{"id":397,"date":"2015-11-16T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/little-things-5\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:24:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:24:18","slug":"little-things-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/little-things-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Things #5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Things look a little different around here, don’t they? It’s so pretty now. \u00a0I was never really happy with how my blog looked, but I thought I should see if I was going to stick with it before I got too involved in changing it. \u00a0Over the weekend I bought a template for next to nothing on Etsy and installed it. \u00a0It was surprisingly fun figuring everything out. \u00a0I think everything works fine now, but if you find any problems please let me know.<\/p>\n

This week has been a little slow, full of boring but necessary things like car repairs and more car repairs. \u00a0I was in an accident about six weeks ago, no one was injured and it wasn’t my fault, but the body shop can’t seem to get everything done just right. \u00a0I have to bring the car back again tomorrow because they didn’t reconnect the rear window defrost. \u00a0Then Tuesday I have to bring it in because one of the key fobs isn’t working. \u00a0It is all just annoying. \u00a0Plus we have had a cold working its way through the house. \u00a0There is nothing like sending kids to school to guarantee a full supply of germs for your whole family.<\/p>\n

So I don’t have any new and fascinating books to write about. \u00a0I have been rereading the Provincial Lady books. \u00a0Light and fun and easy to read while sitting in a waiting room. I did start listening to Longbourn by Jo Baker. \u00a0It is Pride and Prejudice told from the servants’ perspective. \u00a0I am only a couple of chapters in but I am enjoying it so far. \u00a0I have never been too enthralled with audiobooks, I get impatient because I can read them faster by myself. \u00a0However, I have been using them lately because they make time on the treadmill go by much more quickly. I read a lot of books that I never write about here. \u00a0I can never decide. \u00a0Do I write about everything I read or only about the things where I feel like I have something to say?<\/p>\n

We have also been planning our family vacation for next summer. \u00a0We are going to Chicago. \u00a0My husband is originally from Illinois and we lived out there for the first 7 or 8 years we were married. \u00a0We usually meet up with his parents every couple of years somewhere halfway between Illinois and Connecticut. \u00a0Their health isn’t too great lately and they can’t do a long drive this year so we have known for a while that we would have to fly out there. \u00a0We are spending the first half of the week with them and then for the second half, we are going to visit old friends and do touristy things with the kids. \u00a0The kids love the city and have been asking to go to Chicago for quite a while. \u00a0They were both quite young the last time we went. It sounds like a bit of a chaotic week but I think that is the way it always is when you are visiting relatives and trying to fit too much into one week.<\/p>\n

It is getting dark so early now. \u00a0I hate that. \u00a0As soon as it is dark I just want to curl up on the couch with an afghan and a book but that is not conducive to getting anything done. \u00a0I am not sure I care today. \u00a0I’ll just ignore the world and keep reading the Provincial Lady<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things look a little different around here, don’t they? It’s so pretty now. \u00a0I was never really happy with how my blog looked, but I thought I should see if I was going to stick with it before I got too involved in changing it. \u00a0Over the weekend I bought a template for next to nothing on Etsy and installed it. \u00a0It was surprisingly fun figuring everything out. \u00a0I think everything works fine now, but if you find any problems please let me know. This week has been a little slow, full of boring but necessary things like car repairs and more car repairs. \u00a0I was in an accident about six weeks ago, no one was injured and it wasn’t my fault, but the body shop can’t seem to get everything done just right. \u00a0I have to bring the car back again tomorrow because they didn’t reconnect the rear window defrost. \u00a0Then Tuesday I have to bring it in because one of the key fobs isn’t working. \u00a0It is all just annoying. \u00a0Plus we have had a cold working its way through the house. \u00a0There is nothing like sending kids to school to guarantee a full supply of germs for your whole family. So I don’t have any new and fascinating books to write about. \u00a0I have been rereading the Provincial Lady books. \u00a0Light and fun and easy to read while sitting in a waiting room. I did start listening to Longbourn by Jo Baker. \u00a0It is Pride and Prejudice told from the servants’ perspective. \u00a0I am only a couple of chapters in but I am enjoying it so far. \u00a0I have never been too enthralled with audiobooks, I get impatient because I can read them faster by myself. \u00a0However, I have been using them lately because they make time on the treadmill go by much more quickly. I read a lot of books that I never write about here. \u00a0I can never decide. \u00a0Do I write about everything I read or only about the things where I feel like I have something to say? We have also been planning our family vacation for next summer. \u00a0We are going to Chicago. \u00a0My husband is originally from Illinois and we lived out there for the first 7 or 8 years we were married. \u00a0We usually meet up with his parents every couple of years somewhere halfway between Illinois and Connecticut. \u00a0Their health isn’t too great lately and they can’t do a long drive this year so we have known for a while that we would have to fly out there. \u00a0We are spending the first half of the week with them and then for the second half, we are going to visit old friends and do touristy things with the kids. \u00a0The kids love the city and have been asking to go to Chicago for quite a while. \u00a0They were both quite young the last time we went. It sounds like a bit of a chaotic week but I think that is the way it always is when you are visiting relatives and trying to fit too much into one week. It is getting dark so early now. \u00a0I hate that. \u00a0As soon as it is dark I just want to curl up on the couch with an afghan and a book but that is not conducive to getting anything done. \u00a0I am not sure I care today. \u00a0I’ll just ignore the world and keep reading the Provincial Lady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,13,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago","category-life","category-little-things","category-vacation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}