{"id":3588,"date":"2008-04-08T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/08\/sigh-back-to-lakewood"},"modified":"2008-04-08T03:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T03:34:00","slug":"sigh-back-to-lakewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2008\/04\/08\/sigh-back-to-lakewood\/","title":{"rendered":"*Sigh* Back to Lakewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cat did NOT want to leave.  She was so so happy to be in a huge house all to herself.  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve every seen her so content.  So when I drove home she was extra annoying.   She meowed constantly, used the litterbox 4 times before we got to Parachute, barfed her breakfast down between the seats, and wandered into the back window, panting in terror at the 360-degree view of cars and wide open spaces.  She completely freaked out and was too scared to come down.  After ten minutes of coaxing I pulled off the road and she got down.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m pleased to report that all the cuddling she exhibited at the house in the country is lingering still.  She actually jumped in my lap while I was transcribing today &#8211; and she just wanted scratching!  No food requests!  I let her purr away until my legs fell asleep.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I leave my parents house they pack up some groceries from their pantry.  It&#8217;s a good deal: I get some nifty food items and they get to clean out their overflowing cabinets.  This time my dad packed up three bags and a cooler while I was packing my suitcase.  What a strange array Ben and I found when I unpacked them four hours later.   Let me give you an idea of the vastness and variety included in these bags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>canned lychees<\/li>\n<li>lingonberry bread mix<\/li>\n<li>tuna in foil packets<\/li>\n<li>roasted pepper bruschetta spread<\/li>\n<li>Power Rangers kinder eggs<\/li>\n<li>water chestnuts<\/li>\n<li>two dozen eggs<a href=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/d86cb-ryebread.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/d86cb-ryebread.jpg?w=159\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186721990777121554\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Swedish sour jelly stars<\/li>\n<li>fresh herbs from Mom&#8217;s garden<\/li>\n<li>roasted cashews<\/li>\n<li>japanese rice cracker snack mix<\/li>\n<li>dehydrated mushrooms<\/li>\n<li>dried mango strips<\/li>\n<li>coconut milk<\/li>\n<li>tabouli and gumbo boxed mixes<\/li>\n<li>creamed honey<\/li>\n<li>3 pounds of short pasta<\/li>\n<li>a bottle of sauvignon<\/li>\n<li>fritos<\/li>\n<li>4 boxes of pocky<\/li>\n<li>marinara sauce<\/li>\n<li>cat food treats<\/li>\n<li>marinated artichokes<\/li>\n<li>various canned beans<\/li>\n<li>and the strangest of all &#8211; rye bread mix in a milk-carton like jug.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love it.  It was pretty hilarious sorting through all of it \ud83d\ude42  So now I have a well stocked and diverse pantry.  Ben was especially happy to see the tuna, since I don&#8217;t eat any seafood whatsoever.  (Really.  Nothing from the sea.  Period.)<\/p>\n<p>I get two questions asked almost every day since Febuary (which is quite an accomplishment since I don&#8217;t get out much).<\/p>\n<p>1) When does school start?  (May 5th May 5th May 5th)<br \/>2) What do you do all day?<\/p>\n<p>What DO I do all day?  Well, for starters, it&#8217;s very hard to wake up when you have no schedule.  I set my alarm for 7:30 and fully intend to obey it when I go to sleep each night.  But then I sleep until 8, that becomes 8:30, that becomes 9.  On good days I get up then and on bad days I stretch it to 10.<\/p>\n<p>I try to do my Denise Austin aerobics video for 30 minutes each morning, but my hit rate is about 50%.  I have some cheerios and read a magazine or book.  I shower and dress.  By then it could be anywhere from 10:00 to 11:30, so my day is almost half over!<\/p>\n<p>I do medical transcription for a couple hours, taking a break for lunch and to walk the dog.  I work slowly, usually chatting with friends and checking my rss feeds between letters.<\/p>\n<p>By 2 things are pretty slow.  I may tackle a to-do item, like today I cleaned out my basement storage room.  Tomorrow I might deep clean my carpet.  Then I&#8217;ll usually watch TV or a movie while working on a craft project.  Around 4:30 I start thinking about making dinner and we eat around 6 pm.<\/p>\n<p>At night I hang out near Ben, usually reading or crafting.  I might play games with friends or go out on shopping errands (like tonight we got groceries).  We go to bed between 10:30 and 11:30.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.  That&#8217;s pretty boring.  I don&#8217;t know why I bothered writing all of that out.  I guess because when people ask me I say &#8220;oh, I&#8217;m working from home and I do this and that.&#8221;  But that answer doesn&#8217;t make sense to me because I know I only work for a couple hours.  So maybe I needed to see for myself how I pass each day.  Somehow something usually comes up that I can spend time on, whether for school or my parents&#8217; work or household chores.  On the days when nothing comes up I get a bit depressed.  It&#8217;s hard to enjoy free time when there&#8217;s a lot of it.  People say to enjoy it because I&#8217;ll be so busy once school starts that I&#8217;ll miss it.  But you always want what you can&#8217;t have.<\/p>\n<p>Four weeks left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cat did NOT want to leave. She was so so happy to be in a huge house all to herself. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve every seen her so content. So when I drove home she was extra annoying. 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