{"id":6382,"date":"2014-05-22T21:45:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T04:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2014-05-22T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T19:17:24","slug":"7-quick-takes-things-i-do-to-avoid-dealing-with-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6382","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: Things I Do to Avoid Dealing With My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got some things going on in my offline life at the moment that are terrifying me (and which I can&#8217;t talk about on this blog which is why I&#8217;m being vague) so this is how I&#8217;m avoiding things related to that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook.<\/strong> If I played all the games I get invited to play, I&#8217;d be attached to my laptop 24\/7.  I stick mainly to Words with Friends and Scrabble.  Still, even on days when I only read certain lists of people, it&#8217;s a good way to kill a few hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading.<\/strong>  I&#8217;m currently re-reading <u>A Year of Biblical Womanhood<\/u> when I&#8217;m sitting down and eating meals.  I don&#8217;t read at night because I&#8217;d just stay awake doing so and unfortunately, I have a little boy who wakes me up at 7 asking for &#8220;mo chee&#8221;.  (Translation: &#8220;more cheese&#8221;.) My favorite genre is murder mysteries and I love being transported to another locale that way for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Advocating for orphans.<\/strong> It puts my problems into perspective.  By the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/reecesrainbow.org\/1581\/brett2601\" title=\"Brett\">Brett<\/a> (the little boy on my sidebar) needs a mama.  If you think you might be his mama, click on his picture with all possible speed.  Currently, I&#8217;m crocheting a baby blanket to raffle off to raise money for his grant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Netflix.<\/strong> When the house is quiet, I tend to binge on <a href=\"http:\/\/netflix.com\" title=\"Netflix\">Netflix<\/a>. My current addiction is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tntdrama.com\/series\/leverage\/\" title=\"Leverage\">Leverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt5\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blogging.<\/strong> If I put down every thought in my head, I would probably max out my server space and annoy all of you.  Still, it&#8217;s what is keeping me sane at the moment and helping me to avoid thinking about everything going on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt6\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sleeping.<\/strong> I&#8217;m a huge fan of it, especially since I don&#8217;t get much of it these days. If I had my way, I&#8217;d be able to shift my wake-up time from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. permanently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt7\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watching TV.<\/strong> I&#8217;m a forensics show junkie.  I get irritated if people call me between 7 and 9 p.m. on Tuesday nights because it&#8217;s NCIS night. I also have other shows that I watch and follow religiously.<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Jen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\">ConversionDiary.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got some things going on in my offline life at the moment that are terrifying me (and which I can&#8217;t talk about on this blog which is why I&#8217;m being vague) so this is how I&#8217;m avoiding things related &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,24,1,11,7,17,44,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksmagazines","category-creativity","category-daily-life","category-media","category-memes-and-link-ups","category-personal-issues","category-reeces-rainbow","category-web-schtuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-1EW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}