{"id":2936,"date":"2011-08-01T15:47:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T19:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2016-01-17T14:07:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T19:07:30","slug":"reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/reality-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Left to Right - Crystal, myself, and Jackie enjoying a summer cruise on the Gulf of Mexico in Key West as we wait for the beautiful sunset to come.<\/p><\/div>\n

My lazy days of wide brimmed straw hats with pretty bows, billowy sun dresses in carefree floral prints, sipping frozen margarita\u2019s, and drifting down the Gulf of Mexico in a cruise boat as I watch the sun setting to a glorious canvas of hues too magnificent to describe are over.<\/p>\n

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A beautiful ending to a wonderful vacation...<\/p><\/div>\n

I was blessed and spoiled enough to spend the last 10 days on vacation with Dan and my step-daughters, Crystal and Jackie, who came to stay with us from Boston, and even a couple days with my oldest son, Chris, who lives a few hours away from Orlando. Although I have lived in Florida since 1994, I have not taken a real vacation in years, so was completely thrilled to enjoy time at Sea World and Discovery Cove in Orlando, with them, then off a few days later to spend some time in Key West. The rest of the time \u2013 reading trashy novels by our pool and barbecuing on the grill\u2026<\/p>\n

Well, reality check\u2026Monday is back, and with it is the responsibility of having a full-time day job, as well as my night time and weekend job of maintaining all my Zee\/Zoey related stuff, such as the book and the blog. I have severely neglected all my cat blogging friends and have a lot of catch up posts to read. I have also neglected my secret facebook passion \u2013 Fairyland \u2013 and need to get back to tending my fake garden! The food pantry is bare \u2013 I literally have one can of cat food left and the house could use a good cleaning. The laundry is to the ceiling and my bills are patiently piling up on the counter, waiting for me to pay them!<\/p>\n

So, I am trying to get myself back on track. My kitties are finally speaking to me after I abandoned them with a cat-sitter over the weekend and I am learning how to drive again \u2013 why is it that when you stop driving for a few days, it feels awkward when you get back behind the wheel?\u00a0 The laundry will get done \u2013 one load at a time \u2013 and the bills will eventually get paid. As long as I get to the store to get food for the cats, that\u2019s really all that matters in the scheme of my life!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My lazy days of wide brimmed straw hats with pretty bows, billowy sun dresses in carefree floral prints, sipping frozen margarita\u2019s, and drifting down the Gulf of Mexico in a cruise boat as I watch the sun setting to a glorious canvas of hues too magnificent to describe are over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1099],"tags":[32,1265,33,66,49,56,68,67],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-healing","category-the-zee-zoey-cats-and-family","tag-author","tag-cats","tag-deb-barnes","tag-family-2","tag-hemingway","tag-key-west","tag-sunset","tag-vacation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t