<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" gd:etag="W/&quot;AkANQnk8eSp7ImA9WhRbEU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602</id><updated>2012-02-01T07:06:33.771-08:00</updated><category term="stress relief" /><category term="education" /><category term="published" /><category term="beer" /><category term="christee" /><category term="unemployed" /><category term="funny" /><category term="goofs" /><category term="books" /><category term="comics" /><category term="development" /><category term="ads" /><category term="quote" /><category term="midlife" /><category term="newspaper snippets" /><category term="christmas" /><category term="astd" /><category term="scriptfrenzy" /><category term="human resources" /><category term="creativity" /><category term="authors" /><category term="blunders" /><category term="three feet under" /><category term="columnist" /><category term="headlines" /><category term="elastic waistbands" /><category term="political" /><category term="ladies of class" /><category term="blog tour" /><category term="laughing" /><category term="thought" /><category term="celebration" /><category term="attitude" /><category term="funny signs" /><category term="training" /><category term="presentations" /><category term="humor" /><category term="daily laugh" /><category term="funny headlines" /><category term="daily humor" /><category term="author" /><category term="speaking" /><category term="perspective" /><category term="writer" /><category term="mistakes" /><category term="malls" /><category term="funny ads" /><category term="stand up comedy" /><category term="school" /><category term="joy" /><category term="book" /><category term="erma bombeck" /><category term="rubber chicken" /><category term="Monday" /><category term="toys" /><category term="omar" /><category term="writers" /><category term="publishing" /><category term="nanowrimo" /><category term="$" /><category term="laughter" /><category term="bloopers" /><category term="interview" /><category term="national novel writing month" /><category term="southern" /><category term="atwood" /><category term="coping" /><category term="virtual book tour" /><category term="joke" /><category term="insanity" /><category term="quotes" /><category term="fun" /><category term="workforce" /><category term="health" /><category term="writing" /><category term="candy" /><category term="book promotion" /><title>Elastic Waistbands</title><subtitle type="html">Celebrating our imperfections, laughing at our insanity, and sharing our occasional enlightenments</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>314</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElasticWaistbands" /><feedburner:info uri="elasticwaistbands" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>ElasticWaistbands</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkAGSHk-fip7ImA9WhRbEU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-546403341388593177</id><published>2012-02-01T07:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T07:05:29.756-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-01T07:05:29.756-08:00</app:edited><title>This is soooo me!</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SsYe8Jfo8bY/TylUpu2tM4I/AAAAAAAAAts/XmUwzsFEIrk/s1600/time-spent-sleeping-300x165.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SsYe8Jfo8bY/TylUpu2tM4I/AAAAAAAAAts/XmUwzsFEIrk/s1600/time-spent-sleeping-300x165.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-546403341388593177?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XA8tN9_mLlJ5QaEpYEHTgN02CIg/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XA8tN9_mLlJ5QaEpYEHTgN02CIg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XA8tN9_mLlJ5QaEpYEHTgN02CIg/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XA8tN9_mLlJ5QaEpYEHTgN02CIg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/-WYQftS9I-0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/546403341388593177/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=546403341388593177" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/546403341388593177?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/546403341388593177?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/-WYQftS9I-0/this-is-soooo-me.html" title="This is soooo me!" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SsYe8Jfo8bY/TylUpu2tM4I/AAAAAAAAAts/XmUwzsFEIrk/s72-c/time-spent-sleeping-300x165.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2012/02/this-is-soooo-me.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CU4ESXk_eyp7ImA9WhRUEUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-3776269057027836248</id><published>2012-01-21T14:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T14:11:48.743-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-21T14:11:48.743-08:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GOpAcny930g/Txs3-iSwU7I/AAAAAAAAAtg/lNKLwdqOwas/s1600/Capture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="198" nfa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GOpAcny930g/Txs3-iSwU7I/AAAAAAAAAtg/lNKLwdqOwas/s320/Capture.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;
In case you missed it, my internet scavenger hunt for comedy is on page 52.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://citysocial.epubxp.com/issue/43271" target="_blank"&gt;Another City Social Column&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-3776269057027836248?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DUyz6_ZsafqZQivKp1uu_gdMiVE/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DUyz6_ZsafqZQivKp1uu_gdMiVE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DUyz6_ZsafqZQivKp1uu_gdMiVE/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DUyz6_ZsafqZQivKp1uu_gdMiVE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/YdCTudlkOu8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/3776269057027836248/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=3776269057027836248" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/3776269057027836248?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/3776269057027836248?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/YdCTudlkOu8/in-case-you-missed-it-my-internet.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GOpAcny930g/Txs3-iSwU7I/AAAAAAAAAtg/lNKLwdqOwas/s72-c/Capture.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-case-you-missed-it-my-internet.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUINQH4zfip7ImA9WhRWGUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-4002375525583143193</id><published>2012-01-07T11:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T11:13:11.086-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-07T11:13:11.086-08:00</app:edited><title>Why Men Shouldn't Write Advice Columns</title><content type="html">I've gotta admit -- I can't remember where I found this. But I will admit I wish I'd written it...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kGHjHhn-LZA/TwiZKN7qFBI/AAAAAAAAArk/k-G53ietQFg/s1600/Men+advice+column.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="303" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kGHjHhn-LZA/TwiZKN7qFBI/AAAAAAAAArk/k-G53ietQFg/s400/Men+advice+column.bmp" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-4002375525583143193?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Vr49HzH4PxJqy_QVX2WdlurcdYU/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Vr49HzH4PxJqy_QVX2WdlurcdYU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Vr49HzH4PxJqy_QVX2WdlurcdYU/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Vr49HzH4PxJqy_QVX2WdlurcdYU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/iJZTxigJahI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/4002375525583143193/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=4002375525583143193" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/4002375525583143193?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/4002375525583143193?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/iJZTxigJahI/why-men-shouldnt-write-advice-columns.html" title="Why Men Shouldn't Write Advice Columns" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kGHjHhn-LZA/TwiZKN7qFBI/AAAAAAAAArk/k-G53ietQFg/s72-c/Men+advice+column.bmp" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-men-shouldnt-write-advice-columns.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUIHSXc-fSp7ImA9WhRWE0o.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-7567865716383744595</id><published>2011-12-31T16:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T16:25:38.955-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-31T16:25:38.955-08:00</app:edited><title>My January Column is Now Online!</title><content type="html">My latest column in City Social Magazine actually builds on the concept&amp;nbsp;we've seen on Facebook of "You know you're from ... when you..." You can access it through page 26 on the link below the picture:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T683rFXuOAk/Tv-nt0oISzI/AAAAAAAAArc/t6KrWNjM5hE/s1600/Capture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rea="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T683rFXuOAk/Tv-nt0oISzI/AAAAAAAAArc/t6KrWNjM5hE/s1600/Capture.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://citysocial.epubxp.com/issue/51258" target="_blank"&gt;I Used to Skip -- Page 26&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Happy 2012!&lt;br /&gt;
Christee&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-7567865716383744595?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KK21yYdlf4EI-pQqFc6DI4g_G2s/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KK21yYdlf4EI-pQqFc6DI4g_G2s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KK21yYdlf4EI-pQqFc6DI4g_G2s/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KK21yYdlf4EI-pQqFc6DI4g_G2s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/9JWjyAuGHGk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/7567865716383744595/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=7567865716383744595" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/7567865716383744595?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/7567865716383744595?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/9JWjyAuGHGk/my-january-column-is-now-online.html" title="My January Column is Now Online!" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T683rFXuOAk/Tv-nt0oISzI/AAAAAAAAArc/t6KrWNjM5hE/s72-c/Capture.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-january-column-is-now-online.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUQBSHw8fCp7ImA9WhRWEE0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-2696778033257090309</id><published>2011-12-27T08:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-27T08:29:19.274-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-27T08:29:19.274-08:00</app:edited><title>My monthly columns are now online!</title><content type="html">This is so cool!! Click on the link below to go to the City Social Magazine site. Turn to page 48 and you can read my latest column called "Below See Level"! Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://citysocial.epubxp.com/issue/48788" target="_blank"&gt;Life's Lumps Column&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-2696778033257090309?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_oJC7hWaaZ-5GYmyVg_zWjXga74/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_oJC7hWaaZ-5GYmyVg_zWjXga74/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_oJC7hWaaZ-5GYmyVg_zWjXga74/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_oJC7hWaaZ-5GYmyVg_zWjXga74/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/eRT7MN4un9A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/2696778033257090309/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=2696778033257090309" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/2696778033257090309?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/2696778033257090309?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/eRT7MN4un9A/my-monthly-columns-are-now-online.html" title="My monthly columns are now online!" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-monthly-columns-are-now-online.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUcBRn44fCp7ImA9WhRRGEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-4460214850680847654</id><published>2011-12-02T17:49:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-02T17:50:57.034-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-02T17:50:57.034-08:00</app:edited><title>Booksigning Dec 3 in Marksville LA</title><content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XFmLJd_sfkk/TtmANFal5sI/AAAAAAAAAqU/YrNDRD-o5gg/s1600/2012+Book+Poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" dda="true" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XFmLJd_sfkk/TtmANFal5sI/AAAAAAAAAqU/YrNDRD-o5gg/s320/2012+Book+Poster.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
If you're out and about, join me Saturday, December 3, from 11-4 at Paragon Resort in Marksville. There will be a Holiday Market in the Atrium with gift ideas and, of course, autographed copies of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In Celebration of Elastic Waistbands!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-4460214850680847654?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8TxIZXBEnPP5Q-TBfRnZo089tXM/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8TxIZXBEnPP5Q-TBfRnZo089tXM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8TxIZXBEnPP5Q-TBfRnZo089tXM/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8TxIZXBEnPP5Q-TBfRnZo089tXM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/3QtOIIJF12Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/4460214850680847654/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=4460214850680847654" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/4460214850680847654?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/4460214850680847654?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/3QtOIIJF12Q/booksigning-dec-3-in-marksville-la.html" title="Booksigning Dec 3 in Marksville LA" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XFmLJd_sfkk/TtmANFal5sI/AAAAAAAAAqU/YrNDRD-o5gg/s72-c/2012+Book+Poster.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/12/booksigning-dec-3-in-marksville-la.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUUBQHk_eyp7ImA9WhRSE0o.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-7430369034505092703</id><published>2011-11-15T09:12:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T09:14:11.743-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-15T09:14:11.743-08:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;From actual court reporter documents in a book called "Disorder in the American Courts":&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
WITNESS: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
WITNESS: My name is Susan.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YwgvPIRfoF0/TsKdW9-YsQI/AAAAAAAAAqM/nJYoNWzfyJ8/s1600/gavel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" nda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YwgvPIRfoF0/TsKdW9-YsQI/AAAAAAAAAqM/nJYoNWzfyJ8/s320/gavel.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-7430369034505092703?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r97TKti3AgF1a9gKAREx8gsP0KI/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r97TKti3AgF1a9gKAREx8gsP0KI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r97TKti3AgF1a9gKAREx8gsP0KI/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r97TKti3AgF1a9gKAREx8gsP0KI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/iziM2F7T38Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/7430369034505092703/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=7430369034505092703" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/7430369034505092703?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/7430369034505092703?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/iziM2F7T38Q/from-actual-court-reporter-documents-in.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YwgvPIRfoF0/TsKdW9-YsQI/AAAAAAAAAqM/nJYoNWzfyJ8/s72-c/gavel.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/11/from-actual-court-reporter-documents-in.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CE4EQ348cCp7ImA9WhRSEkU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-6670813981975752701</id><published>2011-11-14T06:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-14T07:01:42.078-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-14T07:01:42.078-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="daily laugh" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ads" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="southern" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="humor" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="headlines" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="funny" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="elastic waistbands" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="toys" /><title /><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Toys for Tots ... Southern Style&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ITlakjyl3ok/TsEsqKKazwI/AAAAAAAAAqE/a00CXfemVKk/s1600/toys.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="221" nda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ITlakjyl3ok/TsEsqKKazwI/AAAAAAAAAqE/a00CXfemVKk/s320/toys.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/mn/search/?ref%5F=nb%5Fsb%5Fnoss&amp;amp;url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;amp;field-keywords=in%20celebration%20of%20elastic%20waistbands&amp;amp;rd=1" target="_blank"&gt;In Celebration of Elastic Waistbands&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-6670813981975752701?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/D8l5HstoW5a5p4TVuT-18M0OlEI/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/D8l5HstoW5a5p4TVuT-18M0OlEI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/D8l5HstoW5a5p4TVuT-18M0OlEI/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/D8l5HstoW5a5p4TVuT-18M0OlEI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/HhOx3Iweho8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/6670813981975752701/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=6670813981975752701" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/6670813981975752701?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/6670813981975752701?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/HhOx3Iweho8/toys-for-tots.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ITlakjyl3ok/TsEsqKKazwI/AAAAAAAAAqE/a00CXfemVKk/s72-c/toys.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/11/toys-for-tots.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkIDRnc8fip7ImA9WhRTGEg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-8044122631550826124</id><published>2011-11-09T09:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-09T09:09:37.976-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-09T09:09:37.976-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="celebration" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="funny signs" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="joke" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="laughter" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="humor" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="funny ads" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="elastic waistbands" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="candy" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="atwood" /><title /><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WNtp0H2Lrys/TrqzJj-MOEI/AAAAAAAAAp8/MbmfVlFcr2k/s1600/buttflavour-258x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" ida="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WNtp0H2Lrys/TrqzJj-MOEI/AAAAAAAAAp8/MbmfVlFcr2k/s320/buttflavour-258x300.jpg" width="275" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wrapping Malfunction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;amp;field-keywords=in+celebration+of+elastic+waistbands" target="_blank"&gt;Buy In Celebration of Elastic Waistbands!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-8044122631550826124?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/swTM48zDJETEDeOQUJvCPxQZ1jM/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/swTM48zDJETEDeOQUJvCPxQZ1jM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/swTM48zDJETEDeOQUJvCPxQZ1jM/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/swTM48zDJETEDeOQUJvCPxQZ1jM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/cy9Q8dL_elM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/8044122631550826124/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=8044122631550826124" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/8044122631550826124?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/8044122631550826124?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/cy9Q8dL_elM/wrapping-malfunction-buy-in-celebration.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WNtp0H2Lrys/TrqzJj-MOEI/AAAAAAAAAp8/MbmfVlFcr2k/s72-c/buttflavour-258x300.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/11/wrapping-malfunction-buy-in-celebration.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0YGQX0-fip7ImA9WhRTFEg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-7447128932822101678</id><published>2011-11-04T19:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-04T19:12:00.356-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-04T19:12:00.356-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;strong&gt;Advertisement: Get your picture with Santa and his belt-fed machine guns!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
My thoughts: Wow! There's a shot in the arm for the old Christmas Spirit... and in the shoulder... probably the neck, back, and legs too.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mgE1N2uCToo/TrSaweixFTI/AAAAAAAAAp0/e5aCdn2_yGI/s1600/2santa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="294" ida="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mgE1N2uCToo/TrSaweixFTI/AAAAAAAAAp0/e5aCdn2_yGI/s320/2santa.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-7447128932822101678?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g3BtDc-yeuxs-55YJv6w5RPgDyA/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g3BtDc-yeuxs-55YJv6w5RPgDyA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g3BtDc-yeuxs-55YJv6w5RPgDyA/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g3BtDc-yeuxs-55YJv6w5RPgDyA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/27_SBFF370Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/7447128932822101678/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=7447128932822101678" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/7447128932822101678?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/7447128932822101678?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/27_SBFF370Y/advertisement-get-your-picture-with.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mgE1N2uCToo/TrSaweixFTI/AAAAAAAAAp0/e5aCdn2_yGI/s72-c/2santa.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/11/advertisement-get-your-picture-with.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0IMR3c6eip7ImA9WhRTE0o.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-6983272415534043743</id><published>2011-11-03T18:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T18:53:06.912-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-03T18:53:06.912-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">So honored to be invited to this Saturday's HeartLA Romance Readers Luncheon in Baton Rouge, LA. Hope you'll join us!&lt;a href="http://heartla.com/luncheon/index.htm"&gt;Romance Readers Luncheon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-6983272415534043743?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6eoihTJoPSqJnXcFW9_gT-seJ7A/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6eoihTJoPSqJnXcFW9_gT-seJ7A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6eoihTJoPSqJnXcFW9_gT-seJ7A/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6eoihTJoPSqJnXcFW9_gT-seJ7A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/BsVuisanga4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/6983272415534043743/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=6983272415534043743" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/6983272415534043743?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/6983272415534043743?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/BsVuisanga4/so-honored-to-be-invited-to-this.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/11/so-honored-to-be-invited-to-this.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUYFQ388cCp7ImA9WhRTEE0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-2589822274060706630</id><published>2011-10-30T13:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T13:38:32.178-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-30T13:38:32.178-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">I had a blast at&amp;nbsp;the Louisiana Book Festival this weekend&amp;nbsp;and wanted to be sure that I could give back to the festival, so here's the deal. For every Kindle copy of my book sold through November 29th, $1 will be donated to the Louisiana Library Foundation. And remember: Carpe the Buffet!! &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--VKxruszl10/Tq21oULL9TI/AAAAAAAAApk/yxFAI8eW1T0/s1600/Ebook+Front+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" ida="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--VKxruszl10/Tq21oULL9TI/AAAAAAAAApk/yxFAI8eW1T0/s320/Ebook+Front+Cover.jpg" width="203" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;amp;field-keywords=in+celebration+of+elastic+waistbands"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Celebration of Elastic Waistbands on Kindle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-2589822274060706630?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KAONz-mtU_SvPCJtX7QGyi7Fzsw/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KAONz-mtU_SvPCJtX7QGyi7Fzsw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KAONz-mtU_SvPCJtX7QGyi7Fzsw/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KAONz-mtU_SvPCJtX7QGyi7Fzsw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/jiAV3Dm5Jh0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/2589822274060706630/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=2589822274060706630" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/2589822274060706630?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/2589822274060706630?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/jiAV3Dm5Jh0/i-had-blast-at-louisiana-book-festival.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--VKxruszl10/Tq21oULL9TI/AAAAAAAAApk/yxFAI8eW1T0/s72-c/Ebook+Front+Cover.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-had-blast-at-louisiana-book-festival.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUIDSHw6eyp7ImA9WhdaGE0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-2641875631454383480</id><published>2011-10-28T06:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T06:12:59.213-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-28T06:12:59.213-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Public Service Announcement: Bear Safety&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NMKCY0Yl52Q/Tqqp_UZJ2hI/AAAAAAAAApM/F8l-_Pkac2s/s1600/bear-problem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="238" ida="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NMKCY0Yl52Q/Tqqp_UZJ2hI/AAAAAAAAApM/F8l-_Pkac2s/s320/bear-problem.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
Forgive me for the use of the bad word for 'poop' near the end of this sign.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-2641875631454383480?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5Z_GyJgQtrrhAZzafoSi_iED-h8/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5Z_GyJgQtrrhAZzafoSi_iED-h8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5Z_GyJgQtrrhAZzafoSi_iED-h8/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5Z_GyJgQtrrhAZzafoSi_iED-h8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/1TRIRS7hfhA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/2641875631454383480/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=2641875631454383480" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/2641875631454383480?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/2641875631454383480?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/1TRIRS7hfhA/public-service-announcement-bear-safety.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NMKCY0Yl52Q/Tqqp_UZJ2hI/AAAAAAAAApM/F8l-_Pkac2s/s72-c/bear-problem.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/public-service-announcement-bear-safety.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkAGQ3wyeSp7ImA9WhdaF08.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-1826152640281853583</id><published>2011-10-27T07:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-27T07:12:02.291-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-27T07:12:02.291-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="daily laugh" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="funny signs" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="daily humor" /><title /><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does this sign make me sound crotchety?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vcFBjHoeTak/TqllrNaVWCI/AAAAAAAAApE/3__CjS2fyWo/s1600/doorbell+sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" ida="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vcFBjHoeTak/TqllrNaVWCI/AAAAAAAAApE/3__CjS2fyWo/s320/doorbell+sign.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good. That's what I was going for...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-1826152640281853583?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/nT5vq-_-nL82q8fqfIqXkDcH4-w/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/nT5vq-_-nL82q8fqfIqXkDcH4-w/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/nT5vq-_-nL82q8fqfIqXkDcH4-w/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/nT5vq-_-nL82q8fqfIqXkDcH4-w/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/IsHxWeZXqOU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/1826152640281853583/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=1826152640281853583" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/1826152640281853583?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/1826152640281853583?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/IsHxWeZXqOU/does-this-sign-make-me-sound-crotchety.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vcFBjHoeTak/TqllrNaVWCI/AAAAAAAAApE/3__CjS2fyWo/s72-c/doorbell+sign.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/does-this-sign-make-me-sound-crotchety.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DU8EQXw_eSp7ImA9WhdaFUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-4632634705321117528</id><published>2011-10-25T11:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-25T11:36:40.241-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-25T11:36:40.241-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hhVB_DUmY6g/TqcBP7SsF6I/AAAAAAAAAo8/iv-ZDQ9euDQ/s1600/grocery1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ida="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hhVB_DUmY6g/TqcBP7SsF6I/AAAAAAAAAo8/iv-ZDQ9euDQ/s1600/grocery1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;This here ad is fer Winder Cleaner. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Turlet Cleaner is more spensiv. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-4632634705321117528?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_UCF837FD4wdTeXhIdvHPNQyTo4/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_UCF837FD4wdTeXhIdvHPNQyTo4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_UCF837FD4wdTeXhIdvHPNQyTo4/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_UCF837FD4wdTeXhIdvHPNQyTo4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/LBBpkHTpP-k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/4632634705321117528/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=4632634705321117528" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/4632634705321117528?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/4632634705321117528?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/LBBpkHTpP-k/this-here-ad-is-fer-winder-cleaner.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hhVB_DUmY6g/TqcBP7SsF6I/AAAAAAAAAo8/iv-ZDQ9euDQ/s72-c/grocery1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/this-here-ad-is-fer-winder-cleaner.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEAEQHozfSp7ImA9WhdaE08.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-4012374979671261319</id><published>2011-10-22T15:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-22T15:31:41.485-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-22T15:31:41.485-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">Authors are now in the driver's seat. Join me at the session on non-traditional publishing at La. Book Fest October 29. &lt;a href="http://www.louisianabookfestival.org/Author_Atwood.html"&gt;http://www.louisianabookfestival.org/Author_Atwood.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-4012374979671261319?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uBZnFT1-E6h2suWFtmbQwDg1tBc/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uBZnFT1-E6h2suWFtmbQwDg1tBc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uBZnFT1-E6h2suWFtmbQwDg1tBc/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uBZnFT1-E6h2suWFtmbQwDg1tBc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/BpQ451Yyyo4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/4012374979671261319/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=4012374979671261319" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/4012374979671261319?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/4012374979671261319?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/BpQ451Yyyo4/authors-are-now-in-drivers-seat.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/authors-are-now-in-drivers-seat.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0MEQHs9fip7ImA9WhdaEUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-5351993896228555043</id><published>2011-10-20T05:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-20T05:56:41.566-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-20T05:56:41.566-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-niv5xsEWkU0/TqAaSkmTu_I/AAAAAAAAAo0/ZoC75hxcLFY/s1600/murder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="189" rda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-niv5xsEWkU0/TqAaSkmTu_I/AAAAAAAAAo0/ZoC75hxcLFY/s320/murder.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Headline: Prosecutors want victim in courtroom during murder trial. Does anyone else see this as a bad idea?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-5351993896228555043?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eodlEmzXhK26WJemM4uy5oMML9o/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eodlEmzXhK26WJemM4uy5oMML9o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eodlEmzXhK26WJemM4uy5oMML9o/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eodlEmzXhK26WJemM4uy5oMML9o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/1s_hv9uqVwk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/5351993896228555043/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=5351993896228555043" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/5351993896228555043?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/5351993896228555043?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/1s_hv9uqVwk/headline-prosecutors-want-victim-in.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-niv5xsEWkU0/TqAaSkmTu_I/AAAAAAAAAo0/ZoC75hxcLFY/s72-c/murder.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/headline-prosecutors-want-victim-in.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUYBSX87eSp7ImA9WhdbFkw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-3058105939235075055</id><published>2011-10-14T10:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-14T10:25:58.101-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-14T10:25:58.101-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ximnht7DoHo/TphwEGi4L4I/AAAAAAAAAok/2095qfWnz9o/s1600/chess.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="228" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ximnht7DoHo/TphwEGi4L4I/AAAAAAAAAok/2095qfWnz9o/s320/chess.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font: 7pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font: 7pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;A computer once beat me at chess, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;but it was no match for me at kickboxing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; - &lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Emo Philips&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;
﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-3058105939235075055?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TVXtv1Y2Dcp-dZp2kqUMZhyfqtQ/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TVXtv1Y2Dcp-dZp2kqUMZhyfqtQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TVXtv1Y2Dcp-dZp2kqUMZhyfqtQ/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TVXtv1Y2Dcp-dZp2kqUMZhyfqtQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/WGdAfOCqsFw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/3058105939235075055/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=3058105939235075055" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/3058105939235075055?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/3058105939235075055?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/WGdAfOCqsFw/computer-once-beat-me-at-chess-but-it.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ximnht7DoHo/TphwEGi4L4I/AAAAAAAAAok/2095qfWnz9o/s72-c/chess.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/computer-once-beat-me-at-chess-but-it.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUYNR3kyeSp7ImA9WhdbFEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-8417285330566654964</id><published>2011-10-12T19:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-12T19:33:16.791-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-12T19:33:16.791-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x5Krg6j99lQ/TpZNW8PqqDI/AAAAAAAAAoc/f7csqyRJgDI/s1600/you+take+it.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="180" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x5Krg6j99lQ/TpZNW8PqqDI/AAAAAAAAAoc/f7csqyRJgDI/s320/you+take+it.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In the thief's defense, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;if you ha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;ve a building on&amp;nbsp;"U Take It Road", &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;you're pretty much asking for it... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-8417285330566654964?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/D2oX_3uVaIN83wA6h2xAPGewS8Y/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/D2oX_3uVaIN83wA6h2xAPGewS8Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/D2oX_3uVaIN83wA6h2xAPGewS8Y/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/D2oX_3uVaIN83wA6h2xAPGewS8Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/HoaGjO9Bprc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/8417285330566654964/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=8417285330566654964" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/8417285330566654964?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/8417285330566654964?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/HoaGjO9Bprc/in-thiefs-defense-if-you-ha-ve-building.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x5Krg6j99lQ/TpZNW8PqqDI/AAAAAAAAAoc/f7csqyRJgDI/s72-c/you+take+it.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/in-thiefs-defense-if-you-ha-ve-building.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DE4DRXk7cCp7ImA9WhdbEkQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-422698387678091834</id><published>2011-10-10T18:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T18:36:14.708-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-10T18:36:14.708-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_U2kSmS_0DI/TpOdWKcDn4I/AAAAAAAAAoU/QgW8rH4vWz4/s1600/deergrazingandkayaking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="142" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_U2kSmS_0DI/TpOdWKcDn4I/AAAAAAAAAoU/QgW8rH4vWz4/s320/deergrazingandkayaking.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I didn't know deer went in for kayaking. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I thought they preferred soccer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-422698387678091834?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ptpv6R2vpi0bH7co1UksUCT8wXM/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ptpv6R2vpi0bH7co1UksUCT8wXM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ptpv6R2vpi0bH7co1UksUCT8wXM/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ptpv6R2vpi0bH7co1UksUCT8wXM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/ommnkzwms9I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/422698387678091834/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=422698387678091834" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/422698387678091834?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/422698387678091834?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/ommnkzwms9I/i-didnt-know-deer-went-in-for-kayaking.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_U2kSmS_0DI/TpOdWKcDn4I/AAAAAAAAAoU/QgW8rH4vWz4/s72-c/deergrazingandkayaking.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-didnt-know-deer-went-in-for-kayaking.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0EHRHg6eyp7ImA9WhdbEUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-5274166512659508149</id><published>2011-10-09T07:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-09T07:13:55.613-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-09T07:13:55.613-07:00</app:edited><title>You say "potato", I say "Homicide"</title><content type="html">Slight error in headline: &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p-dEyjBzVTs/TpGr3w4wjKI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/fK8WjnWOm2A/s1600/XKjFB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="196" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p-dEyjBzVTs/TpGr3w4wjKI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/fK8WjnWOm2A/s320/XKjFB.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
Headline read "Stolen groceries" instead of "Homicide" ... yeah, that's an understandable mistake.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-5274166512659508149?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VbvJcIqa_AxCkXdElXZN6wVhOSI/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VbvJcIqa_AxCkXdElXZN6wVhOSI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VbvJcIqa_AxCkXdElXZN6wVhOSI/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VbvJcIqa_AxCkXdElXZN6wVhOSI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/s3nB6ODFDPE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/5274166512659508149/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=5274166512659508149" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/5274166512659508149?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/5274166512659508149?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/s3nB6ODFDPE/you-say-potato-i-say-homicide.html" title="You say &quot;potato&quot;, I say &quot;Homicide&quot;" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p-dEyjBzVTs/TpGr3w4wjKI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/fK8WjnWOm2A/s72-c/XKjFB.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/you-say-potato-i-say-homicide.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CE8MQXo_eSp7ImA9WhdbEE4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-450881196854436391</id><published>2011-10-07T17:14:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-07T17:14:40.441-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-07T17:14:40.441-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2o1_1kUh01Y/To-V2Xv3kII/AAAAAAAAAoM/rQ1IHxe8_PA/s1600/But+UnSeriously+Folks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2o1_1kUh01Y/To-V2Xv3kII/AAAAAAAAAoM/rQ1IHxe8_PA/s320/But+UnSeriously+Folks.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
I'll be the featured speaker tomorrow at the 2011 Women's Conference in Baton Rouge. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The funny part of this? I don't have a voice right now. Throat is swollen and sore from allergies, so I've restructured this into an "audience participation" event. &lt;br /&gt;
Come join us and point at the girl who sounds like a frog. Info at http://www.wcgbr.com/news/main.asp?id=43&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-450881196854436391?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eScJFPk1DRT6ZSW8MRnmHGwCe48/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eScJFPk1DRT6ZSW8MRnmHGwCe48/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eScJFPk1DRT6ZSW8MRnmHGwCe48/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eScJFPk1DRT6ZSW8MRnmHGwCe48/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/tW7N5iSQ5ZA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/450881196854436391/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=450881196854436391" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/450881196854436391?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/450881196854436391?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/tW7N5iSQ5ZA/ill-be-featured-speaker-tomorrow-at.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2o1_1kUh01Y/To-V2Xv3kII/AAAAAAAAAoM/rQ1IHxe8_PA/s72-c/But+UnSeriously+Folks.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/ill-be-featured-speaker-tomorrow-at.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkQARX48fyp7ImA9WhdUGEk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-8391457168011652620</id><published>2011-10-05T11:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T11:45:44.077-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-05T11:45:44.077-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And under the heading of "missing the point": &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Headline: Parents keep kids home to protest school closure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bsv9eVyQxgY/Toyloo4A6BI/AAAAAAAAAoI/MxJmCsnIddk/s1600/huh1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="174" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bsv9eVyQxgY/Toyloo4A6BI/AAAAAAAAAoI/MxJmCsnIddk/s320/huh1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-8391457168011652620?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Xn22shmigFaqpSQ1igS3uKCcbNU/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Xn22shmigFaqpSQ1igS3uKCcbNU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Xn22shmigFaqpSQ1igS3uKCcbNU/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Xn22shmigFaqpSQ1igS3uKCcbNU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/Zve9QP45ezg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/8391457168011652620/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=8391457168011652620" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/8391457168011652620?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/8391457168011652620?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/Zve9QP45ezg/and-under-heading-of-missing-point.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bsv9eVyQxgY/Toyloo4A6BI/AAAAAAAAAoI/MxJmCsnIddk/s72-c/huh1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/and-under-heading-of-missing-point.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkIFQng5fCp7ImA9WhdUF0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-3596901224093534423</id><published>2011-10-04T10:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-04T10:48:33.624-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-04T10:48:33.624-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">Thank you to the great folks at Alexandria Sr. High who allowed me to speak at their Honor Roll Breakfast this morning. It was such a kick and I met some great and smart kids. Guess I'll meet them again when I apply to them for a job someday!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;amp;field-keywords=in+celebration+of+elastic+waistbands"&gt;Buy the book!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-3596901224093534423?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wZDsisrKW3o0ZAfRL12lT8MK6Yg/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wZDsisrKW3o0ZAfRL12lT8MK6Yg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wZDsisrKW3o0ZAfRL12lT8MK6Yg/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wZDsisrKW3o0ZAfRL12lT8MK6Yg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/3AYv5qAdy0g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/3596901224093534423/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=3596901224093534423" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/3596901224093534423?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/3596901224093534423?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/3AYv5qAdy0g/thank-you-to-great-folks-at-alexandria.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/10/thank-you-to-great-folks-at-alexandria.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkEFRHc7fip7ImA9WhdUEUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2051238601769116602.post-4682623503286206900</id><published>2011-09-27T10:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-27T10:30:15.906-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-09-27T10:30:15.906-07:00</app:edited><title /><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Headline: Man called 911 requesting a hooker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kft8IUouh6s/ToIH8qWqV-I/AAAAAAAAAoE/TCWOICjOQ5g/s1600/hooker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kft8IUouh6s/ToIH8qWqV-I/AAAAAAAAAoE/TCWOICjOQ5g/s320/hooker.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I guess he had a different idea of what an emergency was...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2051238601769116602-4682623503286206900?l=elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FvczP48yb7gM3mLtd2i_iBOEESc/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FvczP48yb7gM3mLtd2i_iBOEESc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FvczP48yb7gM3mLtd2i_iBOEESc/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FvczP48yb7gM3mLtd2i_iBOEESc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~4/qJ-U7nt9Ovw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/feeds/4682623503286206900/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2051238601769116602&amp;postID=4682623503286206900" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/4682623503286206900?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2051238601769116602/posts/default/4682623503286206900?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElasticWaistbands/~3/qJ-U7nt9Ovw/headline-man-called-911-requesting.html" title="" /><author><name>Christee.biz</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_BG2TZLTgK_s/RxLOkJ2f87I/AAAAAAAAAA4/M7KKuPPiW0E/S259/Oak+Alley.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kft8IUouh6s/ToIH8qWqV-I/AAAAAAAAAoE/TCWOICjOQ5g/s72-c/hooker.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/2011/09/headline-man-called-911-requesting.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

