{"id":304,"date":"2001-05-15T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-15T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=304"},"modified":"2001-05-15T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2001-05-15T08:36:00","slug":"hair_bleach_sle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/hair_bleach_sle\/","title":{"rendered":"hair, bleach &#038; sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>everyone seems to comment on how long my hair is lately.  it&#8217;s only two feet long.  then again, i&#8217;ve been growing this out since the fall of &#8217;96 after the unfortunate chopping i did in an attempt to purge myself of the bad vibes i was carrying around with me in the form of long hair.  my theory was that, everywhere i went, my hair was there too.  when i was upset, my hair soaked that up. when i was stressed, my hair absorbed that. when i was depressed, anxious, angry, lonely&#8230; my hair carried that.  so, the only way to rid myself of all that baggage was to cut off 18&#8243; of hair.  initially, it felt great, but then i realized that i looked like a dork with short hair and started growing it out again.<br \/>\ni gave the kitchen a really good cleaning the other night. i got out the baking soda and scrubbed my sink until it literally shined and then got the bleach out and gave my countertop a serious cleaning.  i have these really great honeycomb tiles on my counter.  i love the look.  my kitchen counters are one of the reasons why i&#8217;ll have a hard time finding a new place to live.  but, the grout between the tiles is half gone and crap falls in the cracks and it gets kinda gross if i&#8217;m not on top of it.  well, i haven&#8217;t been on top of it.  but, after bleaching and scrubbing and rubbing and rinsing and wiping and scrubbing some more&#8230; my counters are beautiful!  i also learned that i could just go buy more grout and fill in the gaps myself.  then i could even paint the grout!  who knew!  i think a trip to home depot is in order soon.<br \/>\nokay, i&#8217;ll tell you what i didn&#8217;t tell you the other day.  other than saturday night while with meg et al, i haven&#8217;t smoked in over a week.  it really wasn&#8217;t a super conscious thing other than to not smoke in the car and not smoke at home.  well, considering that i haven&#8217;t smoked at work in a year, i&#8217;m not going to start smoking there again, that pretty much leaves meghan&#8217;s for me to puff at (and puff i did&#8230; ugh. i can&#8217;t believe i smoked half a pack that night!).  i figure i&#8217;ll eventually even stop smoking there.  i&#8217;m enjoying not being smelly and breathing a little easier.  but, i think it&#8217;s affecting my sleep patterns.  the last few nights, ten o&#8217;clock has rolled around and when i should be tired i&#8217;m not.  i toss and turn in bed, then i&#8217;ll get up and usually do some crunches or something, then toss and turn again.  i&#8217;m just not as sleepy.  it think it&#8217;s all the extra oxygen my body&#8217;s getting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>everyone seems to comment on how long my hair is lately. it&#8217;s only two feet long. then again, i&#8217;ve been growing this out since the fall of &#8217;96 after the unfortunate chopping i did in an attempt to purge myself of the bad vibes i was carrying around with me in the form of long <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/hair_bleach_sle\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}