{"id":937,"date":"2005-11-20T10:21:44","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=937"},"modified":"2005-11-20T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T17:21:44","slug":"elevation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Elevation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a new blog, to me at least, and have added it to my list of<br \/>\ndaily reads.  This post on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kellenheller.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/how-to-elevate-your-mood-without.html\">How to Elevate Your Mood Without Smoking, Drinking, Eating or Taking Drugs<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nwas interesting to me.  As I read through the list I realized that<br \/>\nI already do a bunch of those things at work every day.  As for<br \/>\nbefore and after work I&#8217;m still so busy that I don&#8217;t have time to think<br \/>\nabout anything, although that is starting to get a little better with<br \/>\nmy oldest now driving and lightening the driving load.<\/p>\n<p>At work I&#8217;ve found that software projects are able to always take all<br \/>\nthe available time allocated no matter what the level of effort that<br \/>\nwas projected to be required.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow life is like the software projects in that my every day chores<br \/>\nand tasks seem to take all available time.  That seems to be<br \/>\ndriving me towards things like this article on how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/lifehack\/live-simple-to-reduce-the-clutter-in-your-life.html\">Live Simple, to reduce the clutter in your life<\/a> at LifeHack.org.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2005\/10\/22\/us_material_wealth_leads_to_clutter?mode=PF\">Or this story<\/a><br \/>\nabout the obesity of the American consumption lifestyle which appeared<br \/>\nin my Sunday paper this morning, although I can&#8217;t find it at my<br \/>\nnewspaper&#8217;s web site. I keep thinking that if my life were somehow<br \/>\nsimpler and more organized I would have more time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the time in the world&#8230;<br \/>These precious days we live through<br \/>Thrown away like tissue<br \/>I wish that I could give you all the time in the world&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000002NDY\/qid%1132500064\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-4744805-0594324?v=glance&amp;s=music&amp;nP7846\">All the Time in the World<\/a><br \/>\nBeth Nielsen Chapman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a new blog, to me at least, and have added it to my list of daily reads. This post on &#8220;How to Elevate Your Mood Without Smoking, Drinking, Eating or Taking Drugs&#8221; was interesting to me. As I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=937\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}