{"id":213,"date":"2005-09-05T20:55:03","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T05:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2005\/09\/05\/let-there-be-light\/"},"modified":"2005-09-05T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T05:55:03","slug":"let-there-be-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2005\/09\/05\/let-there-be-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Let there be light.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Papa got tired of hitting his head on my broken chandelier in the dining room, which is also my office. I&#8217;ve learned over the years to sidestep it automatically, but well, poor papa is quite a bit taller then me too, and hit his head every single time. It was always something that was on the &#8220;we&#8217;ll get to it&#8221; list, and the &#8220;next time we think about it&#8221; list of to do&#8217;s &#8211; but papa found me a lovely light that was even on sale and brought it to me. &#8220;Call J! Tomorrow!&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSo I did. And this afternoon, J came through and pulled down <a href=\"http:\/\/reachthecolors.com\/eclat\/past\/pics\/oldlight.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/reachthecolors.com\/eclat\/past\/pics\/oldlight.html','popup','width=581,height=504,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">this poor tired old thing<\/a> and replaced it with <a href=\"http:\/\/reachthecolors.com\/eclat\/past\/pics\/newlight.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/reachthecolors.com\/eclat\/past\/pics\/newlight.html','popup','width=478,height=426,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">this, non-injuring pretty lil thing complete with a new dimmer switch too!<\/a> It&#8217;s odd to have light from above me rather then behind me in the entry way, for sure. *L* but very nice too. Thanks papa and J!<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t sleep last night. I just&#8230; didn&#8217;t want to go to bed, couldn&#8217;t go to bed. I watched a couple of movies with the kids, then sat back down here and spent a few hours setting up exel spreadsheet for budgeting. I&#8217;ve never been a good budget person. The money comes in, I pay what I can, i rob peter to pay paul, I wiggle things around. Thats&#8217; what I&#8217;ve always done, always had to do. Well, I don&#8217;t have much of a choice now. Things have to change if I&#8217;m going to be able to support these kids on my own. So I figured out everything I had on hand, including what has been given to us and started putting things toward the places it was most needed. Sure, there&#8217;s some things that will just simply have to wait, but for the most part, we&#8217;ll end up doing allright. <\/p>\n<p>Money wise at least.<\/p>\n<p>The pup is feeling better, even had a healthy tantrum and told me she hated me. heh. Always a sure sign that she&#8217;s feeling better. [have no fear, she&#8217;s curled up in my lap right now. I always just tell her that I love her enough for both of us. no calling nanny 911 on us!] Tonsils are still swollen and icky looking, so I&#8217;m gonna take her into see the doc tomorrow after school.<\/p>\n<p>Today at about 5pm i found myself looking at the clock, then the phone, and thinking &#8220;his flight should be here, wonder if he got delayed.&#8221; about halfway through the thought i realized just what i was thinking and just kinda&#8230; urgh. He was supposed to come home today. It makes it all that much real.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will be spent going around town and paying up bills with the money that people have so generously donated to us. It&#8217;s amazing the support that we&#8217;ve gotten. I fear the kids are going to hate going back to mom&#8217;s cooking! It&#8217;s been so wonderful though, and I really couldn&#8217;t do this or be this strong without everyone&#8217;s support and help and just willingness to be there for us. <\/p>\n<p>The pup, in the midst of her little tantrum, decided she was gonna sit on her floor and pout at me from her doorway. The result of that?<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pupsleepin.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/reachthecolors.com\/eclat\/pics\/pupsleepin.jpg\" width=\"506\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Heh. Sometimes &#8211; she&#8217;s too cute for words.<\/p>\n<p>So all in all &#8211; today has been quiet. No where near normal or calm or easy&#8230; but quite. And sometimes, that&#8217;s just good enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papa got tired of hitting his head on my broken chandelier in the dining room, which is also my office. I&#8217;ve learned over the years to sidestep it automatically, but well, poor papa is quite a bit taller then me too, and hit his head every single time. It was always something that was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myriad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}