{"id":178264,"date":"2024-11-16T17:41:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T17:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178264"},"modified":"2024-11-16T17:41:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T17:41:41","slug":"winter-and-bills-and-first-world-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/16\/winter-and-bills-and-first-world-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter and Bills and First World Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Got my Electric and gas bill for the year. \u00a31500! Its correct but it is still a shocker and not remotely a gas. Still as they say &#8220;<strong>Easy Come, Easy go<\/strong>&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<br>It has screwed up my finances a bit so I might to do a couple of extra shifts grinding at the mill \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1957453211&#038;color=%238c8cc8&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/easy-come-easy-go\" title=\"Easy Come Easy Go\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Easy Come Easy Go<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I have just come back from an Orchard rehearsal and I am a wee bit tired, I am sleeping Ok but maybe not quite long enough? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-color has-red-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-db7243bf53ca227f6bce4b32052f810f\">&nbsp;<em>&#8220;You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.&#8221; \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Mae West<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.&#8221;\u2014&nbsp;<strong>Lao-Tze<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.\u201d \u2014&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/1039651\/marynliles\/dr-seuss-quotes\/\">Dr. Seuss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back on life, I think I paid my dues for the wrongs that I did do, though how wrong they were I am not really  sure.  Can love ever be wrong?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our revels now are ended. These our actors, <br>As I foretold you, were all spirits and <br>Are melted into air, into thin air:<br>And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, <br>The cloud-capp&#8217;d towers, the gorgeous palaces,<br>The solemn temples, the great globe itself,<br>Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And,<br> like this insubstantial pageant faded,<br>Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff <br>as dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">William Shakespeare<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got my Electric and gas bill for the year. \u00a31500! Its correct but it is still a shocker and not remotely a gas. Still as they say &#8220;Easy Come, Easy go&#8221; \ud83d\ude42It has screwed up my finances a bit so I might to do a couple of extra shifts grinding at the mill \ud83d\ude09 Diana &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/16\/winter-and-bills-and-first-world-problems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter and Bills and First World Problems<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/breaking-news.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Kne","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179367,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/10\/09\/bolding-going-forward-or-just-plodding-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":178264,"position":0},"title":"Bolding going forward or Just plodding on?","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Plodding on boldly perhaps would be the correct description on this dull old day.I have been recording a new track but it has a rude word in the lyrics. 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