{"id":10304,"date":"2015-07-10T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=10304"},"modified":"2015-07-09T20:45:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T03:45:45","slug":"chaining-up-what-i-did-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10304","title":{"rendered":"Chaining up, or, what I did last night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there anything<\/i> I enjoy doing that doesn’t cause pain in my arms and hands?
\nNo. No, there isn’t. <\/p>\n

Not even that<\/i>.  What dirty minds you all have!
\nThursday night I enforced silence and decided to start a silver chain. Take a zillion tiny rings and start attaching them together…it’s maddening and fiddly. I enjoyed it. Meditative in the same way that spinning is. The fleece kind of spinning, not the bike kind. The bike kind is also meditative, but in a different way. 
\nThis is what I got before my body told me to knock it off–a few inches of double link sterling chain. Cool, right? Yes, that is the lid of a Tupperware salad bowl acting as a work tray.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> 
\nIn addition to the physical pain, I also get to have a crick in my neck and eye strain. The eye strain was partial resolved by remembering that I have this head lamp thingie of Dad’s that has magnifying lenses. <\/p>\n

So sexy. Really. Have you ever seen anything sexier, ever, in your whole life? 
\nYou haven’t. It’s OK to just admit it. 
\n \"\"<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is there anything I enjoy doing that doesn’t cause pain in my arms and hands? No. No, there isn’t.  Not even that.  What dirty minds you all have! Thursday night I enforced silence and decided to start a silver chain. Take a zillion tiny rings and start attaching them together…it’s maddening and fiddly. 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