{"id":1786,"date":"2010-06-10T14:12:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2015-02-18T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T05:57:24","slug":"30-things-i-vow-to-do-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/30-things-i-vow-to-do-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"30 things I vow to do this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so many things to do this summer<br \/>\n1. Kick Cancer&#8217;s Ass!<br \/>\n2. Get lots of sleep<br \/>\n3. Eat my veggies every day<br \/>\n4. Become habitual about exercise<br \/>\n5. Get really, really good at yoga &#8211; like sexy, awesome good<br \/>\n6. Catch up on all those thank you cards I need to send out<br \/>\n7. Rearrange the furniture in the nursery<br \/>\n8. Write more<br \/>\n9. Find ways to fit a little Joy into even the crappy days<br \/>\n10. Play<br \/>\n11. Dance<br \/>\n12. Sing (sorry if you happen to be within earshot)<br \/>\n13. Giggle<br \/>\n14. Snuggle with my baby<br \/>\n15. Get caught up on all the movie watching I&#8217;ve missed the past few years<br \/>\n16. Read a book for fun<br \/>\n17. Work the kinks out of my blog<br \/>\n18. Write fiction<br \/>\n19. Get a massage, maybe several<br \/>\n20. Pay the late fee at the library so I can check out more books<br \/>\n21. Blog more<br \/>\n22. Increase my blog readership<br \/>\n23. Learn to focus on what I can control and let go of what I can&#8217;t<br \/>\n24. Play<br \/>\n25. Spend as much time with my little girl as I can<br \/>\n26. Tickle my daughter more<br \/>\n27. Snuggle with my husband<br \/>\n28. Go on as many adventures as we can<br \/>\n29. Laugh<br \/>\n30. Do the best I can to make sure my breast cancer doesn&#8217;t interrupt my baby&#8217;s childhood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/pnw-highland-games-2009\/bird-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8242\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8242\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/pnw-highland-games-2009\/bird-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?fit=1774%2C1268\" data-orig-size=\"1774,1268\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bird-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?fit=640%2C457\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8242\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=300%2C214\" alt=\"bird-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=300%2C214 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=640%2C457 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=106%2C75 106w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=82%2C57 82w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?w=1774 1774w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i913.photobucket.com\/albums\/ac331\/mamakatslosinit\/poodle4.jpg?w=1080\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so many things to do this summer<\/p>\n<p>1. Kick Cancer&#8217;s Ass!<br \/>\n2. Get lots of sleep<br \/>\n3. Eat my veggies every day<br \/>\n4. Become habitual about exercise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[769,695,763,761],"tags":[887,300,368,886],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging-creating-a-living","category-cancer-2","category-creating-a-living","category-family-living-well","tag-blogging","tag-cancer","tag-summer","tag-writing","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?fit=1774%2C1268","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=150%2C150",150,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?fit=1774%2C1268",1774,1268,false]},"categories_names":{"769":{"name":"Blogging","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/creating-a-living\/blogging-creating-a-living\/"},"695":{"name":"Cancer","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/cancer-2\/"},"763":{"name":"Creating a Living","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/creating-a-living\/"},"761":{"name":"Family","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/living-well\/family-living-well\/"}},"tags_names":{"887":{"name":"Blogging","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/blogging\/"},"300":{"name":"cancer","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/cancer\/"},"368":{"name":"summer","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/summer\/"},"886":{"name":"Writing","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/writing\/"}},"comments_number":0,"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=150%2C150",150,150,true],"cvmm-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=300%2C300",300,300,true],"cvmm-medium-plus":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=305%2C207",305,207,true],"cvmm-portrait":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=400%2C600",400,600,true],"cvmm-medium-square":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=600%2C600",600,600,true],"cvmm-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=1024%2C1024",1024,1024,true],"cvmm-small":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?resize=130%2C95",130,95,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-3.png?fit=1774%2C1268",1774,1268,false]},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fDeG-sO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":259,"url":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/10\/the-last-post\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786,"position":0},"title":"The Last Post","author":"Judy Schwartz Haley","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday morning Punk Rock Mommy died from inflammatory breast cancer. 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