{"id":1088,"date":"2009-01-04T15:20:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T22:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2009-01-04T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T22:20:44","slug":"sunday-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"Sunday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a few days into the new year and I&#8217;m already suffering from blogging gaps. This is why I&#8217;d never be as <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">crazy<\/span> dedicated as <a href=\"http:\/\/coloursofdawn.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dawn<\/a> was and sign up for the 365 days of blogging. Just wouldn&#8217;t happen in this household. Although since I started blogging part-time from my iPhone I have noticed that I&#8217;m blogging more frequently.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday I was back at mcpyper&#8217;s place for another screening of Breakout of the Masala Kid. This, of course, was required because <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">someone who shall remain nameless<\/span> Loxley didn&#8217;t appear on Thursday night for the original screening. We traipsed to Montana&#8217;s for dinner and embarrassed the teenager (mcpyper&#8217;s son) for the duration. Poor schmuck was under the delusion that four adults would act maturely in public!<\/p>\n<p>Saturday saw me drive half-way across the city in order to see my &#8220;niece&#8221; and &#8220;nephew&#8221; from Winnipeg.\u00a0 They were up visiting their dad in Calgary and were in Edmonton to catch the train back home. Once again I was out for dinner. I&#8217;m seeing a trend here.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m not being fed by my friends and neighbours, strangers are cooking my meals. Perhaps I should start eating something other than soup and sandwhiches when Drew&#8217;s gone and I&#8217;m at home. I just don&#8217;t see the point in cooking for one. Then again, I did have soup and salad for dinner last night. Even at restaurants I&#8217;m apparently stuck in a mini-rut.\u00a0 After dinner I took some video of the kids and their messages for Drew. Today I&#8217;ll convert them so he can watch them on his laptop and burn them to disk with my horrific home movie\/messages.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I met the kid&#8217;s dad and step-mom for breakfast before heading out grocery shopping. I needed some more soup and luncheon meat you see. And gas. And I finally broke down and filled my prescription for my epi-pen. Since I&#8217;m allergic to peanuts and my previous epi-pen is expired I had to buy a new one. It&#8217;s my least favourite prescription to fill.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve risen another 10$ in price this year and aren&#8217;t covered by my health insurance.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the cost that bothers me so much as the <em>waste<\/em>. I&#8217;ve been lucky and haven&#8217;t needed to use one in years. However, since the epi-pens expire after a year, the old ones have to be thrown out and replaced by a new one.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve probably trashed (well, returned to the pharmacy) hundreds of $$ over the years. Of course, the minute I don&#8217;t have one on me will be the day I end up accidentally injesting something peanut related. As I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/numindan\">twittered<\/a> earlier today, I&#8217;d hate to see the day when my life depends on whether or not I can afford to pay for the epi-pen. I suspect I&#8217;ll be going hungry for a while if that ever happens.<\/p>\n<p>Drew is calling this evening.\u00a0 Yippee!\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying to contain my glee by making bad home movies to send to him in the next package. When I&#8217;m tired of that I&#8217;ll go back to finishing my pre-reading for the Psych class that starts Monday. I was hoping to get through at least half of the readings during my time off, but only managed to get through 1\/8th of them. Not good.\u00a0 I spent too much time away from the house this holiday season. I have a horrible feeling that I might fall behind if I can&#8217;t finish at least two more chapters this evening. Perhaps it&#8217;s not too late to put in for some vacation.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I want to see my co-workers again, I&#8217;m dreading going back to work tomorrow. The dogs will likely tear the house apart while I&#8217;m gone and I&#8217;m not looking forward to coming home to a mess every day until they settle back down into the &#8220;mom&#8217;s gotta work&#8221; routine. Usually they&#8217;re pretty decent on work days and only act out on weekends but after this much time at home, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll misbehave for a day or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a few days into the new year and I&#8217;m already suffering from blogging gaps. This is why I&#8217;d never be as crazy dedicated as Dawn was and sign up for the 365 days of blogging. Just wouldn&#8217;t happen in this household. Although since I started blogging part-time from my iPhone I have noticed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family","category-its-a-living","category-learning-education","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}