{"id":467,"date":"2008-03-17T23:01:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T04:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2008-03-17T23:01:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T04:01:30","slug":"whats-goin-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Goin&#8217; On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Spring Break, or &#8220;trying to re-establish everything&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been very depressed lately, and it basically hones in on my body. I&#8217;m tired all of the time, I don&#8217;t feel like doing anything, etc. I&#8217;ve got a Dr. appt. on Friday to recheck the medicine level, so I&#8217;ll get some relief there, albeit from a pill.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re trying to tighten our belts and make some rather difficult decisions about what&#8217;s important: Is Video On Demand for the kids worth $50 per month? What about Little Gym? What about this? What about that?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still pretty deeply in debt, and February was (to use an overused metaphor) the perfect storm for us in terms of bills. I fell behind on payments, and now, we&#8217;re scrambling to pay what we can to everyone we owe. Thus, the belt tightening. At least we have money to get through the end of the month, and we&#8217;ve seen how our cashflow varies throughout the month now, so we have a better idea of what&#8217;s going on. However, that doesn&#8217;t replace a solid budget\/spending plan, so we&#8217;re still trying to work on that.<\/p>\n<p>Being in debt stinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Spring Break, or &#8220;trying to re-establish everything&#8221;. I&#8217;ve been very depressed lately, and it basically hones in on my body. I&#8217;m tired all of the time, I don&#8217;t feel like doing anything, etc. I&#8217;ve got a Dr. appt. on Friday to recheck the medicine level, so I&#8217;ll get some relief there, albeit from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s Goin&#8217; On&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspectives","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}