{"id":1081,"date":"2016-06-02T09:42:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:37:59","slug":"the-start-of-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/grimace-and-giggle\/about-family-friends-students\/the-start-of-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Start of Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Skull3-2-201516Strip.jpg\" alt=\"Skull3-2-201516Strip\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wake up, refreshed and looking forward to a productive, happy day. The air outside brings joy. The wind brings a freshening. The sky is bright and overcast, feeling of potential storminess. It&#8217;s wonderfully invigorating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Downstairs, I clean up the usual disasters from my mom&#8217;s misfit dogs. I clean her bathroom, so, when the CNA arrives to give her her shower, there&#8217;s no trace, no sight or smell, of Mom&#8217;s bad habits. I change her bedding once the CNA has her in the shower. Done, I grind coffee and set the 40 cup percolator to doing it&#8217;s job&#8230;after having drained the last of the previous batch into my carafe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I head upstairs to my office.\u00a0My cell phone rings. It&#8217;s Forrest, the love of my life. Unfortunately, hubs is Mr. Grumpkin, today. He spilled his coffee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I suggest a different cup. (Because, damn it, he&#8217;s always spilling his coffee, though I don&#8217;t mention that.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He gets grumpier, bellowing at me that he doesn&#8217;t need my advice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Okay. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Silence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I share tidbits about his favorite cat&#8217;s antics. I mention some of the latest discoveries in science. I talk about one of his pet interests, our music project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Silence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s a non-conversation. I tell him so, beg\u00a0off, and end the call.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He&#8217;s on vacation, starting Saturday. I think I&#8217;m going to have to find another place to stay for those eight days he&#8217;s going to be home. I really do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Skull3-2-201516.jpg\" alt=\"Skull3-2-201516\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wake up, refreshed and looking forward to a productive, happy day. The air outside brings joy. The wind brings a freshening. The sky is bright and overcast, feeling of potential storminess. It&#8217;s wonderfully invigorating. <\/p>\n<p>Downstairs, I clean up the usual disasters from my mom&#8217;s misfit dogs. I clean her bathroom, so, when the CNA arrives to give her her shower, there&#8217;s no trace, no sight or smell, of Mom&#8217;s bad habits. I change her bedding once the CNA has her in the shower. Done, I grind coffee and set the 40 cup percolator to doing it&#8217;s job&#8230;after having drained the last of the previous batch into my carafe.<\/p>\n<p>I head upstairs to my office. My cell phone rings. It&#8217;s Forrest, the love of my life. Unfortunately, hubs is Mr. Grumpkin, today. He spilled his coffee.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest a different cup. (Because, damn it, he&#8217;s always spilling his coffee, though I don&#8217;t mention that.)<\/p>\n<p>He gets grumpier, bellowing at me that he doesn&#8217;t need my advice. <\/p>\n<p>Okay. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>I share tidbits about his favorite cat&#8217;s antics. I mention some of the latest discoveries in science. I talk about one of his pet interests, our music project.<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a non-conversation. I tell him so, beg off, and end the call.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s on vacation, starting Saturday. I think I&#8217;m going to have to find another place to stay for those eight days he&#8217;s going to be home. I really do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[20,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3757,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/3757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}