{"id":785,"date":"2025-04-05T15:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=785"},"modified":"2025-04-05T16:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:12:57","slug":"things_that_hav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2025\/04\/things_that_hav.html","title":{"rendered":"Things that have been referred to as &#8220;The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. My first, and each subsequent, <strong>iPod<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>2. The <strong>Moo cards <\/strong>I just got that are three years of photos of my <strong>nephew<\/strong>, with some of me &amp; him thrown in and a few just of me making goofy faces to make him laugh. They are SOOOO AWESOME.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Fresh&#8217;s Milk Chocolate lotion <\/strong>(now discontinued! waaah!).<\/p>\n<p>4. The <strong>chai tea <\/strong>from the machine in the cafeteria at work when we worked in World Financial 3 (pre-9\/11 and our office getting destroyed).<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>My <\/strong>&#8220;grown up&#8221; <strong>bedroom furniture <\/strong>(post-move to Chicago).<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>My <\/strong>new (at the time) living room <strong>couch <\/strong>(post-move to Chicago). The most comfortable couch ever to walk the earth. So to speak.<\/p>\n<p>7. <strong>My Daisy Rock guitar<\/strong>. It&#8217;s pink. And comes with butterfly and flower stickers. Girlie! \ud83d\ude42 <em>[ETA: I gave it away. I play ukulele now, maybe you&#8217;ve heard&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>8. My first, and each subsequent pair of, <strong>prescription sunglasses.<\/strong> Totally necessary. Don&#8217;t want to ever have to live without them again!<\/p>\n<p>[update]9. <strong>Toaster Strudel.<\/strong> Takes poptarts to a whole new level. A level called Fucking Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>[update]10. <strong>My cleaning lady.<\/strong> &#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;updated periodically when memory lapses clear&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. My first, and each subsequent, iPod. 2. The Moo cards I just got that are three years of photos of my nephew, with some of me &amp; him thrown in and a few just of me making goofy faces &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2025\/04\/things_that_hav.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}