{"id":2780,"date":"2009-09-03T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T17:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2009-09-03T13:40:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T18:40:53","slug":"memo-to-the-universe-please-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/memo-to-the-universe-please-slow-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo to the universe: Please slow down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span>s it just me, or has the pace of life sped up considerably over the last couple of <s>days<\/s> weeks?  I&#8217;m feeling breathless everywhere I go for the sheer number of things I&#8217;m supposed to be doing, trying to do at the same time, or simply not getting around to doing at all.  Usually, I feel this way about work while my home life is relatively sane, or vice versa &#8212; but life seems to be simply <em>relentless <\/em>lately.  You?  I&#8217;m trying to figure out if it&#8217;s the simple fact of having a life filled to bursting with three busy boys, the shift in routine from summer mode to back in school, or just the non-stop chaos that comes with having a toddling menace wandering around undoing everything I&#8217;ve done and then some each time I turn around.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling a <s>little<\/s> lot overwhelmed by the stuff I&#8217;m not getting done these days.  Despite running through the last week or so at about a hundred miles an hour with all cylinders firing, my &#8220;oops, never did get around to that&#8221; list seems to be outstripping my &#8220;phew, another thing checked off the list&#8221; list at an alarming pace.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the bloggy well is dry and I&#8217;ve got nothing to write about, so I&#8217;ll toss up a post begging your indulgence while I search for my <s>navel<\/s> muse.  Right now, though, I&#8217;ve got tonnes of bits of things to write about&#8230; and it&#8217;s driving me crazy that I can&#8217;t get organized enough to get them out to you.  One post needs pictures, another needs research, yet another needs a bit of serious contemplation and careful craft &#8212; and none of that seems to be happening these days!<\/p>\n<p>All that to say, help!  No wait, what I really mean is, there be good stuff ahead, I just have to figure out how to milk an extra couple of hours out of my schedule to get to it.  And, I&#8217;m sorry for all the e-mails I&#8217;m not replying to right now, the blog posts I&#8217;m not reading and the comments I&#8217;m not leaving.  I&#8217;m kind of falling down on the &#8220;social&#8221; end of my social networks these days.  <\/p>\n<p>This is just a phase, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or has the pace of life sped up considerably over the last couple of days weeks? I&#8217;m feeling breathless everywhere I go for the sheer number of things I&#8217;m supposed to be doing, trying to do at the same time, or simply not getting around to doing at all. Usually, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/memo-to-the-universe-please-slow-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Memo to the universe: Please slow down!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-is-all-about-me","category-rants-and-rambles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}