{"id":3135,"date":"2012-03-19T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2012-03-19T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T15:02:44","slug":"spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, I&#8217;m on Spring Break this week. Which doesn&#8217;t really mean much when you work full time. I don&#8217;t have to go to class on Tuesday and I have some extra time to get caught up on my reading, and that&#8217;s nothing to sneeze about. But it&#8217;s definitely a far cry from lounging on the beach or even just pulling a lawn chair and a few adult beverages outside to sit for hours with my friends.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think that being &#8220;on break&#8221; this weekend would be all that big of a deal, but it actually ended up being really nice. I didn&#8217;t have the pressure of getting specific work done for this week, so I was able to take some time for myself. Between working full-time, a class that involves a <em>lot<\/em> of reading and the fact that I need an extra hour or two of sleep every night just to have a chance of functioning properly&#8230; Well, let&#8217;s just say that I&#8217;m fairly over-stretched these days. My weekends usually consist of sleeping, a prenatal yoga class and then hours upon hours of coursework.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend? I still did several hours of reading, but I also took some time to decompress and to get a few things done around the house. Hopefully, I was able to recharge to the point that I&#8217;ll be able to get myself through the rest of the semester. I knew that I needed a break, I just didn&#8217;t know how badly I needed it.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights of my weekend were relatively tame, but they made a big difference in terms of my mental health. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Going to bed ridiculously early on Friday night. It&#8217;s embarrassing that this is a highlight, but such is the life of a person carrying around an adorable little parasite.<\/li>\n<li>Brunch and some hanging out with Kristian and a good friend.<\/li>\n<li>A trip to Target and a local consignment store to take care of errands that have been piling up.<\/li>\n<li>Baking up a big batch of chocolate chip cookies to bring to a party.<\/li>\n<li>Attending the annual boiled dinner that some friends throw for St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. We would have gone anyways, but I didn&#8217;t feel like I should have been at home reading. I also didn&#8217;t feel guilty about falling asleep on one of their easy chairs. Because, as we&#8217;ve well established, falling asleep early and often is kindof the way I roll these days.<\/li>\n<li>Sleeping in on Sunday <em>and<\/em> taking a guilt-free nap. Have I mentioned how much I love sleeping these days?<\/li>\n<li>Spending Sunday night curled up on the couch with Kristian, watching a movie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For most people, this would have been an average weekend. For me? It was a little slice of heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, I&#8217;m on Spring Break this week. Which doesn&#8217;t really mean much when you work full time. I don&#8217;t have to go to class on Tuesday and I have some&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":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-school"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-Oz","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\/3135","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=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}