{"id":3362,"date":"2010-05-15T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2010-05-15T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T23:36:18","slug":"im-too-tired-to-think-of-a-title-for-this-post-feel-free-to-add-your-own-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=3362","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m too tired to think of a title for this post.  Feel free to add your own title."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My fingers.  They ache.  <\/p>\n<p>Today was Jenna&#8217;s third grade carnival at school.  All year they earn market money for good behavior, and this carnival is one of the ways they get to spend their reward money.  I signed up to man a booth.  You know, supervise a game and then give out a prize.  But then the mom in charge called me back and said, &#8220;Is it true that you do balloon animals?&#8221;  Hmmm, I knew I should have kept my light under a bushel and never let anyone know I could do that.  I was feeling generous, so I said that yes, I do, and yes, I would do balloon animals for the school carnival.  I draw the line at dressing up in the clown costume, though.  I&#8217;ve already got a gig scheduled and I don&#8217;t really want to dress up for the 3rd graders.  So, today I got to the school by 9:15 to help set up and get ready.  It was raining, but we were optimistic.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/office-makeover-075.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/office-makeover-075-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"office makeover 075\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/office-makeover-075-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/office-makeover-075-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/office-makeover-076.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/office-makeover-076-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"office makeover 076\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/office-makeover-076-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/office-makeover-076-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day turned out to be nice, and I made something like a bazillion balloon animals for those little third grade rug rats.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2010-05-15\/img_1140.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(remind me not to hand the camera to my short daughter, who takes a picture from the worst angle, while I&#8217;m looking down at a balloon.  Double chin shot time.)<\/p>\n<p>My fingers are shot.  My nails are damaged and ripped, and my hands were SCREAMING for lotion.  But I survived.  It was fun, it was for the kids, and they all had fun.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the two hours, the kids were supposed to go back inside to class, and I STILL had a line of 5-6 kids waiting to get their balloons.  <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2010-05-15\/img_1137.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I walked out to the car, when I was finally freed from my job, my hands felt like they might fall off.  I&#8217;m not conditioned for this kind of work!  Now I remember why I&#8217;m not a clown.  <\/p>\n<p>Except on Monday, when I will be doing an appearance at the birthday party for my friend&#8217;s twins, who are turning 5.  Oh, yeah.  Because I&#8217;m so cool that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fingers. They ache. Today was Jenna&#8217;s third grade carnival at school. All year they earn market money for good behavior, and this carnival is one of the ways they get to spend their reward money. I signed up to man a booth. You know, supervise a game and then give out a prize. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}