{"id":818,"date":"2010-08-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/08\/mental-meanderings.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:03:04","slug":"mental-meanderings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/08\/mental-meanderings.html","title":{"rendered":"Mental Meanderings"},"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>I\u2019m nursing a migraine for the third day straight.\u00a0 I just want to curl up in a ball in the dark and sleep until it goes away.\u00a0 Last night at 1AM, I considered using the Computer Guy\u2019s cordless drill to relieve the pressure in my noggin.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t find the batteries.\u00a0\u00a0 You know it\u2019s bad when brain surgery by Black and Decker sounds like a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>****************************************<\/p>\n<p>My prayer buddy is working overtime on the school and moving front.\u00a0 Nothing I can share today, but\u00a0 definite improvements.\u00a0 Thanks, PB!\u00a0 Now can you add in a lottery win?\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>****************************************<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to the drive in tonight with my children and a couple of their friends.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t been to a drive in for years.\u00a0 What will I wear?<\/p>\n<p>****************************************<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m putting the neighbors on notice : Just because I\u2019m home all day with my children doesn\u2019t mean I want to be home all day with yours.\u00a0 Can you find something for them to do that doesn\u2019t include destroying my house?\u00a0 That would be great.\u00a0 It would also be cool if you made sure they had food.\u00a0 They keep coming over here for lunch, snacks, and begging for dinner. It doesn\u2019t have to be grand, glass of water and crust of bread should be fine.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t mind a child or two, but 10 or more in addition to my six in my house everyday is ridiculous. I didn\u2019t choose to be a stay at home mom so that I could raise <i>your<\/i> children.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>****************************************<\/p>\n<p>Dark chocolate gelato is divine.\u00a0 Why haven\u2019t I had this before now?<\/p>\n<p>****************************************<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m kind of tired of people asking if I\u2019m pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m having a bad day and want to cry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you pregnant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis migraine is making me nauseated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you pregnant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I get to have emotions and be queasy for the same reasons as other people.\u00a0 Stop asking me.\u00a0 You\u2019re being annoying.\u00a0 (Stop yourself, Nod and LarryD.\u00a0 You don\u2019t want to ask.)<\/p>\n<p>*****************************************<\/p>\n<p>The Computer Guy makes a nice salary.\u00a0 Somehow we still qualify for free school lunches.\u00a0 There\u2019s such a thing after all, you just have to have 6 kids to get it.<\/p>\n<p>******************************************<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m tired, my head is caving in, and I\u2019m a grump.\u00a0 I\u2019m putting myself in time-out and maybe even down for a nap.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m nursing a migraine for the third day straight.\u00a0 I just want to curl up in a ball in the dark and sleep until it goes away.\u00a0 Last night at 1AM, I considered using the Computer Guy\u2019s cordless drill to relieve the pressure in my noggin.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t find the batteries.\u00a0\u00a0 You know it\u2019s bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mental Meanderings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;m nursing a migraine for the third day straight.&nbsp; 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