{"id":2273,"date":"2008-02-28T21:58:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T05:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/02\/28\/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:43:05","slug":"the-good-the-bad-the-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/02\/28\/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good, The Bad, The Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We paid off our car loan and the title arrived today.<\/li>\n<li>Bean discovered the delight of knocking a tower of cloth blocks over. Repeatedly. And she laughed each time.<\/li>\n<li>I repurposed a basket that came with a floral arrangement when Bean was born, converting it into her Easter basket. Not that she&#8217;s old enough yet for it, but it will make a nice decoration.<\/li>\n<li>Bean&#8217;s low-grade fever broke.<\/li>\n<li>To reduce the risk of credit fraud, we completed the paperwork (quick and simple) to permanently opt-out of prescreened, pre-approved credit card and insurance offers. (You can too; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optoutprescreen.com\/?rf=t\">go here<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>My <a href=\"http:\/\/mommazen.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/bookmark-it.html\">free book<\/a> arrived today.<\/li>\n<li>Every Thursday morning Bean and I watch the garbage truck haul away the garbage (since it happens right outside her window, that&#8217;s unavoidable), and now the guy who works the truck looks up and waves at us each week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Husband thinks he is having a reprise of The Crud that he just got over.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes I miss the validation of shared experiences with coworkers one gets from an outside job. Sometimes the delight of a moment (such as Bean and her block tower) feels also a little lonely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ugly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I ate an entire bag of Dove Promise dark chocolate eggs in the past two days. <em>Oink<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least the good outweighs all the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good: We paid off our car loan and the title arrived today. Bean discovered the delight of knocking a tower of cloth blocks over. Repeatedly. And she laughed each time. I repurposed a basket that came with a floral arrangement when Bean was born, converting it into her Easter basket. Not that she&#8217;s old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","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=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13764,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/13764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}