{"id":39,"date":"2008-03-27T08:19:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T16:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-03-27T08:21:13","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T16:21:13","slug":"5-star-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/5-star-day\/","title":{"rendered":"5 star day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went out for Indo-Chinese food on Tuesday and got a fortune cookie at the end of the meal which I pocketed.\u00a0 I opened it the next day around noon.\u00a0 The fortune: &#8220;Tomorrow will be a five star day for you! Enjoy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This brings up an dilemma.\u00a0 Was <em>yesterday <\/em>supposed to be the five star day, or <em>today?<\/em>\u00a0 If it was yesterday, well, then apparently fate&#8217;s definition of a five star day and mine are completely different.\u00a0 That&#8217;s because yesterday was a completely overwhelming day of wow I have more to do than one human can possibly do&#8230; which doesn&#8217;t really end when the sun goes down, so that&#8217;s bound to be today as well.\u00a0 But, if the fortune is correct,\u00a0then I&#8217;ve got something to look forward to&#8230; doubtful, but something has\u00a0gotta shine the light at the end of the work day.\u00a0 For me, that&#8217;s going out with friends for a drink tonight.\u00a0 I can settle for that being a my current definition of a 5 star day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of definitions:\u00a0 I defined a word.\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=familificating\">familificating<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>It&#8217;s what I did last weekend hanging out with my parents: &#8220;the act of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=chillaxing\"><font color=\"#0e426c\">chillaxing<\/font><\/a> with your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=family\"><font color=\"#0e426c\">family<\/font><\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 I\u00a0originally thought it\u00a0would be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unblinking.com\/heh\/googlewhack.htm\">googlewhack<\/a>&#8230; but I didn&#8217;t realize the definition was &#8220;two words that return a single result&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fun game to play if you have the time.\u00a0 Apparently due to my creative spelling or complete unusefulness of the word, familificating only returns a single result on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=familificating\">google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/n689795198_1041949_2519.jpg\" title=\"Pat, Kevin &amp; Mike @ Dinner in Seattle\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/n689795198_1041949_2519.jpg\" alt=\"Pat, Kevin &amp; Mike @ Dinner in Seattle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of family: mine is awesome.\u00a0 I had a great time with my parents&#8230; the best part of the weekend\u00a0was, of course, spending time with them.\u00a0 But the highlight\u00a0was that they got to\u00a0meet my closest friends here in town.\u00a0Oh, and going to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamma-mia.com\/\">Mamma Mia!<\/a>was absolutely super.\u00a0 The show was amazing.\u00a0 How can you not love 2 hours of ABBA?!\u00a0 I was really impressed with the creativity of the set design (two movable walls that were mechanically moved between scenes&#8230; each new arraignment made for a new affect and a new location, very well done) and the cast did a super job.\u00a0 It made me wonder, walking away, was I supposed to be more attracted to the mother or the daughter?? Because, damn, it was a hard call!\u00a0 I guess that&#8217;s how I know I&#8217;m getting old&#8230; when the 30-something actress playing the mom is hotter than the 20-something daughter.<\/p>\n<p>This post was brought to you by the letter &#8216;q&#8217;, the number &#8216;5&#8217;, and the Society of the Need to Post\u00a0Pointless Crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out for Indo-Chinese food on Tuesday and got a fortune cookie at the end of the meal which I pocketed.\u00a0 I opened it the next day around noon.\u00a0 The fortune: &#8220;Tomorrow will be a five star day for you! Enjoy!&#8221; This brings up an dilemma.\u00a0 Was yesterday supposed to be the five star &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/5-star-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 star day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[356],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pointless","tag-pointless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}