{"id":3405,"date":"2011-07-07T23:53:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T04:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2011-07-08T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T05:40:00","slug":"bright-an-hour-to-read-and-in-absentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=3405","title":{"rendered":"bright, an hour to read, and in absentia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a discouraging week here in the Burrow, with work frustrations dogging both occupants and necessary housecleaning taking away from our normal evening enjoyments. On these sorts of weeks, it&#8217;s particularly important to find those little stand-out moments so that we don&#8217;t collapse under the weight of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_and_the_Terrible,_Horrible,_No_Good,_Very_Bad_Day\">Alexander-type days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three beautiful moments from the past seven days:<\/p>\n<p>1. Our fridge is overdue for a clean out. Not only do I not have dried-out herbs on my fridge bottom any more, but I also don&#8217;t have things blocking the light, so the fridge looks particularly bright and cheerful every time I open the door. (I&#8217;ve done it a lot since cleaning it out, to be honest&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>2. After a particularly crabby day at work, I decide to retrieve <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/em> and read a few chapters at the local Starbucks, where they have a patio, before sunset. To be honest, after Harry and Hermione&#8217;s Christmas visit to Godric&#8217;s Hollow, I feel a lot better about how my day has gone.<\/p>\n<p>3. Grey Kitten&#8217;s birthday arrives, and he instructs Rudi that we need to celebrate it cross-coastedly. Rudi returns from his dinner run with two delicious cupcakes from our local ice cream shop. His is vanilla mango and mine is chocolate raspberry.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s beautiful things have you noticed this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a discouraging week here in the Burrow, with work frustrations dogging both occupants and necessary housecleaning taking away from our normal evening enjoyments. On these sorts of weeks, it&#8217;s particularly important to find those little stand-out moments so that we don&#8217;t collapse under the weight of Alexander-type days. 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