{"id":1491,"date":"2008-10-15T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2008-10-15T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T19:59:10","slug":"you-cant-always-get-what-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Always Get What You Want&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>one of my dad&#8217;s most favorite songs&#8230; though rather drenched in irony, since the man bought himself virtually anything he DID want, and his famous quote was, &#8220;It&#8217;s better to have, than to want&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s my way of saying, &#8220;Yes, it would be lovely if I posted pictures of finished knits, or my friend Shelley&#8217;s absolutely adorable baby Kara, or the photo of me with the Yarn Harlot from Monday night, or even a post that was remotely interesting, but you aren&#8217;t necessarily going to get that today!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see &#8211; all the photos are on the camera and need to be off-loaded. That&#8217;s probably not going to happen for a couple more days. Because then there&#8217;s the editing. Cropping, whatever. It takes time. And to quote my beloved 80&#8217;s duo, Hall &amp; Oates, &#8220;I&#8217;m outta time&#8230;.&#8221; Sure, I could skip playing sixteen games of Scramble a night, or stop reading all the bitching on Facebook about the new Packrat (omg, does it ever BLOW CHUNKS. I am keeping with the 80&#8217;s lingo, something has to be entertaining here.) I could also do some laundry, I could get some holiday shopping done, yes, I said holiday shopping, because this week is &#8220;<a href=\"My OS is Windows XP. I am using Firefox 3.0.3, with the most current Adobe Flash, Java, and Shockwave players. (I updated all of them between Friday &amp; today because I kept getting this error.) \" target=\"_blank\">Back in the Swing<\/a>&#8221; week here in Kansas City, and it&#8217;s a pretty cool charity effort &#8211; participating shops give you 20% discount, and all the card proceeds go to services for breast cancer survivors here in KC.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s only for a week, and I gotta get to using my card. We did get the discount on our pre-Harlot meal Monday night, which was nice. Hathaway Shoes, you&#8217;re in my scope &amp; next on my list!<\/p>\n<p>Plus I&#8217;m trying to take Friday off, so my time-space continuum has been short-sheeted! I&#8217;m just all very whack-a-mole, which, oddly enough, was used in an article to describe the financial crisis. I&#8217;m glad they&#8217;re finally boiling it down to terms we can all grasp.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll keep plurking, and serving up rather banal, frenetic posts here and there, and then, there&#8217;ll be some pictures&#8230;and some ranting&#8230;. and some deep thoughts&#8230;. speaking of &#8211; best wishes to my friend Carmen and her trials &amp; tribulations with her mom, we certainly missed her company on Monday. (You know how Dear Abby would always do that &#8220;Private to CG in KC&#8221; thing? Well, not-so-privately, Carmen, COME HOME. NO MORE RUNNING FOR THE BORDER, and you KNOW what I mean!)<\/p>\n<p>And now, off to whack more moles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one of my dad&#8217;s most favorite songs&#8230; though rather drenched in irony, since the man bought himself virtually anything he DID want, and his famous quote was, &#8220;It&#8217;s better to have, than to want&#8230;&#8221; Anyway, that&#8217;s my way of saying, &#8220;Yes, it would be lovely if I posted pictures of finished knits, or my friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}