{"id":232,"date":"2012-01-26T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/2012-01-26-how-to-not-have-fun\/"},"modified":"2012-01-26T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T23:00:09","slug":"2012-01-26-how-to-not-have-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/26\/2012-01-26-how-to-not-have-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"How to not have fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello grammarians: infinitive split deliberately. I actively engaged in &#8220;not fun having&#8221; today!<br \/>\nStep 1: procrastinate at work.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: beat yourself up about it.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: leave work late because you are trying to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Step 4: instead of enjoying a couple of hours of personal time while your husband picks up baby and brings her home, rush around madly doing high-speed urgent shopping, all the while worrying about how daughter is doing and feeling guilty for not being there with her.<\/p>\n<p>Not having a cell phone doesn&#8217;t help, I realized, as a cell phone enables me to check in with husband and come home if need be.<\/p>\n<p>Shopping had some okay moments but was not really joyful. That is a real shame, since why not make everything joyful if you have to do it? I think I&#8221;m at the end of this mad shopping spree and I&#8217;m glad. Necessary items have been purchased and now I can enjoy time and wearing things I like. I could get more, but I have enough and combining things creatively will be more rewarding than accumulating too much. I also have an outfit for the wedding, if I don&#8217;t change my mind about it, which is a relief. And a few items to return, but once that is done, it&#8217;s done. Aaah &#8230; stepping out of the mall again. It will be good.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8221;m less sure how I can enjoy time away from baby. Admittedly, I don&#8217;t have to if I don&#8217;t want to. I&#8221;m very comfortable being attached to my baby and wanting to be with her most of the time. And I still do enjoy things I do without her, undobubtedly. It&#8217;s just that she&#8217;s my sweet, amazing baby girl and I crave being with her and I see no reason to deny this.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Thursday night, end of my work-week, beginning of another full and fun (I will give it my best shot) weekend. Hope you all enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello grammarians: infinitive split deliberately. I actively engaged in &#8220;not fun having&#8221; today! Step 1: procrastinate at work. Step 2: beat yourself up about it. Step 3: leave work late because you are trying to catch up. Step 4: instead of enjoying a couple of hours of personal time while your husband picks up baby [&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":[1],"tags":[20,110,205],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baby","tag-guilt","tag-shopping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}