{"id":65,"date":"2008-12-23T20:40:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-12-23T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T04:40:11","slug":"65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/2008\/12\/23\/65\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m back in Toronto.\u00a0 Or I have been for awhile.\u00a0 I guess I failed at the blogging every day thing.\u00a0 December was a bad month for it, seeing as I kind of lose my grip on time when I don&#8217;t have structure holding me in it.<\/p>\n<p>I got into Toronto just in time for the brutal snowfall.\u00a0 I know, every Canadian makes a million jokes about how we can&#8217;t handle snow in Toronto because Mel Lastman called in the army that one time, but this was just terrible.\u00a0 It was even worse because I&#8217;m so used to Vancouver and I was wearing a T-shirt and a raincoat.\u00a0 The salt and snow have ripped apart my boots, and I think they&#8217;re done for.\u00a0 Those boots were my only footwear for the past three years.\u00a0 They were very good boots, and I&#8217;ll miss them.\u00a0 Hopefully I can get another pair just like them before I go back to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>My dad bought me snow boots so I can get around more easily here, and I realized it&#8217;s been years since I&#8217;ve worn rubber boots, and I completely forgot how to walk in them.\u00a0 I must have looked really silly during my christmas shopping.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not spending as much time with my family as I&#8217;d like to be.\u00a0 Both my parents are working all through christmas, so I barely see either of them.\u00a0 I&#8217;m happy to get my mom&#8217;s cooking again, though.\u00a0 I baked potato bread rolls for her the other day to show her I could.\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of a big deal.\u00a0 Baking bread is probably the only thing close to a skill I&#8217;ve ever built in my life, and I just started this year.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, when I think about how unskilled I am in comparison to everyone else I know it depresses me a bit.\u00a0 Everyone I know my age has something they can do that I couldn&#8217;t dream of doing because they were practicing while I was reading and playing video games.\u00a0 But being depressed doesn&#8217;t help anything.\u00a0 I remember when I was thirteen years old and I thought it was too late for me to get into shape&#8230;\u00a0 I feel really stupid for that now.\u00a0 I know I wasted my youth, but I&#8217;ve still got quite a bit of youth left in me and I&#8217;ll feel even worse if I waste the rest of it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d make a new years resolution pertaining to that soon, but I hate new years resolutions.\u00a0 I just need resolve every day.<\/p>\n<p>Being in Toronto becomes less fun for me every time I come back here.\u00a0 I&#8217;m starting to understand why I left in ways I didn&#8217;t even realize when I made the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m back in Toronto.\u00a0 Or I have been for awhile.\u00a0 I guess I failed at the blogging every day thing.\u00a0 December was a bad month for it, seeing as I kind of lose my grip on time when I don&#8217;t have structure holding me in it. I got into Toronto just in time for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}