{"id":10647,"date":"2005-07-22T22:53:17","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T02:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/life-and-living-it\/"},"modified":"2005-07-22T22:53:17","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T02:53:17","slug":"life-and-living-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/life-and-living-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Life and Living It."},"content":{"rendered":"

SAHW<\/a>, Holly Lisle, and others are discussing the benefits of living life.<\/p>\n

For the last three years, I’ve been doing a job I didn’t care for in a place I didn’t care about with people I mostly liked (some, I liked a lot; others, not so much). I gained nearly 40 pounds. I immersed myself in learning about novel writing and writing my first couple novels. Those novels are in completed first draft stage, and I’m learning the revision process now. I hope it doesn’t take me another twenty-plus years to figure that part out, or I’m going to have to make serious strides in extending life expectancy. Maybe going back to school to study physics and biology isn’t such a bad idea after all.<\/p>\n

As most of you know, I’m starting a new job. So far, I really like the people I’m working with, and I like the work I’m assigned to do. I even like Mongtomery–I was happy when I learned I was coming back here. I’m learning many new things, working actively on losing the 40 pounds I gained over the last three years and the 45 I gained in the 15 years before that. I’m not doing much with writing now, but it is mulling in the back of my mind. I must rethink what I’m doing. I cannot continue to spend every waking moment either at work or glued to the Internet. I must find the balance that allows me to live my life. I need to include writing in my life. And I need to get out more.<\/p>\n

I’m going to be making critical lifestyle assessments over the next few weeks and making more modifications to cater to my priorities. You may or may not hear about them here, but they will be ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAHW, Holly Lisle, and others are discussing the benefits of living life. For the last three years, I’ve been doing a job I didn’t care for in a place I didn’t care about with people I mostly liked (some, I liked a lot; others, not so much). I gained nearly …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}