{"id":2801,"date":"2011-09-23T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:57","slug":"thing-225-metal-star-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2801","title":{"rendered":"Thing #225 – Metal Star (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a couple of months since I’ve given a possession away.\u00a0 You would think that since we downsized, had several garage sales, and moved out of our house, that there would be little left to get rid of, but there’s still plenty around that should be given away, thrown away, or sold.\u00a0 I went looking in the garage for our winter clothes a few days ago and was clearly reminded how much stuff we still have to deal with. My classroom is full too, so today when a student of mine asked where I got my metal star, I was quick to ask her why she wanted to know.\u00a0 “My mom is looking for one.”\u00a0 Great!\u00a0 She can have this one!\u00a0 I just happened to have my webcam with me, so I snapped a picture before the bell rang.\u00a0 She was excited to have it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And I was excited to get rid of it.\u00a0 Now that I think about it … maybe I should have sold it.\u00a0 We finished orientation with One Mission Society last week and in\u00a0a few weeks we’ll go through their online fundraising training.\u00a0 Then we’ll be officially ready to begin the process of raising support for our future in Haiti.\u00a0 Meanwhile, LIFE marches on.\u00a0 Melissa and I attended my 25 Year High School Reunion last Saturday night and had a great time.\u00a0 (But it did make me feel a bit old.)\u00a0 Also, I accidentally agreed to teach 2nd grade Sunday School.\u00a0 Dats started soccer a couple of weeks back with practices on Thursday evenings and games every Saturday morning, and The Drama Queen started American Heritage Girls, which meets every Friday night.\u00a0 This week at school I had tryouts for the fall play – we’re doing Woody Allen’s “Don’t Drink the Water”.\u00a0 Tonight I worked on creating my cast list … the toughest part of the job.\u00a0 Next week will see the start of play practices.\u00a0 And those will get progressively\u00a0more time-consuming and stressful\u00a0until the middle of November, when my head will explode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a couple of months since I’ve given a possession away.\u00a0 You would think that since we downsized, had several garage sales, and moved out of our house, that there would be little left to get rid of, but there’s still plenty around that should be given away, thrown away, or sold.\u00a0 I went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}