{"id":146,"date":"2007-12-18T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T17:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2008-03-16T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T19:42:24","slug":"reliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Reliable"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDamian
\n18 December 2007<\/p>\n

I’ve become a flake.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate being a flake.\u00c2\u00a0 I was a flake in my 20s.\u00c2\u00a0 I was the flighty sister that you could never rely upon.\u00c2\u00a0 I liked this persona and even fostered it.\u00c2\u00a0 It let me get out of a lot of responsibilities.<\/p>\n

But then, in my 30s, I changed without planning it or even realizing it.\u00c2\u00a0 I became reliable.\u00c2\u00a0 If you needed something to get done in the family, it became known that you could leave it with me.\u00c2\u00a0 And it turned out, I liked being reliable.\u00c2\u00a0 I liked being the responsible one.<\/p>\n

But now that I have two children, I have become the flake again, and I’m really not happy about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Emails go unanswered; promises remain undelivered; the house does not get cleaned before guests arrive.<\/p>\n

I hate<\/em> being a flake.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate it.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m just going to have to learn how to have two small children and not be a flake.\u00c2\u00a0 That takes work though, and I am still\u00c2\u00a0a bit lazy.\u00c2\u00a0 That never changed. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damian 18 December 2007 I’ve become a flake.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate being a flake.\u00c2\u00a0 I was a flake in my 20s.\u00c2\u00a0 I was the flighty sister that you could never rely upon.\u00c2\u00a0 I liked this persona and even fostered it.\u00c2\u00a0 It let me get out of a lot of responsibilities. But then, in my 30s, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surburbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}