{"id":520,"date":"2006-04-28T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T02:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=520"},"modified":"2006-04-28T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T02:47:33","slug":"520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My knitting mojo is still MIA. I hope it&#8217;s somewhere nice. Hawaii or maybe Tahiti.  I also have run out of reading material, so I&#8217;m in double trouble. If you&#8217;re looking for knitting, you&#8217;d probably be better off elsewhere!<br \/>\nSo, in light of the fact that there is no knitting to blog about on this knitting blog, lets go all random, which is where my head space is right now.<br \/>\nWho am I kidding? That&#8217;s where my headspace always is. I have no idea how I manage to knit anything, seeing as I&#8217;m usually doing two things at once, and thinking about at least three things at a time. And talking at ridiculous speeds.<br \/>\nMy first father-in-law used to remind me to breathe at regular intervals when I was talking. Anyway, the randomness.<br \/>\nToday is the last day of the school holidays. That&#8217;s good news and bad. I&#8217;m way behind on anything resembling housework, and today I am supposed to be doing that and sewing instead of wasting time on the &#8216;net. I have already done 4 loads of laundry. May I remind you all that there is only three of us. Well, four, but the rabbit doesn&#8217;t require much in the way of laundry. Sweeping and vacuuming, on the other hand&#8230;<br \/>\nThen again, I&#8217;ve never been in the running for best housewife!<br \/>\nOf course, back to school means getting up at ridiculous hours of the morning, and it&#8217;s getting colder now. It also means back to dancing after school, back to canteen duty, and back to homework.<br \/>\nThe more I think about it, I think I&#8217;d rather have the holidays!<br \/>\nMaybe I&#8217;ll start homeschooling.<br \/>\nNah!<br \/>\nLots of sad news in Australia this week.<br \/>\nWe lost our first soldier in Iraq. Not in actual fighting, but due to an accident with a gun.<br \/>\nSad news. What&#8217;s worse is there has been some kind of ridiculous stuff up in transporting his body home, and the wrong body arrived yesterday.<br \/>\nHow traumatic for his poor family. I cannot imagine the pain and devastation they must be feeling.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s been a mining accident in Tasmania. Three miners were trapped after a rock fall three days ago. They&#8217;ve been trying to find them, and have located and retrieved one man&#8217;s body, but still don&#8217;t know if the other two are alive or not, and now they&#8217;re saying that it could take up to three days to dig another tunnel down to where they think the miners are.<br \/>\nMore pain and devastation. How horrible to be waiting, to not know if your loved one is alive or dead, and you can&#8217;t do anything but wait.<br \/>\nMy prayers are with them all.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been getting colder over the last week or two, but today is quite nice. Twinkie is outside enjoying the last of the warm days.<br \/>\nI tried to get a picture, but this is the only view she would give me.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_7289.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_7289.JPG\" width=\"393\" height=\"297\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThen I told her she had an audience, and she played pretty.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_7286.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_7286.JPG\" width=\"296\" height=\"397\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nHappy weekend!<br \/>\nAnd if I owe anyone emails, I&#8217;m sorry, I&#8217;m behind on that, too!<br \/>\n<em><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t get me wrong, I didn&#8217;t intend to be ranty today, just some random observations that have occured to me.<br \/>\nOkay, maybe I&#8217;m ranty about the poor miners and the family of the soldier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My knitting mojo is still MIA. I hope it&#8217;s somewhere nice. Hawaii or maybe Tahiti. I also have run out of reading material, so I&#8217;m in double trouble. If you&#8217;re looking for knitting, you&#8217;d probably be better off elsewhere! So, in light of the fact that there is no knitting to blog about on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}