{"id":1332,"date":"2011-01-01T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T16:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jodilee.ca\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2011-01-01T21:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T03:20:14","slug":"the-obligatory-new-year-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"The Obligatory New Year Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href='http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/View\/4313731840'><img src='http:\/\/images.cheezburger.com\/completestore\/2010\/12\/31\/13b7d077-edbd-4dd3-bf5a-5351e4b226d7.jpg' id='_r_a_4313731840' title=\"Dood  Awshum purrtayzzzzzz\" alt=\"Dood  Awshum purrtayzzzzzz\" height=\"175px\" width=\"250px\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI feel older today. Maybe it was the wine, the company, the&#8230;uh&#8230;chat. Yeah, chat. Maybe. <\/p>\n<p>Could be the damn cold though. Seriously, every new year I have to ask the same question? Why the HELL do I live in Canada?<\/p>\n<p>What I wouldn&#8217;t give for my gran&#8217;s old heater-gloves. Seriously, they were gloves that had some kind of electric thingy in &#8217;em, and they warmed her hands; they were apparently for arthritis. Gramps had a pair of slippers, too, that were always warm. Considering the size of my knuckles, wrists and ankles every morning, I would certainly put them to good use. Be that as it may, I&#8217;m supposed to be reminiscing about the recent past, not the way-gone-past, so here goes.<\/p>\n<p>2010 was a year of lessons, of being so busy I&#8217;ve lost touch with a lot of people, of personal growth, of personal loss, and introspection.Hell, I started this decade with a &#8216;happy&#8217; marriage, a wonderful house I adored but was falling apart around us (crap-assed landlord), two grandparents and a recently patched up extended family.<\/p>\n<p>I close it happily single with two beautiful and bright girls, a brother and a wonderful chosen family, still perched firmly on the &#8216;could go either way&#8217; fence (although I did push it out of the closet in October), a thriving pair of businesses, and a sense of satisfaction that I know has come from finally growing up. A lot of that was done in this past year.<\/p>\n<p>BUT &#8211; I refuse to grow up entirely and so, happy bloody new year and new decade. Don&#8217;t do anyone I wouldn&#8217;t do, and if you get caught&#8230;name it after me!<\/p>\n<p>And remember&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/2010\/12\/30\/funny-pictures-cat-snow-spring\/\"><img src='http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/funny-pictures-cat-snow-spring1.jpg' alt=\"funny pictures - Cat Hit by Snow\" title=\"funny pictures - Cat Hit by Snow\" height=\"175px\" width=\"250px\" \/><\/a><br \/>see more <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\">Lolcats and funny pictures<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,799],"tags":[830,228,114],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-pondering-on-writing","category-miscellania","tag-830","tag-happy-new-year","tag-lolcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}