{"id":359,"date":"2007-11-28T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2007\/11\/nano-beckons.html"},"modified":"2007-11-28T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T20:39:00","slug":"nano-beckons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2007\/11\/nano-beckons.html","title":{"rendered":"Nano Beckons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have 2 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes, and 20, no 19, no 18, no 17 seconds left to write 4,553 words, which would be fine if I had even one&#8211;just one&#8211;child-free moment in daylight hours. I do not. And, in this month of November, I have: written two profiles, one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corkandknife.com\/2007\/11\/at-war-with-whi.html\">book review<\/a>, copyedited a 400-page novel, made my holiday cards (which is only a big deal if you&#8217;ve seen the holiday cards I make), hosted Thanksgiving, planned a Hanukkah party, completed my holiday shopping, and so far, written 45,447 words. So bite me if you don&#8217;t understand while tonight&#8217;s blog is paltry. I give you here a little randomness:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Does Steve ever think, &#8220;For God&#8217;s sake, Blue, just f&#8217;ing tell me what you want instead of making me play stupid games every damn time!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I made chili-topped baked potatoes. Adam sat down and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m really not hungry.&#8221; Pie ate six slices of red pepper dipped in dressing. Doodles said, &#8220;All I&#8217;m having for dinner tonight is milk.&#8221; Anyone else out there hungry for chili (homemade!) topped potatoes?<\/li>\n<li>My daughter is the devil.<\/li>\n<li>For Thanksgiving dinner Doodles ate one crescent roll, three crackers with peanut butter, and chocolate cake that was shaped like a turkey.<\/li>\n<li>Overheard statement that I decided to not investigate: Adam, giving the kids a bath: &#8220;Doodles, don&#8217;t do that. God made your p*enis just the right color.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And actual, true argument between my son and a friend that I had to referee tocoday: &#8220;Jenny? Doodles just said that my bathroom at home doesn&#8217;t have a bathtub, but it <i>does<\/i>!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Thanksgiving was nice, but things didn&#8217;t really heat up till Pie, Doodles, and I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.styxworld.com\/listingsEntry.asp?ID=470101&amp;PT=Styx+News\">Styx concert<\/a> on PBS. Even though Doodles ordered me, &#8220;Don&#8217;t sing!&#8221; I could help but hum along. Man, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000002GBW\/jennyspage-20\"><i>Paradise Theater<\/i><\/a> is all an album should be!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, damn! 2 days, 3 hours, 1 minute, and 14&#8230; no 13&#8230; no 12&#8230; no 11&#8230;<br \/>Gotta write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have 2 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes, and 20, no 19, no 18, no 17 seconds left to write 4,553 words, which would be fine if I had even one&#8211;just one&#8211;child-free moment in daylight hours. I do not. And, in this month of November, I have: written two profiles, one book review, copyedited a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nanowrimo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}