{"id":2133,"date":"2010-01-04T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2010-01-03T20:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T03:17:37","slug":"looking-in-bsm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"Looking in ~ BSM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time of year that, like most, I try to make some sort of resolution. Although I really don&#8217;t like to call them resolutions because if I think of them as resolutions, I think they tend to not get accomplished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1212\" target=\"_blank\">Last year<\/a>, besides the usual vow of trying to &#8220;get healthier,&#8221; I resolved to be a little nicer to myself and try to cut myself some slack. I think I kind of succeeded. I know that I am in a much happier place than I was even last year. And I did a pretty good job of accomplishing everything I wanted to, although I&#8217;m still struggling with that saying &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Looking in by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/4243394958\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4062\/4243394958_914f823b37_b.jpg\" alt=\"Looking in\" width=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I really sit and have a look at it all, I have realized that having a nice long to-do list, volunteering at all the school events, helping out at church, having a little crafty business, running a Daisy troop &#8211; it all adds up to one big, chaos-filled life. But man, it is a <strong>fun<\/strong> and <strong>very good<\/strong> life. I really do love every minute of it.<\/p>\n<p>So no resolutions this year. I&#8217;m going to just go with the flow. Continue on as we have been doing and see where this year takes us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traceyclark.squarespace.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i95.photobucket.com\/albums\/l134\/maypapers\/bsmstar140button.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bsm\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time of year that, like most, I try to make some sort of resolution. Although I really don&#8217;t like to call them resolutions because if I think of them as resolutions, I think they tend to not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2133\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-shot-monday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-yp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}