{"id":38871,"date":"2018-10-09T15:59:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T19:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=38871"},"modified":"2018-10-09T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:38:23","slug":"things-im-grateful-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=38871","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;m grateful for (and not)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awful, hasn&#8217;t it? Incessantly awful ever since November 9, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are a few things I&#8217;m grateful for &#8212; one of which is not being obsessed with perfect written grammar.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hot and cold running water. And electricity.<\/li>\n<li>Caller ID.<\/li>\n<li>Living on the 13th floor of a building that courageously <em>has<\/em> a 13th floor. That is, I don&#8217;t live on a 13th floor called the 14th floor.<\/li>\n<li>A basement laundry room open until midnight every night.<\/li>\n<li>Google, where I found a revelatory video which taught me how to fold contour sheets.<\/li>\n<li>Timing my joint consumption of Cabot&#8217;s Greek yoghurt and dried cranberries (in my morning gruel) so that I run low on both at the exact same day, whereupon I can replenish both at Zabar&#8217;s in one visit.<\/li>\n<li>The new breed of meds.<\/li>\n<li>Food. And cooking food.<\/li>\n<li>Knowing how to watch my team play a football game without collapsing into despair when they lose.<\/li>\n<li>My TV&#8217;s classical radio station, which has enhanced my deep affection for Sibelius and Rameau.<\/li>\n<li>Caulk tinted to the unusual shade of my kitchen tiles.<\/li>\n<li>Getting good enough at using a caulking gun (and a lot of wet rags) so that my rows look (nearly) professional.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Zabar&#8217;s had no Cabot&#8217;s Greek yoghurt. At all. Not even low fat Cabot&#8217;s Greek yoghurt. The Cabots brand has been erased from the Zabar yoghurt case.<\/p>\n<p>Before 2016, I&#8217;d simply go to the dairy manager and ask about Cabot&#8217;s, ask when they were getting in an order.<\/p>\n<p>After 2016, I will consider the dearth of Cabot&#8217;s ominous and will sink into a state, the term for which I don&#8217;t yet have.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awful, hasn&#8217;t it? Incessantly awful ever since November 9, 2016. However, there are a few things I&#8217;m grateful for &#8212; one of which is not being obsessed with perfect written grammar. Hot and cold running water. 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