{"id":2361,"date":"2013-04-23T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2013-04-23T02:27:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T07:27:28","slug":"15-of-52-weeks-were-late-were-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"15 of 52 Weeks &#8211; We&#8217;re late, we&#8217;re late&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Technically this will be posting in week 16. Unfortunately I didn&#8217;t notice it hadn&#8217;t posted until too late to fix it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It has been a long, hard couple of weeks here. My mom was very ill, and came very close to literally breathing her last. I think it made all of us look at our life choices and such with a little more speculation than we had been previously.<\/p>\n<p>I for one am even more grateful that I kicked the habit years ago, which is something I wish my mother had done. <em>Que sera sera&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Moving on &#8211; she&#8217;s been out of the hospital for a week, released without take-home oxygen. She was talking about letting an elderly aunt know she&#8217;d been in the hospital, and how the aunt had immediately launched into her own tale of woe and how wonderful her great-grandkids are, and how the aunt is so very self-centered. Erm, yeah. We all rolled our eyes at that, because if it ain&#8217;t happening directly to mom, she doesn&#8217;t give a flying hooters girl bra about it.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously &#8211; I&#8217;ve run Belfire for 3 years, and had TNBP for a year before that. I worked Necrotic Tissue, LBF and Apex for years previous, and she still doesn&#8217;t have the foggiest idea of any of the names of those companies (even Belfire!). I can get one sentence out about anything important with the company, my work, or what-have-you, and she launches into something entirely beside the point. And yet she can tell me the smallest detail about a certain cousin&#8217;s life with his kids and wife. Who, btw, were more important than seeing her granddaughter for the first time ever, only a few short weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Figure that out. Well, anyway&#8230; moving on.<\/p>\n<p>We even took a trip into the city yesterday so she could splurge a little with her &#8216;cigarette savings&#8217; (believe me, two weeks without buying cigarettes for her means a substantial boost to her funds). We&#8217;re all decked out for the wedding now, which comes along next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you read that right. My littlest brother (who is also the tallest!) is getting married. Slightly older than I was when I did it, but oddly enough the same magistrate is performing the ceremony. Freaky! Mom actually rented the hall and has paid for the decorations and a small tea lunch for afters. After all, we&#8217;re all they&#8217;re going to have there, since Ash&#8217;s family are all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(snip the narstynarsty comments about the bride&#8217;s family)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; so we&#8217;re just taking over and making sure she has REAL family, &#8217;cause despite all the differences of opinion and fighting and blow-ups and all that, we all kinda like her. She&#8217;s just going to have to get used to it. <|;^) Or she can't have any more of my lasagna. HA!\n\n(or I'll play Milkshakes at the wedding....*snicker*)\n\nSo until probably Wednesday, cuz Thursday and Friday straight through to Sunday I'll be away - have a great one and don't slip on the ice.\n\n<3\nJL\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically this will be posting in week 16. Unfortunately I didn&#8217;t notice it hadn&#8217;t posted until too late to fix it.<br \/>\nIt has been a long, hard couple of weeks here. My mom was very ill, and came very close to literally breathing her last. I think it made all of us look at our life choices and such with a little more speculation than we had been previously.<br \/>\nI for one am even more grateful that I kicked the habit years ago, which is something I wish my mother had done. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1084,871,1,870,799,8],"tags":[1325,438,260,1321,1324,75,266,1320,656,1322,1323],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52weeks","category-featured","category-general-pondering-on-writing","category-headline","category-miscellania","category-snark","tag-babysitting","tag-crazy","tag-family","tag-hospital","tag-inlaws","tag-kids","tag-life","tag-mom","tag-sick","tag-smoking","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}