{"id":1569,"date":"2009-05-06T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2009-05-06T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:19:11","slug":"diva-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"Diva tricks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I took a mental health afternoon today. TMI alert, by the way. The cycle of Clomid didn&#8217;t have the desired effect and I don&#8217;t know why and frankly, it was just too depressing. So, when Gene said &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you take the afternoon off?&#8221; I decided that he had a good idea. We went out for lunch, played SkeeBall, bought caramel apples and then went home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you want to do?&#8221; Gene asks me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go to Barnes &amp; Noble and then go home,&#8221; I reply.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I meant metaphysically,&#8221; he said. (Metaphysically?)<\/p>\n<p>Dunno. This was round 4 and some doctors won&#8217;t go past 4 rounds (and most won&#8217;t go past 6) so I&#8217;m feeling a little under the gun.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of, do you know what&#8217;s annoying? Getting a negative on a pregnancy test, going back to bed, waking up to find Sarah Palin&#8217;s teenage daughter on Good Morning America yammering about teen pregnancy. I defy any of you to have this happen and NOT give the TV the finger.<\/p>\n<p>(Disclaimer: I know that it could be worse in a million different ways and I&#8217;m fortunate in a million different ways but&#8230;ugh).<\/p>\n<p>(Diva trick = Doing something hideously self involved, such as taking the afternoon off of work for something so stupid).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I took a mental health afternoon today. TMI alert, by the way. The cycle of Clomid didn&#8217;t have the desired effect and I don&#8217;t know why and frankly, it was just too depressing. So, when Gene said &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you take the afternoon off?&#8221; I decided that he had a good idea. We went&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-dreaming","category-certifiable-undeniable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}