{"id":646,"date":"2012-09-21T06:34:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T12:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:36:38","slug":"a-day-of-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/a-day-of-first\/","title":{"rendered":"A day of first.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was quite a day of first. Before you read this just know that I am surprisingly ok.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday September 20, 2012 might not be a day that I will remember forever. It technically wasn&#8217;t a huge day of events but it is something that I feel the need to write down and remind myself that it&#8217;s okay.\u00a0 On this day we&#8217;d load Summer (our Ford Edge) and head for Kalamazoo Michigan, stopping in Indiana to see my grandmother\u00a0in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry got his first speeding ticket. That is right, his first. Now it&#8217;s not a big deal everyone gets a speeding ticket at some point in their life. He was gawking at the planes along 65N in Louisville, KY. It was the first time that I was actually wearing my seat belt. (for reals I had it on) He&#8217;s pretty mad at himself and even thought I have nagged him from time to time about speeding and being a jerk while driving I wasn&#8217;t upset. I am not mad and to be honest I am not sure why. Sure that is a fairly large sum of money throw out the window. But I guess it won&#8217;t matter at the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was the first time that I saw my grandmother be cranky and give my mother the shittiest look I have ever seen. My grandmother has never looked frail to me, never seen her look pissed off and never seen her in a state of such disarray. I can&#8217;t say it was the first time I have seen my mother look the way she did. But I just knew how grandma felt, I realized her frustration and how hard this is for her to deal with. I may just have to work from INDY for a bit and be with grandma so someone listens to her. You realize in all matters people just want to be heard and feel like someone cares.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday the 20th was also the #24HOP. If you are unfamiliar you better not be a SQL professional cause if you are you totally missed out. 24 hours of PASS is a preview of sessions selected for PASS SUMMIT, these are delivered online and are FREE! So yesterday marks the first time in 3 maybe 4 years that I have not sat in front of our big TV and watched sessions. I was a bit sad when I realized this but I guess it&#8217;s okay I will be at SUMMIT.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I discovered that even though I prepared and made list and double checked everything I forgot to turn on the GPS logger. Ever since Kerry and I got that things we have taken it on every trip. So this is our first trip to Kalamazoo and I failed at getting the GPS going. BOO!<\/p>\n<p>Ok, why did I tell you all this? Well because if you know me you know that OCD and anxiety can sometimes take over and almost make me crazy. You also might know that I have been working 50 hours a week on a frustrating project and then trying to keep up with my normal home life activities and prepare for this 11 day trip. So the fact that I didn&#8217;t just loose it yesterday when I realized all these things were happening is just fantastic and the fact that I am looking at this list and basically shrugging my shoulders at it makes me feel good. Sure none of these are that big of a deal. But it just honestly made me feel good that I didn&#8217;t snap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was quite a day of first. Before you read this just know that I am surprisingly ok.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday September 20, 2012 might not be a day that I will remember forever. It technically wasn&#8217;t a huge day of events but it is something that I feel the need to write down and remind myself that it&#8217;s okay. On this day we&#8217;d load Summer (our Ford Edge) and head for Kalamazoo Michigan, stopping in Indiana to see my grandmother in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry got his first speeding ticket. That is right, his first. Now it&#8217;s not a big deal everyone gets a speeding ticket at some point in their life. <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/a-day-of-first\/\">A day of first..<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,221,5,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sqlfamily-technology","category-sqlsat","category-everyday-life","category-travel","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}