{"id":9106,"date":"2014-04-30T08:43:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=9106"},"modified":"2014-04-30T08:55:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:55:29","slug":"perspective-planning-and-pep-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/perspective-planning-and-pep-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective, Planning, and Pep Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I read a book on the Kindle\u00a0I don’t know how long it is\u00a0when I begin because there aren’t page numbers, just “locations,” which I have never paid attention to. Last night after another evening of reading and making no progress, I looked up how many pages Middlemarch<\/em> has: nearly 900. What a perfect metaphor for life right now. It’s hard to see the end as we slog through these last weeks of school.<\/p>\n

I realized last night that I’m\u00a0living in\u00a0the Burnout Place. It’s an optional stop on the road, but I have set up camp there and I’m having a hard time packing up and leaving.<\/p>\n

Today I’m taking time to remind myself that baseball season and the last month of school will not last forever. I am going to be patient and perhaps buy a few more meals by take-out in the next few weeks\u00a0without guilt or apology. I am not going to dwell on negative words of others and remember that I am not the solution to every problem. I’m probably not the solution to ANY problem. I don’t have to be awesome! I just need\u00a0to love this little family and feed them. My mascot for the month is Dory from Finding Nemo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…”<\/p>\n

Did you know that I don’t actually know how to swim? It’s a good thing that I am just living in the land of metaphor this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I read a book on the Kindle\u00a0I don’t know how long it is\u00a0when I begin because there aren’t page numbers, just “locations,” which I have never paid attention to. Last night after another evening of reading and making no progress, I looked up how many pages Middlemarch has: nearly 900. What a perfect metaphor … Continue reading Perspective, Planning, and Pep Talk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9114,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}