{"id":438,"date":"2010-09-17T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2013-11-12T14:10:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:10:58","slug":"my-furry-little-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/my-furry-little-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"My Furry Little Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TJPpmbgcY8I\/AAAAAAAAD7M\/zqrZhGArS8U\/s1600\/IMG_7915.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"532\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TJPpmbgcY8I\/AAAAAAAAD7M\/zqrZhGArS8U\/s640\/IMG_7915.JPG\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TJPptmVxITI\/AAAAAAAAD7U\/_zJ70PXb8tY\/s1600\/IMG_7912.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"604\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TJPptmVxITI\/AAAAAAAAD7U\/_zJ70PXb8tY\/s640\/IMG_7912.JPG\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a>\u00a0I found this spider this morning in my backyard&#8211;a\u00a0very attractive one at that.\u00a0She was resting on the tomato plant. I was in the yard doing dumbell lunges&#8211;one thing led to another and soon she was posing for a photo session.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I am missing John&#8217;s lens that he lent to me for my Malaysia trip. Shooting little friends difficult with my lens. I need a macro.<\/div>\n<p>So stressed&#8211;I always loose my appitite and feel manic when I&#8217;m stressed&#8211;like I&#8217;m on a treadmill and I can&#8217;t get off.<br \/>I have officially pulled out of my MFA&#8211;returning to finish my MA. The MFA program was not what I wanted. I don&#8217;t want to sink $10,000 and 2 more years into my Ed. I am dying to finish, get a p\/t job for the soicalization and then work like crazy painting and writing.<br \/>I believe I can finish my MA by January 2011.<br \/>I never worked harder applying for anything then applying for the MFA program&#8212;all that effot for what? I&#8217;l tell you what. I needed to organize my work and really examine where I&#8217;ve come from and where I am going creatively. It clarrified my goals for me and now I am ready to make it all happen. Plowing through the UBCO MFA hit me like a jail sentence. The classes were repeats of what I know. I knew it was not the MFA for me.<br \/>I must leave now and take Pip to her first skating lesson. It is so sunny and warm outside (I am in a tank top) that it will be odd headng into an ice rink. Borrowed little Artemisia&#8217;s skates for the day as the lesson \u00a0 came upon me suddenly and I forgot to buy Pip skates.<br \/>Mist has 2 friends over, jamming for a David Bowie airband. Tabs is making supper with her friend Mickie. They&#8217;re starting with a pumpkin pie from scratch. She is making the pastry as I type this.<br \/>Signed up for Salsa lessons tonight. Only because I love to salsa dance and I am heading into a fall slump of feeling like I have to get the &#8216;H-E-double-hockey-sticks&#8217; out of Kelowna for awhile. I need an &#8220;outside of my box&#8221; experience to calm myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I found this spider this morning in my backyard&#8211;a\u00a0very attractive one at that.\u00a0She was resting on the tomato plant. I was in the yard doing dumbell lunges&#8211;one thing led to another and soon she was posing for a photo session. &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/my-furry-little-friend\/\" aria-label=\"My Furry Little Friend\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,866],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-spiders","tag-stress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}],"post_tag":[{"value":126,"label":"spiders"},{"value":866,"label":"Stress"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mixhart","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/author\/mixhart\/"},"comment_info":4,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":576,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":576,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":126,"name":"spiders","slug":"spiders","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":126,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":6,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":866,"name":"Stress","slug":"stress","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":866,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":6,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}