{"id":729,"date":"2007-11-24T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2007\/11\/keys-to-the-uinverse\/"},"modified":"2007-11-24T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T10:04:00","slug":"keys-to-the-uinverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/keys-to-the-uinverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Keys to the Uinverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The nerve cells are one of the wonders of the uinverse.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8211;Little Susan Senator, 5th grade science paper ending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That last post of mine (yesterday)  was written after a three hour drive and with a headcold!<br \/>This one will be far more straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>Keys to the Universe (no-fail items or people or activities that truly do what I want them to do)<br \/>1) roasted, salted almonds, 365 Brand from Whole Foods.  The perfect salty, crunchy Atkins-friendly, heart-friendly snack.  For an even bigger charge, have them with a cup of ultra Splenda-sweet Peet&#8217;s French Roast decaf and just a little cream.<br \/>2) hour at my gym.  Even if I&#8217;m a tank after Thanksgiving, working out and then soaking in the hot tub surrounded by friendly, pumped women gives me the illusion of slender fitness.<br \/>3) Nat with Julie, our new tutor.  She is a self-starter, bright, sweet, and warm and really gets him.<br \/>4) Tivo episodes of Seinfeld.  Consistently funny and wacky, and they are brilliant at tying together all the stray threads introduced in the episode.<br \/>5) Haram Alayk by Natacha Atlas.  Always always gets me dancing, even while driving.<br \/>6) Nap in the car while Ned drives.  It passes the time and I wake up feeling great.<br \/>7) Plans to go out that night.  Even if the night ends up no good, the anticipation all day long gives me a great day.<br \/>8) James McNair&#8217;s Pie Cookbook.  Especially the cornmeal crust.  Why does anyone go with regular pie crust when you can make cornmeal?<br \/>9) A good long cat cuddle and neck smush, (as long as you wash, wash, wash and take Singulaire after)  They sniff and purr and look at you with those almond-shaped eyes!<br \/>10) Shu Umumera Liquid Fabric.  It allows me to dry my hair naturally and all I have to do is then spray it on and crunch the ends for perfectly <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">controlled <\/span>curls.  No effort, and works even better with a curling iron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nerve cells are one of the wonders of the uinverse.&#8211;Little Susan Senator, 5th grade science paper ending. That last post of mine (yesterday) was written after a three hour drive and with a headcold!This one will be far more straightforward. Keys to the Universe (no-fail items or people or activities that truly do what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-bL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}