{"id":12623,"date":"2016-02-04T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2016-02-04T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:00:13","slug":"here-we-are-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/here-we-are-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"here we are in february!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so, spring is right around the corner&#8230;my personal goal is to try t get all my photos and videos of our trip LAST AUGUST up before it has been a year. \u00a0possible? \u00a0maybe. \u00a0i&#8217;m doing my best, but life seems to be getting in the way quite a bit, not so much time to sit down at the computer.<\/p>\n<p>and today is busy again, because tomorrow i&#8217;m headed for NYC! \u00a0Bev&#8217;s daughter lives there, and bev and i are going to visit. \u00a0tomorrow mom and i take the train to chicago to visit my aunt sandy who had some major surgery, and after a night there, i fly out of midway airport on saturday. \u00a0bev&#8217;s daughter, erin, has a good friend who is the lead in aladdin &#8211; she&#8217;s jasmin! \u00a0i&#8217;m fairly confident \u00a0we&#8217;ll get to go see the show, which\u00a0\u00a0should be exciting.<\/p>\n<p>bev asked me what else i&#8217;d like to do, but somehow i haven&#8217;t had time to even look for new and different NYC things. \u00a0i want to go to the metropolitan museum of art because i just want to sit and look at the impressionist paintings, and bev has never been there, so i want to show her all the stained glass and the other beautiful things. \u00a0well, not all of them, because you can&#8217;t see all the stuff in a day because you just get museum-numb after a while.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m confident that i&#8217;ll have some time to think about other ideas today, besides the one million things i need to accomplish. \u00a0and yet here i sit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s sadie, looking darling in her striped coat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12625\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j25.jpg\" alt=\"j25\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j25.jpg 540w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j25-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and this is one of my favorite photos of her. \u00a0such long legs!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12626\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j26.jpg\" alt=\"j26\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j26-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>we celebrated my neighbor bernice&#8217;s birthday on january 12th &#8211; i made lasagne and cupcakes. \u00a0here are my cupcakes formerly known as &#8220;irish car bomb cupcakes,&#8221; until the creator of the recipe decided that was politically incorrect, so now they&#8217;re called &#8220;irish whisky and beer cupcakes.&#8221; \u00a0they&#8217;re sinfully decadent, they take some time to make, and i wanted them to look fancy with the sprinkles and all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12627\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j27.jpg\" alt=\"j27\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j27.jpg 540w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j27-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>we all look a little drunk here, but i think it&#8217;s just sugar overload.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12628\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j28.jpg\" alt=\"j28\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j28.jpg 540w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j28-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>but here&#8217;s proof of my continuing early alzheimer&#8217;s creeping up on me&#8230;i left a bunch of cupcakes with bernice and took a half dozen home and put them in the freezer. \u00a0they were in a huge container so i took one out and put it in the fridge, and my intent was to put the rest of them in a smaller container and back into the freezer.<\/p>\n<p>they have disappeared. \u00a0no, i didn&#8217;t eat them in the middle of the night, i&#8217;m pretty sure nobody came in a swiped them&#8230;but i have absolutely no memory of actually putting them back in the freezer, and they&#8217;re not there &#8211; i checked many times, amy came over and checked, everybody looked in the freezer.<\/p>\n<p>i assume that someday i&#8217;ll find them, old and very moldy and sad.<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s lester being cute, to help me get over the angst of the lost cupcakes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12629\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j29.jpg\" alt=\"j29\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j29.jpg 540w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j29-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12630\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j30.jpg\" alt=\"j30\" width=\"540\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j30.jpg 540w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j30-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12631\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j31.jpg\" alt=\"j31\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j31.jpg 540w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j31-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12632\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j32.jpg\" alt=\"j32\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j32.jpg 540w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/j32-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so, spring is right around the corner&#8230;my personal goal is to try t get all my photos and videos of our trip LAST AUGUST up before it has been a year. \u00a0possible? \u00a0maybe. \u00a0i&#8217;m doing my best, but life seems to be getting in the way quite a bit, not so much time to sit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,94,144,138],"class_list":["post-12623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kevin","tag-les-paul","tag-mom","tag-numie-and-mincy-and-sadie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6JLYy-3hB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}