<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from grerp.blog-city.com</title><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 grerp.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:31:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from grerp.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>No juice</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/no_juice.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/no_juice.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=no%5Fjuice</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Quick summary of yesterday afternoon and evening:RAIN!&nbsp; LIGHTNING!&nbsp; THUNDER!&nbsp; HAIL!&nbsp; DARKNESS LIKE THE BLACK OF NIGHT!&nbsp; RAIN, RAIN, RAIN!Then:Water in the basement.&nbsp; No electricity.&nbsp; Darkness.&nbsp; Bored and slight]]></description></item><item><title>I&apos;m not sure how this happened...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/im_not_sure_how_this_happened_1.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/im_not_sure_how_this_happened_1.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=im%5Fnot%5Fsure%5Fhow%5Fthis%5Fhappened%5F1</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[...but I&#39;ve sort of gotten addicted to my son&#39;s Webkinz world.&nbsp; It started off very innocuously.&nbsp; Nana got him a Webkinz account, and so I set it up for him.&nbsp; We chose a name, he chose a gender, then when it was too late and wa]]></description></item><item><title>Cheating on My Blog: Hidden by Eve Kenin</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/cheating_on_my_blog_hidden.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/cheating_on_my_blog_hidden.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cheating%5Fon%5Fmy%5Fblog%5Fhidden</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have a new review up at All About Romance for Hidden by Eve Kenin.&nbsp; Check it out!Kenin&#39;s first book in this post-Apocalyse series, Driven, got a lot of buzz last year, but I had an only slightly better than &quot;Eh.&quot; reaction to it.&]]></description><category>books</category><category>reviewing</category><category>all about romance</category></item><item><title>Once More with Feeling Series: Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/summers_at_castle_auburn.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/summers_at_castle_auburn.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=summers%5Fat%5Fcastle%5Fauburn</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Kiss an Angel Susan Elizabeth PhillipsRomance Novel&nbsp; 1996 Rating: A-&nbsp;&quot;Kiss an Angel is one of my favorite comfort reads. I drag it out when I need to smile. It&#39;s a wonderful story of personal growth, filled with humor, emotio]]></description><category>books</category><category>romance novels</category><category>all about romance</category><category>favorite romances</category><category>sharon shinn</category></item><item><title>Putin a &quot;virile vampire.&quot;  Huh?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/putin_a_virile_vampire__huh.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/putin_a_virile_vampire__huh.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=putin%5Fa%5Fvirile%5Fvampire%5F%5Fhuh</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[J. sent me a link to this article in the Telegraph. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;government controlled media&#39;s pandering to its puppeteer]]></description></item><item><title>Back from vacay</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/back_from_vacay.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/back_from_vacay.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=back%5Ffrom%5Fvacay</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here are my favorite pictures.&nbsp; This first on was taken at the sand dunes on Silver Lake.&nbsp; We walked up and down them for awhile (go, Mom!), the kids and my BIL jumped off them.&nbsp; Finally, after snapping a bunch of other pics, I jumped]]></description></item><item><title>TBR Wednesday: The Last Key by Beverly Sommers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/last_key.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/last_key.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=last%5Fkey</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Last Key Beverly SommersRomance novel&nbsp; Harlequin American #69&nbsp; 1984Rating: C+ &nbsp;The Last Key is the latest in a series of Beverly Sommers&#39;s books that I have been slowing glomming.&nbsp; Readers looking for an out-of-the-mold ca]]></description><category>books</category><category>romance novels</category><category>tbr wednesday</category></item><item><title>Once More with Feeling Series: Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/kiss_an_angel.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/kiss_an_angel.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kiss%5Fan%5Fangel</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Kiss an Angel Susan Elizabeth PhillipsRomance Novel&nbsp; 1996 Rating: A-&nbsp;&quot;Kiss an Angel is one of my favorite comfort reads. I drag it out when I need to smile. It&#39;s a wonderful story of personal growth, filled with humor, emotio]]></description><category>books</category><category>romance novels</category><category>all about romance</category><category>favorite romances</category><category>susan elizabeth phillips</category></item><item><title>Summer fat</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/summer_fat.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/summer_fat.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=summer%5Ffat</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It appears to be official: my body has reverted to its pre-Max weight and seems to be maintaining it.&nbsp; When I started walking back in 1999, I found that a half an hour was enough exercise for me to lose about 5 pounds a year without dieting, but]]></description></item><item><title>I want, I want, I want</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/i_want_i_want_i_want7.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/i_want_i_want_i_want7.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fwant%5Fi%5Fwant%5Fi%5Fwant7</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Upcoming books]]></description></item><item><title>Love Stories &quot;School&quot; video with comments</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/love_stories_school_video_with_comments.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/love_stories_school_video_with_comments.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=love%5Fstories%5Fschool%5Fvideo%5Fwith%5Fcomments</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I can&#39;t remember how I came across this video.&nbsp; I was probably looking for Russian contemporary language use.&nbsp; When I think of all the long hours I spent in the language lab at the University of Michigan for my Russian 300 and 400 level]]></description></item><item><title>Once More with Feeling Series: Bliss by Judy Cuevas</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/bliss.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/bliss.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bliss</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp;Bliss  Judy Cuevas (Judith Ivory)Romance Novel&nbsp; 1995 Rating: A&nbsp;&quot;The first time I read Bliss, I was absolutely intoxicated by it. It absorbed me and kept me completely in its power. For a whole two days all I did was eat, s]]></description><category>books</category><category>romance novels</category><category>all about romance</category><category>favorite romances</category><category>judith ivory</category></item><item><title>4 bedrooms in the house and everyone wants to sleep with Mom</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/4_bedrooms_in_the_house_and_everyone_wants_to_sleep_with_mo.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/4_bedrooms_in_the_house_and_everyone_wants_to_sleep_with_mo.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=4%5Fbedrooms%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fhouse%5Fand%5Feveryone%5Fwants%5Fto%5Fsleep%5Fwith%5Fmo</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This morning I woke up and found: Milo sprawled across the bed parallel to the foot/headboardRosie sleeping on the floor next to me half on her pillow, half on the wood floorMax asleep (!) on the other dog bed.I had to laugh.&nbsp; Then Max woke up,]]></description></item><item><title>Perfection - a rant</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/perfection__a_rant.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/perfection__a_rant.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=perfection%5F%5Fa%5Frant</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve been reading Kathleen Gilles Seidel&#39;s new book, Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige, which is partly about the changes in family dynamics that come with marriage and divorce and partly about perfectionism/competition between women to pro]]></description></item><item><title>Square foot gardening</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/square_foot_gardening.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/square_foot_gardening.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 01:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=square%5Ffoot%5Fgardening</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My neighbor, Amber, and I have been planning to do a little gardening together for about a month now.&nbsp; We&#39;ve been waiting for the possibility of overnight frost to pass.&nbsp;&nbsp; My block is part of a three-block triangle that has a bit o]]></description><category>gardens</category><category>gardening</category><category>square foot gardening</category><category>gardening with kids</category></item><item><title>Shelfari shelf</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/shelfari_shelf.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/shelfari_shelf.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=shelfari%5Fshelf</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Perusing my blog tonight, J. mentioned that having to scroll past my Shelfari every time was getting old.&nbsp; so I&#39;ve moved it to the bottom of the page.&nbsp; I will probably highlight it periodically when there are more new titles.&nbsp; But]]></description></item><item><title>Once More with Feeling Series: A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/very_long_engagement.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/very_long_engagement.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 02:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=very%5Flong%5Fengagement</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp;A Very Long Engagement Sebastien JaprisotHistorical Mystery&nbsp; 1993 Rating: A&nbsp;&quot;S&eacute;bastien Japrisot, French author and screenwriter, was the anagrammatic pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, a writer from Marseille. His wo]]></description><category>books</category><category>mysteries</category><category>world war i</category></item><item><title>Been lazy about blogging...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/been_lazy_about_blogging.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/been_lazy_about_blogging.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 13:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=been%5Flazy%5Fabout%5Fblogging</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[...because not that much has been going on.&nbsp; Let&#39;s see, what&#39;s happened?&nbsp; &nbsp;Milo&#39;s casualties include: a wooden block watermelon of Max&#39;s another wooden blocka foam blockthe day lily flowerbed adjacent to the housethe gr]]></description></item><item><title>TBR Wednesday: Ender&apos;s Game by Orson Scott Card</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/enders_game.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/enders_game.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enders%5Fgame</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ender&#39;s Game Orson Scott CardScience Fiction&nbsp; Rating: B]]></description><category>books</category><category>science fiction</category><category>tbr wednesday</category></item><item><title>Once More with Feeling Series: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/bookthief.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/bookthief.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 01:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bookthief</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;The Book Thief Markus ZusakYoung Adult Fiction 2006 Rating: A&nbsp;&quot;Liesel Meminger is a young German girl who&#39;s been dealt a rather awful hand by life. The Nazis came for her father, a communist, and, likewise branded and also ailing,]]></description><category>books</category><category>young adult lit</category></item><item><title>Security</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/security.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/security.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 01:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=security</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After reading about Wendy&#39;s experience being hacked, I decided today was the day I was going to beef up my wireless security.&nbsp; I&#39;d been putting this off for two months because I knew it was going to be a PITA, and, yes, it definitely was]]></description></item><item><title>Not chosen</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/not_chosen.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/not_chosen.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 22:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=not%5Fchosen</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So that couple I mentioned awhile back - the one that was looking at our profile? - they didn&#39;t pick us.&nbsp; I&#39;m not sure what happened, but the social worker on the other end took nearly three weeks to tell us this news.&nbsp; I am feeling]]></description></item><item><title>Bees and catalogs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/bees_and_catalogs.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/bees_and_catalogs.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 03:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bees%5Fand%5Fcatalogs</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I thought I&#39;d mention a couple of sites I&#39;ve been interested in lately.&nbsp; One is The Great Sunflower Project.&nbsp; There has been more than a bit of public concern lately that the bee population is drastically declining.&nbsp; Since bee]]></description></item><item><title>Reading slump</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/reading_slump.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/reading_slump.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 01:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=reading%5Fslump</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We are almost halfway through May, and I have yet to record a single book into my reading database for this month.&nbsp; I worked my way through the first half of Meredith Duran&#39;s Duke of Shadows, but stalled in the middle.&nbsp; I&#39;ve been wo]]></description></item><item><title>Once More with Feeling Series: Till the Stars Fall by Kathleen Gilles Seidel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/till_the_stars_fall.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/till_the_stars_fall.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=till%5Fthe%5Fstars%5Ffall</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Till the Stars Fall Kathleen Gilles SeidelBook 1994 Rating: A&nbsp;&quot;Kathleen Gilles Seidel is amazing. Why she is not better known and more widely read is a complete mystery. Her books are masterpieces of characterization and storytelling]]></description><category>books</category><category>romance</category><category>novels</category><category>all about romance</category><category>favorite romances</category><category>kathleen gilles seidel</category></item></channel></rss>