{"id":67,"date":"2013-06-02T02:17:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T07:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.petitefreespirit.com\/2013\/06\/fresh-old-stuff\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:47:06","slug":"fresh-old-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/02\/fresh-old-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Old Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-size: 14px;\" face=\"arial\"><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"\" align=\"justify\">One day I was searching for something on my computer when, lo and behold, I stumbled across a document that I created when I was closing my MySpace account.&nbsp; The document is a copy of all the blogs I posted on MySpace from 2005 to 2008.&nbsp; On one hand, it&#8217;s interesting to see the consistency of my thoughts over the years reflected through my writing.&nbsp; On the other hand, the posts remind me of the struggles that I went through during the time I lived in Saint Louis &#8211; and there were many.&nbsp; The time in Saint Louis was a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs that I tried to weather alone as best I could.&nbsp; Many of the posts refer to hopes for an improvement in my situation, others refer to my desire for a relationship and even others refer to my valiant attempts to find some degree of happiness in the midst of the monumental changes I was going through.&nbsp; Honestly, the latter posts were me trying to latch onto anything that would pull me from the spiral of depression that was ever present.&nbsp; Despite the heavy nature of many of the posts, there are lighthearted moments as well.&nbsp; Those usually involve my sojourns in nature or some random observation that I felt obliged to share.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a mixed bag of posts covering a three-year period in the life of moi.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I will post those as well.&nbsp; Stay tuned for some whimsical and wistful posts from the past&#8230;<br \/>\n<P align=justify><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\" face=arial><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT>* Special note: Employment plays a pivotal role during this three-year period.&nbsp; I went from being employed for almost five years with the same company, to moving out of state for a new job, to being laid-off from that job, to working a temporary assignment that went permanent, to resigning from that position, to working a temporary assignment again, to being offered a permanent position, to the permanent position (thus the permanent employment offer) being eliminated.&nbsp; After my last post began the stock-market dive and mass layoffs that signaled the beginning of the Economic Crisis of 2008.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day I was searching for something on my computer when, lo and behold, I stumbled across a document that I created when I was closing my MySpace account.&nbsp; The document is a copy of all the blogs I posted on MySpace from 2005 to 2008.&nbsp; On one hand, it&#8217;s interesting to see the consistency &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/02\/fresh-old-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fresh Old Stuff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pfspirit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/author\/pfspirit\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"One day I was searching for something on my computer when, lo and behold, I stumbled across a document that I created when I was closing my MySpace account.&nbsp; 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