{"id":195,"date":"2018-06-17T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2025-04-21T04:59:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:59:58","slug":"back-where-i-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Back where I started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mother is repaired and I have returned to the FG having had a particularly chaotic week culminating in a Father&#8217;s Day visit to my darling dad who didn&#8217;t know who I was. \u00a0Next week shall be better.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to jinx anything but we are so very nearly on single digits until the shop completes and Wolfie arrives. \u00a0We have bought almost everything we need now but we aren&#8217;t going to sleep in him until we actually go, just in case we hate it!<\/p>\n<p>This week I got \u00a0my new glasses, they&#8217;re varifocals so feeling slightly nauseous and walking funny which I&#8217;m assured will only last three weeks. \u00a0Hopefully they won&#8217;t make my travel sickness worse (which I&#8217;ve not mentioned).<\/p>\n<p>Starting to get excited now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother is repaired and I have returned to the FG having had a particularly chaotic week culminating in a Father&#8217;s Day visit to my darling dad who didn&#8217;t know who I was. \u00a0Next week shall be better. 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