{"id":9405,"date":"2009-06-02T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2016-07-18T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:20:00","slug":"snapshots-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9405","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; I have never made so many lists in my life.  I cannot live without my lists.  I keep everything on the same To-Do List, so that &#8220;buy nail polish&#8221; lives side by side with &#8220;Get a life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Lucy is growing so fast and I feel like I&#8217;m missing out!  At least I get pictures on almost a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; I&#8217;m not renewing my lease.  Let the adventures begin.  The great unknown.  Leap of faith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Green Day&#8217;s new album is a bit of a revelation.  I was almost tentative, going in, because I loved &#8220;American Idiot&#8221; so much.  I was afraid &#8220;21st Century Breakdown&#8221; would fall short.  Well, no.  It hasn&#8217;t.  Funny thing is &#8211; and this is mainly because of my iPod and how I listen to music now &#8211; it was a while before I listened to the whole album, start to finish.  I clued in on one or two songs (&#8220;East Jesus Nowhere&#8221; and &#8220;Horseshoes and Hand grenades&#8221; primarily) &#8211; but then a couple of days ago I listened to the whole thing, start to finish, and my God, they have done it again.  A perfect modulation of rage and nostalgia and sweetness and cynicism &#8211; each song leading into the next &#8211; nothing standing out as &#8220;not fitting&#8221;.  I&#8217;m going through phases.  I mean, I just bought the album last week, so it&#8217;s early yet &#8211; but first I clicked in to &#8220;East Jesus Nowhere&#8221;.  Couldn&#8217;t stop listening to it.  Then it was &#8220;Vive la Gloria&#8221; &#8211; couldn&#8217;t stop listening to that one.  I had a couple of hours where &#8220;Last of the American Girls&#8221; became THE song for me &#8230; and now I am deeply embedded in &#8220;21 Guns&#8221;, and listen to it on eternal repeat and it shows no sign of stopping any time soon.  LOVE the album.  I&#8217;m thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Too much to do in too little time.  Hence: the lists.  Oh well, whether or not I get it all done, the rest of this week WILL happen.  Time WILL move forward and I will move along with it.  Hard to see that, though, as I scurry around &#8220;buying nail polish&#8221; and &#8220;getting a life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; ME:  &#8220;So what should we do?  Saturday night?  Friday?  What&#8217;s your schedule?  Are you free?  Should we nail down a time?  Am I able to chill out? Seriously not sure. Talk to me.  Pick a place, pick a time.  Where should we go?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HE:  &#8220;Everything&#8217;s going to be fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; I have never made so many lists in my life. I cannot live without my lists. I keep everything on the same To-Do List, so that &#8220;buy nail polish&#8221; lives side by side with &#8220;Get a life&#8221;. &#8212; Lucy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9405\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1101,600,1872,1367],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24634,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions\/24634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}