{"id":5793,"date":"2011-07-13T13:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T18:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2011-07-13T13:33:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T18:33:49","slug":"crazy-times-i-tell-you-c-r-a-z-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/crazy-times-i-tell-you-c-r-a-z-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy times, I tell you. C-R-A-Z-Y!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> have so many blog posts backed up in my head that I&#8217;m quite sure my brains are about to start leaking out my ears any minute now. My life is in one of those whirling dervish phases, and it&#8217;s all I can do to hang on &#8211; there&#8217;s just no room for blogging! <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s but a sampling of the blog posts I&#8217;ve been dying to write but haven&#8217;t yet been able (not to mention a few that I&#8217;m dying to write and probably won&#8217;t ever be able to!):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Child care<\/strong>.  Ugh.  Still looking for care for Lucas for next month.  I thought we had a lock on a spot in a daycare centre, but it turns out that we were lower down on the waiting list than they had vacancies.  I&#8217;m still interviewing, with increasing desperation.  Last night I was so sick of it all I cried it out for a little bit, then shook it off and lined up three more interviews for this week.  Cross your fingers for us?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blog Out Loud Ottawa!<\/strong> OMG, did BOLO ever rock the house down this year or WHAT?  The readers were this amazing mix of raw, gut-wrenching honesty and side-splitting funny and jaw-dropping insightful that it was just a roller-coaster of entertainment.  I had an amazing time, despite the fact that I was starting on what would turn out to be a four-day doozy of a migraine.  If you get the chance, though, you should head on over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogoutloud.org\/\">BOLO site<\/a> and click through to some of the readers for the night.  Man, we are blessed with some amazing writers here in our community!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/5916015601\/\" title=\"197:365 BOLO readers by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6022\/5916015601_c15dfa14ce.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"473\" alt=\"197:365 BOLO readers\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Social Capital Ottawa<\/strong>:  The <a href=\"http:\/\/socialcapitalconference.ca\/\">SoCapOtt social media conference<\/a> is coming up fast!  Do you have your tickets yet?  I&#8217;ll be doing a co-presentation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larawellman.com\">Lara <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/blendcreations.com\/\">Vivian<\/a> on how to choose the best social media tools for your business, whether you&#8217;re a sole proprietor, a not-for-profit or a government department.  Come on out and check us out!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Critters<\/strong>: There are many, many benefits to living out here a semi-rural community.  There&#8217;s more birds, more trees, more space, more bugs, and more critters.  While Willie didn&#8217;t turn out to be much of a mouser, what he didn&#8217;t take care of a trap did &#8212; let&#8217;s hope there&#8217;s no more of those!  But my real concern lately is a GIANT raccoon that keeps tipping over our garbage can and green bin.  One of these days I&#8217;ll get around to blogging about the time Beloved chased him away from our garbage at 3 am one morning using the swiffer.  But in the interim, HELP!  I am so sick of picking up picked-through garbage &#8212; what can I do to keep this bear-cub-sized raccoon from tipping over the bins?  The worst part is that I&#8217;m actually thinking of not using the green bin anymore, it&#8217;s just too much work cleaning up the food bits from the curb every single week, and now he&#8217;s started tipping it over at the back of the house, too.  Ideas?\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s more, oh so much more, and I&#8217;m hoping my life slows down enough in the next week or two for me to get back around to blogging it all in real time.  Really, I think I&#8217;ve forgotten how to live the life unblogged!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have so many blog posts backed up in my head that I&#8217;m quite sure my brains are about to start leaking out my ears any minute now. My life is in one of those whirling dervish phases, and it&#8217;s all I can do to hang on &#8211; there&#8217;s just no room for blogging! Here&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/crazy-times-i-tell-you-c-r-a-z-y\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crazy times, I tell you. C-R-A-Z-Y!&#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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","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=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5802,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/5802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}