{"id":136,"date":"2010-11-25T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2010-11-25T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T19:48:47","slug":"well-im-all-grown-up-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Well, I&#8217;m All Grown Up Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving!\u00a0 For the first time ever, we&#8217;re spending it alone as a family of five.\u00a0 Usually we join my Bestest&#8217;s extended family to celebrate the holiday, rotating the holiday among families so we all\u00a0share in\u00a0the I-95 corridor holiday driving <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">pain<\/span> fun.\u00a0 This year, though, we&#8217;re spending it alone in the house of great illness.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all that bad, really.\u00a0 For starters, we&#8217;re all still in our jammies at past 2 pm.\u00a0 We got up when we wanted (well, except for me &#8211; the Son needed help with breakfast).\u00a0 We had yummy\u00a0chocolate croissants for\u00a0breakfast while watching the Macy&#8217;s Parade.\u00a0 When Santa finally made his appearance, the Christmas season officially started.\u00a0 With that, we started blasting the Christmas music.\u00a0 Our iTunes Christmas playlist has 22.5 hours of songs &#8211; we&#8217;re good to go for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it feels weird\u00a0not to be surrounded by lots of family on Thanksgiving.\u00a0 We do have our virtual family on hand, though &#8211; Facebook has been buzzing all day with well wishes.\u00a0 I love that we&#8217;re so far away from our loved ones yet still so connected at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>My &#8220;Grown-Up Christmas List&#8221; is far different than the one I would&#8217;ve thought of as a child, but so are many other things.\u00a0 I guess the key to a happy life is flexibility.\u00a0 It may not be the life I thought I wanted, but its the life I love having.\u00a0 My little, happy family, all snug and warm in our small, delicious-smelling house.\u00a0 In the end, it doesn&#8217;t get much better than this.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RmF2rsDHOZc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RmF2rsDHOZc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the key to a happy life is flexibility.  It may not be the life I thought I wanted, but its the life I love having. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-bestest","tag-nablopomo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inappropriategirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}