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		<title>cody &#124; 08.07.04 &#8211; 07.22.10</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep looking at his cushion on the couch. It&#8217;s empty and my heart is so heavy. Tears continue to run down my face.  I don&#8217;t think that image will ever leave my brain; I looked back as we left the room and saw him laying there. Gone. I watched him stop breathing. I saw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2249&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>good grief!</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/07/06/good-grief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has it really been 4 months since I&#8217;ve posted!? Sheesh &#8230; So much has happened in 4 months! New job, a little one who&#8217;s now 1, bad news about Cody, a new dog &#8230; the list could go on and on! Instead of going backwards, though, we&#8217;ll move forward. Well, maybe I&#8217;ll hit some of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2240&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>love dare.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/03/02/love-dare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen the movie Fireproof? If so, then you know about the love dare. Let me back up. A few Saturday&#8217;s ago, we bought Fireproof &#8211; I&#8217;d heard great things about it but hadn&#8217;t gotten around to seeing it. It was certainly way more than I expected. Early on, I had a hard time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2218&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>no longer an &#8220;excuse.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/03/02/no-longer-an-excuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s embarrassing to admit, but prior to Ash Wednesday, I hadn&#8217;t been to Mass in nearly a year. Why? Well, there&#8217;s that little blessing we received on May 11th that made life a little more busy. Certainly several weeks of absence might make sense, but 9.5 months? No. Simply put, I used Lily as our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2215&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>perspective.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/02/18/perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess we&#8217;ll never see the world completely through someone else&#8217;s eyes. I find myself judging people at times. I wonder why they complain/boast about certain things, when clearly their words don&#8217;t match their actions. You know, why they say one thing and do/live another. The irony of stories not matching up to the reality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2207&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>confidence? what confidence?</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/02/18/confidence-what-confidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably don&#8217;t know it (Or maybe you do &#8211; I don&#8217;t know.), but I have major issues with confidence. I&#8217;ve always been strong-willed, and certainly think in my own highly unique way, but I often find myself trying too hard to please others and going with the flow for the sake of the happiness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2199&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>chaos.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/02/05/chaos-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>minski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past 24 hours have been chaos. Well, not really, but things become a bit crazy when there&#8217;s major snow on the way. I decided to hit the grocery store last night. We would survive if we needed to without last night&#8217;s grocery run, but I&#8217;d be far happier with the appropriate ingredients for some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2190&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>january in review.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/02/01/january-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit &#8211; January was a good month. And let me tell you, February will be even better! Over the past 31 days &#8230; &#8230; I wrote 29 new posts! Happy to be keeping up with my promise to blog more! &#8230; I set out on a mission to make 2010 my year &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2169&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>burnt biscuits.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/29/burnt-biscuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>minski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to my wonderful sister for sending this to me. A, your timing was perfect, and you, too, have touched my life in many more ways than you&#8217;ll ever know and could ever imagine. I love you! And now, I share with you the forward A sent to me on a gray day in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2161&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>one word: explore.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/29/one-word-explore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember this? Well I&#8217;ve figured out just what my one word for 2010 will be. Explore. That&#8217;s it. Explore. Think about it for a moment. Explore. Yes, for me, 2010 is about exploring. It&#8217;s about looking at who I am and who I want to be. This year is about figuring out the details, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2147&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>just wait. be patient.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/27/just-wait-be-patient/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that good things come to those who wait, but I&#8217;m not convinced. Seems lately that good things are being blessed upon people who aren&#8217;t waiting; those who aren&#8217;t asking for these things. Those who don&#8217;t need them. (Well, that&#8217;s my perspective. It&#8217;s not good to assume, so I take it back. Okay?) The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2136&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>introspective: failure &amp; jealousy.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/27/introspective-failure-jealousy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that in just about everything I do, I don&#8217;t succeed. I was just thinking, though &#8211; is the problem in my determination, or in my definition of success? I can&#8217;t tell you the number of times I&#8217;ve started something and not completed it; tried something, failed and given up. It&#8217;s depressing, really. Lately, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2134&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>chaos.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/25/chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that anything that matters in our lives always comes with chaos. Today is a hugely exciting day for my husband; a great start with a fantastic organization. He leaves behind another great job, but this one has far more advantages than what his previous employer could provide. So why, on the day that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2132&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>brain bleed?</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/21/brain-bleed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[** Note: It has been 8 days since my CT scans &#8230; and I finally have an answer. Funny, you would think I would have heard something sooner, but they sent a letter to my house explaining the results. A letter that I still haven&#8217;t received. Um, okay? So &#8230; this post was planned for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2089&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>this lens &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/21/this-lens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I haven&#8217;t added any pictures of Peanut in a while &#8230; I know. My very inexpensive and most favorite lens has been driving me crazy lately, and it seems for every 50 photos I take, I end up with 2 or 3 that are in focus. The lens has gotten so slow (Or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2125&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>beauty.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/21/beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not pretty to you, but to me, this photo represents something far more than a mess on my bathroom wall. That off-white box is what&#8217;s responsible for heating the granite floor (with unconditioned space underneath) in our bathroom. It&#8217;s been dead for what I want to say has been two years, but I&#8217;m delighted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2123&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a confession.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/20/a-confession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. Are you ready for this? I use Johnson&#8217;s Bedtime Lotion at work. It&#8217;s true. See it there? It hides behind my monitor (Because my co-workers, for sure, would think I&#8217;m insane if they saw it.), and using it helps me not miss my Peanut so much. It&#8217;s what we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2121&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>waiting &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/13/waiting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a post ready and waiting for you, but I can&#8217;t post it yet. I need an answer first before I click &#8220;Publish.&#8221; And though I feel compelled to write something, I sit here wondering what to write. Perhaps I could address the subject of &#8220;waiting,&#8221; in many different forms &#8211; and presented in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2092&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>it must be &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/11/it-must-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; mind over matter. Truthfully, nothing else has changed, yet I feel amazing. I feel like me. I don&#8217;t want to jinx it, but it seems I&#8217;ve found the long lost me. Yes, it&#8217;s true! I&#8217;ve been gone for so terribly long, and I think I might be back. Only time will tell, and I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2082&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>one word.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/07/one-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently working on choosing my one word for 2010. It&#8217;s a tough choice, and one that I want to get right, so I&#8217;m taking my time. My current pool of possibilities &#8230; I&#8217;ll let you know what my final decision is once I&#8217;m done. You already know this is a big year for me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2070&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>i&#8217;m saying goodbye to my green &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/07/im-saying-goodbye-to-my-green/</link>
		<comments>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/07/im-saying-goodbye-to-my-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Sorry &#8211; it&#8217;s long, but worthwhile &#8230; I think!) Yep, I&#8217;m off to one heck of a start in 2010 &#8211; as promised! One part of this change is the commitment to see things in a more positive light. Typical me is to get started with one negative and let it snowball, leading me right [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2065&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>january: lost in the details.</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2010/01/05/january-lost-in-the-details/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to make January, though it is already 5 days over, my month of details. I&#8217;m going to leave you hanging here until I have enough with which to update, but know that it will be fun and exciting! I&#8217;m hoping to have details to show you by Monday &#8211; we&#8217;ll see how well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2063&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010: promises</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2009/12/30/2010-promises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear, I&#8217;m lost. Instead of continuing to wander aimlessly, I&#8217;ve made a decision. A big decision. Ready? 2010 is going to be a year about me. I don&#8217;t mean that in a selfish way, but more of an, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to find my balance&#8221; kind of way. You&#8217;ll see &#8211; I&#8217;m going to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2060&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>december highlights &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2009/12/30/december-highlights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve said before, we had a whirlwind of a December. While I didn&#8217;t take quite as many pictures as is normal (I know, I typically go overboard.), we did have a few chances to capture what we were up to. Here are some highlights &#8230; Posted in life, lily<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2058&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a thought &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://okaypeanut.com/2009/12/30/a-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought of this one morning on my way to work. Though it originally referred to a slow-moving school bus I was following onto a 65 mph highway (We were moving at a snail&#8217;s pace and it really did feel dangerous.), the more I thought about it, I realized how well it applies to so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaypeanut.com&blog=3417688&post=2056&subd=minski39&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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