{"id":6872,"date":"2013-03-10T18:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T23:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2013-03-10T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T02:14:00","slug":"spring-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/spring-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the no-fun time change, when we lose an hour, and, even though it may be staying lighter later in the evening, it&#8217;s darker in the morning. To make it even better, it&#8217;s a dreary, rainy, wet day &#8211; all the snow is melting and the basement is leaking in three places.<\/p>\n<p>I should feel good &#8211; I did a bunch of work in both online classes, and then discovered that I <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> have a meeting tomorrow morning that I thought I did &#8211; I had it in my calendar wrong &#8211; so more time in the A.M. John got a really nice offer for grad school &#8211; so even though he&#8217;s stuck in the hard recovery from his <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2013\/03\/08\/johns-new-ankle\/\" title=\"John\u2019s new ankle\">broken ankle<\/a>, he might be set for the next couple of years &#8211; going to grad school can be his job. Al&#8217;s OK, too &#8211; he&#8217;s got a real job here in Madison, real meaning that he doesn&#8217;t love it, but it&#8217;s a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t. I think I am feeling the effects of nine months of being too busy. I need to get my tax stuff together. Stuff at <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolwoods.com\/\">School Woods<\/a> keeps cancelling &#8216;cuz no one signs up. I&#8217;m looking for my <em>joie de vivre<\/em>, I think.<\/p>\n<p>These guys will help:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6873\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6873\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6873\" alt=\"Peeps!\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/peeps-400x254.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/peeps-400x254.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/peeps.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peeps!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And, this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6877\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6877\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6877\" alt=\"Hell's Kitchen style rosti - fried grated potatoes with bacon, garlic, onion, scallions, parsley\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rosti-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rosti-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rosti.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellskitcheninc.com\/\">Hell&#8217;s Kitchen<\/a> style rosti &#8211; fried grated potatoes with bacon, garlic, onion, scallions, parsley<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6876\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6876\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6876\" alt=\"Cranberry crumb cakes - look it how that pear got damaged in my grocery bag on the way back form the co-op yesterday, tho\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cranbcrumb-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cranbcrumb-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cranbcrumb.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cranberry crumb cakes &#8211; look it how that pear got damaged in my grocery bag on the way back from the co-op yesterday, tho &#8211; grrr<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6875\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6875\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6875\" alt=\"Another view of the cranberry crumb cakes\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cranbcrumb2-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cranbcrumb2-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cranbcrumb2.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another view of the cranberry crumb cakes<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6874\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6874\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6874\" alt=\"And, yet another view of the cranberry crumb cakes\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cranbcrumb3-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cranbcrumb3-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cranbcrumb3.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And, yet another view of the cranberry crumb cakes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think I feel better already. And we&#8217;re having tall chocolate cake &#8211; chocolate angel food cake &#8211; with butterscotch pudding &#038; smashed berries on top for dessert. Maybe I&#8217;ll get a <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/WsqaTaTaeJ\/\">good pic<\/a> of that &#8211; if it&#8217;s lighter later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the no-fun time change, when we lose an hour, and, even though it may be staying lighter later in the evening, it&#8217;s darker in the morning. To make it even better, it&#8217;s a dreary, rainy, wet day &#8211; all the snow is melting and the basement is leaking in three places. I should feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,178,279],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kids","tag-sunday-morning","tag-weekends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6882,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}