<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from grerp.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 grerp.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-15T17:42:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-11-11:links.412189906</id><title>Favorite Comfort Reads</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/favorite_comfort_reads.htm"><![CDATA[comfortThe Windflower by Sharon &amp; Tom CurtisThe Shadow and the Star by Laura KinsaleSimply Irresistible by Rachel GibsonHeaven, Texas by SEPTruly, Madly Yours by Rachel GibsonArchangel by Sharon Shinn3-hankyThe Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsT]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/favorite_comfort_reads.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-11-11T18:02:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-11T18:02:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-11-10:links.412190036</id><title>Can&apos;t figure out how to best screw over my credit card company</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/cant_figure_out_how_to_best_screw_over_my_credit_card_compa.htm"><![CDATA[So.&nbsp; This  is going on all over. I just checked my credit card (my 1 credit card that I&#39;ve had for 20 years and has been owned and bought out and owned and bought out by about 6 banks and is now owned by one of the biggies that got TARP mone]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/cant_figure_out_how_to_best_screw_over_my_credit_card_compa.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-11-10T17:46:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-10T17:46:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-11-09:links.412189832</id><title>New grerp content</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/new_grerp_content.htm"><![CDATA[I haven&#39;t been so good about blogging lately, but I have written a bit for AAR, including 4 new reviews:Undone by Karin Slaughter  (I liked her last Will Trent  book a lot better) Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase &nbsp; And 2 mediocre-to-bad r]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/new_grerp_content.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-11-09T02:59:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-09T02:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-10-30:links.412188768</id><title>Books purchased new in 2009</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/books_purchased_new_in_2009_1.htm"><![CDATA[Since I do this every month for Eagerly Awaiting , I thought I&#39;d look back and see what panned out for me out of the books I parted with hard-earned money for.&nbsp; If this seems a meager number, remember we are on a very fixed budget.&nbsp; Als]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/books_purchased_new_in_2009_1.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-10-30T17:42:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-30T17:42:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-10-16:links.412186635</id><title>Milo&apos;s Big Adventure/Rachel&apos;s Heart Attack</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/milos_big_adventurerachels_heart_attack.htm"><![CDATA[So last night Milo got lost.&nbsp; Or, at least, I had no idea where he was.&nbsp; I am very careful with my dogs.&nbsp; They have collars; they walk on leashes.&nbsp; I supervise them pretty closely even when they are in the backyard.&nbsp; Still, i]]></content><dc:subject>lost dogs</dc:subject><dc:subject>dogs</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/milos_big_adventurerachels_heart_attack.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-10-16T13:40:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-16T13:40:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-09-26:links.412184145</id><title>Favorite Heroes, Heroines, &amp; Couples</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/favorite_heroes_heroines__couples.htm"><![CDATA[AAR is polling for your favorite heroes, heroines, and couples.  Below are mine.  Go vote for yours!]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/favorite_heroes_heroines__couples.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-09-26T03:23:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-26T03:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-09-09:links.412181713</id><title>Not calling it a recession anymore</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/not_calling_it_a_recession_anymore.htm"><![CDATA[Okay, so I spent the summer trying to keep Max entertained, gardening, canning, listening to the Harry Potter series on audio, and obsessively reading everything I can about this economic downturn.&nbsp; This last one is an illness, I know.&nbsp; But]]></content><dc:subject>great</dc:subject><dc:subject>recession</dc:subject><dc:subject>depression</dc:subject><dc:subject>economy</dc:subject><dc:subject>money</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/not_calling_it_a_recession_anymore.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-09-09T00:57:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-09T00:57:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-07-08:links.412176321</id><title>Once More with Feeling Series: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/once_more_with_feeling_series_the_eyre_affair_by_jasper_ffo.htm"><![CDATA[The Eyre AffairJasper FfordeFantasy/Alternate Reality 2001Rating: B&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;The Eyre Affair is a little bit of everything - adventure, romance, alternate reality - and a whole lot of fun. I didn&#39;t know quite what to expect from it; in re]]></content><dc:subject>books</dc:subject><dc:subject>fantasy</dc:subject><dc:subject>alternate reality</dc:subject><dc:subject>jasper fforde</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/once_more_with_feeling_series_the_eyre_affair_by_jasper_ffo.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-07-08T02:30:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-08T02:30:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-07-02:links.412175782</id><title>Garden update</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/garden_update.htm"><![CDATA[It&#39;s been awhile since I blogged.&nbsp; I went on vacation - a week at Lake Fremont with my family - and I had to work like a demon to get stuff done for AAR beforehand.&nbsp; Then when I got home the message boards debuted in their new location,]]></content><dc:subject>garden</dc:subject><dc:subject>gardens</dc:subject><dc:subject>gardening</dc:subject><dc:subject>container gardens</dc:subject><dc:subject>container gardening</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/garden_update.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-07-02T03:40:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-02T03:40:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-06-19:links.412174651</id><title>CSA Veggies</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/csa_veggies.htm"><![CDATA[Well, they are coming in.&nbsp; The vegetables are definitely coming in.&nbsp; This week we got: KohlrabiSpinachLoose lettuce greensRomaine lettuceSwiss chardKaleParsleyRadishesAnd I actually still have some bok choy and parsley (it&#39;s so yummy, b]]></content><dc:subject>garden produce</dc:subject><dc:subject>csa</dc:subject><dc:subject>community sponsored agriculture</dc:subject><dc:subject>cooking</dc:subject><dc:subject>greens</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/csa_veggies.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-06-19T18:35:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-19T18:35:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-06-18:links.412174547</id><title>The Time Traveler&apos;s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/the_time_travelers_wife_by_audrey_niffenegger_1.htm"><![CDATA[Note: This is really a faux &quot;Once More with Feeling&quot; review since I wrote down these thoughts when I read the book nearly six years ago in October 2003. It&#39;s been in the back of my mind that they were making a movie out of this...eventu]]></content><dc:subject>time travelers wife</dc:subject><dc:subject>audrey niffenegger</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/the_time_travelers_wife_by_audrey_niffenegger_1.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-06-18T14:40:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-18T14:40:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-06-15:links.412174251</id><title>Cheating on My Blog: Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/cheating_on_my_blog_bound_by_your_touch_by_meredith_duran.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I have a new DIK review up at All About Romance for Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Higgins.&nbsp; Check it out  .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.]]></content><dc:subject>books</dc:subject><dc:subject>reviewing</dc:subject><dc:subject>all about romance</dc:subject><dc:subject>meredith duran</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/cheating_on_my_blog_bound_by_your_touch_by_meredith_duran.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-06-15T17:04:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-15T17:04:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-06-10:links.412173786</id><title>Once More with Feeling Series: Mr. and Mrs. Wrong by Fay Robinson</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/once_more_with_feeling_series_mr_and_mrs_wrong_by_fay_rob.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp; Mr. and Mrs. Wrong Fay Robinson  Harlequin Superromance #1012&nbsp; 9/2001Rating: B+&nbsp;&quot;Lucky and Jack Cahill have been married for less than a year when Jack decides to move out. The two of them love each other very much, but they can]]></content><dc:subject>books</dc:subject><dc:subject>all about romance</dc:subject><dc:subject>romance novels</dc:subject><dc:subject>fay robinson</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/once_more_with_feeling_series_mr_and_mrs_wrong_by_fay_rob.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-06-10T14:02:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-10T14:02:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-06-02:links.412172929</id><title>Fixed my own faucet</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/fixed_my_own_faucet_1.htm"><![CDATA[J. says I should blog about this because I was so stoked at my success in fixing my own ball joint faucet.&nbsp; Saturday, I was cleaning up after cooking lunch and I noticed that the hot water was no longer coming out.&nbsp; At all.&nbsp; Since I sp]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/fixed_my_own_faucet_1.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-06-02T04:28:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-02T04:28:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-05-27:links.412172084</id><title>2009 garden (#1) is in</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/2009_garden_1_is_in.htm"><![CDATA[Well, after a month or more of double ditching (digging a ditch, piling the dirt to the side, adding layers of leaves and cow manure, then piling the dirt back in) a roughly 16 ft. by 12 ft. plot of land, I&#39;ve got the garden almost all in.&nbsp;]]></content><dc:subject>gardening</dc:subject><dc:subject>garden</dc:subject><dc:subject>planting</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/2009_garden_1_is_in.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-05-27T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-27T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-05-25:links.412171811</id><title>Once More with Feeling Series: Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/once_more_with_feeling_series_remember_me_by_sophie_kinsel.htm"><![CDATA[Remember Me? Sophie Kinsella Chick Lit 2008Rating: B&nbsp;&quot;Sophie Kinsella&#39;s newest book, Remember Me?, dangles from an interesting premise: What if you woke up tomorrow and everything that you didn&#39;t like about your life was transformed]]></content><dc:subject>books</dc:subject><dc:subject>all about romance</dc:subject><dc:subject>chick lit</dc:subject><dc:subject>sophie kinsella</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/once_more_with_feeling_series_remember_me_by_sophie_kinsel.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-05-25T14:44:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-25T14:44:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-05-23:links.412171461</id><title>Some thoughts on RPattz</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/some_thoughts_on_rpattz.htm"><![CDATA[I&#39;ve found the whole RPattz thing to be so interesting, from every angle - the crazy [really - lunatic] fans, the originally manufactured but now organically growing hype, the media coverage, even Robsten, which I am not too sold on as a fact but]]></content><dc:subject>robert pattinson</dc:subject><dc:subject>rpattz</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/some_thoughts_on_rpattz.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-05-23T01:54:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-23T01:54:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-05-17:links.412170548</id><title>Not just ignorance</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/not_just_ignorance.htm"><![CDATA[Flagrant denial and stupidity are on display here.&nbsp; Excuse the naivet&eacute;, but I&#39;ve been trying, recently, to blame at least part of Americans&#39; galactic economic mess on poor education and general ignorance about money.&nbsp; This gu]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/not_just_ignorance.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-05-17T02:08:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-17T02:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-05-16:links.412170443</id><title>A closet full of clothes, but I still wear all the same stuff</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/a_closet_full_of_clothes_but_i_still_wear_all_the_same_stuf.htm"><![CDATA[I know this comes as a surprise, but I actually have a lot of clothes.&nbsp; A lot of clothes.&nbsp; I never buy them (except at garage sales v. occasionally).&nbsp; Everyone just gives them to me.&nbsp; And plenty of them are really nice, particular]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/a_closet_full_of_clothes_but_i_still_wear_all_the_same_stuf.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-05-16T03:05:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-16T03:05:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-05-10:links.412169258</id><title>Once More with Feeling Series: Fifteen by Beverly Cleary</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/once_more_with_feeling_series_fifteen_by_beverly_cleary.htm"><![CDATA[FifteenBeverly ClearyYA&nbsp; 1956Rating: A&nbsp;&quot;There is something about adolescence, those teenage years, that marks you and leaves its brand for life. It&#39;s a time of an enormous breadth of feeling; breathless excitement, staggering humil]]></content><dc:subject>books</dc:subject><dc:subject>all about romance</dc:subject><dc:subject>ya lit</dc:subject><dc:subject>beverly cleary</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/once_more_with_feeling_series_fifteen_by_beverly_cleary.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-05-10T02:08:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-10T02:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-05-04:links.412168169</id><title>Why I am crap at travel</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/why_i_am_crap_at_travel.htm"><![CDATA[I have never really been very good at traveling.&nbsp; The whole &quot;It&#39;s out of my hands&quot; is so not my thing.&nbsp; I fret about my luggage getting scanned and then getting lost.&nbsp; I worry that I will lose my carry-on or that someone]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/why_i_am_crap_at_travel.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-05-04T03:49:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-04T03:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-04-29:links.412167399</id><title>Twilight DVD Commentary</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/twilight_dvd_commentary.htm"><![CDATA[Last week I reviewed Twilight , so this week I thought I&#39;d comment a bit on the extras, specifically, the commentary by the movie&#39;s director, Catherine Hardwicke, as well as its two leads, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. &nbsp;]]></content><dc:subject>twilight</dc:subject><dc:subject>edward cullen</dc:subject><dc:subject>robert pattinson</dc:subject><dc:subject>kristen stewart</dc:subject><dc:subject>catherine hardwicke</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/twilight_dvd_commentary.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-04-29T22:13:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-29T22:13:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-04-29:links.412167394</id><title>Cheating on My Blog: Catch of the Day by Kristan Higgins</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/cheating_on_my_blog_catch_of_the_day_by_kristan_higgins.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I have a new DIK review up at All About Romance for Catch of the Day by Kristan Higgins.&nbsp; Check it out .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.]]></content><dc:subject>books</dc:subject><dc:subject>reviewing</dc:subject><dc:subject>all about romance</dc:subject><dc:subject>kristan higgins</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/cheating_on_my_blog_catch_of_the_day_by_kristan_higgins.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-04-29T19:39:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-29T19:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-04-28:links.412166970</id><title>About d@mn time</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/about_dmn_time.htm"><![CDATA[Montcalm County has finally, under much public pressure, voted to discontinue giving their animal shelter pets to R&amp;R Research, Inc. , a company that either sells them or euthanizes them.&nbsp; This is definitely a victory for the domesticated an]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/about_dmn_time.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-04-28T03:54:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-28T03:54:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009-04-23:links.412165933</id><title>Watching Twilight</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/watching_twilight.htm"><![CDATA[Today I blogged over at the All About Romance News &amp; Commentary blog about my delicious experience watching the movie Twilight.&nbsp; Check it out!]]></content><dc:subject>twilight</dc:subject><dc:subject>robert pattinson</dc:subject><dc:subject>russia</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/watching_twilight.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-04-23T03:12:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-23T03:12:00Z</published></entry></feed>