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		<title>My own take on &#8216;salt and pepper&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was born with a full head of very dark brown hair (in a mohawk pattern&#8230;no lie). As I got older, it turned a lovely shade of dirty blonde. Older still and it turned to a chestnut brown with natural red highlights. Today it&#8217;s a lighter brown with a lot of gray, the latter of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An uninvited visitor who flew the coop&#8230;I think</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Memorial Day weekend, we had our friends Helena and Hugh over for a BBQ. It&#8217;s always a pleasure to hang out with them so we had a great time. We had hamburgers, grilled hotdogs that I then baked in phyllo dough, a salad, chili (to dip the hot dogs in), deviled eggs, and potato [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bon voyage, Stinky! We&#8217;ll miss you (NOT!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Stinky&#8221; is the live stink bug that I just mailed to Rutgers University. (OFFICIALLY its name is the brown marmorated stink bug or BMSB.) J.R. bagged him and I tagged him! LOL Talk about teamwork. Stinky has been sitting on my desk at work all morning in an otherwise empty prescription drug bottle. (Don&#8217;t worry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it me???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or is the Borough of Washington NUTS for letting a rock band play outdoors at the local theater on Saturday nights? Sure, I coulld see if they played INSIDE the theater because, after all, THAT&#8217;S what it&#8217;s MADE for. But outside on the street? Give me a break. Think mediocre rock bank. Think electric guitars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A caffeinated question for my buddy Scott</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WHAT insane new caffeinated product are we going to try this week? I think you and I should continue our scientific research in this field and become acclaimed &#8220;caffeinologists&#8221;! LOL I&#8217;ll keep my eyes peeled for new stuff and continue to post blogs about them here. Feel free to jump in at any time with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This really stinks (aka &#8216;A Tale of Two Stink Bugs&#8217;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get it. Isn&#8217;t stink bug season over yet? There are STILL stragglers in my house. Where are they getting in? And what the hell are they eating? OK, let&#8217;s make a correction. &#8220;There are STILL stragglers in my BEDROOM,&#8221; which means I have a no-tolerance policy. Now normally I have a little mercy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A full day&#8217;s work done by 6:00 a.m.!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that J.R. has to get up early every morning (the alarm starts going off around 4:00 or 4:30 during the work week and 3:00 on the weekend), I&#8217;m awake earlier than usual, too. Generally I try to sleep until 6:00, when I have to start getting ready for work, but I rarely fall asleep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ORIGINAL &#8216;Night of the Living Dead&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got done fast-forwarding through the original, B&#038;W, 1968 version of &#8220;Night of the Living Dead.&#8221; (Why fast-forward? Because I get terribly scared by horror movies, even the less graphic, more &#8220;innocent&#8221; genre from the &#8217;50s and &#8217;60s, but I do love them so!) Anyway, IF YOU HAVEN&#8217;T SEEN THIS YET, turn back now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It may be January 9th but it still feels like Christmas to me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s because I still haven&#8217;t used all of the gift certificates that I received for Christmas. Tonight I headed to Fashion Bug, where they were having a fantastic 70%-off sale. How could I resist a sale like that? I had $75 to burn and wanted to get the most bang for my buck, so in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring is (temporarily) in the air</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How can I tell? Because it&#8217;s warm enough to walk around the house in shorts and sports bras, of course! (I know, I know, God help the neighbors if they happen to look through the ONE window in the house that doesn&#8217;t have a shade. Hey, I figure it&#8217;s THEIR problem, not mine.) Anyway, the [...]]]></description>
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