{"id":668,"date":"2017-03-17T17:23:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/?p=668"},"modified":"2017-03-17T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T22:23:17","slug":"retro-post-07-2012-the-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/2017\/03\/17\/retro-post-07-2012-the-little-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Post (07-2012): &#8220;The Little Things&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever notice that the little things are what you take for granted until you don\u2019t have them anymore? That the little things you complain about doing are what you long for when you can\u2019t do them anymore? For instance, housework. Honestly, who really enjoys cleaning your house from top to bottom every week or doing the dishes?<\/p>\n<p>For the past three weeks I\u2019ve had no energy at all. Less than no energy, if that were possible! The only symptom of this illness? Constant bone-weary exhaustion! That\u2019s it! Trust me, I\u2019ve had all the thoughts crossing your mind now\u2026\u2018well, you\u2019ve been under a lot of stress and have had a lot of changes these past few months and it\u2019s catching up with you\u2019 or \u2018you do work hard all day\u2019 or \u2018what tropical disease might you have come down with?\u2019 or to views on the other side, \u2018you\u2019re just plain lazy\u2019 and \u2018you\u2019re procrastinating again\u2019. Yup, thought them all and more. But it does make me stop and think when I can barely finish a few days\u2019 worth of dishes before going back to lie down again. And the fact that my house is grossing me out but I still have no drive to get off the couch and change a thing about it. Or that I come home from work and promptly lay down for a 3 hour nap, get up afterwards for an hour or two of laying on the couch, then back to bed for a 10-hour night! Pathetic, I know. But right about then I began to understand how grateful I am for the ability to clean my house and do the dishes. Not my favorite things yet I\u2019m wishing I could do even that! Yes, I\u2019m getting desperate now! LOL! However, about the time I\u2019m questioning my own sanity and soundness of mind, it seems energy has decided to return. Just as it went sneaking out, it came sneaking back in. Now I\u2019m back to not wanting to clean the house or do the dishes though I am fully able to do so. Yup. I\u2019m back to normal. And thank the Lord for that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever notice that the little things are what you take for granted until you don\u2019t have them anymore? That the little things you complain about doing are what you long for when you can\u2019t do them anymore? For instance, housework. Honestly, who really enjoys cleaning your house from top to bottom every week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}