{"id":247,"date":"2007-10-10T21:42:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T02:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2007-10-10T21:42:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T02:42:48","slug":"amen-to-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Amen to That"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/1306551679\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1199\/1306551679_761ce6c3af.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/1306551679\/\">add more wine<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/42088597@N00\/\">funchilde<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">[1] Thanks to everyone for the well wishes and support for my Mom and My Grams. Things are still kind of ??? but, holding steady for the moment and sometimes that&#8217;s like the best thing in the world isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>[2] Happy Belated Birthday to my most loyal Blog Reader and favorite Ex-Mother-in-Law: Ms. Darleen! In the midst of the madness I totally forgot her special day which I haven&#8217;t done in&#8230;what 10 years? I&#8217;m not going to worry about early-heimers just yet.<\/p>\n<p>[3] Thanks to one of my best buds The Entreprenuer (TE) who called me on Friday afternoon and said:<\/p>\n<p>TE: What are you doing?<br \/>\nMe: I&#8217;m at work fool! What are YOU doing?<br \/>\nTE: I&#8217;m gonna hop the 8pm flight up to New England, pick me up at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, TE and I are very similar in temperament and expectations and whenever I started to plan out the day(s) she would yell &#8220;Quit Planning!&#8221; and well, everything worked out. It was just what I needed after the emotional upheaval of the previous week, all the travel of the previous weeks and the fact that there are 4 black folks up here and a familiar caramel brown face was much appreciated and needed more than I knew.<\/p>\n<p>[4] FYI, Heineken Light is awesome. sort of. You can drink 3 in a row, not blow your calorie budget, your cash budget or your &#8220;cookies&#8221; &#8211;whatever that means to you&#8211;however you will also not: a) look at all cool b) get any kind of buzz and c) you WILL have to pee seventy-eleven times that night. Just thought you might want to know. 99 calories of goodness. Oh&#8230;I just found out Rolling Rock Light only has 86 calories!<\/p>\n<p>[5] The Entreprenuer &#038; I met up with Papaya (1 of the 4 other brown people in town) and her colleague McNutts for drinks and dinner, wherein we discussed: a) Best Dates b) Worst Dates c) Gay Male Identifying paraphenelia (sp?) d) My firmly held belief that anyone who doesn&#8217;t own Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Off The Wall&#8221; album is not &#8220;dateable&#8221; e) the clarification of &#8220;Back Room Racoon&#8221; &#8211;I can&#8217;t even get into that right now f) How I am determined to set Papaya up with one of my best friends aka &#8220;The Attorney&#8221; because &#8220;The Doctor&#8221; is currently in lurve with a woman he met at the Burning Man festival and g) Papaya&#8217;s firmly held belief that anyone who attends or wants to attend the Burning Man Festival is not &#8220;dateable&#8221;&#8230;..so, I may not have learned anything, but at least I only consumed 297 beer related calories. Amen to That!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 add more wine, originally uploaded by funchilde. [1] Thanks to everyone for the well wishes and support for my Mom and My Grams. Things are still kind of ??? but, holding steady for the moment and sometimes that&#8217;s like the best thing in the world isn&#8217;t it? [2] Happy Belated Birthday to my most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amen to That<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,11,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-friends","category-funchilde-isms","category-lifelovelaughs","category-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}