{"id":2305,"date":"2009-01-10T15:05:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2009-01-10T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T21:05:13","slug":"pack-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=2305","title":{"rendered":"Pack Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took on a fairly big project this morning &#8211; cleaning our master bedroom&#8217;s walk-in closet. I am happy to say it looks much better, and even has space for more stuff now. <\/p>\n<p>I am exhausted and plan on doing nothing more the rest of the day except laundry. It snowed last night and was still snowing earlier, so it&#8217;s a stay in and hibernate kind of day. Maybe play video games too. I also have quite a few episodes (thank you, marathons) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0321018\/\"><em>What I Like About You<\/em><\/a> (a recent discovery) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forensicfiles.com\/\"><em>Forensic Files<\/em><\/a> on the DVR. Party time at Nicole&#8217;s! ;)<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I came across in the closet was my old Yamaha keyboard (anyone having thoughts of Ross from <em>Friends<\/em> here?).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3421\/3184810635_d695f09e8b_o.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"196\" alt=\"My old keyboard\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still in great condition and it&#8217;s a good 15+ years old. I took a photo to remember it by as I plan to give it to E and since he&#8217;s a boy, I&#8217;m not sure it will survive.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of the box it came in. The price tag says $80. I&#8217;m pretty sure I got it at Service Merchandise. Wow. Memories.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3467\/3185654526_90a8f4dde0_o.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"The box to my old keyboard\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another thing I saved for some ungodly reason is every single pay stub I&#8217;ve gotten since I started working at the age of fifteen, including those from Burger King when I was making $4.25\/hour. I&#8217;m going to keep a few for posterity and shred the rest.<\/p>\n<p>I also have all my old cassette tapes (see photos @ Flickr &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/3185863112\/in\/photostream\/\">#1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/3185018869\/in\/photostream\/\">#2<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/3185864158\/in\/photostream\/\">Singles<\/a>). I don&#8217;t think people collect those anymore, so other than my Cure ones that I can&#8217;t bear to part with, I&#8217;m either going to trash them or donate them to Goodwill.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also going to donate our old Sony MiniDisc players. They are in perfect condition, just not in use now that everyone has an iPod. I have no illusions that anyone will want to buy them, seeing as how you can get a no-name MP3 player for next to nothing these days, but I just can&#8217;t throw out something that isn&#8217;t broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took on a fairly big project this morning &#8211; cleaning our master bedroom&#8217;s walk-in closet. I am happy to say it looks much better, and even has space for more stuff now. I am exhausted and plan on doing nothing more the rest of the day except laundry. It snowed last night and was still snowing earlier, so it&#8217;s a stay in and hibernate kind of day. Maybe play video games too. I also have quite a few episodes (thank you, marathons) of What I Like About You (a recent discovery) and Forensic Files on the DVR. Party time at Nicole&#8217;s! ;) One of the things I came across in the closet was my old Yamaha keyboard (anyone having thoughts of Ross from Friends here?). It&#8217;s still in great condition and it&#8217;s a good 15+ years old. I took a photo to remember it by as I plan to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=2305\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,89,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-home","category-music","category-nostalgia","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}