{"id":7376,"date":"2013-11-15T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=7376"},"modified":"2013-11-14T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:08:21","slug":"happy-friday-randomness-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=7376","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/blue-grey.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7377\" alt=\"blue-grey\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/blue-grey.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/blue-grey.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/blue-grey-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday! These weeks are passing by relentlessly fast, and I&#8217;m starting to feel the holiday momentum starting to take over. I&#8217;d like to do a few easy holiday DIY crafts here on the blog, but I&#8217;ll have to see if I&#8217;m being way too ambitious. You know how I tend to do that.<\/p>\n<p>On an unrelated note, I had this conversation with a friend the other day:<\/p>\n<p><em>Friend: &#8220;I have your color!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Me: &#8220;What? What does that mean?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Friend: &#8220;I do this thing, this thing I&#8217;ve always done&#8230;I associate my good friends with certain colors. And today, I figured out yours!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Me: &#8220;Really? Is it grey?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Friend: &#8220;It is! But a very bluish-grey. Yes, a blue-grey.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think she hit it on the nail and I completely agree. I love that idea of associating people with particular hues. What would your color be?<\/p>\n<p>********************************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a random illustration from my sketchbook this week. I&#8217;m trying to get back into the daily habit of drawing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/penguins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7378\" alt=\"penguins\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/penguins.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/penguins.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/penguins-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/penguins-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*******************************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>K is a professional flatterer and is forever complimenting me. I&#8217;ve become quite spoiled from all her loving sentiments, but sometimes, she says things like this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mama, you know&#8230;you&#8217;re not very beautiful at night and when you wake up. Your hair is crazytown!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*******************************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend all!<\/p>\n<p><em>Cool days, chilly nights<\/em><br \/>\n<i><\/i><em>Need a slow-paced book to read*<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and slumber away<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*I was up way too late the other night finishing up this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eon-Alison-Goodman\/dp\/0142417114\" target=\"_blank\">YA novel<\/a> &#8211; so good! Now I want to read the sequel, but should probably read something less action-packed and geared toward teenagers if I want to snooze! Perhaps something by Thomas Pynchon&#8230;I&#8217;ve tried reading Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow multiple times and it always puts me to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! These weeks are passing by relentlessly fast, and I&#8217;m starting to feel the holiday momentum starting to take over. I&#8217;d like to do a few easy holiday DIY crafts here on the blog, but I&#8217;ll have to see if I&#8217;m being way too ambitious. You know how I tend to do that. On an unrelated note, I had this conversation with a friend the other day: Friend: &#8220;I have your color!&#8221; Me: &#8220;What? What does that mean?&#8221; Friend: &#8220;I do this thing, this thing I&#8217;ve always done&#8230;I associate my good friends with certain colors. And today, I figured out yours!&#8221; Me: &#8220;Really? Is it grey?&#8221; Friend: &#8220;It is! But a very bluish-grey. Yes, a blue-grey.&#8221; I think she hit it on the nail and I completely agree. I love that idea of associating people with particular hues. What would your color be? ******************************************************************************************** Here&#8217;s a random illustration from my sketchbook this week. I&#8217;m trying to get back into the daily habit of drawing. ******************************************************************************************* K is a professional flatterer and is forever complimenting me. I&#8217;ve become quite spoiled from all her loving sentiments, but sometimes, she says things like this: &#8220;Mama, you know&#8230;you&#8217;re not very beautiful at night and when you wake up. Your hair is crazytown!&#8221; ******************************************************************************************* Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend all! Cool days, chilly nights Need a slow-paced book to read* and slumber away *I was up way too late the other night finishing up this YA novel &#8211; so good! Now I want to read the sequel, but should probably read something less action-packed and geared toward teenagers if I want to snooze! Perhaps something by Thomas Pynchon&#8230;I&#8217;ve tried reading Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow multiple times and it always puts me to sleep.<\/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":[6,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-black-and-white","7":"category-illustration","8":"category-life","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376","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=7376"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7388,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376\/revisions\/7388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}