{"id":271,"date":"2004-02-15T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbw.webfactional.com\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2004-02-15T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-15T21:59:00","slug":"271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/271\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing to me, the phenomenon of turning on your light when a nightmare wakes you in the dark.  Suddenly the nightmare is clearly just imagination.  It seems to be the same of what I think might be really good in my life.  All I need to do is turn a spotlight onto it and I realize that it&#8217;s not necessarily really good, it just is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>This Valentine&#8217;s day was three years single for me.  Three years is a long, long, long forkin&#8217; time.  It makes me think, is all.  I&#8217;ve not been without dates, not been without the company of men, but I&#8217;ve chosen to not fall in love.  Interesting choice, isn&#8217;t it?  I mean, why?  It&#8217;s worth exploring, and also worth exploring what it is that I want now.  I have had moments of thinking, AHA!  THIS is what I want.  And then I shine a light on it and I realize that it just isn&#8217;t.  It just isn&#8217;t what I want.<\/p>\n<p>I knew I wanted two things: a good group of friends and a job I liked.  I&#8217;ve found the former and I&#8217;m working really hard on the latter.  I&#8217;m moving forwards in that arena, and only time will tell if this new job is going to make me happy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to New York in two days, and strangely, I wasn&#8217;t sure I wanted to go.  I wasn&#8217;t sure that I wanted to miss what will be happening here while I was gone.  What would be happening in my life here.  My life here.  (I have a life?!)<\/p>\n<p>Clearly I&#8217;m not tracking.  I&#8217;m thinking about dooce&#8217;s new baby (dooce.com- if you haven&#8217;t checked it out, you are missing out on one of the best writers of my lifetime) and about waking up at 6:15 to sear off some of my new chub (incurred while not being able to walk on my poor little sick feet).  So I am off to bed, with nothing more than these random, silly, but slightly contented thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing to me, the phenomenon of turning on your light when a nightmare wakes you in the dark. Suddenly the nightmare is clearly just imagination. It seems to be the same of what I think might be really good in my life. All I need to do is turn a spotlight onto it and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}