{"id":7642,"date":"2013-12-06T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2013-12-05T20:54:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T04:54:54","slug":"happy-friday-randomness-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=7642","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"girl-in-a-bottle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Happy Friday! Thank you for all the kind comments about both the advent calendar<\/a> and holiday tags<\/a>! I am happiest making things, and wish more hours could be added to each day. Which reminds me, I just read this book<\/a> and I have to tell you, I zipped through it. It’s a coming-of age story about a girl growing up in a future in which each day starts to grow longer and longer as the earth’s rotation slows.\u00a0So good.<\/p>\n

In other news, my cough is still relentless. I’m prone to bronchial infections and I haven’t even been able to read bedtime stories for K these last few weeks. One of the benefits of creating blog posts is that no talking is required. I was sitting in a coffee shop the other day working on a post, and a woman said to me, “You have one of those non-stop coughs too, huh?” And then we coughed like crazy simultaneously.<\/p>\n

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Not a lot of takers for the magnet kit giveaway<\/a>, but I think this might have been my favorite group of answers to my giveaway questions to date. As a show of gratitude for taking the time to answer so thoughtfully and for brightening my outlook on humankind, I’m sending everyone who answered the question a kit. It will take me a little time to assemble them all, but I will ship ’em out by the end of next week and will be emailing the recipients shortly.<\/p>\n

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Overheard K telling my mom the other day:<\/p>\n

“Ba-chan<\/em>, Seattle is really a great place. You can get ANYTHING here. Things from Japan, France, Swedish…and Indiana*!”<\/p>\n

*M is from Indiana, and apparently to K, it’s as exotic as other international locales.<\/p>\n

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Stay warm, my friends, and have a restful weekend – we’re off to get a Douglas fir tree!<\/p>\n

Time to trim the tree<\/em>
\nAnd open advent houses<\/em>
\neach day seems too short<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Friday! Thank you for all the kind comments about both the advent calendar and holiday tags! I am happiest making things, and wish more hours could be added to each day. Which reminds me, I just read this book and I have to tell you, I zipped through it. It’s a coming-of age story about a girl growing up in a future in which each day starts to grow longer and longer as the earth’s rotation slows.\u00a0So good. In other news, my cough is still relentless. I’m prone to bronchial infections and I haven’t even been able to read bedtime stories for K these last few weeks. One of the benefits of creating blog posts is that no talking is required. I was sitting in a coffee shop the other day working on a post, and a woman said to me, “You have one of those non-stop coughs too, huh?” And then we coughed like crazy simultaneously. *************************************************************** Not a lot of takers for the magnet kit giveaway, but I think this might have been my favorite group of answers to my giveaway questions to date. As a show of gratitude for taking the time to answer so thoughtfully and for brightening my outlook on humankind, I’m sending everyone who answered the question a kit. It will take me a little time to assemble them all, but I will ship ’em out by the end of next week and will be emailing the recipients shortly. *************************************************************** Overheard K telling my mom the other day: “Ba-chan, Seattle is really a great place. You can get ANYTHING here. Things from Japan, France, Swedish…and Indiana*!” *M is from Indiana, and apparently to K, it’s as exotic as other international locales. *************************************************************** Stay warm, my friends, and have a restful weekend – we’re off to get a Douglas fir tree! Time to trim the tree And open advent houses each day seems too short<\/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":[27,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giveaway","7":"category-illustration","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642","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=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7670,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions\/7670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}