{"id":30,"date":"2008-11-11T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/msdomesticdarling.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/packing\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T01:26:00","slug":"packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msdomesticdarling.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/packing\/","title":{"rendered":"Packing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_88J31rokkCk\/SRozvVUUmMI\/AAAAAAAAAF4\/P0RyidA44dU\/s1600-h\/packing.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 153px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_88J31rokkCk\/SRozvVUUmMI\/AAAAAAAAAF4\/P0RyidA44dU\/s200\/packing.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267579602432465090\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;m in the middle of putting my life in boxes. Part of me wants to hang on to things, part of me wants to purge and then there&#8217;s the part that wants someone else to come in and decide what I should keep and what I should let go of. I&#8217;m moving on to bigger (yay!) and better things in my life. I get to spend time in my own house, have all the privacy I&#8217;ve lived without for 27 years and know that my husband is coming home to me. These are happy things and I can&#8217;t wait, but I also can&#8217;t explain why part of me is still unsure&#8230;Maybe it&#8217;s the thought of failure, the idea of NOT making it on my own or maybe it&#8217;s just the change itself. I&#8217;m a creature of habit, it&#8217;s why I stayed in a bad relationship too long, why I didn&#8217;t quit my last job 3 years sooner, why I laugh at the same jokes over again, use the same catch phrases, love my family so much and still get warm fuzzies when I kiss my husband. It&#8217;s predictable (mostly), comfortable and safe&#8230;Those three things aren&#8217;t all bad, but when they make you uneasy of what the future holds, it&#8217;s a whole different ball game. I&#8217;ve got to get myself ready for adventure, the unknown and ready to grab life by whatever it&#8217;ll hand me. I&#8217;m going to enjoy this, whatever it is, wherever it leads. It&#8217;s my story to write and I&#8217;m armed with blank pages and an unending supply of ink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of putting my life in boxes. Part of me wants to hang on to things, part of me wants to purge and then there&#8217;s the part that wants someone else to come in and decide what I should keep and what I should let go of. I&#8217;m moving on to bigger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3,19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-life","category-moving","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msdomesticdarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msdomesticdarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msdomesticdarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msdomesticdarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msdomesticdarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msdomesticdarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msdomesticdarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msdomesticdarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msdomesticdarling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}