{"id":232,"date":"2009-01-13T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T21:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2009-01-13T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T21:18:15","slug":"hibernate-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/hibernate-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Hibernate Me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please.\u00a0 Let me curl up in\u00a0my orange\u00a0comforty-down and hibernate.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll get round and squishy and sleep away all my current stress inducing thoughts.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t tweeze, snip, pull, prod, poke or shave.\u00a0 <em>Anywhere<\/em>. I will not have to get to the gym to get through the hour to get into a\u00a0size smaller.\u00a0 I will not have to contemplate a life change- the declining health of my mother-or\u00a0 wonder\u00a0if this will be the day she no longer remembers who any of us are, or worse, does not wake up from the night before.\u00a0I will not have to negotiate or advocate for expected and well deserved heath care.\u00a0\u00a0 I will not have to sign off on, sign on to, waive away, or be-sure-to include.\u00a0 I will not have to highlight,low light or conceal any short grey bothersome curlies.\u00a0 <em>Anywhere<\/em>.\u00a0 I will not have to get from A to B to get C-and then do it all over again-only with a different travel plan\u00a0or distance.\u00a0 I will not have to check and balance, recalculate, reconfigure, have Peter chat with Paul, or beg and borrow.\u00a0 I will not have to wash, rinse, spin, dry, fold, repeat. Or: wash, rinse, load, unload, repeat.\u00a0 I will not have to gas up, oil change, recharge, caffeinate, calcium fortify, pro-biotic load, unclog,replenish, scrape off, stack what has already been cut, add more to, raise the bar on, justify, feel guilty about, <strong><em>or not<\/em><\/strong>, wonder if, or when, or why.\u00a0 There will be no\u00a0stir fry, pan fried, pan sauteed,\u00a0deep fried, flash frozen, order in, take out, microwave, stir, simmer, boil and put it on plates.<\/p>\n<p>Yes. \u00a0Hibernate for a while.\u00a0 Then wake up rested and hungry for the newness of something-well, new.\u00a0 Without having to think anything through, process for any amount of time or evolve to any level.\u00a0 Just wake-up renewed-and ready.\u00a0 Here I am .<\/p>\n<p>But no.\u00a0 Just think of all the things I would miss.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-233\" title=\"bear\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/hibernate-me\/\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"al2fb_send_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:send ref=\"AL2FB\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/hibernate-me\/\"><\/fb:send><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please.\u00a0 Let me curl up in\u00a0my orange\u00a0comforty-down and hibernate.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll get round and squishy and sleep away all my current stress inducing thoughts.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t tweeze, snip, pull, prod, poke or shave.\u00a0 Anywhere. I will not have to get to the gym to get through the hour to get into a\u00a0size smaller.\u00a0 I will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memyselfandi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}