{"id":1639,"date":"2008-11-19T18:56:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T02:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2008-11-19T18:56:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T02:56:14","slug":"ut-oh-its-list-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/ut-oh-its-list-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Ut Oh, it&#039;s list time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, do I feel compelled to write lists when I feel like my life is out of control? I should make a list about that. But first, today&#8217;s list:<br \/>\n<strong>List #1: Woe is me<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am fat and out of shape<\/li>\n<li>My desk is a mess<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not making enough art<\/li>\n<li>I feel vacant at my job<\/li>\n<li>I hate commuting 2 hours a day<\/li>\n<li>I hate that my studio is so far away<\/li>\n<li>I hate the parking situation in my neighborhood<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m angry I broke my scooter<\/li>\n<li>I want to spend more quality time with my husband by making music but I&#8217;m afraid of being a musical failure<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I just wanna go home and get knocked up&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I have complete control over my life and my happiness<\/li>\n<li>I am making compromises in my life because it serves my long term goals<\/li>\n<li>my dastardly impatience always gets in my way<\/li>\n<li>If I feel fat, I need to exercise<\/li>\n<li>If I want to make music with Tom, I should make time<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m afraid if I don&#8217;t keep myself happy all the time, I will be a bad wife<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t think I can focus hard on getting out of debt and stay happy while doing it<\/li>\n<li>If I need to make more art, I should stop making these gawdawful lists and go make a drawing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>List #2: Suck it up<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The economy is in the crapper and I should work as much as possible while I can<\/li>\n<li>I will always have to make compromises to fit art into my life, so I better get used to it now<\/li>\n<li>Many of my friends are out of work, and probably think I&#8217;m a brat<\/li>\n<li>I think I&#8217;m a brat<\/li>\n<li>When I was your age, we had to walk uphill 2 miles carrying huge bushels of rotten, maggoty meat, with nothing covering our feet but the crust from our own bloody tears<\/li>\n<li>Find happiness in the every day<\/li>\n<li>Tom thinks you are a great wife, just don&#8217;t screw it up<\/li>\n<li>Clean your desk, you lazy slob<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, do I feel compelled to write lists when I feel like my life is out of control? I should make a list about that. But first, today&#8217;s list: List #1: Woe is me I am fat and out of shape My desk is a mess I&#8217;m not making enough art I feel vacant at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}