{"id":3996,"date":"2011-05-03T12:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2011-05-03T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:47:29","slug":"3996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?p=3996","title":{"rendered":"CHECKING THINGS OFF MY LIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yesterday i gave blood! that is big for me! mike gives double reds and is up over 10 gallons&#8230; i was always pretty petrified with blood, but i got to thinking about it and i thought&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.i can do this! and i will do this! levi was my motivation&#8230;.inspiration, i thought i can do this for all the kids that need blood everyday, so mike and i went to the indiana blood center together <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=3998\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMAG0636.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0636\" title=\"IMAG0636\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3998\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and when the time came to sit in the chair and be hooked up, it took 3 different people to find a vein that would work! they asked if i still wanted to do it and i said yes, all i did was think of levi the whole time, the worse part was getting poked, once they had me going it wasn&#8217;t bad, until i saw the bag of blood, <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=3999\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3999\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMAG0632.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0632\" title=\"IMAG0632\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3999\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i thought i was going to get sick seeing that, but after awhile i said &#8220;can i take a picture? this my first time and this is big!!! mike was sitting in the chair across from me<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=4000\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMAG0635.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0635\" title=\"IMAG0635\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>so i get to check that off my list:)<br \/>\ni have been checking things off right and left since my birthday<\/p>\n<p>X  give blood<br \/>\nX  physical<br \/>\nX  mammogram scheduled<br \/>\nX  pap smear done<br \/>\nX  eyes tested, still gotta find some frames i like<br \/>\nX  give up drinking coffee&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..i did this one for UA \ud83d\ude42 i have not had a cup of coffee since my birthday, almost 3 weeks now, i don&#8217;t really miss it, i had weaned myself off<br \/>\nX now i&#8217;m drinking tea while i read with my&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\nX  get a nook! (my birthday present from papa)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=4001\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3621.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3621\" title=\"IMG_3621\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4001\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni love pink!!!<br \/>\nshel sent me her &#8220;eat, love pray&#8221; book, so that is the first book i am going to read on it, i bought myself a cover and a light for it, so i&#8217;ll have that for the long plane ride to korea, in september<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yesterday i gave blood! that is big for me! mike gives double reds and is up over 10 gallons&#8230; i was always pretty petrified with blood, but i got to thinking about it and i thought&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.i can do this! and i will do this! levi was my motivation&#8230;.inspiration, i thought i can do this for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}