{"id":461,"date":"2008-12-02T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T08:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=461"},"modified":"2008-12-02T08:37:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T08:37:02","slug":"early-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/12\/02\/early-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric&#8217;s Christmas gift this year was a studio light for his photography hobby.&nbsp; Of course it&#8217;s the sort of thing that&#8217;s useful to have before Christmas (especially with babies coming).&nbsp; So he ordered it last week, and it arrived last night.&nbsp; He was, literally, like a little boy on Christmas.&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/winky.gif\">&nbsp; It was very fun to watch.&nbsp; And then he needed a model to practice on.&nbsp; And since, for another few days, I am still the only moving thing in the house&#8230;I was the lucky one!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this means that there are new pictures of me on the <a href=\"http:\/\/babies.elhogue.com\">website<\/a>.&nbsp; Check them out if you want!<\/p>\n<p>Other than that fun news, the day wasn&#8217;t much to speak of (though that won&#8217;t stop me from continuing my post&#8230;).&nbsp; Here&#8217;s the breakdown&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I made a meal plan for December (a highly flexible one, of course).&nbsp; It was so much easier to do knowing that the diabetes meal plan goes out the window at the end of this week.&nbsp; YIPPEE!!!!<\/li>\n<li>Just so you all know, the grocery store is almost empty on the Monday afternoon right after Thanksgiving.&nbsp; It was one of the nicest trips I&#8217;ve ever had!<\/li>\n<li>I was able to buy the basics for the entire month of December in one shopping trip.&nbsp; It was such a nice change from what I have been doing (shopping for 4-5 days worth of diabetes-appropriate stuff and then having to go again in a week).&nbsp; Can you tell I&#8217;m ready to be done with this blood sugar stuff? <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/whatevah.gif\"><\/li>\n<li>My MIL had brought a lasagna for us a few weeks back, so yesterday, I thawed and cooked it for dinner.&nbsp; I really like when other people cook for me!&nbsp; And it was yummy!&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>And after watching some TV with Eric (our new favorite show is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/big_bang_theory\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Big Bang Theory<\/span><\/a> &#8211; very funny!) and chatting some with my mom, I headed to bed.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, I think I&#8217;m going to run to the mall to hopefully finish Christmas shopping.&nbsp; I pretty much know what I want to get for people, but it&#8217;s been hard to accomplish that so far.&nbsp; I&#8217;m hoping that, with most people back to work, I&#8217;ll be able to accomplish more (and find an open seat when I need to take a break!).&nbsp; But we shall see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric&#8217;s Christmas gift this year was a studio light for his photography hobby.&nbsp; Of course it&#8217;s the sort of thing that&#8217;s useful to have before Christmas (especially with babies coming).&nbsp; So he ordered it last week, and it arrived last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/12\/02\/early-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}