{"id":1805,"date":"2007-01-08T19:18:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T03:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/01\/08\/a-night-off\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:31","slug":"a-night-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/01\/08\/a-night-off\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I drove to Mountain View to pick up Husband from work, I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6741965\">Melinda Shoaf read her essay, The Designated Celebrator<\/a>, on NPR&#8217;s <em>This I Believe<\/em>. I found myself in tears by the end.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m exhausted. Tonight I feel too tired to care where I live. I need a break. So tonight, dinner is a mug of Trader Joe&#8217;s roasted red pepper and tomato soup and a viewing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317219\/\">Cars<\/a> (suggested by Husband). He&#8217;s got a hella week at work, and he&#8217;s tired too. Tomorrow we go see another house at 4:30 p.m., drop off the application for the Craftsman house after 6:00, and another application for a house in Sunnyvale (or tell him no &#8212; we were first, but there are other interested parties). I&#8217;m dizzy and hormonal and very very emotional. <\/p>\n<p>The question is: do we take the one in Sunnyvale, or maybe the one we&#8217;ll see tomorrow in Santa Clara, or wait on the Craftsman house, which we won&#8217;t know until maybe Saturday? (That&#8217;s rhetorical.) Houses are coming up all the time, so if we miss these there are more. But. I am ready to be done searching. It is not my personality trait to research and research some more. I know this is an opportunity to work on sitting with the unknown and trusting the universe; I&#8217;m just having a damn hard time doing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I drove to Mountain View to pick up Husband from work, I heard Melinda Shoaf read her essay, The Designated Celebrator, on NPR&#8217;s This I Believe. I found myself in tears by the end. I&#8217;m exhausted. Tonight I feel too tired to care where I live. I need a break. So tonight, dinner is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","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=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11484,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/11484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}