<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Bad news @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Bad news) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 grerp.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:45:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Bad news @ 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>Plus/Minus</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/plusminus.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/plusminus.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=plusminus</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today Max&#39;s new glasses arrived.&nbsp; I wasn&#39;t ready.&nbsp; I thought I was ready, but in reality, I&#39;m finding it difficult to view the new him.&nbsp; My boy&#39;s beautiful face now looks distressingly like Ralphie&#39;s from A Christma]]></description><category>getting glasses</category><category>children</category></item><item><title>Adoption time frame delay</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/adoption_time_frame_delay.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/adoption_time_frame_delay.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=adoption%5Ftime%5Fframe%5Fdelay</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Before our vacation, J. called up our social worker to see how our profile was doing: had it had any visitors, etc.&nbsp; And our social worker told us that no, no one had looked at it yet, and, unfortunately, the time frame for the average time fram]]></description></item><item><title>3 pieces of bad news</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/3_pieces_of_bad_news.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/3_pieces_of_bad_news.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=3%5Fpieces%5Fof%5Fbad%5Fnews</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[First, it&#39;s snowing again.&nbsp; It&#39;s been cold for about a week, and the snap took the magnolia trees and the tender new bulb flowers that had come up for a peek early.&nbsp; We also had a snowy Easter which precluded some of the more fun ac]]></description><category>snow</category><category>russian adoption</category></item><item><title>The state of Russian adoption</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/the_state_of_russian_adoption.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/the_state_of_russian_adoption.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fstate%5Fof%5Frussian%5Fadoption</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the last several months there have been some developments in Russia that will making adopting from there more difficult. First, for some time now I've been hearing rumors that couples wishing to adopt will have to have 8 doctors - 8 specialist]]></description><category>russian adoption</category></item><item><title>Cavities, car repairs, and book disappointments</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/cavities_car_repairs_and_book_disappointments.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/cavities_car_repairs_and_book_disappointments.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cavities%5Fcar%5Frepairs%5Fand%5Fbook%5Fdisappointments</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This week was filled with certain challenges. The flight home, the reacclimation to regular life, the daily grind reasserting itself. Then there were the biggies.On Thursday my long-term great good fortune with my teeth ended. I have two cavities. It]]></description></item><item><title>Bank argh</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/bank_argh.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/bank_argh.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bank%5Fargh</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Okay, this has happened twice now. Someone has done an electronic transfer from our bank accounts to pay their bills. I don't know who this is, but it's happened twice in six weeks. The first time, the payment was from Sprint; someone's c]]></description></item><item><title>Aunt S. is doing very poorly</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/aunt_s_is_doing_very_poorly.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/aunt_s_is_doing_very_poorly.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=aunt%5Fs%5Fis%5Fdoing%5Fvery%5Fpoorly</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My aunt is not doing well at all. In the past year her kidneys have failed her, requiring her to be on dialysis three times a week. She's had heart problems, her numerous eye surgeries have yielded no real improvement, and she's fallen over a]]></description></item><item><title>Fender bender</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/fender_bender.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/fender_bender.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fender%5Fbender</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Max and I got into a car accident today. It was my fault, but I swear I didn't see the other guy coming. We were turning into the St. Vincent DuPaul thrift shop (to look at their books) and one minute, I thought the road was clear and the next I]]></description></item><item><title>It&apos;s the engine</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/its_the_engine.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/its_the_engine.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=its%5Fthe%5Fengine</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kiss good-bye $2700.00.Ouch.  The good news is that my parents insisted on contributing $1000 since they sold it to us. I really didn't want to take it, but Dad insisted, and if it will make him feel better...well, a thousand dollars is a lot of]]></description></item><item><title>The car and other problems</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/the_car_and_other_problems.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/the_car_and_other_problems.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fcar%5Fand%5Fother%5Fproblems</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My car is having real problems, and it looks like they will be expensive to solve. For some reason this new Saturn burns oil far more than my old Saturn did. When I brought it in to have the oil changed after the first 3,000 miles, the attendant said]]></description></item><item><title>Car trouble</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/car_trouble.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/car_trouble.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=car%5Ftrouble</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So - J.'s car has needed work for some time, but he just refused to see to it. Yesterday we took it in, and now we are $425 poorer. Urg. We thought it was the cooling system since the car kept overheating, but the garage says it was the water pum]]></description></item><item><title>Overwhelming</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/overwhelming.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/overwhelming.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=overwhelming</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm feeling very sad and a bit overwhelmed today. It has just been very affecting to watch the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and what the survivors of the wreckage of the Gulf Coast are going through. Unlike some I'm not using this disaster t]]></description></item><item><title>What a day!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/what_a_day.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/what_a_day.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fa%5Fday</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hoo ha, today was a great one for the Maxster.It started out with no sleep and a cranky face which led Mommy to think that something might be a little off (add that to strep exposure and you have worries). So we rang up the old doc and got in mid-mor]]></description></item><item><title>Family problems</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/family_problems.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/family_problems.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=family%5Fproblems</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of the bigger things I did last week was to finally go and visit my Aunt S. who is basically housebound at this point in time. Max and I went Friday afternoon, following our outing to Circuit City to pick up Angel Season 3 for J.'s birthday (]]></description></item><item><title>Another delay</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/another_delay.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/another_delay.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=another%5Fdelay</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just got this message from our agency:&quot;Hi -  I hope that you did not make a choice on flights yet. Olga just called and said that the judge called her to say that he is not going to be available on the 19th (this is a first for us!) The court]]></description></item><item><title>J. has active Crohn&apos;s again</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/j_has_active_crohns_again.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/j_has_active_crohns_again.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=j%5Fhas%5Factive%5Fcrohns%5Fagain</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I spent the morning in the Endoscopy unit of MMPC waiting for J. to wake up from his colonoscopy. He has had THE most crapperific week. First he had to have his infusion of Remicaid and then he had to fast and then he had to cleanse the system of eve]]></description></item><item><title>A-fib again</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/afib_again.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/afib_again.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=afib%5Fagain</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday Mom went into a-fib again and had a mini-stroke. She says she&#39;s fine now and that they have her on Cumadin which should help, but I couldn&#39;t get to sleep last night. I just rolled over and over and thought about what a empty hole th]]></description></item><item><title>J.&apos;s employer is in the news</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/js_employer_is_in_the_news.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/js_employer_is_in_the_news.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=js%5Femployer%5Fis%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fnews</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ITT Technical Institute&#39;s headquarters was taken over by the feds on Wednesday, who are investigating the company&#39;s records of student attendance, graduation, and recruitment.For us, this means that he will probably not receive his paycheck t]]></description></item><item><title>Several pieces of bad news</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/several_pieces_of_bad_news.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/several_pieces_of_bad_news.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=several%5Fpieces%5Fof%5Fbad%5Fnews</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The first is that Electrolux is indeed pulling out of Greenville (where I work). Since they are the largest employer in the area, it&#39;s going to be a huge loss to the community (and, eventually, to library revenues).The second, and most annoying,]]></description></item><item><title>Russian adoptee beaten to death</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/russian_adoptee_beaten_to_death.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/russian_adoptee_beaten_to_death.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=russian%5Fadoptee%5Fbeaten%5Fto%5Fdeath</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This story had the EEAC listserv very upset today. It&#39;s so tragic. I hope it doesn&#39;t halt adoptions between the US and Russia because those kids need families and the abuse rate in adoptive families is much lower than that in the general popu]]></description></item></channel></rss>