{"id":22358,"date":"2011-06-15T21:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12482"},"modified":"2016-09-17T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T11:32:17","slug":"hump-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/hump-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hump Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the heck did it get to be late Wednesday evening?!<\/p>\n<p>Today was pretty much the same as Monday and Tuesday with one exception.<\/p>\n<p>I got up at 8, was in the office doing my morning admin stuff by 8:15, transcribed for an hour, took a breakfast break (10 minutes), transcribed for a while, took a water filling break (10 minutes), transcribed for a while, went to answer the door sometime in early afternoon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Went to answer the door?<\/p>\n<p>It was Donna! She was heading to a nearby town and wanted to see if I was free to join her. I couldn&#8217;t believe I had to say no! But I was <em>swamped<\/em>. \ud83d\ude41 So we said hellos, I gave Midnight a cuddle, and back to transcription I went.<\/p>\n<p>I took a 10 minute lunch break somewhere in the late afternoon and went back to work. I was almost done with my first pass-through when Donna called on the way back. I had two deadlines to meet today and I was racing to the finish for both. I couldn&#8217;t believe I had to turn her down again!<\/p>\n<p>The transcription was done coming on seven and I jumped into my rain gear. I had one batch of fliers left to deliver by 8! I raced around both neighbourhoods and flopped back in my car at 7:55. Barely any time to spare!<\/p>\n<p>By this time, my stomach and blood sugar levels were about to mutiny. I wanted to make pizza, but a chicken, cheese, and pickle sandwich on homemade bread (baked by\u00a0 breadmaker while I did fliers on Tuesday), was much faster!<\/p>\n<p>It was 8:30 by this time and I still had some admin stuff to do. Did that, built another Squidoo lens, and then gave myself five minutes of downtime with a hiragana word search puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m thinking hot shower, cuddle with the catkids, and some much needed Zzzzzs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the heck did it get to be late Wednesday evening?! Today was pretty much the same as Monday and Tuesday with one exception. I got up at 8, was in the office doing my morning admin stuff by 8:15, transcribed for an hour, took a breakfast break (10 minutes), transcribed for a while, took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,1226,635,5,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}