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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:creativeCommons="http://backend.userland.com/creativeCommonsRssModule" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>Moni's Random Raves</title><link>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/</link><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MonisRandomRaves" /><description>This is my space to blog my random rants and raves.
Come on in and stay a while.</description><language>en</language><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</managingEditor><lastBuildDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:44:52 PDT</lastBuildDate><generator>Blogger</generator><atom:id xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575</atom:id><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MonisRandomRaves" /><feedburner:info uri="monisrandomraves" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><geo:lat>29.760833</geo:lat><geo:long>-95.811044</geo:long><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><image><link>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/</link><url>http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif</url><title>Some Rights Reserved</title></image><item><title>I can't wait ...</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/YGmWU02IOy4/i-cant-wait.html</link><category>Alice I Have Been</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-3431621056730020357</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-01-12T09:00:05.449-06:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">My copy of Alice I Have Been arrives today.   I have really been wanting to read this book since I first read about it.  It is the story of Alice Liddell Hargreave's life.  She is the Alice in Alice in Wonderland. The author, Melanie Benjamin, writes historical fiction focusing on the story behind the story.  Her next book out is The Autobiograpgy of Mrs. Tom Thumb.  


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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/YGmWU02IOy4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-cant-wait.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>I Have My life Back, sort of</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/nConjn69xqI/i-have-my-life-back-sort-of.html</link><category>fibromyalgia</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:24:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-3659643410897130446</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2011-01-11T14:25:28.659-06:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">Wow have I been gone a really long time.  My quality of life was slowly slipping away.  I was hurting all over and feeling weak and fatigued.  Even though I was going to the gym to work out twice a week I just never felt good.  In June 2010 I ended up with torn cartilage in my knee and had surgery.  I spent about 4 months in physical therapy to get my knee to straighten and bend completely.  It </atom:summary><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/nConjn69xqI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-have-my-life-back-sort-of.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Texas Blue Bonnets in full bloom</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/nPZYjJoSD2s/texas-blue-bonnets-in-full-bloom.html</link><category>texas blue bonnets</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:20:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-798626772464591194</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2009-04-05T15:31:19.441-05:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;</atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aYcFxbP9Pjo/SdkUrOj_p3I/AAAAAAAAAbo/FJTkxVwTPxc/s72-c/sofimom.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=nPZYjJoSD2s:-OTKow_aPys:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=nPZYjJoSD2s:-OTKow_aPys:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/nPZYjJoSD2s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2009/04/texas-blue-bonnets-in-full-bloom.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Pimp this Bum - Help homeless</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/Obx297f1FxM/pimp-this-bum-help-homeless.html</link><category>help homeless</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:19:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-5757929766682860874</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2009-03-08T11:37:02.445-05:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;This guy has been living about 5 miles from me.Check out his Website: Pimp This Bum</atom:summary><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/Obx297f1FxM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2009/03/pimp-this-bum-help-homeless.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Feminine or Masculine?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/SeeP6sL7l_s/feminine-or-masculine.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:48:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-3120824828526928438</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2009-03-06T05:48:00.471-06:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;Ok so I know this is really "out there" but it just occurred to me while watching a bra commercial on TV.    The women referred to their breast as "the girls".  I believe it should be the boys.  Why?  Duh...have you ever met a guy that was not</atom:summary><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=SeeP6sL7l_s:Dh06dTu5LKY:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=SeeP6sL7l_s:Dh06dTu5LKY:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/SeeP6sL7l_s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2009/03/feminine-or-masculine.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>My Cooper is a Boy Scout now!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/QRlRJPCrTTY/my-cooper-is-boy-scout-now.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:46:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-8518177031626102220</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2009-03-05T05:46:00.675-06:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!-- amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20"; amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0; amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0; amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15"; amzn_cl_exact_match=1;//--&gt;Make a Smilebox slideshow</atom:summary><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/QRlRJPCrTTY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-cooper-is-boy-scout-now.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Did you know?  Great Video</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/rbQ1rE-0w1o/did-you-know-great-video.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:38:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-3585053840993596342</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2009-03-04T20:43:27.415-06:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;Must see video</atom:summary><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=rbQ1rE-0w1o:mikrHZKlDHc:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=rbQ1rE-0w1o:mikrHZKlDHc:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/rbQ1rE-0w1o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2009/03/did-you-know-great-video.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Where does a woman's money go?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/APso_2RTeT4/where-does-womans-money-go.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:45:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-8528591693303422303</guid><enclosure url="http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=a5135f69d4203720&amp;type=video%2Fmp4" length="0" type="video/mp4" /><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2009-03-01T21:51:25.972-06:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;This was too cute not to share:




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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/TQgl9lI-YHg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-little-girl-rocks-court.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Puttin' Up</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/pFkUDl4JtH8/puttin-up.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:46:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-1062240166122255471</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2008-11-10T17:53:28.298-06:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">In my life I do alot of "Puttin' Up".   This time I am "Puttin Up" in the old fashion sense of the phrase... storing food, canning, freezing and such.   Since I like to cook I often need fresh red, yellow, and green peppers but only a small amount of each.  I got tired of having to throw out the unused portions so now I buy a bunch, chop them up with onion, put them into these mini muffin pans.  </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aYcFxbP9Pjo/SRjIC2DuVPI/AAAAAAAAAVc/iILWWf0wupc/s72-c/004.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=pFkUDl4JtH8:7LKJPkwIMHg:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=pFkUDl4JtH8:7LKJPkwIMHg:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/pFkUDl4JtH8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2008/11/puttin-up.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Wings Over Houston 2008 - Thunderbirds Rock!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/t_zuhTKypdY/wings-over-houston-2008-thunderbirds.html</link><category>Black Hawk Helicopter</category><category>F 18 Hornet</category><category>Harrier Jet</category><category>Apache Helicopter</category><category>Thunderbirds</category><category>Wings Over Houston</category><category>air show</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:29:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-4055720799685852309</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2008-10-27T14:08:13.651-05:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;Hear me RAVE!  My husband and I made our annual visit to the Wings Over Houston Airshow today.  We purchased special seating so we would not have to carry chairs, rush to get a "good" spot, get our "good" spot encroached on, littered on, </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aYcFxbP9Pjo/SQXSHZ2XZWI/AAAAAAAAASQ/Nr8s5TB5yNI/s72-c/IMG_0390.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=t_zuhTKypdY:nSGZ2Mz_yIE:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=t_zuhTKypdY:nSGZ2Mz_yIE:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/t_zuhTKypdY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2008/10/wings-over-houston-2008-thunderbirds.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Cool!  I'm a Ferrari 360 Modena</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/zGhFVMXW35E/cool-im-ferrari-360-modena.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:56:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-2944356221719972033</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2008-10-20T22:57:28.681-05:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">I'm a Ferrari 360 Modena!You've got it all.  Power, passion, precision, and style. You're sensuous, exotic, and temperamental.  Sure, you're expensive and high-maintenance, but you're worth it."Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;</atom:summary><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=zGhFVMXW35E:XHIIls6iDjU:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=zGhFVMXW35E:XHIIls6iDjU:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/zGhFVMXW35E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2008/10/cool-im-ferrari-360-modena.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Turn off that shower!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/v153aDgxrvY/turn-off-that-shower.html</link><category>water conservation</category><category>showering</category><category>children</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:41:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-96098599160867001</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2008-10-14T14:40:35.940-05:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;Turn off that shower! I seem to be saying this like one buzzillion times a week.   My kids take the longest showers.   Hello, the cast for High School Musical has already been picked and the movie made.  The hot water can not possibly last </atom:summary><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=v153aDgxrvY:W9IR9dnF6ps:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=v153aDgxrvY:W9IR9dnF6ps:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/v153aDgxrvY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2008/10/turn-off-that-shower.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Pray, Eat, Love</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/CIAOuVv-QMc/pray-eat-love.html</link><category>books</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:30:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-4252220457181376582</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2008-10-05T22:28:38.446-05:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;Eat, Pray, Love     by Elizabeth Gilbert.  Gotta love this book!!!  I read this book and share it with everyone.  Come to think of it, I haven't seen it in a while.  Note to self...get it back!!It is a true memoir of a woman in her 30's who </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aYcFxbP9Pjo/SOmC3v8OpUI/AAAAAAAAAN0/X6V1GF6oN8k/s72-c/eatpraylove.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=CIAOuVv-QMc:3M0C-4O7I64:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=CIAOuVv-QMc:3M0C-4O7I64:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/CIAOuVv-QMc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2008/09/pray-eat-love.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>I love Boxing</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/_Yw-9qFc8vk/i-love-boxing.html</link><category>boxin</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:44:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-917707431279672532</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2008-10-01T15:13:11.081-05:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;I love to watch boxing, usually HBO Boxing After Dark on Saturday nights.  Really, I like it. This is something my hubby and I enjoy together.  Last weekend my husband and I watched Sugar Shane Mosley knock out  Mayorga in the final seconds of</atom:summary><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=_Yw-9qFc8vk:t5Dl5EOSPpU:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=_Yw-9qFc8vk:t5Dl5EOSPpU:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/_Yw-9qFc8vk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-love-boxing.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>To buy or not to buy.</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/dPMshQnDLg4/to-buy-or-not-to-buy.html</link><category>husband</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:52:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-4683287739346373826</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2008-10-01T12:31:05.648-05:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;My husband really, really, really wants a new camera.   He has been waiting for a new model that is technologically advanced enough to be worth making the change and paying the high price.  I think it is over 2 grand.    He works hard, make a </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aYcFxbP9Pjo/SOKGg6Q5JwI/AAAAAAAAAJk/82hL_JMHVmU/s72-c/coop.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=dPMshQnDLg4:p4GvRC6APFc:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=dPMshQnDLg4:p4GvRC6APFc:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/dPMshQnDLg4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2008/10/to-buy-or-not-to-buy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Have you hugged your BFF today</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/ESgVcx96CKQ/have-you-hugged-your-bff-today.html</link><category>friendship</category><category>friends</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:29:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-3983550959140203828</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2008-09-30T14:49:40.794-05:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;I just want to say something about friends.    Being an Air force brat,  I move all the time.   I always had a best friend everywhere I went.   Friends were replaceable. They come and go I soon found out.  I met a friend when I was nine years </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aYcFxbP9Pjo/SOKCSw2giBI/AAAAAAAAAJM/8e5MMgY1bro/s72-c/027.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=ESgVcx96CKQ:Z3qHhHm9vhM:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?a=ESgVcx96CKQ:Z3qHhHm9vhM:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MonisRandomRaves?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~4/ESgVcx96CKQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://monisrandomraves.blogspot.com/2008/09/have-you-hugged-your-bff-today.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>I remain invisible</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MonisRandomRaves/~3/mlUFpKU_YD4/i-remain-invisible.html</link><category>husband</category><category>blogging</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Monika)</author><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:59:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570508776152681575.post-690743134595081768</guid><atom:updated xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">2008-10-01T12:31:19.859-05:00</atom:updated><atom:summary xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">&lt;!--  amzn_cl_tag="congarwitagre-20";  amzn_cl_show_buy_btn=0;  amzn_cl_average_customer_rating=0;  amzn_cl_bg_color="9DED15";  amzn_cl_exact_match=1; //--&gt;Hi and welcome to my blog.   I hope you find it interesting or entertaining.  Well, the truth be told I am just happy that someone has found it.  I actually enjoy blogging but I think I would really love it if I had an actual following.   It </atom:summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aYcFxbP9Pjo/SOKDe4ZAymI/AAAAAAAAAJc/tejmNVCuojc/s72-c/067.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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