{"id":2889,"date":"2011-04-15T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2014-11-22T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T00:18:22","slug":"running-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/running-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running away for the weekend; leaving Seattle in my wake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/running-away\/ferry-view\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7600\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7600\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/running-away\/ferry-view\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ferry-view.png?fit=640%2C426\" data-orig-size=\"640,426\" 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=\"ferry-view\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ferry-view.png?fit=640%2C426\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ferry-view.png?resize=640%2C426\" alt=\"ferry view - running away\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ferry-view.png?w=640 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ferry-view.png?resize=300%2C199 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just pretend that I don&#8217;t have 30 pounds of text books packed in my suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m headed off for a weekend of girl talk, yoga, beach combing and chick flicks with my &#8216;cancer girls,&#8217; as my husband calls them. He always uses the possessive pronoun, <em>your<\/em>, as in your cancer girls. I&#8217;ve started thinking in those terms too: <em>my<\/em> cancer girls. It&#8217;s amazing, the bond you build when you go through a traumatic experience like cancer together. Maybe he&#8217;s right. I think, in a way, maybe we do belong to each other. I can&#8217;t imagine getting through cancer, or this time post-cancer (it&#8217;s never <em>really<\/em> in the past) without them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/running-away\/fence-post\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7601\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7601\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/running-away\/fence-post\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fence-post.png?fit=640%2C427\" data-orig-size=\"640,427\" 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=\"fence-post\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fence-post.png?fit=640%2C427\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7601\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fence-post.png?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"fence post - running away\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fence-post.png?w=640 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fence-post.png?resize=300%2C200 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to girl time.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully I&#8217;ll get my papers written, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running away for the weekend; leaving Seattle in my wake. 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