{"id":2472,"date":"2018-02-23T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T04:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2018-02-23T20:31:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T04:31:33","slug":"end-of-the-week-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/grimace-and-giggle\/about-family-friends-students\/end-of-the-week-update\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Week Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This week has been fraught. Just fraught. Everything was a crisis, everything was a scramble to get done in time, and I managed to just squeak through by a just keep pounding away at it determination, all with almost no sleep. Today, after the last flurry of frantic, I crashed for five hours this afternoon. Then, I got up and sat outside in the cold, letting the crystalline snowflakes coming down outside land on my upturned face. The feeling was wonderful after such a numbing week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today is Mom&#8217;s birthday, Mom who unexpectedly died October 13th of complications from a twisted intestine, which itself was the result of having an appendectomy when she was just nine years old. Today, on Mom&#8217;s birthday, I finished up the memorial service program for Elaine&#8217;s funeral and got it to the printer, saw a proof, and then did all the other jobs and chores still pending with their own deadlines. Elaine was one of Mom&#8217;s friends &#8212; a family friend, actually.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think the whole winter has just been one overwhelming hurdle after another. Everytime I think I can maybe get my life back, something else happens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway, sitting out in the cold with the snowflakes hitting my face was a small recess. It felt good to just sit and let the cold seep into my bones after such a hectic time. I know more &#8220;hectic and frenetic&#8221; is just around the corner, but the time out felt wonderful. It was sorely needed.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the memorial service program looks like. It&#8217;s a trifold, top is the outside, back, and inside flap; bottom is the inside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TrifoldOutside_ElaineTormeyMemorialService_0CroppedForDisplay_web-1024x794.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"794\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TrifoldInside_ElaineTormeyMemorialService_0_CroppedForDisplay_web2-1024x792.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"792\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been fraught. Just fraught. Everything was a crisis, everything was a scramble to get done in time, and I managed to just squeak through by a just keep pounding away at it determination, all with almost no sleep. Today, after the last flurry of frantic, I crashed for five hours this afternoon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472"}],"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=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"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=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}