{"id":59,"date":"2004-12-02T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2004-12-02T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T17:35:00","slug":"the_sicky_gets_stressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/the_sicky_gets_stressed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sicky Gets Stressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently on Day 2 of Sicky Week, and I&#8217;ve finally mustered up the energy to come sit down and do something semi-productive at the computer.  (I stayed home from work yesterday and today with a pretty nasty earache.)  Being sick is so frustrating.  You&#8217;ve got time on your hands, since you can&#8217;t go to work, but you feel so lousy that working on projects is like the worst thing you could possibly make yourself do.   I&#8217;m feeling so bogged down on Christmas projects right now too (and whose fault is that&#8230;. SARAH???) and I&#8217;ve got to get moving on things.  None of it&#8217;s been quilting related either.<br \/>\nI think the worst thing that I&#8217;ve gotten myself into latley is that I decided that I&#8217;d make my own Christmas cards.  Let&#8217;s talk about how stupid of an idea this has been.  There are several large problems going along with this task:<br \/>\n1. I should have started this project last March.  I doubt I&#8217;ll ever have enough time to finish all that I need to do.<br \/>\n2. It&#8217;s not fun at all.  Maybe if I were making 10 of them it would be fun, but I have a lot more than 10 people on our Christmas cards list.<br \/>\n3. They look like crap, and I have no idea how to make them look better.<br \/>\n4. I&#8217;ve already bought the materials, and if I give up now and go buy store bought cards I&#8217;ll feel defeated and lousy that I gave up after buying the supplies.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not just the cards either.  I have four more gifts to finish making, including two that go to people at the school, so I&#8217;ll have to have them finished by two weeks from tomorrow.  That&#8217;s really soon!  Then there&#8217;s the decorations that I&#8217;d like to make for my own house, including a pretty good idea for a snowflake garland type thing that I&#8217;d really like to get done soon, so that I&#8217;m able to use it before the first of the year.  It&#8217;s stupid that I&#8217;m stressed out about projects that I&#8217;m making myself do&#8211;it&#8217;s not like I should have to have any of these things done.<br \/>\nOh yeah, and there&#8217;s a big quilt whose due date is approching closer and closer, and it&#8217;s not getting any closer to being finished.<br \/>\nI need to chill out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently on Day 2 of Sicky Week, and I&#8217;ve finally mustered up the energy to come sit down and do something semi-productive at the computer. (I stayed home from work yesterday and today with a pretty nasty earache.) Being sick is so frustrating. You&#8217;ve got time on your hands, since you can&#8217;t go to <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/the_sicky_gets_stressed\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}