{"id":1403,"date":"2006-02-20T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/02\/20\/the-artists-way-a-couple-of-good-dates\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:44","slug":"the-artists-way-a-couple-of-good-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/02\/20\/the-artists-way-a-couple-of-good-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artist’s Way: A Couple of Good Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow! Is it Monday already?<\/p>\n

Saturday evening entailed a good visit with friends and a tasty dinner of Cioppino<\/a>. And get this: Husband made the dessert! Since I had to work Saturday I told him I couldn’t do my usual (I’m the Baker in the family). He doesn’t cook much. He went out, bought brownie mix, and made them. (He also made key lime bars — mostly for himself.) He said it was nothing to make something from a box, but what’s simple to make is just as simple to screw up. Ask my family. My very first baked dessert ever, when I was 12, was a pan of brownies. I’d not used enough water and baked them a tad too long, and they were like stone. We needed a chisel to eat them. <\/p>\n

Yesterday I devoted some time to removing barriers to knitting by de-cluttering the room where I spend most of my time. Then I went to Stitches West<\/a>. I hadn’t registered to attend, but for $8 I got into the market and spent several hours taking in yarn yumminess, getting inspired again. I bought a few little tools and indulged myself in three skeins of hand-painted yarn<\/a>. Then I came home, pulled my last unfinished object from its hiding place, and began knitting. That felt very, very good.<\/p>\n

And no nap! Usually when I take naps they are much shorter — 45 minutes to an hour. I’ve been so exhausted of late, though. I did work out as well, and this gave me energy.<\/p>\n

Today is another free day. On the agenda: more knitting, working out, and maybe a movie this evening. Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow! Is it Monday already? Saturday evening entailed a good visit with friends and a tasty dinner of Cioppino. And get this: Husband made the dessert! Since I had to work Saturday I told him I couldn’t do my usual (I’m the Baker in the family). He doesn’t cook much. He went out, bought brownie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-recreation","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11017,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/11017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}