{"id":413,"date":"2015-10-07T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/little-things-4\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:51:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:51:24","slug":"little-things-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/little-things-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Things #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Eq4MURekJy0\/VhMDvb7025I\/AAAAAAAABaM\/EGRabUC_2KA\/s1600\/IMG_20151005_095257.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151005_095257-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"book necklaces\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t these the sweetest necklaces? \u00a0My son gave me the <i>Pride and Prejudice<\/i> one and the bookworm is from my daughter. \u00a0They make me happy every time I look at them. ( I was talking about the necklaces but I suppose you can apply that to the kids as well.)<\/p>\n<p>I placed a book order online. \u00a0It is just a miscellaneous collection of things that sounded interesting as I puttered around. \u00a0I&#8217;ll show you what they are once they start arriving. \u00a0I love the thrill of books coming in the mail. \u00a0It is like a gift to myself. \u00a0Plus sometimes I can&#8217;t quite remember what I ordered so it is a surprise. \u00a0There are a couple of books for my son in this order. \u00a0He is really into <i>Star Wars<\/i>, specifically the books by Timothy Zahn. \u00a0 The other day he was trying to explain to me how he feels about the <i>Star Wars<\/i> prequels. \u00a0He finally said, &#8220;Mom, it is as if the original Star Wars are <i>Pride and<\/i> <i>Prejudice<\/i> and the prequels are <i>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/i>.&#8221; \u00a0I immediately understood. My apologies to anyone who likes <i>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/i> but I just can&#8217;t deal with it. \u00a0It is just wrong. \u00a0And apparently so are the <i>Star Wars<\/i> prequels. \u00a0We are a family of traditionalists. We don&#8217;t want people to mess with our worlds whether those worlds are everyday or literary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-sODRM_J6Rto\/VhPH_VPIKbI\/AAAAAAAABc0\/A9rZvAzCSIo\/s1600\/IMG_20151006_082927.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151006_082927-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"flowers\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I bought myself flowers at the grocery store the other day. \u00a0They aren&#8217;t anything fancy but they are a little thing that makes me happy. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know why I don&#8217;t buy flowers more often. Whenever my daughter is with me she talks me into buying them. \u00a0Of course, she also talks me into buying lots of junk food. \u00a0She looks at me with big eyes and asks for &#8220;just this one treat&#8221; and before I know it the one treat has turned into several. \u00a0None of which is helping my determination to start eating healthy and exercising again but that is not a little thing that makes me happy so we won&#8217;t think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aren&#8217;t these the sweetest necklaces? \u00a0My son gave me the Pride and Prejudice one and the bookworm is from my daughter. \u00a0They make me happy every time I look at them. ( I was talking about the necklaces but I suppose you can apply that to the kids as well.) I placed a book order online. \u00a0It is just a miscellaneous collection of things that sounded interesting as I puttered around. \u00a0I&#8217;ll show you what they are once they start arriving. \u00a0I love the thrill of books coming in the mail. \u00a0It is like a gift to myself. \u00a0Plus sometimes I can&#8217;t quite remember what I ordered so it is a surprise. \u00a0There are a couple of books for my son in this order. \u00a0He is really into Star Wars, specifically the books by Timothy Zahn. \u00a0 The other day he was trying to explain to me how he feels about the Star Wars prequels. \u00a0He finally said, &#8220;Mom, it is as if the original Star Wars are Pride and Prejudice and the prequels are Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.&#8221; \u00a0I immediately understood. My apologies to anyone who likes Pride and Prejudice and Zombies but I just can&#8217;t deal with it. \u00a0It is just wrong. \u00a0And apparently so are the Star Wars prequels. \u00a0We are a family of traditionalists. We don&#8217;t want people to mess with our worlds whether those worlds are everyday or literary. I bought myself flowers at the grocery store the other day. \u00a0They aren&#8217;t anything fancy but they are a little thing that makes me happy. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know why I don&#8217;t buy flowers more often. Whenever my daughter is with me she talks me into buying them. \u00a0Of course, she also talks me into buying lots of junk food. \u00a0She looks at me with big eyes and asks for &#8220;just this one treat&#8221; and before I know it the one treat has turned into several. \u00a0None of which is helping my determination to start eating healthy and exercising again but that is not a little thing that makes me happy so we won&#8217;t think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":488,"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":[4,14,47,75,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-children","category-jane-austen","category-jewelry","category-little-things"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}