{"id":1744,"date":"2006-11-29T22:23:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T06:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/11\/29\/better-day\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:03","slug":"better-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/11\/29\/better-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a better day today. Since I was tired and cold last night, I went to bed at 8:00 p.m. and slept for 12 hours. When I woke up at 8:00 this morning, I ate my cereal and scooted over to the gym, where I exercised on the treadmill for 40 minutes. Upon returning home, I listened to my “motivation to move” CD (it really does help!), stretched, and showered. I brewed coffee and by 11 a.m. I was all dressed up, ready for the day.<\/p>\n

The afternoon involved answering queued emails, tying up some loose end errands that have nagged for awhile, mailing a package, and doing my knitting homework. Yes, homework! I signed up for a class on Saturday that will teach me how to fix errors such as slipped, dropped, or twisted stitches and other irritants. To prepare I had to knit three swatches, which I did while sipping an Americano at Barefoot Coffee Roasters. <\/p>\n

On the way home I got some groceries and firewood. A friend from Austin is in town on business and we’d planned to go to dinner. But I was in the mood to cook, so I called him and asked if he was okay with that. He basically said in so many words, “How could I turn down a home cooked meal?” I made butternut squash with toasted pecans and a broccoli quiche. The trick with quiche, I’ve learned, is to use real cream, or at least half-and-half. It makes a custard that holds up well. It looked so darn good when I took it out of the oven that I took a photo of it. The crust is homemade as well. You shoulda been here! We had a lovely meal and visit. <\/p>\n

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I had a better day today. Since I was tired and cold last night, I went to bed at 8:00 p.m. and slept for 12 hours. When I woke up at 8:00 this morning, I ate my cereal and scooted over to the gym, where I exercised on the treadmill for 40 minutes. Upon returning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","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=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11174,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/11174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}