<?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>Annoyances @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 grerp.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle>(Annoyances) </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/read/annoyances.rss"/><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2005-08-14:links.411805606</id><title>Ding, dong, the mouse is dead</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/ding_dong_the_mouse_is_dead.htm"><![CDATA[We've had a mouse whose been rooting around in the kitchen at night for months. I first noticed him back in March or so when it was the end of winter and the pickings outside, I assumed, were slim. I tried to set traps, but there were some snafus]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/ding_dong_the_mouse_is_dead.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2005-08-14T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-08-14T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2005-07-20:links.411807087</id><title>Some people!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/some_people.htm"><![CDATA[So J. and I went for a walk tonight with Max and Rosie. It was finally cooler after a series of really hot days, so I made it a little longer than usual. As she likes to do, Rosie waited until she found a lawn with the owners outside to do her busine]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/some_people.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2005-07-20T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-07-20T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-07-24:links.411860077</id><title>7.7%</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/77.htm"><![CDATA[That&#39;s what my boss gave herself for this year&#39;s raise.After she told all of us what a terrible fiscal year we were looking at and how the board could only afford to give us 1.2% raises. So sorry, but we all have to make sacrifices.In case yo]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/77.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-07-24T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-07-24T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-04-21:links.411853541</id><title>1.2%</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/12.htm"><![CDATA[1.2% This is what I&#39;m looking at for a raise this year.  I&#39;m not sure that&#39;s even C.O.L.A.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/12.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-04-21T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-04-21T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-04-10:links.411851678</id><title>Um, yeah.  Small-minded, close-minded</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/um_yeah__smallminded_closeminded.htm"><![CDATA[This is an interesting new development, I must say.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/um_yeah__smallminded_closeminded.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-04-10T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-04-10T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-01-20:links.411834080</id><title>People I just can&apos;t stand</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/people_i_just_cant_stand.htm"><![CDATA[I thought I&#39;d make a little list here of people I just can&#39;t handle sharing the earth with. It might prove to be cathartic (or maybe not). Here they are, in no particular order:Bill Clinton I absolutely cannot stand him. He has no honesty, no]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/people_i_just_cant_stand.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-01-20T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-01-20T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-01-15:links.411832986</id><title>Ugh, it&apos;s snowing again...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/ugh_its_snowing_again.htm"><![CDATA[...today when I have my second homestudy visit an hour away in Jenison. Why couldn't we have yesterday's weather today? Bleah.Also, my toe hurts. I pulled out a hang nail, and it just hurts right there on the side. Alongside the chipped red t]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/ugh_its_snowing_again.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-01-15T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-01-15T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-01-11:links.411832980</id><title>Problems with a neighbor</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/problems_with_a_neighbor.htm"><![CDATA[The man who lives two doors down from us is quite old, very likely in his eighties (he told us he built the house and it was built the same year as ours - 1947). Up until a couple of years ago, he seemed very together. His lawn was always mowed, he s]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/problems_with_a_neighbor.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-01-11T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-01-11T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2003-12-20:links.411830320</id><title>Homestudy scheduled</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/homestudy_scheduled.htm"><![CDATA[Our social worker called me up on Wednesday to schedule our first meeting. Unfortunately, it won&#39;t be until after all the holidays, and it looks like it&#39;s going to take 6-8 weeks to complete. So we will no longer be looking at going to Russia]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/homestudy_scheduled.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2003-12-20T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2003-12-20T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2003-11-22:links.411825655</id><title>Margaret Cho</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/margaret_cho.htm"><![CDATA[I was surfing blog sites and came across...Margaret Cho.I have to say I find her incredibly disturbing. She is clearly full of hatred. I think I disagree with her on just about everything she addresses. Well, not about Ann Coulter. I don&#39;t like A]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/margaret_cho.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2003-11-22T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2003-11-22T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2003-11-10:links.411825552</id><title>Red moon/international adoption fair</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/red_mooninternational_adoption_fair.htm"><![CDATA[Last night there was a red moon. J., H., H&#39;s friend J., and I went out to look at it. Pretty cool. H. was like, &quot;Duuuude. If this were the middle ages, there would be widespread panic in the streets. The End of the World stuff. The monks wou]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/red_mooninternational_adoption_fair.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2003-11-10T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2003-11-10T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2003-09-04:links.411812394</id><title>Freedom of Speech?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/freedom_of_speech.htm"><![CDATA[I saw an E! biography of Martin Lawrence the other day, and something he said has been really bothering me. When his first comedy film, You So Crazy!, was released, it originally garnered an NC-17 rating. Martin blasted this action as an infringement]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/freedom_of_speech.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2003-09-04T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2003-09-04T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2003-08-14:links.411808836</id><title>Skipped 1st grade?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/skipped_1st_grade.htm"><![CDATA[Why does it seem like the people who never learned how to count are always in front of me in the twelve-items-or-fewer grocery line? You know, I don't sweat 13 items or 15 or whatever. I don't actually count items of the person in front of me]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/skipped_1st_grade.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2003-08-14T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2003-08-14T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2003-08-13:links.411808837</id><title>Unsettling comment</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/unsettling_comment.htm"><![CDATA[Last week I had an unpleasant interlude with my new boss. I have a fair number of issues with her starting with the fact that she's only been here 4 months and already she's changed a number of things about our operation 1) without consulting]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/unsettling_comment.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2003-08-13T20:23:00Z</updated><published>2003-08-13T20:23:00Z</published></entry></feed>