{"id":12858,"date":"2025-04-30T23:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T04:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/?p=12858"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:18:26","slug":"the-wrong-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2025\/04\/30\/the-wrong-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrong situation…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey listen.<\/p>\n

It’s technically still April.<\/p>\n

Timestamps tell me I started this draft on March 31st, edited it on April 1st and didn’t touch it again until today. There was about half a paragraph written that didn’t make any sense, so I deleted it.<\/p>\n

I am disconnected and unfocused and unproductive and unsettled by it all.<\/p>\n

No–no, more than usual<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I don’t recall ever having such a useless stretch of time that didn’t involve bad medication side effects. March and April felt a lot like Summer of Zoloft 2019<\/i>, but I didn’t spend the entire time literally staring at the wall like I did then. I mostly spent it watching multiple seasons of Murder She Wrote<\/i> and Columbo<\/i> while heavily fixating on floor plans for stories I’m probably not even going to write.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

Bob and I were talking in the bedroom the other day when I noticed something move out the window. At first I thought it was just a bird flying away from the neighbor’s tree, but then I saw something big on the roof across the street.<\/p>\n

It was definitely a bird, just not the robin\/sparrow\/chickadee I expected.<\/p>\n

The turkeys are back.<\/p>\n

At least I had access to a camera<\/a><\/b> this time. Even if it’s super zoomed in and blurry.<\/p>\n

But turkey.<\/p>\n

\"[It's<\/center><\/p>\n

She conceded to drop off the monthly Last.fm<\/i> stats as she moseyed across the eve, flew up to the next peak, then up higher, and eventually strolled over the ridge toward the woods.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Top 10 Most Played Artists for March 2025…<\/b><\/p>\n

1.)<\/b> Panic! At the Disco …<\/b> 418 plays<\/p>\n

2.)<\/b> The Killers …<\/b> 125 plays<\/p>\n

3.)<\/b> O.A.R. …<\/b> 124 plays<\/p>\n

4.)<\/b> Matt Nathanson …<\/b> 102 plays<\/p>\n

5.)<\/b> Billy Joel …<\/b> 85 plays<\/p>\n

6.)<\/b> Brandon Flowers …<\/b> 82 plays<\/p>\n

7.)<\/b> The Young Veins …<\/b> 64 plays<\/p>\n

8.)<\/b> Sara Bareilles …<\/b> 54 plays<\/p>\n

9.)<\/b> Marc Roberge …<\/b> 25 plays<\/p>\n

10.)<\/b> The Fray …<\/b> 18 plays<\/p>\n

Honorable mention:<\/b> The Monkees, Ingram Hill, Train, Nine Days, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Elton John, Fall Out Boy, P!nk, Celine Dion, Gin Blossoms<\/p>\n

Total of 1,159<\/b> plays of 381<\/b> tracks from 85<\/b> albums by 34<\/b> artists.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n
\"[headphones]\"<\/td>\nRoll to Me<\/a><\/b>
\nDel Amitri\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey listen. It’s technically still April. Timestamps tell me I started this draft on March 31st, edited it on April 1st and didn’t touch it again until today. There was about half a paragraph written that didn’t make any sense, so I deleted it. I am disconnected and unfocused and unproductive and unsettled by it all. No–no, more than usual. I don’t recall ever having such a useless stretch of time that didn’t involve bad… Keep reading…The wrong situation…<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2025pics\/turkey041425.png","fifu_image_alt":"It's turkey time again...","iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,135,10,9],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-12858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critters","category-last-fm","category-life-as-i-know-it","category-mental-health","tag-262","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2025pics\/turkey041425.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12858"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13630,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858\/revisions\/13630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}