{"id":358,"date":"2003-10-14T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T15:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/10\/14\/a-very-messy-weekend\/"},"modified":"2003-10-14T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2003-10-14T15:25:15","slug":"a-very-messy-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/14\/a-very-messy-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"A very messy weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/messy_weekend.html\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/images\/lili_gateau_small.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\" VSPACE=\"7\" HSPACE=\"7\" alt=\"Click to see more of this mess.\"><\/a><br \/>\nDirt. Frosting. Paint. Sugar. Lots of scrubbing. Man, what crazy days these were, and it&rsquo;s only the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s what our weekend was like. First we had to celebrate the first birthday of my niece&rsquo;s daughter, Lili-Anne. (What does that make her? My grand-niece?). The cutie had her first true taste of sugar with a cake that took the shape of her dear <em>Tickle Me Elmo<\/em>. Boy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/messy_weekend.html\">was it messy<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>We considered taking her with us to our new house so that she could give us a hand with the other messy job waiting for us: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/images\/Blork_painting.jpg\">painting<\/a>. Ah, the joy of scrapping, cleaning, being on your knees for hours to do the trimming, climbing up and down a ladder and roll the walls! I could keep on doing this forever (in fact, it already feels like I have). We turned our living room from baby yellow to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sico.ca\/Fr\/Univers\/Inspiration\/Images\/neu_p01_1_1.jpg\">Papillon de Nuit<\/a>, a rather unsatisfying task as the change wasn&rsquo;t dramatic but I think the end result is a lot classier. But don&rsquo;t you dare calling it <a href=\"http:\/\/blork.typepad.com\/blorkblog\/2003\/10\/the_land_of_bei.html\">beige<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Still, I wonder: do you gain weight just by hanging out in a room which has been painted the color of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haagen-dazs.com\/segpro.do?productId=64\">Haagen-Dazs coffee<\/a> ice cream?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirt. Frosting. Paint. Sugar. Lots of scrubbing. Man, what crazy days these were, and it&rsquo;s only the beginning. That&rsquo;s what our weekend was like. First we had to celebrate the first birthday of my niece&rsquo;s daughter, Lili-Anne. (What does that make her? My grand-niece?). The cutie had her first true taste of sugar with a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/14\/a-very-messy-weekend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A very messy weekend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}