{"id":4332,"date":"2016-02-17T21:42:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T03:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/?p=4332"},"modified":"2025-01-03T01:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T07:01:22","slug":"are-we-faking-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2016\/02\/17\/are-we-faking-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we faking this…"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.)<\/b> The thing about getting a tetanus shot every ten years…you have plenty of time to forget how much they suck. Over a week later and I still have a nasty bruise and a welt from the shot. But now I don’t need another one until the year 2026<\/i><\/b>. WHAT<\/i>.<\/p>\n

2.)<\/b> I went in for my annual physical and came out with three more appointments. We got new insurance as of the first of the year, so I guess we’ll find out how well it works. Or doesn’t.<\/p>\n

3.)<\/b> My maternal grandmother had breast cancer in her young 40’s. By current guidelines, close relatives should start getting screened ten years before that age. Which means I get to have mammograms every year from now on. It’s a bizarre thing to have some strange woman yanking on and smashing your boobs in a big machine, but it takes ten minutes and that’s it. Sure it hurts a bit, but hey, early detection and all that, right? (Scans came back fine.)<\/p>\n

4.)<\/b> Bob’s been playing the new XCOM2<\/b><\/i>. He’s been having so much fun playing it, I just want to squeeze the hell out of him for being so gaddamn nerdy and adorable. So I do. Also, he’s been naming his soldiers after my story characters because our marriage is just that nerdy. Ben and Marina are now slaughtering aliens instead of each other.<\/p>\n

5.)<\/b> I’ve managed to trap myself in a constant BUT WHAT IF<\/i> loop on my latest writing projects. I’m still plugging away on Parker, Alison, and Tyler<\/a><\/b>, but the rest of the Stephen Tyler<\/i> monstrosity refuses to shut-up and let me work on just one story at a time. SHUT IT, BASIL<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n

6.)<\/b> I’ve been tweaking style sheet settings, adjusting sidebar widgets, and reworking some pages—rewriting the about<\/i> page, et al—and despite the fact that looking at code now makes me want to drive sporks into my eyes, I feel mildly accomplished. I still need to ask Bob to help me somehow get the now playing<\/i> field back in my metadata with this theme, but I seem to only think about it when he’s not home or in the middle of the night when he’s sleeping, and then…Etch-a-Sketch<\/i> memory kicks in and…lather, rinse, repeat.<\/p>\n

7.)<\/b> We put plastic over our bedroom window because the damn thing is 79-inches wide and covers most of the wall and is drafty as all get out. Our bedroom is consistently ten degrees colder than the rest of the house and, while I love penguins and polar bears, having my bedroom cold enough to keep them is not my idea of a good time. The temperature is still colder than the rest of the house, but it has made a significant difference.<\/p>\n

8.)<\/b> Putting plastic over the window left us with the dilemma of whether to keep the blinds open or closed—they’d be inaccessible behind the plastic—so we opted to leave them open and hang curtains to block the nighttime show for the neighbors. They’re nothing fancy, but they do a good job at blocking the light and insulating the window, and we’re hoping to also gain some benefit from them come summer when our bedroom is consistently ten degrees HOTTER<\/i> than the rest of the house. Western exposure for the win. Or something.<\/p>\n

9.)<\/b> We don’t really do<\/i> Valentine’s Day, but Sunday morning I woke up to critters staring me down, professing their love. Because we are grown-ass adults with no kids and my affinity for stuffed animals provides us with endless hours of entertainment.<\/p>\n

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