{"id":3937,"date":"2011-10-30T20:10:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2011-10-30T21:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T13:30:34","slug":"ready-or-not-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/ready-or-not-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready or not, I am!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it felt like I got myself all caged at home today. Missed a planned long run. Missed a mini-high-school-reunion. Who to blame? Oh, these darn cramps. Obviously, only girlfriends can relate to this agony.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well. October is close to an end.\u00a0 2 more months left and we say a big hello to 2012 soon. Are you ready for it? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>My answer for that is a resounding<em> &#8216;Ready or not, I am!&#8217;.<\/em> There&#8217;s been so much to really be grateful and relish for this year &#8212; good or bad. And sometimes I feel I don&#8217;t like to let go of it yet. But I&#8217;m not writing a year-ender-kind-of-post. Hah. Too early for that. \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m hoping I can still accomplish more of what I&#8217;ve promised to myself to be a better version of me, see more and marvel more this year than the last. If things go well, there&#8217;s 8 more photo sessions to happily document yet before wrapping up this year and <a href=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/06\/destination-vietnam\/\">one more travel to backpack<\/a>! <em>Thank you, Universe!<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"JSP_3158\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/JSP_3158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"632\" \/> Oh look what I just got last week from a Filipina traveler I&#8217;ve only met online who&#8217;s , right about now, traveling around the world &#8212; ALONE. Amazing huh? I&#8217;ve been really enjoying reading her travel blog and greatly inspired with her quest for extra ordinary life. As soon as I read about her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wanderlass.com\/get-postcard\">Postcards from the Road<\/a> project, I excitedly took part of it. Few weeks later, I got all goosebumps happy receiving this in the mail. Hoorayyy! Big thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wanderlass.com\/my-quest\">Lilliane<\/a>!\u00a0Sail on safely! Who knows one day, I might just meet you half-way anywhere across the Universe. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3939\" title=\"JSP_3169\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/JSP_3169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"632\" \/><br \/>\n<em><em>Hope everyone&#8217;s weekend went all great! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it felt like I got myself all caged at home today. Missed a planned long run. Missed a mini-high-school-reunion. Who to blame? Oh, these darn cramps. Obviously, only girlfriends can relate to this agony. Oh well. October is close to an end.\u00a0 2 more months left and we say a big hello to 2012 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,25,777,190],"class_list":{"0":"post-3937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifes-musings","8":"tag-life","9":"tag-postcard","10":"tag-travel","11":"tag-universe"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/JSP_3169.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3950,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions\/3950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}