{"id":498,"date":"2005-06-25T19:27:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T00:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/what-ive-been-doing-part-1\/"},"modified":"2005-06-25T19:27:31","modified_gmt":"2005-06-26T00:27:31","slug":"what-ive-been-doing-part-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/what-ive-been-doing-part-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"what I&#8217;ve been doing- part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been really busy and my computer was broken- serious withdrawl from computer symptoms.  I spent much of today catching up on all my favorite blogs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/6:25:patterns.jpg\" alt=\"patterns\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This gives you some idea of the patterns I&#8217;ve been trying to deal with from my mom&#8217;s house- I might be a much happier person if I could just throw stuff away&#8230; but I can&#8217;t.  So I&#8217;ve been doing ebay, which actually is kind of fun.  I am very friendly with the lady in the post office now.  I have similar piles of fabric, notions, books and magazines.  I am plowing my way through them, sorting treasures from trash, finding homes for stuff I don&#8217;t want.  I told my husband to put me in the nursing home if he ever hears me say,&#8221;Honey,  I am going down to the fabric store to buy a zipper&#8221;- I probably have over 100 zippers now in all shapes, sizes, colors and materials.  Eleanor has been <a href=\"http:\/\/real.cozy.org\/index.php?p=80\">busy<\/a> using some of them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/6:25:yardsale.jpg\" alt=\"yardsale\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had a big Yard Sale last weekend to deal with a lot of the parents&#8217; house stuff.  This photo shows only a small part of what we dragged out of the house- there was much more in the basement and our neighbors contributed.  The sale was to make money for Eleanor&#8217;s trip to South Africa and of course to try to get rid of as much as possible!  It was very successful although we still had a ton of stuff left over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been really busy and my computer was broken- serious withdrawl from computer symptoms. I spent much of today catching up on all my favorite blogs. This gives you some idea of the patterns I&#8217;ve been trying to deal with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/what-ive-been-doing-part-1-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}