{"id":1386,"date":"2013-10-28T22:58:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T03:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2013-10-28T23:01:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T04:01:33","slug":"some-stuff-to-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=1386","title":{"rendered":"Some stuff to report&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will&#8217;s in New York for some kind of tech conference.\u00a0 He&#8217;s there with his friend Ben, who is one of the presenters.\u00a0 Every so often he texts me about how much fun he&#8217;s having.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, I visited Jon and Julie and Patrick at the army base.\u00a0 Patrick is five and he seems to be a big fan of me.\u00a0 We had the sleep over he&#8217;s so been longing for so I could more easily avoid driving home alone in the dark.\u00a0 He painted a picture of me and a picture of Will.\u00a0 We read some books and he taught me some karate.\u00a0 It was nice to go somewhere else while Will is away.\u00a0 Only a few more days and he&#8217;ll be back.<\/p>\n<p>On the brighter side, without Will around I&#8217;ve been able to let loose my inner slob.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been putting the dirty dishes in the dishwasher and, and, AND instead of putting the toilet paper on the toilet paper holder, I just set it on top the vanity.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday I led a million Kaplan students in pumpkin carving.\u00a0 By a million I mean about 25.\u00a0 I did not expect the event to be so popular.\u00a0 They actually did a really good job and they cleaned up after themselves nicely.<\/p>\n<p>We made an offer on a house and the offer was accepted.\u00a0 If everything goes right, we&#8217;ll be moving in December.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a condo with a small yard and big bathtubs.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a two bedroom, which means we&#8217;ll be able to properly host from-out-of-town guesties.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a little exciting.\u00a0 I think it might be fun to try hosting a Kaplan student.\u00a0 And we can get a dog.<\/p>\n<p>I might volunteer working at the ticket table at a community Christmas play.\u00a0 I&#8217;m interested in some kind of community involvement.\u00a0 The woman who usually runs the ticket counter is one of the actors in the play this year.\u00a0 I got the info about it from a woman I work with who is also an actor in the play.<\/p>\n<p>Will gets back on Thursday.\u00a0 Then on Saturday we&#8217;re off to sunny Florida to meet Kari Jesse, boys, and Mom and Dad.\u00a0 That&#8217;s definitely something to look forward to.\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to be our Christmas with my family.\u00a0 Then in December, we&#8217;ll be going back to Florida to see Will&#8217;s sister and meet up with Will&#8217;s parents.\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to be a busy few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will&#8217;s in New York for some kind of tech conference.\u00a0 He&#8217;s there with his friend Ben, who is one of the presenters.\u00a0 Every so often he texts me about how much fun he&#8217;s having. This past weekend, I visited Jon and Julie and Patrick at the army base.\u00a0 Patrick is five and he seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}