{"id":996,"date":"2009-08-30T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gabbingwithgrace.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2009-08-30T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T00:33:00","slug":"fessing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/everydayblackmatters\/2009\/08\/30\/fessing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fessing Up."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>*If your looking for my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gracebiskie.com\/graces-book-club\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">latest \u201cLeadership Essentials\u201d book club post on chapter 3<\/a> I\u2019m a day late &amp; a dollar short so expect it tomorrow*<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">It\u2019s time to fess up:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 I only ever try to keep plants alive on our property because it makes me feel like some sort of suzie home-maker that I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 I usually kill said plants in record time.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 When I\u2019m feeling hopeless about things I often want to blow stuff up.\u00a0 People. Countries. Continents, etc.<\/p>\n<p>4. One time I watched 4 movies in one day.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0\u00a0 I haven\u2019t taken a shower in over a year.\u00a0 I do take baths though.\u00a0 This is mostly because I\u2019m too lazy to stand up for an extra 15 minutes a day.<\/p>\n<p>6. One time I ate a whole bag of powdered donuts over the course of 12 hours.\u00a0 It was either very recent or a long time ago.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-997 alignleft\" title=\"donuts_1809\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/693\/2009\/08\/donuts_1809.jpg\" alt=\"donuts_1809\" width=\"134\" height=\"101\"><\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0 I\u2019d really like to put both our cats to sleep mostly because one keeps pee-ing on my clothes &amp; seemingly becoming an inconvenience to my entire life.\u00a0 The other one I only want to kill so she won\u2019t be lonely.\u00a0 Hey, at least I don\u2019t want to blow them up.<\/p>\n<p>8. 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