{"id":8221,"date":"2013-03-18T07:25:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T11:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/?p=8221"},"modified":"2013-03-18T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T11:26:25","slug":"meridith-mondays-vol-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/meridith-mondays-vol-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Meridith Monday&#8217;s Vol. 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a crazy busy, hectic, get no sleep kind of 3 weeks. \u00a0Chris&#8217; uncle passed away, Kelli gave birth, my car almost over heated on the parkway and my mom went into the hospital all within 3 days of each other. \u00a0Talk about lots going on but add on top of that the fact that I have been doing some freelance work at Martha Stewart in NYC and I really have had no time to blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8222\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pics-week-38.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pics-week-38.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pics-week-38-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I haven&#8217;t done many fun or exciting thingsover the past 3 weeks but I have a few things to share:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">After 10 days in the hospital my mom was finally released to a rehab center\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">this past Tuesday evening. \u00a0She had some problems with her liver from her medications. \u00a0They are stopping Chemo for now and letting her get her\u00a0strength\u00a0back and will figure out what to do next.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I photographed my <a title=\"Meet Luke Paul\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/meet-luke-paul\/\">first and most favorite nephew!<\/a>! \u00a0He&#8217;s too cute for words:)<\/li>\n<li>Freelanced at Martha Stewart Home designing kitchen textiles for her JCP and Macy&#8217;s home lines. \u00a0It&#8217;s very fun and very different from my fashion graphic design background. \u00a0I kinda like it:)<\/li>\n<li>Read 3 Nora Roberts books on the train. \u00a0I get sucked into her books by paragraph 2. \u00a0I was actually surprised that I found 3 of her books that I haven&#8217;t read because it feels like I have read them all.<\/li>\n<li>Delivered an anniversary album for <a title=\"Jen + Jay \u2013 A tour of the Meatpacking District\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/jen-jay-a-tour-of-the-meatpacking-district\/\">this super sweet couple<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Photographed a wedding that had a little bit of snow and a subtle St. Patrick&#8217;s Day theme.<\/li>\n<li>Had some friends over for dinner and cooked a roast beef , this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/rachael-ray\/butternut-squash-risotto-recipe\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">yummy butternut squash risotto<\/a>\u00a0and a kale salad. \u00a0I wish I had time to cook like that every night!<\/li>\n<li>Told Chris that I would totally consider moving to California to get away from this snow. \u00a0No really I want to move there, if only it wasn&#8217;t so far from family.<\/li>\n<li>Watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1024648\/\" target=\"_blank\">Argo<\/a> and really liked it. \u00a0I love historical fiction and I learned something about a time that I knew nothing about. \u00a0I can see why it was nominated for so many awards and won. \u00a0Highly recommend it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a crazy busy, hectic, get no sleep kind of 3 weeks. \u00a0Chris&#8217; uncle passed away, Kelli gave birth, my car almost over heated on the parkway and my mom went into the hospital all within 3 days of each other. \u00a0Talk about lots going on but add on top of that the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8228,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions\/8228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}