{"id":1145,"date":"2009-03-02T15:19:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T20:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2009-03-02T15:19:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T20:19:35","slug":"snow-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/snow-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning, took one look at the mess outside and immediately decided that I would really much prefer to stay inside, preferably in some sort of bed-like position. Ask and ye shall receive&#8230; I checked my email and we had a snow day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already had a leisurely breakfast of frozen waffles and cherries, read a few chapters of the book I&#8217;m\u00a0currently\u00a0reading, tidied up our living room and taken a nap. I figured it was time to settle in for some serious business, aka finishing up the lap quilt that it feels like I&#8217;ve been working on for fucking EVAR. I went to sit at my sewing machine and, horror of all horrors&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I am practically out of white thread!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Out of Thread by hopers, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/3322937371\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3538\/3322937371_b7d94e4b8b.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Out of Thread\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is ridiculously difficult to take pictures of white thread on a white spool with an iSight camera. So, take my word for it when I say that I have just enough thread to hold the last remnants of it in my little hands and cry out to the heavens, &#8220;Why, God, <em>why<\/em>?!?!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the huge manatee.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever seen this episode of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_Enough_at_Last\">Twilight Zone<\/a>? It feels a little bit like that. Except, you know, without the whole &#8220;destruction of all of humanity&#8221; thing. I have some time to sew, because we have a snow day. Except I can&#8217;t go out and get more thread. Because, you know, there&#8217;s a metric shit ton of snow out there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I had a nice talk on the phone with my grandmother and she suggested using another color that was light enough that you couldn&#8217;t see it. Which was a fantastic idea. Except, you know, I looked in my sewing kit and I have&#8230;. Black. Navy Blue. Fire Engine Red. Olive. Eggplant. More Black. I found a tan color and I&#8217;m going to use it. Because I <em>will<\/em> finish this quilt. Dammit.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo 101 by hopers, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/3322970261\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3570\/3322970261_58c6b7eebb.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Photo 101\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear thread stash: So. Not. Helping.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m going to use that one all the way to the right. It&#8217;s vaguely beige-ish. Right?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning, took one look at the mess outside and immediately decided that I would really much prefer to stay inside, preferably in some sort of bed-like&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,3,2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty","category-grumble","category-random","category-the-great-blog-off"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-it","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}