{"id":121,"date":"2011-10-09T21:36:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T21:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/2011-10-09-peace-and-productivity-and-computer-time\/"},"modified":"2011-10-09T21:36:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T21:36:59","slug":"2011-10-09-peace-and-productivity-and-computer-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/09\/2011-10-09-peace-and-productivity-and-computer-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace and Productivity and Computer Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had a lovely, relaxed 45 min. to myself. My husband took my daughter for a walk after breakfast and I sat in front of my laptop at my writing desk (how great that I have a writing desk now! Though the area can get cluttered, I love it and all the things I&#8217;m using to outfit my space.) While listening to a YouTube lecture (<a title=\"Decline of Empires: The Signs of Decay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q2CCs-x9q9U&amp;feature=share\">Decline of Empires: The Signs of Decay<\/a>) I made my way through my craft gift for my daughter&#8217;s birthday. I&#8217;m clipping pictures of animals and food from magazines and pasting them into old photo album pages to go into a binder. Today I was able to sort the remaining 2 magazines I had, clip and label pictures, and fill the rest of the pages. Ready to wrap for her birthday! I also had a Gchat call from my sister while sitting there.<br \/>\nWonderful. Productive, peaceful, enriching, relaxing.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the afternoon, while baby was down for a nap, I took advantage of the quiet and my newly clean(er) desk to tackle some of the small business things that needed doing: balance and pay my MC bill, add up receipts for September&#8217;s expenses, pay a power bill, check the balances in the accounts, transfer money for the car insurance. All quick but important work, accomplished in a short period. Leaving me with a feeling of peace as opposed to the ongoing dis\/ease I feel when tasks remain undone.<\/p>\n<p>And now tonight. Putting baby to bed took over an hour between bath, nursing, play time, walking in the dark, walking around the block, and a final nurse\/bottle\/pat to sleep. Husband and baby are sleeping; I&#8217;m eating, writing, enjoying the time to myself yet again. Looking for the balance between productively getting things done (diapers in the wash; pumpkin into the fridge; on and on with what could be done) and peace (blogging; listening to an interview with a <a title=\"colleagu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/nxnw\/featured-guests\/2011\/10\/01\/michael-v-smith\/\">colleague; <\/a>maybe something else enjoyable before bed?)<\/p>\n<p>Time and the computer allow me to relax, to get done, to obsess, to overdo, to complete, to get ready to move on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had a lovely, relaxed 45 min. to myself. My husband took my daughter for a walk after breakfast and I sat in front of my laptop at my writing desk (how great that I have a writing desk now! Though the area can get cluttered, I love it and all the things I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self","category-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}