{"id":3535,"date":"2014-12-09T05:54:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2014-12-09T05:57:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T13:57:51","slug":"homeward-bound-almost-at-sea-12092014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3535","title":{"rendered":"Homeward Bound …Almost – At Sea – [12\/09\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

It always f\"471877b477a3ec5f8362eec2daa13984-d3a5skz\"<\/a>eels so very strange, taking everything down, packing everything up. Especially with so much time left to do it. It always feels as if I\u2019m\u2026well, sneaking out! Like any moment now someone is going to come along and say \u201cnope, can\u2019t go home after all\u201d<\/p>\n

You laugh, it\u2019s happened! They can easily extend a contract at a moment\u2019s notice. But no, this worn little gypsy is definitely going home \u2013 to family and cats and Christmas trees.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s still a few days from now, right now I\u2019m somewhat occupied packing down the cabin. I do tend to keep it as simple as possible, but half of what makes my room \u201chome\u201d is how much I bring with me. So one by one, all the pictures come down from the walls, the various nick-knacks I\u2019ve acquired get packed away. My Anne of Green Gables doll has been packed carefully face down in a hard-sided suitcase with plenty of clothes around her to keep her from getting damaged, so has the Tinker Bell mug I picked up in Italy (of all places), almost all that\u2019s left to do now is strip the bed and pack the duffle bag.<\/p>\n

Ghost Girl is as trained up as I can get her (though if she doesn\u2019t get a little bit of self-confidence she\u2019s going to have a hard time of it out here!), and for the last few days I\u2019ve been more on call than anything. This afternoon I spent an hour in the back room covering books. I know practically I could just take a few days \u201cpaid vacation\u201d but it just wouldn\u2019t feel<\/em> right.<\/p>\n

And of course there\u2019s still the eval to do, my report card won\u2019t be in until probably the final day, although my boss has assured me multiple times that I have nothing to be concerned about, and this time ( for once) I actually am willing to take her at her word.<\/p>\n

So\u2026like the song says \u201cmake my bed and light the light\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It always feels so very strange, taking everything down, packing everything up. Especially with so much time left to do it. It always feels as if I\u2019m\u2026well, sneaking out! Like any moment now someone is going to come along and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[77,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-coast-adventures-2014","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-V1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3540,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}