{"id":4279,"date":"2023-04-05T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T12:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2023-04-05T08:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T12:53:40","slug":"a-few-new-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/a-few-new-things\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few New Things"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yes, one of them is a book. We will start with that and get it out of the way. Every spring I read The Secret Garden. <\/em>I pulled my copy off the shelf a few weeks ago and it fell apart in my hands. Obviously, that would never do so I immediately went online and found a lovely secondhand copy of the annotated edition to buy. It is hardcover and has illustrations from different editions. Now, for years to come, I can continue to happily dream of having my own walled garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next few things are all gifts from my husband. He has been in an exceptionally generous mood lately and I am not complaining. Do you see that pen in the photo above? It is a fancy, wooden, fountain pen. I love fountain pens and have several but they are all very inexpensive ones. My husband, even though he cannot fathom why I would want to write with such a high-maintenance pen, decided I needed a better one. He did some research, found something he thought I would like, and surprised me with it. He was right. I love it and it writes like a dream. He also bought me the mug after I found it in Barnes & Noble, insisted I didn’t need it, but kept picking it up and putting it down. I think he was simply saving us a trip back to the store. I have more mugs than any woman needs but that does not matter when I find another book-themed one. The leather journal in the photo is one I bought myself years ago. It is there simply to look nice, as it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I know I have mentioned a few times that I am learning to knit. I bought a little trial set of interchangeable needles from Knit Picks and I really liked them. However, I couldn’t convince myself to spend the money to buy the whole set. They are substantially cheaper than some interchangeable sets but I have trouble spending money on myself. After listening to me debate the purchase for a few weeks my husband announced he was buying them. It might have been simple self-preservation at that point, he probably didn’t want to hear me talk about knitting needles anymore, but I do appreciate it. He also bought the yarn I needed for a project. I started a sweater vest with yarn I had but I needed a second color. Isn’t it so pretty? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to head to work in a little bit. All I really want to do is stay home, knit, drink tea, write with my pen, and read The Secret Garden.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, one of them is a book. We will start with that and get it out of the way. Every spring I read The Secret Garden. I pulled my copy off the shelf a few weeks ago and it fell apart in my hands. Obviously, that would never do so I immediately went online and found a lovely secondhand copy of the annotated edition to buy. It is hardcover and has illustrations from different editions. Now, for years to come, I can continue to happily dream of having my own walled garden. The next few things are all gifts from my husband. He has been in an exceptionally generous mood lately and I am not complaining. Do you see that pen in the photo above? It is a fancy, wooden, fountain pen. I love fountain pens and have several but they are all very inexpensive ones. My husband, even though he cannot fathom why I would want to write with such a high-maintenance pen, decided I needed a better one. He did some research, found something he thought I would like, and surprised me with it. He was right. I love it and it writes like a dream. He also bought me the mug after I found it in Barnes & Noble, insisted I didn’t need it, but kept picking it up and putting it down. I think he was simply saving us a trip back to the store. I have more mugs than any woman needs but that does not matter when I find another book-themed one. The leather journal in the photo is one I bought myself years ago. It is there simply to look nice, as it does. I know I have mentioned a few times that I am learning to knit. I bought a little trial set of interchangeable needles from Knit Picks and I really liked them. However, I couldn’t convince myself to spend the money to buy the whole set. They are substantially cheaper than some interchangeable sets but I have trouble spending money on myself. After listening to me debate the purchase for a few weeks my husband announced he was buying them. It might have been simple self-preservation at that point, he probably didn’t want to hear me talk about knitting needles anymore, but I do appreciate it. He also bought the yarn I needed for a project. I started a sweater vest with yarn I had but I needed a second color. Isn’t it so pretty? I have to head to work in a little bit. All I really want to do is stay home, knit, drink tea, write with my pen, and read The Secret Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4280,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-lately"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","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=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4284,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/4284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}