{"id":451,"date":"2025-12-07T19:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.complicatednoise.com\/2025\/12\/07\/halfway-to-the-end\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:54:58","slug":"halfway-to-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/halfway-to-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Halfway to the End!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve been away from home for a few days and working in a new area which can get very physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting. It\u2019s won\u2019t go into details, but it\u2019s very difficult seeing people you care for deteriorate before your eyes. A lot of this deterioration involves the brain and it\u2019s hard to see people struggle to come to terms with their general decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m here for a total of five weeks and three have passed. (I was sick with COVID for one week.) So, two more weeks are left until I can go home permanently and join my usual workplace for a few weeks, then I get to come back here for an additional two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m here to complete a degree. I\u2019m at the end of it. If I could just stop being sick, that would be fantastic. I hope that I won\u2019t get some sort of respiratory issue because the allergens are in the air, and I can hardly breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s getting there though. This has been a big goal for me for years and it\u2019s finally coming to an end. I\u2019m looking forward to the future and what 2026 will finally bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is all for now. Everyone take care of yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been away from home for a few days and working in a new area which can get very physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting. It\u2019s won\u2019t go into details, but it\u2019s very difficult seeing people you care for deteriorate before your eyes. A lot of this deterioration involves the brain and it\u2019s hard to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-life-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}