{"id":9570,"date":"2016-08-02T00:05:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T05:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=9570"},"modified":"2016-07-30T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T20:27:31","slug":"top-10-down-to-earth-moments-since-arriving-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/top-10-down-to-earth-moments-since-arriving-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Down to Earth Moments Since Arriving Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/new-year-1114335_1920.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9571\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9571 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/new-year-1114335_1920.jpg\" alt=\"Life's getting back to normal now that I've been home for over a week. Here's what's bringing me down to earth.\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/new-year-1114335_1920.jpg 500w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/new-year-1114335_1920-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/new-year-1114335_1920-425x300.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>10.\u00a0 Grocery shopping.<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0 And hot on the heels of #10&#8230;cooking. Every. Single. Day.<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0 No one follows me down the street yelling &#8220;La-dee, hey, La-dee, want to buy a purse? A rug? A scarf? Natural Viagra tea?&#8221; like they did at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0 Meals no longer include Latvian coffee (delicious), Turkish tea (fruity and sweet), or six kinds of olives on the breakfast buffet (my taste buds must have originated in the Mediterranian).<\/p>\n<p>6. When the microwave, range, lawn mower, clothes dryer, vacuum, or anything else we own that hasn&#8217;t already broken down this summer breaks down, I can&#8217;t just report it to the front desk and expect them to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 I can no longer use there-was-no-iron-in-our-motel-room as an excuse for wearing wrinkled clothes.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 If I don&#8217;t replace the toilet paper roll and clean the bathrooms, nobody does.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 My family considers it perfectly normal when I join them for breakfast. My Latvian friends thought eating breakfast with an American was a special event.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 I realize that contacting all the people I promised to touch base in August\u2013once I got home and had time to catch up\u2013will take until the end of September or possibly until Christmas. If you&#8217;re one of those people, please be patient!<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Handsome as he is, the Man of Steel does not look like the Istanbul to Chicago flight attendant, who I&#8217;m pretty sure was the actor who plays Michel Gerard on Gilmore Girls. Then again, the Man of Steel doesn&#8217;t act like the character Michel Gerard either. For which I am eternally grateful.<\/p>\n<p>What brings you down to earth after being away from home? Leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10.\u00a0 Grocery shopping. 9.\u00a0 And hot on the heels of #10&#8230;cooking. Every. Single. Day. 8.\u00a0 No one follows me down the street yelling &#8220;La-dee, hey, La-dee, want to buy a purse? A rug? A scarf? Natural Viagra tea?&#8221; like they did at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul. 7.\u00a0 Meals no longer include Latvian coffee (delicious), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-ten-tuesday"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top 10 Down to Earth Moments Since Arriving Home - Jolene Philo Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top 10 Down to Earth Moments Since Arriving Home - Jolene Philo Staging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"10.\u00a0 Grocery shopping. 9.\u00a0 And hot on the heels of #10&#8230;cooking. 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