, the whole process is moving &#8220;slower than molasses in January.&#8221; I just hope I&#8217;m still not apologizing this time next year!\u00a0The horse above is one of the few I&#8217;ve been able to finish. My scanner lost quite a bit of the details, but I actually like this version.<\/p>\n<p>**********************************************<\/p>\n<p>Early in the morning yesterday:<\/p>\n<p>K: <em>Mama! You look so tired! You shouldn&#8217;t go outside &#8212; you have big fat lines under your eyes&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Me: <em>I do? That&#8217;s okay, I don&#8217;t really care what I look like.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>K: <em>No, I don&#8217;t mean that. I&#8217;m saying you shouldn&#8217;t go outside because I&#8217;m worried you might fall asleep and collapse while you&#8217;re walking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>**********************************************<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful weekend, my friends! Postings might get a little spotty these next few weeks as I enter the last couple months\u00a0of working on book #2. I&#8217;ll do my best to stay up to date here, though I must &#8216;fess up that\u00a0I&#8217;ve officially caught the instagram bug and can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/sanaeishida\/\" target=\"_blank\">there<\/a> pretty regularly now (can&#8217;t.stop.following.people &#8211; so much inspiration! It&#8217;s like my first blush of Pinterest obsession all over again). It&#8217;s probably the cause of those big fat lines under my eyes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m telling\u00a0myself<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I will not get overwhelmed<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Not sure it&#8217;s working*<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*It would probably help if I&#8217;d cut back on the social media. But oh, all the pretty images!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! I meant to have\u00a0a sneak peek of my upcoming children&#8217;s book today, but due to some unexpected snafus and technical problems on my part, I was foiled\u00a0&#8212; I&#8217;m hoping for better luck next week! I&#8217;m working on the custom illustrations from what is now an embarrassingly long time ago, and as my mother-in-law would say, the whole process is moving &#8220;slower than molasses in January.&#8221; I just hope I&#8217;m still not apologizing this time next year!\u00a0The horse above is one of the few I&#8217;ve been able to finish. My scanner lost quite a bit of the details, but I actually like this version. ********************************************** Early in the morning yesterday: K: Mama! You look so tired! You shouldn&#8217;t go outside &#8212; you have big fat lines under your eyes&#8230; Me: I do? That&#8217;s okay, I don&#8217;t really care what I look like. K: No, I don&#8217;t mean that. I&#8217;m saying you shouldn&#8217;t go outside because I&#8217;m worried you might fall asleep and collapse while you&#8217;re walking. ********************************************** Have a wonderful weekend, my friends! Postings might get a little spotty these next few weeks as I enter the last couple months\u00a0of working on book #2. I&#8217;ll do my best to stay up to date here, though I must &#8216;fess up that\u00a0I&#8217;ve officially caught the instagram bug and can be found there pretty regularly now (can&#8217;t.stop.following.people &#8211; so much inspiration! It&#8217;s like my first blush of Pinterest obsession all over again). It&#8217;s probably the cause of those big fat lines under my eyes&#8230; I&#8217;m telling\u00a0myself I will not get overwhelmed Not sure it&#8217;s working* *It would probably help if I&#8217;d cut back on the social media. But oh, all the pretty images!<\/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":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"category-watercolor","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814","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=12814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12819,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions\/12819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}