{"id":2998,"date":"2014-09-02T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2014-09-02T08:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T12:50:31","slug":"relaxing-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/02\/relaxing-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Relaxing Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four day weekends are glorious.\u00a0 And relaxing.\u00a0 It was amazing to do &#8220;nothing&#8221; all weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I put nothing in quotes?\u00a0 Well, my version of doing nothing isn&#8217;t everyone&#8217;s version of doing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, I ran 10 miles and biked 10 miles and worked on cleaning my house from top to bottom.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t get done, but I made a dent.\u00a0 I also did six loads of laundry.\u00a0 Which might not seem like a lot to those of you with kids, but I live alone.\u00a0 This was all my laundry.<\/p>\n<p>So that doesn&#8217;t seem like nothing, does it.\u00a0 But then I think about what I didn&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have a race or any travel (aside from driving to a friend&#8217;s cookout yesterday).<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t set my alarm any morning.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the cookout, I didn&#8217;t have anything scheduled.\u00a0 There was nowhere I had to be for three of those four days.<\/p>\n<p>I also managed to watch an embarrassing number of episodes of Parks and Recreation.<\/p>\n<p>It was awesome.<\/p>\n<p>I need to remember to keep some weekends completely uncommitted.\u00a0 Less racing, more sleeping in.\u00a0 It helps me save money too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four day weekends are glorious.\u00a0 And relaxing.\u00a0 It was amazing to do &#8220;nothing&#8221; all weekend. 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