{"id":874,"date":"2014-03-07T10:29:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T15:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2021-12-30T00:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T00:56:31","slug":"grounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/grounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"keep-calm-because-you-re-grounded\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I hit a new threshold yesterday. I was in a meeting discussing new business opportunities in Asia. The conversation brought up the need for someone to go out to Myanmar to work on a couple of proposals for a month. I sat there, contemplating. I first did the math, knowing that my twin sis will be here for a visit in 22 days. Nope, couldn’t do a month. Then the anti went down, perhaps they could manage with someone just for two weeks. Hmmm, could almost fit within that window of time.<\/p>\n

Then I snapped out of it. I considered what else I would miss during that time, birthing classes, getting the nursery together, working on our blogs, selling one of our investment places, spring time. No, I should definitely not open my mouth.<\/p>\n

The conversation continued. No one raised the specific possibility of my going, but it was clear that everyone in the room considered at some point. Only to remember that I’m pregnant, having finally popped in the last couple of weeks as I move into month 7.<\/p>\n

Technically I had put my travel cut off as a vague sometime in March. Deep down I know that my not saying something was more a matter of my sister coming to visit than any concern for my pregnancy, but it serves as a convenient excuse. I would never say that I couldn’t go because of something personal like a family visit, but being pregnant gives me the free pass. The only other time I’ve had a free pass was when I was dealing with melanoma several years ago. I knew it was a sad reality when I realized the only reason I wasn’t traveling the the famine in the Horn of Africa was because I had cancer, no other reason would have kept me stateside.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that Myanmar would be a place I would love to visit, I feel nothing but happy for staying here. I’ll be in Washington for a full six months at one stint, nearly the longest I can say that has happened. I think I made it 9 months here, back when I first moved to Washington a decade ago, but sticking in one place hasn’t been my forte. Looking forward to the next four months to settle and enjoy being grounded!<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

Miel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicariousnomad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}