{"id":1466,"date":"2010-01-10T22:32:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T06:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2010-01-10T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T07:22:40","slug":"the-countdown-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/10\/the-countdown-is-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The countdown is on!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So… the rumors are true… we are hitting the road!<\/p>\n

In less than a month!!<\/p>\n

And we haven’t done jack shit yet!!!<\/p>\n

AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

Well, that’s a little white lie. We did do one thing. We made a “to-do list”. It’s 25 items long. And it’s 25 items long not<\/em> because that is all we need to do. But because we ran out of room on the white board! Sad. I know.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"planning<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

We’ve decided to start blogging everyday from now on to chronicle the steps we are taking to prepare for life on the road. Here is a quick summary. I’ll leave out the boring details… because I don’t want you to fall asleep at the computer as I talk your ear off\u00a0 about how I need to buy a new cat carrier. A plastic one this time. Because our cat Yoda peed all over the last fabric one we had. Yup.<\/em> Our toddler isn’t the only one who refuses to tinkle before leave the house!<\/p>\n

Our condensed “to-do list”<\/p>\n

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  1. Tune up the Van<\/li>\n
  2. Tune up the Airstream<\/li>\n
  3. Tune up the Generator<\/li>\n
  4. Check all tires and tow package<\/li>\n
  5. Sign up for a mail forwarding service<\/li>\n
  6. Get house ready for the house-sitter<\/li>\n
  7. Reorganize cabinets\/closets in Airstream<\/li>\n
  8. Wax the Airstream<\/li>\n
  9. Update map on the GPS<\/li>\n
  10. Figure out new sleeping arrangements for the kids<\/li>\n
  11. Set-up internet connection in Airstream<\/li>\n
  12. Figure out how to backup our data on the road<\/li>\n
  13. Re-organize the blog<\/li>\n
  14. Finish that Tombstone video from our last trip<\/a> (please Dan, please<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  15. Go on a week long test trip<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Does it seem like a lot to do? It does to me. And it is giving me serious anxiety. Dan keeps telling me we can do some of these things while we are on the road. But I’m a first born kid. And I need<\/em> my checklists complete! So we are going to try our best to check off as much as possible in between throwing our almost 3 year old toddler a Little Mermaid birthday party and buying that new cat carrier I promised not to talk about.<\/p>\n

    the end,
    \nmarlene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So… the rumors are true… we are hitting the road! In less than a month!! And we haven’t done jack shit yet!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, that’s a little white lie. We did do one thing. We made a “to-do list”. It’s 25 items long. And it’s 25 items long not because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-prep"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkBzA-nE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malimish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}