{"id":487,"date":"2010-01-07T02:29:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T07:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2010-01-18T09:16:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T14:16:38","slug":"resolutions-or-jus%e2%80%99-joking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/moving\/resolutions-or-jus%e2%80%99-joking\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolutions or Jus’ Joking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Year resolutions. Now what are they? It has always hit me before, as to the meaning behind these. I mean, people follow them for a couple of weeks, and bam! Out it goes through the window. This time around, I was literally forced to take a resolution. ‘Take a resolution or I won\u2019t talk with you!’ emotional blackmail from my girlfriend. She was a staunch believer in these bullshit ideas and I was to be yours faithful to her following what she thought was good for us. ‘I just don\u2019t see the point! Why take one, when I bloody well know I am not going to follow it!’ I argued. My words had left her blank. Hence, moving into damage control mode, I took one instantaneously. ‘I will not hire the moving services<\/a> when I move into my new home this year!’ My girlfriend was delighted on hearing this. She hugged me and reassured me, that it was one resolution that I would honor, come what may.<\/p>\n

The time in the year had come for the moment of truth. I switched off my cell phone, to avoid her calls. But, nevertheless, she turned up at my door to see me move ‘all by me’. There was a pamphlet of Miami movers<\/a> lying on the coffee table in my living room. She picked it up, tore it into bits and pieces and dumped them in the bin. I was helpless, I had no prior experience of moving. All I knew about moving was from seeing my uncle move once. You needed cardboard boxes. But, I had crates instead. Empty beer crates! Looking at my dismal efforts to move, I bent low on my knees and pleaded to her, a second time now, as the first was when I proposed to her. She laughed, picked up the phone and threw it to me! Screw resolutions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Year resolutions. Now what are they? It has always hit me before, as to the meaning behind these. I mean, people follow them for a couple of weeks, and bam! Out it goes through the window. This time around, I was literally forced to take a resolution. ‘Take a resolution or I won\u2019t talk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.movingplace.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}