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	<title>Light Refreshments Served &#187; Emily</title>
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		<title>Too Much of a Good Thing?</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2010/02/12/too-much-of-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hoarding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago we got together with several of my husband&#8217;s siblings to clean out his mother&#8217;s house prior to  its pending sale next week. His mother actually died two years ago, but it has taken this long to face the inevitable and just get in there and do it.
Our own house is pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discombobulated . . . and Yet, All Amazed</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2010/02/09/discombobulated-and-yet-all-amazed/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2010/02/09/discombobulated-and-yet-all-amazed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[help from heaven]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been caught in a bizarre spiral in which every area of my life seems to be sort of out of control. Work: WAAAAAY behind on numerous projects, without even the ability to predict HOW I will accomplish them. Home: All my adult children seem to be cycling through with needs&#8211;car trouble, a death in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Cool Just Got Cooler</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2010/02/03/something-cool-just-got-cooler/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2010/02/03/something-cool-just-got-cooler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[surfing help]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently discovered MormonLife.com, which is this amazing site that bills its role as &#8220;scouring the web for all things Mormon.&#8221; They pull together links to news stories, blogs, headlines, videos, a big variety of Mormon-related stuff. I love this because there just seems to be so much out there, and I could spend my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Day&#8217;s Resolution</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2010/01/18/a-new-days-resolution/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2010/01/18/a-new-days-resolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resolutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[step by step]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Finding myself already overwhelmed and stymied by the expectation of exhibiting a chosen effective behavior for a WHOLE YEAR, I decided in a quiet moment today (yes, I actually had one, contrary to the usual way of things) to try for a New DAY&#8217;s resolution instead of a New Year&#8217;s resolution. In fact, I&#8217;m going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A REALLY New Year!</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2010/01/05/a-really-new-year/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2010/01/05/a-really-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, January 2, 2010, we deposited our youngest child in an apartment in Rexburg in preparation for her first semester of college at BYU-Idaho. That&#8217;s child number 5, folks, and we drove home across the snowfields of Idaho almost giddy with the anticipation of it being just the two of us again. (Child number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eve of Our Dear Savior&#8217;s Birth</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/12/24/the-eve-of-our-dear-saviors-birth/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/12/24/the-eve-of-our-dear-saviors-birth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[true joy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s almost here. And in the calm before the storm, I wanted to write a post about how I really feel about Jesus Christ, but I found my words so inadequate that I almost backed out altogether. Then it occurred to me that many gifted and inspired writers before me had already expressed what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Editor&#8217;s Choice Gift List</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/12/11/my-editors-choice-gift-list/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/12/11/my-editors-choice-gift-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because of my work as a Deseret Book editor, I have the chance to become intimately acquainted with some wonderful books and music, and every year people ask what I would recommend as Christmas gifts. Here’s what I’m telling them this year. And if you see something you like, I’ve gotten permission to share our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deck the Halls, but Stick to Holly</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/11/30/deck-the-halls-but-stick-to-holly/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/11/30/deck-the-halls-but-stick-to-holly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ho ho ho]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I applaud whatever downtown SLC commission made the decision to dress up the construction barrier walls for the holidays by rolling out decorative panels on them. They&#8217;re very clever, with images shaped like windows through which you can look &#8220;inside&#8221; to a Christmas tree or a stack of presents or &#8220;outside&#8221; to a snowman or a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Off to a Great Start</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/11/20/off-to-a-great-start/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/11/20/off-to-a-great-start/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve already driven two girls out of our YW program because I made them have a ride home on Wednesday night instead of &#8220;walking home with the boys.&#8221;  I did this because LAST week when they were supposedly &#8220;walking home with the boys,&#8221; I ended up walking home right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Laughing and Help Me!</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/11/04/stop-laughing-and-help-me/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/11/04/stop-laughing-and-help-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[out of my comfort zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a bizarre twist of the kaleidoscope that is my life, I got called last Sunday to be our ward Young Women president.
I have served in the Young Women organization in our ward before. Beth, who was a Laurel at that time, has seven children now. So yeah, it&#8217;s been a while.
Do not get me [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bliss</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/10/29/bliss/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/10/29/bliss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food glorious food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just had a bag of caramel-toffee-white-chocolate popcorn that, if the only reason I had come to mortality had been to get a physical body with taste buds so that I could taste this stuff, it feels like it would have been worth it. It was from V Chocolates, if you want to know, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epiphany</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/10/16/epiphany/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/10/16/epiphany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[favorite callings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been teaching Gospel Doctrine in our ward for six years now. This time. I&#8217;ve done two four-year stretches previously, plus a couple of years teaching the same lessons to 16-17-year-olds. So I&#8217;m pretty sure I have tenure and they can&#8217;t release me, which is good, because I really, really like teaching Gospel Doctrine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Have to Watch Conference</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/10/07/why-i-have-to-watch-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/10/07/why-i-have-to-watch-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[answers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[general conference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I used to think 8 hours of general conference was too much. I would justify myself in skipping the Saturday sessions, claiming that I would &#8220;just read them later in the Ensign.&#8221;
Something happened to change me a few years ago, and I don&#8217;t even know what it was, exactly. All I know now is that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Mother, My Daughter, Her Daughter, and Me</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/10/02/my-mother-my-daughter-her-daughter-and-me/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/10/02/my-mother-my-daughter-her-daughter-and-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legacies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relief Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We got our four generation pictures back. And they turned out great. Any picture I can look at that has me in it that doesn&#8217;t make me want to run into the woods and hide is a great picture, in my estimation. But judge for yourself.

I love having this reminder of the continuing chain of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>What It Has Come To</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/09/24/what-it-has-come-to/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/09/24/what-it-has-come-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital hypnotism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worn out]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/?p=4604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got to work at 8:00 a.m., worked in a frenzy all day, and left work at 8:22 p.m., after having called my visiting teaching partner to apologize profusely for having completely spaced the fact that we had an appointment that night. (She wasn&#8217;t home. She was out visiting teaching. I left the message [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Four-Generation Challenge</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/09/17/the-four-generation-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/09/17/the-four-generation-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mothers and daughters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stages of life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, my mother, my daughter, my granddaughter, and I had a photographer take of us one of those &#8220;four generation&#8221; pictures. I haven&#8217;t seen the final product yet, but I&#8217;ll post it on the blog when I do (if it comes out cute&#8211;meaning, if I don&#8217;t look too hideous in it). I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Seasons</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/09/10/seasons/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/09/10/seasons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serendipity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welcome fall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After one of the most difficult summers I ever remembering enduring, I find myself wrapped suddenly in a sweet, serene, delightful fall. As evidenced by the following:
1. I have lots to do at work but not the head-banging sensation (which plagued me all summer) of never being caught up.
2. My health is good (reading lists of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Like Melanie</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/09/04/more-like-melanie/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/09/04/more-like-melanie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[role models]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I watched Gone with the Wind again a couple of weeks ago. I seem to end up watching it for some reason or another every few years. Can&#8217;t remember what the reason was this time, except that I was alone in the house and too tired to really do anything else and I just wanted to. I like [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Love the Dictionary</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/09/01/i-love-the-dictionary/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/09/01/i-love-the-dictionary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why editing takes so long]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have just been cruising through my brand-new copy of Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Collegiate Dictionary (the eleventh edition), trying to ascertain if &#8220;push pins&#8221; should be one word or two. These are the little niceties that make editing such a joy. There IS a right answer. Webster tells you so. And if everything is right, people can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School for Me Too</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/08/28/school-for-me-too/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/08/28/school-for-me-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education for life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[still learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, for the first time in several years, I attended BYU Education Week. I had finally gotten to the end of the Summer from Perdition (a lovely euphemism, isn&#8217;t it?) and for the first time in MONTHS was not feeling smack behind the 8-ball on my deadlines. So I thought I&#8217;d go down and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unsophisticated Palate</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/08/10/the-unsophisticated-palate/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/08/10/the-unsophisticated-palate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taste buds of a hick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am mystified. I recognize that fine cuisine has in recent years gone in directions I find barely recognizable. But my husband and I, on a whim, picked up a menu from a fancy local restaurant last week, just to see what the chic crowd is eating. All of it looked sort of weird, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing in the Smoke</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/07/30/dancing-in-the-smoke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a glorious week last week tending two of my grandchildren while their parents were on a Church history tour, and got to reconnect with all sorts of activities that had pretty much lost their lustre in the years I had no little ones to share them with. The zoo, for example, holds some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Own &#8220;Good News Minute&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/07/16/my-own-good-news-minute/</link>
		<comments>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/07/16/my-own-good-news-minute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting timing Kristy has on seeking for good news. Because I have just gotten the news I&#8217;ve been waiting for. My book is on the shelves at last!

It may just be new-mom pride, but I sure think this baby is cute! One of the most interesting things about writing a book is seeing how an outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not Dead Yet</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/07/08/im-not-dead-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[changing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life on the verge of collapse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the gym today for the third day in a row. And it&#8217;s kind of amazing, but I am starting not to feel like I want to just fold up and die when I finish my time on the treadmill.
I want to talk about this because I&#8217;m thinking if everyone who reads this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further Evidence of My Advanced Age</title>
		<link>http://lightrefreshmentsserved.com/2009/06/29/further-evidence-of-my-advanced-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if I needed any more indications of how old I am, I have just discovered two more things that I &#8220;predate.&#8221;  The first, warehouse shopping, is not so alarming. I remember fondly my first wide-eyed foray into a Sam&#8217;s Club&#8211;the astonishing array of giant-sized containers, the prices that made it cheaper to buy the [...]]]></description>
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