{"id":4842,"date":"2011-04-25T21:13:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T04:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2022-02-02T23:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:25:56","slug":"happy-things-spring-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/happy-things-spring-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"happy things, spring edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time for a <b>Happy Things<\/b> entry! Spring Edition this time.<\/p>\n<p>1. An unexpected Friday off&#8230; giving me an awesome 3-day Easter weekend. To make it PC, my company officially called it a special &#8220;Spring Friday.&#8221; So awesome!<\/p>\n<p>2. Making chocolate chip cookies for a friend&#8217;s barbecue. Rob &amp; I have most of the ingredients on-hand so we make these whenever there&#8217;s an opportunity. \ud83d\ude00 No pictures because we ate them all. Hee.<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2023050\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darren Criss<\/a>. He plays Blaine on <i>Glee<\/i>. I completely realize that sometimes he is absolutely shoe-horned into episodes but I adore him so I just don&#8217;t care. (Hey, at least I admit it!). Anyway, he&#8217;s been doing talk show appearances recently (probably to promote the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Glee-Music-presents-Warblers-Cast\/dp\/B004OVEXAE\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1303698492&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warblers<\/a> album) and I&#8217;ve really enjoyed catching his performances and interviews. He&#8217;s not so great live&#8230; but whatevs. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BBLDbqkxn_w\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>4. Spring flowers, especially ranunculus and daffodils.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/temp\/springflowers.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>5. Food trucks at our local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocgp.org\/visit\/farmers-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farmers&#8217; Market<\/a>. It&#8217;s actually less of a Farmers&#8217; Market and more of a mini-food truck meet-up. That&#8217;s ok with us, though. We pick up our fruit then grab lunch before heading home. This past weekend we indulged in various tacos and chimichurri fries. YUM.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/temp\/foodtrucks.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now, if only the weather around here would fully commit to Spring, then I&#8217;d definitely be a happy camper.<\/p>\n<p>Hope everyone is doing well! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time for a Happy Things entry! Spring Edition this time. 1. An unexpected Friday off&#8230; giving me an awesome 3-day Easter weekend. To make it PC, my company officially called it a special &#8220;Spring Friday.&#8221; So awesome! 2. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/happy-things-spring-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9350,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions\/9350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}