<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:36:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Awkward Moment</category><category>Day-to-Day</category><category>Holidays</category><category>30 Days of Truth</category><category>Blackberry</category><category>Life in Bullets</category><category>Cosmetic Mishap</category><category>Picture Day</category><category>Reader Notice</category><category>Road Rage</category><category>Sickness</category><category>Work</category><title>My So-Called Life</title><description></description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>38</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-4778313726289254101</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-17T09:47:36.354-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sickness</category><title>Hitgirl Reborn?</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Yes, yes, I know what you&#39;re thinking: I&#39;ve been dead since December and I didn&#39;t make it into the new year. Well I&#39;m not dead, well not really, although that&#39;s the only excuse I can think of for neglecting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; my blog.&lt;/span&gt; Although, I might as well be dying, what with all the fever, muscle soreness, headaches, sore throat, sneezing, coughing, runny nose, pale skin and all the other lovely things the blessing called the flu brings with it. I&#39;ve done nothing but eat, sleep, and catch up on episodes of &quot;House&quot; while sprawled across my bed. Well I did go to school once... slept in the carpark for 2 hours, went to a one hour class, had another 10 minute nap in the car then made my way home.&lt;br /&gt;
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You guys should be proud of me, I&#39;m on my death bed after all... That&#39;s worth something right?? I&#39;m hyped up on so many meds I can&#39;t name them all. Looking back that was incredibly stupid: not only do I now have the appetite of a giraffe but the meds didn&#39;t work too well together and now I&#39;m sporting an fashionable rash showing my allergic reaction to my medicinal cocktail. At least I&#39;m getting better, I&#39;ve got that tiger blood and dying is for losers, &lt;i&gt;winning! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;***Puffs Tissues with Lotion: FANTASTIC!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2011/03/hitgirl-reborn.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNLyvPpyOsroHKXrtEKvgvccdKMV5PxxZVD1HTVmB8UFpsVk2TsmUmEAKoNIH1MwJokNxEGWcbz-nyNcT67nOTc7MSx0fKUZ0E1PYUIMjIfIUFgBIf4K0bnMg5frEmHLrq4Yk4NSadSg/s72-c/sick_girl.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-7706790907435381404</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-09T09:14:31.292-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Awkward Moment</category><title>Bon Appétit</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Since we were little this &quot;Say you too thing&quot; has been drilled into us, or is it just me? Little did I know it isn&#39;t always appropriate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Have a good day! | You too!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Hope you have a goodnight&#39;s rest! | You too!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Enjoy class! | You too! Get home safely! You too!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Who are going to dinner with? | X | :O You two?? lol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;You too, you too, you too, so many words in the English language and we can&#39;t bring ourselves to say anything else? Then again, we don&#39;t care enough to say anything else, you too is just a formality, a way to leave on a &#39;happy note&#39; I guess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I was out for lunch with a friend of mine and the waiter was as pleasant as I&#39;d imagine a waiter to be. He brought our drinks and about 20 minutes later the food arrives. He gave us the usual &quot;Hope you enjoy your meal!&quot; and what do I do?? I tell him, &quot;You too!&quot; As soon as the words left my mouth I wished I could suck them back in! The look the waiter gave me rendered me immobile save for tissue I was making into confetti. He just kind of stood there, with this look like he couldn&#39;t believe what I said and I couldn&#39;t believe what &lt;i&gt;he &lt;/i&gt;said. My friend was no help (you know who are) she sat there on her Blackberry like nothing was going on! The waiter said, &quot;I would &lt;i&gt;loooovve &lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;to get something to eat but &lt;b&gt;unfortunately &lt;/b&gt;for me I have to make sure all these people get their food!&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Friend: Well, &lt;i&gt;someone&#39;s &lt;/i&gt;grumpy.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I&#39;m just happy that was&amp;nbsp;said&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;after&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;we got our food! Who knows what unspeakable things would have been done to it if it was said prior :| Be nice to your waiter. Your life is on his tray.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/12/bon-appetit.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE3BYpyXyLIwhDfnLE87g5hfbrClMR45Q-r9_NpGOXkFi93kZ0lTQwatEuhMqdgT6bt_IaCSw1T-OV-3Xq1rdm1YKEHDYeMjOVGbXvJ_9cnCI2YpkP6Scn-SqHaExOm8JRWx1R2-YNkcM/s72-c/2342447880_25886b16df.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-3881739910126687668</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-07T20:39:24.067-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Holidays</category><title>A Girl&#39;s Gotta Do...</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5uyjLsj4C_sgAS68eZm_pSRFh5hdIpB4jahJIL-GyRMucf4uiIL677yl0uKQwDwLjyAAJDUMh8btgZ85zPR6L39GVsKWWBgGmYcMVdTUIplryw4zxfDgw0vX1duWwP6wQ9XRjK4lGeL0/s1600/snowlady.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5uyjLsj4C_sgAS68eZm_pSRFh5hdIpB4jahJIL-GyRMucf4uiIL677yl0uKQwDwLjyAAJDUMh8btgZ85zPR6L39GVsKWWBgGmYcMVdTUIplryw4zxfDgw0vX1duWwP6wQ9XRjK4lGeL0/s1600/snowlady.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/12/girls-gotta-do.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5uyjLsj4C_sgAS68eZm_pSRFh5hdIpB4jahJIL-GyRMucf4uiIL677yl0uKQwDwLjyAAJDUMh8btgZ85zPR6L39GVsKWWBgGmYcMVdTUIplryw4zxfDgw0vX1duWwP6wQ9XRjK4lGeL0/s72-c/snowlady.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-4981960195651378115</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-06T20:15:13.114-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Holidays</category><title>Support Elf Rights</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;How would you like slaving away &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;every day of the year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to grant everyone happiness and not get any recognition whatsoever? We are more than the little (and also cute) people who help Santa, we are what makes him! Without us he would be nothing. How else would he be able to make all those &lt;b&gt;and&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;pack everything up &lt;b&gt;and &lt;/b&gt;make sure all the reindeer are fed? I don&#39;t know if many people know this but Santa is a pretty lazy guy! All he does is fly around &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;one day a year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;gobbling up cookies and milk while us little people work in less than ideal conditions! I&#39;m fighting for a cause here, people! Work with me! Anyone interested can check&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-christmas-list-2010.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;for more information. All &lt;s&gt;we&lt;/s&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;I&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;want is a little recognition, you know? Make an elf smile this year!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/12/support-elf-rights.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3i674_0v2qBHiRA6FrPSCSoNMRIvnmMzx3f1r71gdsVazK5g8SI5esnBUfVzLIzEpt-SGmLaLbeVk5cxr_BhKmsjkrW7jkCvVvVbCTPMkMNjwwfqwCpOKgud6BxdLz1yvGAwvwLfGzQ/s72-c/245086410NZrayf_ph.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-8546217557597439679</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-06T08:25:15.231-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">30 Days of Truth</category><title>I Forgive Me</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 03 of 30 Days of Truth: &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/30-days-is-awful-long-time.html&quot;&gt;How It Started&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-wish-i-had-gavel.html&quot;&gt;Day 1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-imperfections.html&quot;&gt;Day 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;→ &lt;b&gt;Something you have to forgive yourself for.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;I have to&amp;nbsp;forgive&amp;nbsp;myself for being totally awesome and not giving anyone else time be awesome too :( It&#39;s a blessing and a curse I tell you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;I really can&#39;t think of anything, I&#39;ve pretty much forgiven myself of all my sins... I guess I could&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;forgive myself for being so worried about controlling every aspect of my life. I need to be in charge so much so that I let myself stagnate and suffer in silence. Also, I forgive myself for telling someone I thought their husband was their Dad, but that&#39;s another post. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/12/i-forgive-me.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-2361838741857312323</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-06T08:12:21.131-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Holidays</category><title>My Christmas List 2010</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Dear Everyone Who Reads My Blog,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I know Christmas shopping can be a task and so I don&#39;t burden you with trying to figure out what to get me I&#39;ve compiled a short list of all the things I need to survive into the next year. If all of you come together and work something out, you can get me most if not everything on my list.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A toaster that holds 4 pieces of toast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Chainmail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A usuable replica of the sword that Shigure uses in &lt;i&gt;History&#39;s Strongest Disciple Kenichi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A panini maker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Blowdryer with a diffuser attachment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A pet snake/ostrich/llama or all 3, I already have names picked out :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Vespa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Skullcandy headphones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Foamy tees from illwillpress&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Nunchucks; I&#39;ll give myself lessons no tutor required&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Rock Band 3 and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;the instruments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Jet pack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;An illegal immigrant to do all the household things I don&#39;t want to: cleaning, washing etc (including the bathrooms!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Someone to wash my vespa daily&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A dark-haired Greek guy to fan me with palm leaves when I get hot; after all I live in the tropics!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The pink blob called Morph from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Treasure Planet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Hard copies of all the &lt;i&gt;Glee &lt;/i&gt;soundtracks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A new laptop; must say &quot;Hello, Master&quot; every time I turn it on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A gay best friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A twin brother; I&#39;ve always wanted one&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Taser&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Lifetime supply of Nutella&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Disney&#39;s Beauty and the Beast; blu-ray&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Nikon coolpix camera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A video of Stephen King singing me happy birthday; he must say my full name in the video&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I told you it was a short list! I&#39;ll be the easiest person to shop for this Christmas :)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Thank you all in advance,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;~Michelle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0FzqHmFMNof2GxkHJscMXth6I8spWmM6oIjgBukGmDhEEPrUfda0NpZW6xArHJ8LesVkajlGUOGZuOwcawnwq2oLgRR_bzmGOqM_l7S-p8gJyFmGzj6LQysOxxWEIKHHvxs6HAUFens/s1600/xmas_list.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0FzqHmFMNof2GxkHJscMXth6I8spWmM6oIjgBukGmDhEEPrUfda0NpZW6xArHJ8LesVkajlGUOGZuOwcawnwq2oLgRR_bzmGOqM_l7S-p8gJyFmGzj6LQysOxxWEIKHHvxs6HAUFens/s320/xmas_list.jpg&quot; width=&quot;238&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-christmas-list-2010.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0FzqHmFMNof2GxkHJscMXth6I8spWmM6oIjgBukGmDhEEPrUfda0NpZW6xArHJ8LesVkajlGUOGZuOwcawnwq2oLgRR_bzmGOqM_l7S-p8gJyFmGzj6LQysOxxWEIKHHvxs6HAUFens/s72-c/xmas_list.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-1168681418527381976</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-04T19:32:09.163-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Holidays</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Picture Day</category><title>He Checked His List Twice Alright</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcYqzQGV_F8Fl8rahLsUkiPNObG2RV-1nExUOV7Gldyn_uxD9zZfa2xO7EIj4g-NkV2gNGeN-C7Oc-rgQ14IdTzpgVwCAySoFBPEjFDk8_YS4UsAsfqXfgFfL5eSzNjpPtCZyk2Zr6S3g/s1600/16card1.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcYqzQGV_F8Fl8rahLsUkiPNObG2RV-1nExUOV7Gldyn_uxD9zZfa2xO7EIj4g-NkV2gNGeN-C7Oc-rgQ14IdTzpgVwCAySoFBPEjFDk8_YS4UsAsfqXfgFfL5eSzNjpPtCZyk2Zr6S3g/s400/16card1.jpg&quot; width=&quot;277&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/12/foto-friday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcYqzQGV_F8Fl8rahLsUkiPNObG2RV-1nExUOV7Gldyn_uxD9zZfa2xO7EIj4g-NkV2gNGeN-C7Oc-rgQ14IdTzpgVwCAySoFBPEjFDk8_YS4UsAsfqXfgFfL5eSzNjpPtCZyk2Zr6S3g/s72-c/16card1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-6170920343600945596</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-02T16:12:13.394-04:00</atom:updated><title>The Little Engine That Could(If She Tried)</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Well I&#39;ve come to a decision! I&#39;m going to give &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nablopomo.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;NaBloPoMo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; another try! It&#39;s where everyday of the month I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;to post something. Last month *sigh* last month didn&#39;t work out too hot but I&#39;m gonna give it another try.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Hopefully I don&#39;t:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;procrastinate,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;get distracted, or&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;lose interest&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Although I&#39;m pretty sure all of the above will happen :( If I miss a day I&#39;ll blame it on my semester finals and my job. If I have my excse ready does it discredit it? Hope not. I&#39;m doing pretty well so far I think :) Yes I know it&#39;s only Day 2 :(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP62eS6fcu83d85L2STFFa17ziAdg22Sy_4QPQxnttLjQpJg6czc3PC0ujDQ5SSywAh3xT71tj2Pj1AIokI08qkvK4ahbomvmGhyxcKzKLZB9KWQiDcJdNQN6tvaAdhnztkCvUNPLrycM/s1600/nablo_typer_300px.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP62eS6fcu83d85L2STFFa17ziAdg22Sy_4QPQxnttLjQpJg6czc3PC0ujDQ5SSywAh3xT71tj2Pj1AIokI08qkvK4ahbomvmGhyxcKzKLZB9KWQiDcJdNQN6tvaAdhnztkCvUNPLrycM/s1600/nablo_typer_300px.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/12/little-engine-that-couldif-he-tried.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP62eS6fcu83d85L2STFFa17ziAdg22Sy_4QPQxnttLjQpJg6czc3PC0ujDQ5SSywAh3xT71tj2Pj1AIokI08qkvK4ahbomvmGhyxcKzKLZB9KWQiDcJdNQN6tvaAdhnztkCvUNPLrycM/s72-c/nablo_typer_300px.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-7266678390534693212</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-02T16:19:36.331-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Holidays</category><title>Be-Leaf</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Me: My Christmas tree came with pine cones on it :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;K: Why does your tree have pine cones that makes no sense&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Me: Are you serious?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;K: Yes... :s Michelle why on earth would your &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Christmas tree &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;pine cones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;???&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Me: It&#39;s a pine tree... and what do pine trees have?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;K: *mumbles*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Me: Pardon? I didn&#39;t quite catch that...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;K: [disgruntled] Pine cones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Me: Ding ding ding!!!! Aren&#39;t you a smart one :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/12/be-leaf.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIx_lW7GTwraYipez8GDytCLxb8__h7OhOEVZBhZmso2yYX1W2jNF2LeMDwOM8UdALcxwIVzpIgupB4C3RA9NF1wIM5WlUnFGjTy-zyHVXi0cyhLOOZmvwqCLyJS-AfXxr3gb6J6Y6I3s/s72-c/Pine+Tree.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-7399824624042943214</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-02T16:16:27.669-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Awkward Moment</category><title>This Is...</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s always weird bringing a new person into &quot;the fold&quot;. Well, I imagine it is for the new person, after all you&#39;re the only one they know and they have no idea if the others are going to like them. So the person doing the introductions should be their rock... Right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Some friends made plans on going to the beach so I figured, hey why not bring someone else along? I met my friends there around midday and my other friend was going to meet us there later on. She calls me and I walk over to where she was and as we were walking back to the group she&#39;s telling me how weird she feels because she doesn&#39;t know anyone there. Being the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;wonderful&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;friend that I am I offer words of encouragement and all that crap that good friends do. We get to where we set up camp and this is where everything got washed away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Me: Yeah, this is *mumbles*&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;My hope was that when they said pardon she would pipe up and say it but unfortunately...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fold Member: Huh? Her name is what?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Me: Why don&#39;t you guys ever listen when I talk??? *sigh*&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Another Fold Member: I didn&#39;t hear you either&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;By this time Nameless had wandered off to the shore and I wanted to bury my head in the sand...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Me: I can&#39;t remember her name so I&#39;m gonna go to the car and you guys call her over, ask her then bbm it to me :|&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fold Member: You are... Awful.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I can&#39;t believe I forgot her name!!!!! Let me explain a few things:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I met her through a friend just a couple days before&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I never bothered to put her name and number in my phone :( a mistake i will never make again&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I just like the number 3 and I hope this is enough to save me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I guess if you&#39;re gonna introduce someone to a group you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;should&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; know their name and I guess my mumble method wasn&#39;t the best approach but I was under pressure! There was nothing else for me to do. I wish I could tell you what her name was but... It appears I have forgotten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/12/this-is.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi6L_dDgH4Ev6cHRSECg0rTA61d5sHJk4OZS2o7gMeOrt6CTMpOvLgR_u6O_etJUxKDgznnpbZmygB4fjJuQZ-lMvUSbP8kbNcLo5gPAOXL2D_7f2tb0Mk0DjBdTky0by-2TVf1Xhz1jg/s72-c/1-introductions.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-8013562812329521902</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-01T14:56:02.794-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">30 Days of Truth</category><title>Perfect Imperfections</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Day 02 of the 30 Days of Truth: &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/30-days-is-awful-long-time.html&quot;&gt;How It Started&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-wish-i-had-gavel.html&quot;&gt;Day 1&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;→&amp;nbsp;Something you love about yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Well I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;generally awesome and simply fantastic, need I say more? Is it bad that I&#39;m not sure where to go with this? I&#39;m not certain what things I can list. I think what you don&#39;t like about yourself is easier to pinpoint than the stuff you do. Sure there&#39;s stuff I &lt;i&gt;like&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;about me, but love is quite a mouthful.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;I could say I love my quick wit or my dialectic thinking or the way I approach problems or any of the many (or few) reasons that aren&#39;t coming to me but that just wouldn&#39;t do it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;I guess I have to say that I love that I don&#39;t want to be anyone else but me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXgAmW_8FZ9gZN7XIwdiXUXMPCkycO7SN7h9xEOaX0VqKE5fdrUNMbmQ_b3JPN-tbXw31GGfHkAw_yfPDIIjnSxXSx6Rt8bPdMQwoc5InWAAe7tIQb8pxIST_hk5WIxFuer5ZJDj34pI/s1600/headered.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXgAmW_8FZ9gZN7XIwdiXUXMPCkycO7SN7h9xEOaX0VqKE5fdrUNMbmQ_b3JPN-tbXw31GGfHkAw_yfPDIIjnSxXSx6Rt8bPdMQwoc5InWAAe7tIQb8pxIST_hk5WIxFuer5ZJDj34pI/s1600/headered.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-imperfections.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXgAmW_8FZ9gZN7XIwdiXUXMPCkycO7SN7h9xEOaX0VqKE5fdrUNMbmQ_b3JPN-tbXw31GGfHkAw_yfPDIIjnSxXSx6Rt8bPdMQwoc5InWAAe7tIQb8pxIST_hk5WIxFuer5ZJDj34pI/s72-c/headered.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-1783384358744032262</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-30T15:28:08.111-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">30 Days of Truth</category><title>I Wish I had a Gavel</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 01 of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/30-days-is-awful-long-time.html&quot;&gt;30 Days of Truth&lt;/a&gt; →&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Something you hate about yourself.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I am completely and utterly unable to commit myself wholly to the task in front of me. A doctor could be telling me I have cancer and they caught it late leaving me 4 months left to live at most and I&#39;d be thinking: &lt;i&gt;Cancer, huh? Does the late diagnosis mean no radiation? At least I don&#39;t have to be bald, not sure I can pull that one off. You know who&#39;s bald? Montel Wiliams. Does he have cancer? Wait no I think it&#39;s MS. George was balding... Speaking of George Seinfeld was a good show, I wonder what they&#39;re all up to. Damn I&#39;m hungry. Did I have breakfast this morning? Can&#39;t remember. I&#39;m forgetting a lot of things lately, is that the cancer? Oh wait... I have cancer?! Why didn&#39;t anyone tell me?!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I also have what I have dubbed Starer&#39;s Disease. I can&#39;t help but stare at other human beings especially when something is not quite right with them... It&#39;s like I see them once and I can&#39;t help glancing back. Sometimes I don&#39;t even bother with glancing I just watch @_@ and hope they don&#39;t notice. Makes for awkward situations if I&#39;m ever caught like &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/10/9-seek-and-ye-shall-find.html&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/09/experience-2-you-dropped-something.html&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and others I haven&#39;t posted yet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I think that&#39;s all for this post. What do you hate about yourself?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmSCR6gdK2EqCyMWvku634Zuy9-ikPwClscymL7sriY2NGfIrTcXy6F-jqgAIyYuYRkuexTvY8TqjDCKTTSXKlHefgHjCgTp9MaapnLkPR9RrP-c7hlgHJ_CYeEHCcv5kdPq__xFbB7vQ/s1600/distracted.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmSCR6gdK2EqCyMWvku634Zuy9-ikPwClscymL7sriY2NGfIrTcXy6F-jqgAIyYuYRkuexTvY8TqjDCKTTSXKlHefgHjCgTp9MaapnLkPR9RrP-c7hlgHJ_CYeEHCcv5kdPq__xFbB7vQ/s320/distracted.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, &#39;Bitstream Charter&#39;, serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-wish-i-had-gavel.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmSCR6gdK2EqCyMWvku634Zuy9-ikPwClscymL7sriY2NGfIrTcXy6F-jqgAIyYuYRkuexTvY8TqjDCKTTSXKlHefgHjCgTp9MaapnLkPR9RrP-c7hlgHJ_CYeEHCcv5kdPq__xFbB7vQ/s72-c/distracted.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-5299637456275689746</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-30T17:22:12.193-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">30 Days of Truth</category><title>30 Days is an Awful Long Time</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Came across this&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thebeeskneesbaby.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and I thought it would be something fun to try. Not like I have anything else to do... although &lt;i&gt;I guess &lt;/i&gt;I could finish studying for finals and all that jazz but who am I kidding, I&#39;ll get around to it eventually! I&#39;m hot. I&#39;m grumpy and I&#39;m &lt;b&gt;not &lt;/b&gt;in a studying mood!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Day 01 → Something you hate about yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Day 02 → Something you love about yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;Day 03 → Something you have to forgive yourself for.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;Day 04 → Something you have to forgive someone for.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;Day 05 → Something you hope to do in your life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;Day 06 → Something you hope you never have to do.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 07 → Someone who has made your life worth living for.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 08 → Someone who made your life hell, or treated you like shit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 09 → Someone you didn’t want to let go, but just drifted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 10 → Someone you need to let go, or wish you didn’t know.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 11 → Something people seem to compliment you the most on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 12 → Something you never get compliments on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 13 → A band or artist that has gotten you through some tough ass days. (write a letter.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 14 → A hero that has let you down. (letter)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 15 → Something or someone you couldn’t live without, because you’ve tried living without it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 16 → Someone or something you definitely could live without.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 17 → A book you’ve read that changed your views on something.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 18 → Your views on gay marriage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 19 → What do you think of religion? Or what do you think of politics?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 20 → Your views on&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;drugs and alcohol&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 21 → (scenario) Your best friend is in a car accident and you two got into a fight an hour before. What do you do?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 22 → Something you wish you hadn’t done in your life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 23 → Something you wish you had done in your life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 24 → Make a playlist to someone, and explain why you chose all the songs. (Just post the titles and artists and letter)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 25 → The reason you believe you’re still alive today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 26 → Have you ever thought about giving up on life? If so, when and why?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 27 → What’s the best thing going for you right now?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 28 → What if you were pregnant or got someone pregnant, what would you do?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 29 → Something you hope to change about yourself. And why.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 23px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Day 30 → A letter to yourself, tell yourself EVERYTHING you love about yourself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: &#39;century gothic&#39;; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/30-days-is-awful-long-time.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilR97rq1HhVwZ81CSdp3JyDArABvX572YKEZrP1bdXJAQ9UnVgYvDaLuwm1M3kxI_ZMSXegdXZ4nwhB0jrNu26BrT8AQRR0efc0tFIQIBIHBfkLks7qKvUn4I5DWWeXAuO0ZRt7XY-qTA/s72-c/judgejudy02.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-1205829892336682680</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-30T14:59:19.488-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Holidays</category><title>Happy Independence!</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s Independence Day! It&#39;s Independence Day!&amp;nbsp;It&#39;s Independence Day! It&#39;s Independence Day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;And what am I doing to celebrate?? Not a thing -_- Well I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;did&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;make pone which my father singlehandedly ate one-thirds of!! My mother thought herself rather useful in the process but all she did was crack the eggs. She didn&#39;t even beat them for me and she left the egg shell on the counter... Some help she is. It turned out pretty great regardless and I did my own little mini-pone which they will never see!!!! It&#39;s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;mine all mine!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s about time my Christmas tree was erected but it&#39;s so much work! Hopefully my sister helps or one of you lovely readers, Che? ;) Please? :L No? Sigh... Fine! If you don&#39;t help you&#39;ll be getting no presents from me! None! The decorations at work are up :D Ro did them and it looks fantastic, I feel so Chrismassy! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I really should get to studying though :( But I have something better :D &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/30-days-is-awful-long-time.html&quot;&gt;30 Days of Truth&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/happy-independence.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZ_QEXdZTb0B60P6uMSqJ73sbc5ue3P1kgHvN_Vf8awjBl-eGCCqWX0xDKhllvkAj0GVjoIIL0ktzf9gdy0qE3JNzbgjS42xaRIYuL1TebEUvQBXotL1D6zzgIA6Ht7UZCxG0r6fBSWs/s72-c/Barbados0406EGloss.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-2545324972438270121</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-30T17:23:14.500-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life in Bullets</category><title>It&#39;s Windy and I have a lot of Papers</title><description>&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;There are bats living in my ceiling. Bats are rather noisy creatures bustling around all the time... I thought when we were hit by the storm it would&#39;ve killed them but they&#39;re tough little bastards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;No one wants to get me a pet ostrich :(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I tried to change the channel on the television with my Blackberry :/ I&#39;m not addicted! I just thought it was the remote I swear!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I turned my bedroom upside down looking for said Blackberry only to find it in my left hand 45minutes later&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A Jehovah&#39;s Witness caught me on my lunch break and followed me around the mall telling me how she turned her life around from a life of drugs and sex. She also followed me back to work and waited outside the door until closing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;As I&#39;m writing this post I found $20 in the shorts I&#39;m wearing :D Happy Days!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I bought &lt;b&gt;the cutest &lt;/b&gt;ring from a shop in Chattel Village (one of my favourite places to find accessories) it came in the cutest little jewelery pouch! Should post a pic of that :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I cleaned under my bed for the first time in about 2 years... It wasn&#39;t pretty, friends, wasn&#39;t pretty at all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Work is going well!!! Can&#39;t wait until the semester is over so I can work full time :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I have failed at &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/nablopomo-nov-2010.html&quot;&gt;NaBloPoMo&lt;/a&gt; :( there&#39;s always next month I guess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;My&amp;nbsp;jewelery&amp;nbsp;pouch :)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/its-windy-and-i-have-lot-of-papers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPXAp0VFkNgW4fywk2aBoXejlBiWMiISNpvrirdE2-BvlqjZTWhtvVGYaxUa91sIrP0qLDavQABS-As2Gd4yEnbMcrRxPLG7siqfzLpCsHPGDI7ax6qHI1I61LiMVKaV6YxwcjAso56q4/s72-c/CIMG4658.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-6727022687948945594</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-02T16:19:22.512-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Awkward Moment</category><title>Hair Ye, Hair Ye</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Today I asked a girl when she&#39;s planning on getting her hair done because I knew she was talking about going to the salon. Unfortunately for &lt;s&gt;me&lt;/s&gt;...&amp;nbsp;&lt;s&gt;her&lt;/s&gt;... &lt;b&gt;both of us &lt;/b&gt;she went to the salon the night before...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Me: So when are you going to get your hair done?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Her: What do you mean?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Me: Uh... weren&#39;t you going to the salon or&amp;nbsp;something?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Her: Yeah... It is done&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Me: Did you do it yourself or-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Her: I went to the salon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I knew in my heart of hearts that there was &lt;b&gt;NO WAY&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;that I could recover from this at all! I&#39;m pretty sure right there and then she wrote me off of her good list :(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In my head I&#39;m thinking, &lt;i&gt;&quot;Should I tell her I like it or will she know I&#39;m liking since I didn&#39;t even notice she got her hair done... I hope when I go to the salon people notice... I won&#39;t tell anyone when I&#39;m going to get my hair done, I&#39;ll just see if anyone comments... I wonder what I should tell her... Should I say anything? Her lipstick is fading, better tell her to reapply... Oh wait, she probably won&#39;t appreciate that.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;When I zoned out I think she was saying something but I can&#39;t be sure since I was zoned out and all... I think was something along the lines of if I was showing off because I don&#39;t have to do much with my hair... What? If she only knew the time and effort that goes into this thick curly mane -_- It&#39;s a force to be reckoned with!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/hair-ye-hair-ye.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFte5RBfK1XnA8BE3Wu8bR2HjF6JXzPyljX-Y-NAQzojfsc7qbQj2wNZugutDaW-9YUUOrTJHHCPgznnN70DcUdQ2zrI1rDZxz8z0G4UCOxukMTnRbPy9ccdduIO79bEg7_yKWa_JuB8/s72-c/bad-hair-day.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-3289191118648325442</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-27T18:35:58.983-04:00</atom:updated><title>No, I&#39;m Not Dead... Yet!</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;One of you lovely readers sent me a text this morning asking if I was dead since I haven&#39;t posted in while...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I&#39;M ALIVE! I&#39;M ALIVE! For the most part anyway, hard to tell really. Everything has been so hectic, school, work, school, work, eat sleep! Sigh! The days are getting shorter but the day&#39;s work isn&#39;t! I&#39;m still going strong! Sort of, Popping vitamins and Starburst to keep me alive! Regular posting will resume soon (hopefully)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Cheers!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/no-im-not-dead-yet.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-7488479676754953238</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-20T17:19:47.890-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Awkward Moment</category><title>Stalker Texas Ranger</title><description>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Ever had the feeling you were being watched? Ever thought that someone was following you? Did it make you feel weird? Do you know what could make this a lot worse???? When there&#39;s proof this person is following you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;There&#39;s four sets of people at my University: the ones you see all the time, the ones you see every once in a while, the ones you see once and never again and the ones you never see and the ones who can&#39;t count. Whenever I left a particular class at the top of campus and made my way to the bottom, I always got this weird feeling like someone was watching me. This went on for a while but I figured it was just me being self-conscious until: I saw him. This skinny little dude was watching me. I was sure of it. I never noticed it before, but since I spotted him one time, I was beginning to notice him everywhere! He&#39;s one of those people that you wouldn&#39;t notice unless you know him and I didn&#39;t want to know him. Whenever I left class. There he was. Whenever I went to the cafeteria. There he was. Whenever I went to the book store. There he was. And he was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;always&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;staring at me!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The first time he approached me I just hustled myself away pretending not to hear him. The second time he caught me as I was coming out of the bookstore. Dammit! He asked me for number and well... There was no way I was giving him mine! Remember my friend T from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-love-rice.html&quot;&gt;blackberry post&lt;/a&gt;? I gave him that number instead. The third time he came up to &amp;nbsp;me he said in his Vincentian accent that gave me trouble to make out, &quot;You seh you gimme yuh numbuh but I call it after you gimma it and you din even flinch, I call back again latuhon and some boy ansuh. Ya boyfriend?&quot; I told him I had to go to class and he just kind of followed me :s I ducked into a random classroom and fortunately for me he didn&#39;t follow. What &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;wasn&#39;t&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;fortunate is that there was a tutorial in that classroom and nine people turned around to see me peeping through the glass pane in the door to see if he had gone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;After that he just kind of gave up but whenever he&#39;s close I know it. Whenever I get that feeling and I look around, sure enough he&#39;s there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;BoyShorts is my slave for all eternity :}- duties include but are not limited to making me lemonade, french toast and getting me chicken alfredo! Get yourself a BoyShorts! Just not &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;my&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;BoyShorts!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;I have found the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;PERFECT&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;hair regimen for my hair :D ...Can we say goodbye to bad hair days?? Not that I have those :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Karim is in the library, that should be all I have to say!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Progress is being made on the #nopants movement of Olga and I&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;I watched a girl walk into a door for one of the glass cases at work! Bahaha, I swore she saw it! I swear!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;I went to the supermarket in heels and shorts and no bra!! No trolley for this hottie, I used a basket!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;I recruited Che into doing the laundry in heels, feels good doesn&#39;t it ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;I made the most perfect flatbread sandwich ever :( It brought tears to my eyes! I almost didn&#39;t want to eat it... Almost.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The hair of my sworn enemy had some serious damage and now my hair not only more gorgeous than hers, but longer too!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;___ gained 8 pounds. And it shows.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Ly had a house party by himself... During the day :s&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/this-is-not-laughing-cow-cheese-but.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-1773137072607712665</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-15T13:47:05.163-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Day-to-Day</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Work</category><title>Last Girl Standing</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s been a while, hasn&#39;t it? I haven&#39;t been doing very well with &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/nablopomo-nov-2010.html&quot;&gt;NaBloPoMo&lt;/a&gt; :( I&#39;m back and I have an important update: My feet hurt. They hurt a lot :( Wanna know why?? :) Course you do ;) Bahaha. I started work yesterday :D And we stand all day. Well there&#39;s like 3 staff chairs around and as soon as one is free it&#39;s a mad rush to get to one. I don&#39;t even bother. There&#39;s no way I&#39;m putting in all that effort only to get halfway and realise X is already sitting there. Work is pretty nice! And the incentives are killer! What&#39;s also killer are the customers that come in and have no idea what they want and give you the run around - only a different way. Did I say anything about the people? I love my colleagues, the ones I&#39;ve met... Except this one girl but she talks to no one... what a sad existence that must be. You&#39;re at work from 8-5 on weekdays and 8-3 on weekends and you refuse to talk to anyone you work with? Oh well, her loss, we&#39;re better without her anyway ;) There&#39;s 3 supervisors and Y is the coolest :) He&#39;s so personable, he doesn&#39;t come across fake at all unlike Z -_- The new staff outweighs the old staff twice over! If anything ever happens, we&#39;ll win, I hope.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;This is my first job by the way!!! I have never earned money in my entire life! Except for doing chores and I&#39;m not sure if I should count that, been a while since I vacuumed. Approaching someone that walks in is the most terrifying thing ever, especially since I&amp;nbsp;absolutely&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;no&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;experience! Walking up to them is like, &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Oh my God, I hope there&#39;s nothing in my teeth. Suppose I trip, that would really suck... I hope my breath doesn&#39;t smell like mocha, I should get some gum. Dammit, can&#39;t have anything in my mouth on the sales floor! Why are they still walking, don&#39;t they know I&#39;m coming to them?? Maybe they saw me and don&#39;t want me to come to them. Relax, Michelle, take a deep breath! Oh no, only 3 more steps, aaaannnnddd....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Then I realise it wasn&#39;t so bad and I reall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;y didn&#39;t have to freak out. I&#39;ll get better in time :) I&#39;m only working three days a week Friday-Sunday. I can&#39;t wait until my exams are over so I can start to work full time :D I will have no life on weekends. There&#39;s no way I can do something at night and then get to work for 8AM! Ah well, at least I&#39;m getting paid :) That&#39;s the important thing... Right??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;So now I&#39;m on the highway, traffic&#39;s moving fairly well, but there&#39;s always the bob-and-weaver. You know the one... He&#39;ll pass cars at will, switching lanes 4-7 times for no reason other than getting in front of the other car. What makes this worse is that people like him overtake you and then drive slowly until they feel like switching lanes again. I was watching him in my&amp;nbsp;rear-view&amp;nbsp;mirror for a while and I was ready for him! When he passed the car behind me I was already picking up speed, I looked over at him, he looked over at me and looking through the side-view I could see he had his indicator on, but guess who he wasn&#39;t gonna get in front of!!!! Here were are, neck and neck, battling to be the first one to get to the round-a-bout, well not really, I wasn&#39;t going as fast as I could have but it was fun to let him think he could pass me :) He beeped his horn at me, I beeped mine back at him and then I put my foot on that gas pedal and drove off into the 2 o&#39;clock sun. It makes me smile inside to know that he didn&#39;t get into the other lane! &lt;b&gt;*win*&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;All these guys were driving some rather small cars! And challenging my Tuscon (yes I drive an SUV and pollute the environment) The guys with the smallest cars give me the most problems on the road, are they trying to overcompensate for something? I hope not &#39;cause it&#39;s not working out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLDXzVBErcJK-PVWAmuW9H_qtEwH8j1LG83_rE-F0CDr4Qe4OeKsJeGgCavGko6JZN9w7MyCMxtuX1InxPXeoR6LKDGjmRfGyTW6-J8nWmYu2x-5HvqTbP9RCY7oKL8aSBeX8yQOP_DTc/s1600/headered.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLDXzVBErcJK-PVWAmuW9H_qtEwH8j1LG83_rE-F0CDr4Qe4OeKsJeGgCavGko6JZN9w7MyCMxtuX1InxPXeoR6LKDGjmRfGyTW6-J8nWmYu2x-5HvqTbP9RCY7oKL8aSBeX8yQOP_DTc/s1600/headered.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/have-you-met-my-horn.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLDXzVBErcJK-PVWAmuW9H_qtEwH8j1LG83_rE-F0CDr4Qe4OeKsJeGgCavGko6JZN9w7MyCMxtuX1InxPXeoR6LKDGjmRfGyTW6-J8nWmYu2x-5HvqTbP9RCY7oKL8aSBeX8yQOP_DTc/s72-c/headered.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-317584694614047422</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-06T18:38:32.903-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Blackberry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Day-to-Day</category><title>I LOVE RICE!</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Actually... I don&#39;t eat rice... But! Remember my &lt;a href=&quot;http://elleccentric.blogspot.com/2010/11/waterlogged.html&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; about my Blackberry getting waterlogged? You should probably read it to get the back story. He&#39;s all better now!!! I did just as T said and put my disassembled phone in a bowl of rice and left it overnight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;When I woke up this morning I was a jittery mess suffering from Blackberry withdrawal. I kept glancing at the bowl of rice for about 4 hours before I reassembled and turned it on. When that red light flashed and the Blackberry start up bar appeared on my screen I held my breath until it was fully loaded. Well... I held my breath until I had to gasp for air, if you&#39;ve ever seen a Blackberry restart you&#39;ll know how long it takes :| The screen loaded! And then it went black and I got depressed, then I pressed the &#39;return&#39; button and there I saw: T-Mobile! I thought it died again, but the backlight just timed out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;When my phone &lt;i&gt;finally &lt;/i&gt;started up it was like the sneeze finally came! The sneeze face was gone and I was relieved :) A hearty round of applause for my Blackberry ladies and gentlemen!!! He&#39;s such a trooper!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I was on campus&amp;nbsp;killing&amp;nbsp;time between classes when I remembered I had some of my favourite cereal in my bag. I&#39;m minding my business crunching away, working my way through the final pages of my sudoku book when a girl sits down next to me. She&#39;s babbling away about something or the other and all I could think was,&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;I wonder if she knows I&#39;m not listening... Damn this is some good cereal, I wish I had a bigger ziplock... I wonder how they make cereal. I&#39;d like to go to a cereal factory or whatever it&#39;s called. Cereal mill? Ah, whatever. Oh, God, she&#39;s still talking and I can&#39;t hear her but I don&#39;t want to stop eating what do I do? Remember &#39;Madagascar&#39;? Just smile and wave, boys. Don&#39;t wave, you idiot, just nod and smile and stuff. Oh no, my cereal&#39;s almost gone... Wait, is she leaving? Say goodbye, don&#39;t be rude.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I had no idea what she was saying but I figured it wasn&#39;t anything important since she didn&#39;t really promt me for responses. Saturday afternoon I get a call from her...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Planner: Are you ready? I&#39;m leaving home now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Me: What?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Planner: Remember on Thursday you agreed to go shopping with me so I can get a dress for my brother&#39;s wedding...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Me: Uuhh... I did?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Planner: Yes... I remember because you had cereal and I asked you for some but you like didn&#39;t say anything&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Me: OOOHH!!! Um... I have no idea what you were saying. I couldn&#39;t hear anything over my chewing the cereal, but I&#39;ll still come if you want. Just give me 30 minutes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Planner: You dissed me for cereal? Couldn&#39;t you stop eating?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Me: It was good cereal...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In my defense it really was some good cereal! Not my fault she didn&#39;t check to see if I was listening. She&#39;s never asked me to go shopping again by the way... And as far as &lt;i&gt;I &lt;/i&gt;know, she went shopping alone that day, for some reason she didn&#39;t want my company any more, hope she had fun.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/do-you-like-cereal-i-do.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXgAmW_8FZ9gZN7XIwdiXUXMPCkycO7SN7h9xEOaX0VqKE5fdrUNMbmQ_b3JPN-tbXw31GGfHkAw_yfPDIIjnSxXSx6Rt8bPdMQwoc5InWAAe7tIQb8pxIST_hk5WIxFuer5ZJDj34pI/s72-c/headered.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-7833277470320138306</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-13T19:37:03.348-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Day-to-Day</category><title>NaBloPoMo Nov 2010</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Guess what I just did! I just joined &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nablopomo.com/faq&quot;&gt;National Blog Posting Month&lt;/a&gt; :) and with this my great duty is to add a blog post every day for the month of November!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Why this will be difficult:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I&#39;m a procrastinator.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I&#39;m such a procrastinator that I took a 20 minute pause between 1. and 2. &quot;to do it later&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;My memory isn&#39;t what it used to be and I may forget&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Reasons why this will work:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Because I want it to :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It just occurred to me that I missed the first 2 days of November :( I&#39;m a failure :(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Must try my hardest not to miss any days &amp;gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elleoftheball.blogspot.com/2010/11/nablopomo-nov-2010.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Michelle)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP62eS6fcu83d85L2STFFa17ziAdg22Sy_4QPQxnttLjQpJg6czc3PC0ujDQ5SSywAh3xT71tj2Pj1AIokI08qkvK4ahbomvmGhyxcKzKLZB9KWQiDcJdNQN6tvaAdhnztkCvUNPLrycM/s72-c/nablo_typer_300px.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-728830662626139655.post-3674150321161022333</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-05T12:20:40.585-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Blackberry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Day-to-Day</category><title>My Lover Is Drowning</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Today something happened that has never happened to me before: I dropped my phone in water &amp;gt;:( I never knew I had such good reflexes until my hand flew into the sink and took it out!! I blame my University. I was in the bathroom washing my hands and their horrible&amp;nbsp;drainage&amp;nbsp;system had the water all backed up, my poor phone didn&#39;t deserve it!&amp;nbsp;I took it apart and dried it with a napkin then I attempted to dry it a little more with the hand dryer in the bathroom...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I turned it on and it toyed with me a little, my phone is such a tease. The red light came on, the Blackberry restart bar loaded, security software bar came up... and then... and then!!!!!!!!! My phone turned off. Talk about anti-climatic moments!!! It was absolutely horrendous, like when you want to sneeze and you know it&#39;s there, but for some reason it just won&#39;t come out, and you sit there with your sneeze face on for like 5 minutes and nothing comes! Then you look over at the person a few feet from you and you realise they&#39;ve been watching your hideous sneeze face for th better part of 4 minutes... That&#39;s what it felt like, times 20!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I met up with my techie, friend T and he told me to put it in rice. In my head I&#39;m saying to myself, &lt;i&gt;&quot;Rice? Really? I&#39;ve overestimated his technological&amp;nbsp;savvy!&quot; &lt;/i&gt;When I get home I&amp;nbsp;Google&amp;nbsp;&quot;blackberry water repair&quot; and there it is: disassemble blackberry and put in a bowl of rice for 24-48 hours. In Every. Single. Post. I&#39;m not congratulating T yet however! We&#39;ll see how this goes for my phone :(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Did I mention I only bought it this summer? August 6th if I remember correctly... Sigh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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