{"id":1520,"date":"2011-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.draumrpublishing.com\/2011\/06\/28\/i-hope-to-never-see-a-paint-brush-again\/"},"modified":"2011-06-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T04:00:00","slug":"i-hope-to-never-see-a-paint-brush-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/2011\/06\/28\/i-hope-to-never-see-a-paint-brush-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I hope to never see a paint brush again&#33;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know it&#39;s a weird title. But here&#39;s the thing&#8230;we&#39;re moving. At least, we&#39;re planning on moving. I haven&#39;t mentioned it because it&#39;s really more of a personal nature, but it&#39;s a huge part of our life at the moment. And it&#39;s taking up tons of our time.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, probably months, we&#39;ve been cleaning and making repairs on our house in preparation for putting it up for sale. While I&#39;d like to say we&#39;re excited at the next step in our lives, really, it&#39;s been so exhausting that neither of us has time to be excited. We&#39;ve painted everything that doesn&#39;t move in the house&#8230;and fortunately for The Princess, she&#39;s still moving (albeit slowly), so she managed to escape the paint roller. We&#39;ve patched and painted, cleaned and moved, rented a LARGE storage unit, taped more boxes than we care to count, and tossed so much trash&#8230;it&#39;s a bit beyond comprehension. Even though our bodies have comprehended every minute of it. If you were to see The Giant and me, we&#39;re both walking around partly stooped over, partly limping, paint streaked on every body part&#8230;and almost every item of clothing we own. I can&#39;t tell you how many shirts and pairs of pants we&#39;ve ruined. Bah.<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;re kind of on a time-schedule, so we&#39;re hoping someone comes to look at our house and falls in love with it. Quickly. There&#39;s no time like the present, right? We&#39;ve enjoyed our time here&#8211;and The Princess has loved her big fenced-in yard&#8211;but we&#39;re ready to move on. Although the future can be uncertain, we&#39;re looking forward to what is has in store for us.<\/p>\n<p>So next week, the sign goes up, the house goes in the online database, and the appointments begin. The Princess and I will become well-acquainted with the deck and the backyard. We won&#39;t be leaving the house every time there&#39;s a viewing, but we&#39;ll be hiding outside so people can look at their leisure and in privacy. Here&#39;s hoping the bad weather and storms don&#39;t bombard us. As much as The Princess hates them when we&#39;re [i]inside[\/i] the house, she won&#39;t stand for them outside the house&#33;<\/p>\n<p>Wish us luck&#33;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know it&#39;s a weird title. But here&#39;s the thing&#8230;we&#39;re moving. At least, we&#39;re planning on moving. I haven&#39;t mentioned it because it&#39;s really more of a personal nature, but it&#39;s a huge part of our life at the moment. And it&#39;s taking up tons of our time.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, probably months, we&#39;ve been cleaning and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","has-single-img"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}