{"id":1251,"date":"2011-08-31T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2011-08-31T18:08:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T22:08:05","slug":"vacation-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/vacation-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or:\u00a0 How To Cram a Year&#8217;s Worth of Living Into Two Weeks<\/p>\n<p>Or:\u00a0 Confessions of a Crazy Lady<\/p>\n<p>Items completed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teeth cleaned<\/li>\n<li>Saw eye doctor for annual checkup<\/li>\n<li>Refinanced mortgage<\/li>\n<li>Got 15 yard dumpster<\/li>\n<li>And filled it with stuff from the basement<\/li>\n<li>And the garage<\/li>\n<li>And the rest of the house<\/li>\n<li>Which means that I (and Jim):<\/li>\n<li>Cleaned the basement<\/li>\n<li>Cleaned the garage<\/li>\n<li>Cleaned all those forgettable corners in the rest of the house<\/li>\n<li>Gathered together lots of stuff from all those areas for our upcoming yard sale<\/li>\n<li>Painted 2 coats of Super White paint on door and window trim and baseboards in the bathroom and the foyer (and\u00a0there&#8217;s a lot of trim in those two rooms)<\/li>\n<li>Touched up dark blue paint in bathroom<\/li>\n<li>Repainted foyer walls<\/li>\n<li>Worked really really hard (and not necessarily successfully) to get dried paint drops off of the new tile floor in those two rooms<\/li>\n<li>Stocked up on basic necessities for Hurricane Irene<\/li>\n<li>Survived Hurricane Irene without any damage<\/li>\n<li>Got chimney cleaned<\/li>\n<li>Got water meter replaced<\/li>\n<li>Got annual gas line safety checkup<\/li>\n<li>Got quote on repairs to our crumbling chimney<\/li>\n<li>Had Jim&#8217;s (small) birthday party<\/li>\n<li>Started construction of new front steps<\/li>\n<li>Read three books:\u00a0 <em>Hole in My Life<\/em> by Jack Gantos; <em>One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street<\/em> by Joanne Rocklin; and <em>The Red Necklace<\/em> by Sally Gardner<\/li>\n<li>Packed up two boxes of books to sell at the used bookstore<\/li>\n<li>Investigated opening an account at Alibris to sell three books that have some value<\/li>\n<li>Spent quality time with Ophy and Pippa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Items not yet completed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Relax<\/li>\n<li>Read more books<\/li>\n<li>Write more blog posts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s been a great vacation.\u00a0 And, there are still five days left!\u00a0 Plenty of time to accomplish more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or:\u00a0 How To Cram a Year&#8217;s Worth of Living Into Two Weeks Or:\u00a0 Confessions of a Crazy Lady Items completed: Teeth cleaned Saw eye doctor for annual checkup Refinanced mortgage Got 15 yard dumpster And filled it with stuff from the basement And the garage And the rest of the house Which means that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/vacation-checklist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vacation Checklist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc","category-spare-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}