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	<title>Confessions of a Hot Carmel Sundae</title>
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	<description>Starring Christina!</description>
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		<title>Simplify Laundry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was both a relief and a frustrating when I heard someone refer to a spot in their home as &#8220;Laundry Mountain.&#8221; A relief to know that someone else has the same term, and that I am not alone in the struggle; but a definite frustration to think that this struggle may be truly universal. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carmelsundae.org/?p=612</link>
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		<title>The Price of Trash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an article in an old issue of Readers Digest (July 1995) called &#8220;The Recycling Myth.&#8221; The article asserted that the shortage of landfill space is a myth, and that recycling is more expensive than dumping. Both the cost and the space need are improved by newer methods of landfill management, specifically piling  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carmelsundae.org/?p=606</link>
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		<title>Are You Ready for a Credit Card?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The lure of buying without paying can be heady. But not everyone is cut out for a credit card. Take this simple quiz to see if you are one of the few who is. Are you willing to pay $700 for a $300 vacation? Do you feel good about being beholden to people who despise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carmelsundae.org/?p=601</link>
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		<title>Note to Curtain Climber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Buh-nandoop&#8221; is not a generally accepted replacement for the word &#8220;banana.&#8221; And while we&#8217;re at it, &#8220;dee doop&#8221; is not another way of saying &#8220;thank you&#8221;. &#8220;Mdup&#8221; does not mean &#8220;milk,&#8221; and even if you said &#8220;soda&#8221; instead of &#8220;dodup&#8221; I probably wouldn&#8217;t give you any. You&#8217;re cute, kid. Very cute. But I gotta say, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carmelsundae.org/?p=599</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Tell Me There&#8217;s Nothing to Tell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cooties Alert: men, if you&#8217;re squeamish, you might want to look away. This is pure woman stuff. I bought the book because its title was clever, but also because it echoed what I keep saying: Is it hot in here? Or is it me? Subtitled The Complete Guide to Menopause, it seemed like the right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carmelsundae.org/?p=596</link>
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		<title>A Useful Utility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The office where I get my dental work done has a typo on their web page. It is in the phone number, and every time I try to call I first try the number listed, in case it has been corrected. It hasn&#8217;t. Today I solved this on a personal level, with Notezilla. Notezilla has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carmelsundae.org/?p=593</link>
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		<title>A rant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been &#8220;informed&#8221; by about half a dozen people who do not know each other, and in different settings and different contexts, that only liberals are smart, and that all conservatives are stupid, ignorant, and closed-minded. One person who had just accepted my help with some things then mentioned that &#8220;conservatives are all assholes.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carmelsundae.org/?p=589</link>
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		<title>Tonight&#8217;s dinner: Asian Chicken Salad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Artgal is making it. The salad: 1 head of lettuce 1 package maifon noodles 1 chicken, cooked green onions The dressing: 4 T sugar 2 t salt 1 t msg 1/2 t pepper 4 T vinegar 1/4 cup salad oil Boil noodles for a couple of minutes. Drain. Mix with other ingredients and dressing. notes: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carmelsundae.org/?p=587</link>
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		<title>Why haven&#8217;t you read Dickens? You know you want to.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My personal recommendation is Oliver Twist. David Copperfield is a very, very close second. And then you can tackle Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis&#8217; non-fiction, and Charlotte&#8217;s Web. The book, not the movie. The point to all this? Never stop learning. You learned in elementary school because they told you to. You learned in high school [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carmelsundae.org/?p=585</link>
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		<title>Autism. Listen.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight my family watched one of our newer favorite programs, Parenthood. The show is about a family, an extended family. There are a mom and dad, their three adult children, two adult children&#8217;s spouses, and their children. It&#8217;s generally a good show. There is also a young character, one of the grandkids, named Max. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carmelsundae.org/?p=582</link>
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