{"id":815,"date":"2011-07-20T15:43:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T19:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesarbonn.com\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2011-07-20T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T19:43:04","slug":"a-creature-of-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"A Creature of Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m what you would call a creature of habit. Well, other people have lots of other names for me, but I&#8217;m going to go with that one for now.<\/p>\n<p>You see, I kind of like things stabilized and normal. Yet, at the same time I tend to have a habit of picking up and starting over from scratch because I get tired of the same kind of life after awhile. No, it doesn&#8217;t make sense to me either.<\/p>\n<p>However, I was getting lunch today, when it dawned on me that I get the same thing for lunch every day. And it didn&#8217;t dawn on me because I&#8217;m really cognizant over those kinds of things. It dawned on me because the cashier remarked &#8220;I&#8217;ve noticed you get the same thing every day, except for Fridays. That&#8217;s when you switch chicken strips for wings.&#8221; And she was right. Come Friday, I will get the exact same lunch at work I get every Friday because I&#8217;m what I&#8217;ve already called a creature of habit.<\/p>\n<p>On the weekend, I will eat breakfast at Burger King. I don&#8217;t even order my meal any more. I walk up to the counter and whoever is working there will charge me $6.87 and eventually someone will bring me EXACTLY the same breakfast I get on Saturday and Sunday. It doesn&#8217;t change.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t date, which is why I don&#8217;t really have to worry about someone else deciding, &#8220;You know, I&#8217;d like to eat at some strange restaurant we&#8217;ve never tried before.&#8221; I&#8217;d like to date, but I can&#8217;t find anyone interesting in my neck of the woods. And I gave up looking. Besides, someone new might want to eat somewhere other than where I normally eat.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s a problem or not. I guess it could be, especially because I&#8217;m a big fan of making abrupt, huge life-changing changes. But I haven&#8217;t changed anything in a long time. Aside from socks and underwear. And a couple of months ago, I changed the oil in my car. But right after I did so, I drove to Burger King and had breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Something don&#8217;t ever change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m what you would call a creature of habit. Well, other people have lots of other names for me, but I&#8217;m going to go with that one for now. You see, I kind of like things stabilized and normal. Yet, at the same time I tend to have a habit of picking up and starting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/?p=815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Creature of Habit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoirs","category-relationships-2","category-uncategorized","category-writing"],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}