{"id":3133,"date":"2020-11-29T18:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T23:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=3133"},"modified":"2020-11-30T06:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T11:36:29","slug":"by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2020\/11\/by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"By the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Height: 5&#8242; 9&#8243;\/1.75 meters<\/li>\n<li>Weight: 174 lbs\/78.9 kilos<\/li>\n<li>Trips around the sun: 18,728 days, 6 hours, 33 minutes and 0 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Times I&#8217;ve been in physical therapy: 2<\/li>\n<li>Degrees: 2<\/li>\n<li>Professional certificates: 1<\/li>\n<li>Full-time jobs held: 12 or 13 depending on how you count<\/li>\n<li>Books written: 6<\/li>\n<li>Books read: too many to count<\/li>\n<li>Movies seen: ibid<\/li>\n<li>Times I&#8217;ve doubted myself: ibid<\/li>\n<li>Times I&#8217;ve gotten back up: ibid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, today is one of those days. Those creepy, crawly nasty days when self-doubt kicks in and my incredibly talented inner critic sharpens its claws.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying a new technique this time. I call it the P.O. Technique.<\/p>\n<p>When the inner critic pipes up about how I have set myself up perfectly to be distracted from the work I need to do on the last book, how I&#8217;m going to fail anyway because I don&#8217;t fit the profile publishers will look for any more, and how, ultimately, I&#8217;ve wasted my life I&#8217;m going to tell it to piss off.<\/p>\n<p>In case your BritEng is a little rusty, piss off is a <a href=\"https:\/\/notoneoffbritishisms.com\/2018\/08\/30\/piss-off\/\">fairly rude way to tell someone to go away<\/a>. And that&#8217;s what I want my inner critic to do: go away.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m going to enjoy the rest of my life, I need to be a better friend to me, and I sure as hell wouldn&#8217;t say even half the shit to a friend I let my inner critic say to myself.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not perfect, and it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m going to need to practice. But practice I will because I need to be a better friend to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Height: 5&#8242; 9&#8243;\/1.75 meters Weight: 174 lbs\/78.9 kilos Trips around the sun: 18,728 days, 6 hours, 33 minutes and 0 seconds Times I&#8217;ve been in physical therapy: 2 Degrees: 2 Professional certificates: 1 Full-time jobs held: 12 or 13 depending on how you count Books written: 6 Books read: too many to count Movies seen: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-depression","category-nablopomo-2020","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}