{"id":6220,"date":"2016-01-06T20:53:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T02:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2016-01-06T20:53:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T02:53:27","slug":"the-day-that-got-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/the-day-that-got-away\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day That Got Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever woken up with a ton to get done and then worked your tail off all day only to find that you finished like 2% of what you actually needed to get done? Yeah\u2026that was my day today. You know they say that time flies when you\u2019re having fun, but the fact is that time flies whenever you are busy! The busier you are the less you notice the clock and suddenly..BAM..it\u2019s dark outside and you are like &#8220;WTH&#8221; (&#8230;What the Heck..keepin it clean people, keepin it clean). \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Today was BUSY! I don\u2019t know if part of it is payback from having unplugged over the holidays or what but I suddenly realized I have a ridiculous number of unread emails that go back for weeks if not months. Then there is the crazy number of post-it notes sticking to every computer screen, office wall, desk, counter\u2026you name it, there is a sticky note on it.\u00a0 Oh, and voicemails\u2026well let\u2019s just say I haven\u2019t even started trying to go through those\u2026.\u00a0 YIKES!\u00a0 And for all those waiting for responses\u2026forgive me\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So I started my day with all these aspirations of busting through everything and making huge progress only to get derailed by new stuff that came up\u2026grrrr\u2026and here I am with the day almost gone and the realization that somehow today just got away\u2026It seems impossible to me that it is already nighttime and I feel I am barely getting started still\u2026 Can\u2019t we all just take a Do-Over on our Christmas break and unplug again? It was SO NICE\u2026until we had to come back\u2026so we should all take a vote and decide to have another break from our holiday break \u2013 I VOTE YES!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well. All we can do every day is give it our best effort and on days like this I just have to remind myself of that. I did my best to get everything done and it didn\u2019t happen, but I tried..and that\u2019s about all I could do.<\/p>\n<p>On the positive note tomorrow is a Brand New Day \u2013 so YAY! Have a great one everyone! Here&#8217;s to hoping I get more done tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever woken up with a ton to get done and then worked your tail off all day only to find that you finished like 2% of what you actually needed to get done? Yeah\u2026that was my day today. You know they say that time flies when you\u2019re having fun, but the fact is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168,174,7918,8316,1475,8318,1627,8315,224,154,5892,1261,132,2464,8314,144,237,53,8317,407,112,149,1187,8310,78,7559,54,948,172,1258,8312,8313,250,45,6310,8311],"class_list":["post-6220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adversity","tag-anxiety","tag-aspirations","tag-aspiratons","tag-attempt","tag-brand-new-day","tag-busy","tag-catching-up","tag-confidence","tag-dedication","tag-do-over","tag-email","tag-fun","tag-get-it-done","tag-getting-behind","tag-help","tag-holiday","tag-motivation","tag-nighttime","tag-overwhelmed","tag-self-improvement","tag-success","tag-tasks","tag-the-day-that-got-away","tag-time","tag-time-flies","tag-time-management","tag-to-do","tag-try","tag-unplug","tag-unplugged","tag-voicemails","tag-work","tag-work-ethic","tag-wtf","tag-wth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}