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    <title>FriendFinder Blogs: Expressions</title>
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    <description>Whatever is in my head on any given day.</description><item>
      <title>more patterns?</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_101597.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>I wrote awhile back about the patterns we find ourselves in with relationships. Some we don't mean to have happen over and over, and yet they do and now, I don't know, I see another pattern and I don</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:58:43 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>life just getting in the way</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_101262.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>I don't think I can keep up this blog like I was - and my ever dwindling number of watchers is testament to the fact I'm not around very much anymore.It's not intentional, just life.#1 Son will be com</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:50:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>words to live by</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_99551.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>Seen on the Dairy Queen sign in town....Everything is better with sprinkles on it.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:02:47 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>my long distance relationship</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_99474.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>A comment on my last post got me to thinking about long distance relationships, and what the one I have means to me.There are more than miles between us. We have schedules that aren't conducive to be</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:35:58 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>long time away</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_99388.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>Sorry to be gone so long. One thing after another was happening with no time to do my own thing.Nothing bad. Actually, many very good things. I had an MRI of my pancreas (TWO of them because just o</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:11:17 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>some test results are in</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_96544.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>I had blood work done Saturday to check my cholesterol, sugar, thyroid and a CBC. All came back okay except my cholesterol - which I expected. It's 268, not as bad as the 298 it was 7 years ago. I </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:21:53 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>17 shades of weirdness</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_96452.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>The n-ex has finally done what I've been asking him to do the last 3 years....he signed the divorce papers. Last Friday. Very uneventful seeing as he waited so long to do this. I was expecting some</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:11:45 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>the bandaged place</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_95940.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>"Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you." RumiIn my marriage there were many open wounds. Large, huge, gapping, festering, infected, wounds. I al</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:26:05 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>the verdict the graduation and the birthday</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_95885.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>Talk about running without a break!! The last few days it's been one thing after another - mostly all good.The verdict per the test with the prep from hell is that I have a small fat filled umbilical</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:11:26 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>I want to know......</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_95484.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>who the medical masochist is that thought in order to see a hernia you have to drink 1300 ml of liquid barium in 2 hours, lay on a table in a dark room with your pants at your knees, and get iodine sh</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 17:15:55 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>what it means to live in Chicago</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_95286.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>...per Jeff Foxworthy you know you live in Chicago....If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work thereIf </description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 11:24:01 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>the annual review</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_94885.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>My anniversary with the company I work for was April 28 and we have mandatory reviews every year. HR uses something they call a 360 review where you and your boss review you, but then so does at leas</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:40:09 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>mr. wonderful strikes again</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_94325.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>Being long distance has more than a few drawbacks, as those on this site living through it - like me - know all too well. But there are ways to bridge the gaps beyond telephone calls or e-mails, and </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:49:05 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>my day with the Lizard</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_94078.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>The Lizard has a bad tooth. The dentist looked at it last week and said the permanent tooth is coming through and because the baby tooth is damaged, it's causing some pain. My dentist is a minimalis</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:06:13 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Happy Mother's Day!!</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_93962.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>Good Morning! This end of school year stuff makes it tough to find time to do what I want to do - not just what I have to. Plus with Drummer Boy graduating it's busier than usual. But I wanted to s</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 08:08:33 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>adding one more to the house</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_93070.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>MAN!! Amazing what a disruption - though a very pleasant one - that adding one more person to my house has caused.I picked up #1 Son from college last weekend. He's home until Saturday when he leave</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 04:23:20 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>mr. wonderful</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_92311.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>I did not have the best of mornings, and by 10:30 it was gaining a head of major league stink steam. The worst part...it was all MY doing. I could blame no one or nothing except my own poor judgemen</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:15:39 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>the lizard's evaluation</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_92229.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>The school district said the Lizard needed to have a psyche evaluation. This came up in his IEP meeting. My little boy with the enormous mind has a reading disability and for that gets State mandate</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:48:45 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>spring has sprung!!</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_92084.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>Well I think I can say the snow is officially gone - thank God!! We hadn't had a winter with as much consistent snow as this year in a long time. I'd forgotten how much I hate it.Today it's in the </description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:27:45 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>on being played by a player</title>
      <link>http://friendfinder.com/blog/13585/post_91750.html?pid=p9814</link>
      <description>I've been reading the posts lately by those who have been played who are thinking of leaving the site, or giving up on finding a special someone, or becoming hardened and not trusting again. It's to </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:32:47 -0800</pubDate>
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