{"id":3194,"date":"2013-11-06T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2013-11-05T21:48:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T03:48:41","slug":"all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"All I want for Christmas is a hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003KK807M\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B003KK807M&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=twentsomet-20\" target=\"_blank\">brand new, super fancy sewing machine<\/a> and made plans to participate in National Novel Writing Month, a big novel writing event that takes place in November every year. I was <em>planning <\/em>to get a hobby, outside of my desperate attempts to stay on top of my favorite TV shows and pretending to maintain this blog. Then I switched roles at work and have gone back to working 50+ hours a week every single week and we started looking for a house (a whole post unto itself), Isla stopped sleeping (another whole post unto itself), and all those plans fell apart. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s frustrating. I have half an outline for a romance novel I&#8217;ve had in my head for over 10 years but have been &#8220;too busy&#8221; to put down on paper sitting in my Google Drive account, and my mom got halfway through setting up my sewing table before discovering a nut needed to secure the platform in place got lost in one of our last 3 moves (my sewing table hasn&#8217;t been used since 2011.) I&#8217;ve been too busy to finish anything. I&#8217;m so far behind on most of my shows, at this point I&#8217;ve given up even on catching up on them. (I love you, <em>Nashville<\/em> and <em>Scandal<\/em>, but you&#8217;ve been culled from my must watch list.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m running on empty. I&#8217;ve been sick twice in less than a month, I can&#8217;t remember the last time I got a good night&#8217;s sleep, and my job has me so stressed out right now, all I want to do is call in sick for a week straight and lay in bed drinking tea and reading books instead. I&#8217;m looking forward to the Thanksgiving holidays with a bit of desperation. Not that they will be particularly restful, considering I will spend the whole time chasing Isla.<\/p>\n<p>What I really want is a hobby. Something I can do <em>for me<\/em>. I just want to carve out a few minutes out of my life every day to do something that doesn&#8217;t revolve around doing things for other people or just zoning out for a while because I&#8217;m so stinking tired of thinking. I would like it if it were something creative and productive. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Do any of you parents out there have hobbies? If so, how on earth do you make time for them?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I purchased a brand new, super fancy sewing machine and made plans to participate in National Novel Writing Month, a big novel writing event that takes place in November every year. I was planning to get a hobby, outside of my desperate attempts to stay on top of my favorite TV shows and<a class=\"autoreadmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-hobby\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-parenting","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mominleggings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}