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		<title>The other side of being &#8220;Paeng&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paeng \pa-&#8217;eng\ noun, colloquial, Tagalog. abbreviated version of &#8220;Pa-English-English&#8221;, speaks predominantly in English. Example: &#8220;Nakakaasar yung Paeng. Ingles daw ang &#8220;mother tongue&#8221; niya. Bugbugin natin.&#8221; I am coming clean. My husband and I speak to our children in English. They speak enough Tagalog to get by; but they can&#8217;t get far. They call a &#8220;blanket&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=3075&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food, glorious food!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who have read me before are familiar with my bewilderment at people who take photos of their meals.  Especially those who can&#8217;t make their food look good in photographs. I have said at more than one occasion that telling me what you had for breakfast, does not a good blog entry make. So, what&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=3069&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five reasons I should stop tweeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. I can express myself in 140 characters or less. Worse still, I can heckle in 140 characters or less. That includes references. While I can appreciate brevity, the superlative vocabulary my father paid for is now rendered irrelevant. 2. I am officially a &#8220;peeker&#8221;. I am one of those people who check their phones [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=3030&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loogie nights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<title>The end</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the fun [broom] ride, Harry Potter! Now, I fear your story&#8217;s inferior regurgitation. I feel them coming by the trainload. Filed under: Drawing Thought Bubbles Tagged: Movies<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=3005&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carnage</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2011/07/24/carnage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parties are fun to host and can be fun to attend. But the cleanup the morning after is a chore I can live without. Still, there is a smug satisfaction associated with seeing the furniture back in it&#8217;s place, the wet bar all tidied up and the chip bowls back in the cupboard. Now, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2946&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beating your own drum</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2011/07/23/beating-your-own-drum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A street musician stood among Marikina pedestrians, singing and executing some mean rhythmic combinations. His makeshift bonggos were made of empty cans of infant milk, taped together. He hopped onto the rear end of a passing jeepney and continued to make unique, happy music. The lights changed and I was on my way, thankful for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2940&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No dead air</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving my daughter to school at six o&#8217;clock in the morning is everything but a sleepy trip.  Animated tales about her friends, her cats, her favorite toy, among many &#8220;chika&#8217;s&#8221;, ricochet inside our sedan as it crawls to Katipunan.  Details flood out of my seven-year old&#8217;s lips in one seemingly endless run-on sentence. As I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2532&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Livid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My temper flared bloody red this week &#8212; at the vet’s clinic, at my cellular service provider’s business office, at the suit alteration shop.  When I get annoyed, my voice drops an octave and my vocabulary plunges as deep.  “All this compounds the inequity your solution presents,” I explained in a slow drawl to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2543&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boo humbug</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am all for Hallowen and the parental toil that goes with it.  Executing costumes, dressing up one&#8217;s home, bagging goodies &#8212; I enjoy that.  But my teeth start to itch when &#8230; &#8230; you show up at my door in your torn-up pambahay with smeared lipstick on your face, calling the get up a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2538&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On existentialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The individual is solely responsible for giving his or her own life meaning and for living that life passionately and sincerely.&#8221; Existentialist philosophies have been swirling in my head for weeks now. Something expected, considering my cyclical propensity to ponder on my purpose in life. I have decided to take some time away from my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2528&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogger&#8217;s remorse</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2010/05/26/bloggers-remorse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 05:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, I have been studying search engine optimization, how tagging images and content properly improves one search engine relevance, the many site success metrics, among others – all using my websites as a playground. I re-read my blog, from 2002 when it was called “Renaissance Girl: Dailies” to 2010 when it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2520&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kid foodie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What was once a solitary pastime has now infected one of my kids. My second son, Diego, loves food.  He can taste subtle nuances in dishes and has a strong opinion on what has the mmm-factor and what does not.  He reads food magazines and stares longingly at the bright pictures. So in an effort [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2510&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fierce</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2010/04/10/fierce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asked why she ran after and scratched a classmate, my 6-year old daughter replied,  &#8220;He was looking at me when I was changing.  And when a boy looks at me without my shirt, I will destroy him.&#8221; Asked why she wants to take soccer this summer, my daughter happily raised a clenched fist.  &#8220;Because I like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2503&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Dolt</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2010/03/11/a-dolt/</link>
		<comments>http://monaveluz.com/2010/03/11/a-dolt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drawing Thought Bubbles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Slave]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between working on office projects, being at the kids&#8217; end-of-school-year events, planning the summer ahead, packing our old house, and prepping the new one, I have had very little time for anything else.  For weeks now, my day starts before the sun goes up and ends after my last conference call at night.  Sleep provides [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2494&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forgetting Wonderland</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2010/03/06/forgetting-wonderland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Saw &#8220;Alice in Wonderland&#8221; last night with the kids.  I do not agree with twitterdom; I thought the film was great.  It resonated to a side of me that was reminded of intangibles we lose with age.  Of the loss of whimsy that comes with powerpoints, hypertension and car insurance.  It made me wonder why  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2476&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s new, Shrew?</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2010/03/02/whats-new-shrew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unearthing Gems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been away from this blog for a while &#8212; about two-three years. And with its resuscitation, I find myself checking my old haunts. How things have changed in the Blogosphere since 2005. Some sites have disappeared. Clicking on a dead link is like driving to a house you have fond memories of as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2466&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hitting Ctrl + F5</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2010/02/23/hitting-ctrl-f5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came home from the airport at 2am in morning on Monday to a house half-packed in boxes.  We are moving to a new address soon and my sister has kickstarted the effort.  While a bad hypertension attack has kept me in bed and useless*, the promise of the move has kept my spirits up. Changing homes represents a fresh start.  A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=2034&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awake</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2010/02/18/awake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After about 16 hours in the air, I finally got to the hotel at around 4pm.  Didn&#8217;t even unpack.  Just crashed.  It was a restless sleep though.  I woke up at every hour.   I got a cramp on my right calf &#8212; three times.  At around 3am, I got a nightmare about my kids.  So, now I&#8217;m up.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=1912&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of mohawks and movies</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2010/02/15/of-mohawks-and-movies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter cut the hair on top of her head last week. It&#8217;s grown out a bit and now, we have a baby mohawk going on. I&#8217;m thinking of making it permanent.  And while we&#8217;re on that topic:  I saw the A-Team movie trailer right before Percy Jackson let me down.  Na senti ako&#8230; Filed under: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=1905&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>They all did the huki lau</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2010/02/13/and-all-did-the-huki-lau/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The invite said come in something &#8220;Hawaiian&#8221;.  Naturally, I made an entrance in black-blue pin-striped slacks, a black sweater, black charole moccasins and pitch black shades.   Because. The Grade 4-5 kids swaying to &#8220;Surfing USA&#8221; did a great job.  And the Grade 1-2 pupils skipping to Sebastian&#8217;s &#8220;Under the Sea&#8221; in costumes of different sea creatures was the most adorable sight to behold.   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=1881&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chromosome malfunction?</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2010/02/11/chromosome-malfunction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Me and the husband are almost done building the house &#8212; we&#8217;re down to finishings!  And while &#8220;tradition&#8221; would ordain that the man gets dibs on discussing the grade of hollow blocks and steel girders with the architect/contractor, I have been on the ground doing that for the last 6 months. I have become intimate with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=1083&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Another Home</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2010/02/09/finding-another-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Spent the last two days doing some virtual housekeeping, preparing to move my on-line home from my circa 2002 hosting service to somewhere else that doesn&#8217;t lock me out of my own control panel.  I am looking forward to a brand new corner of the web where I can lay my blanket and have a picnic. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=1024&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mmmmmona</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2009/03/27/mmmmmona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My very first blog entry ever was about my love-hate relationship with my name.  After months of being away from my on-line life, I find myself at the beginning.  At lunch today: Mona: &#8220;Meat Trio on French bread please.&#8221; Sandwich Lady: &#8220;Your name, Ma&#8217;m?&#8221; Mona: &#8221;Mona.&#8221;  [Pronounced 'mow-na'] Sandwich Lady: &#8221;Spelled M-O-A-N-A?&#8221; Mona: &#8221;No.&#8221; &#8220;Ok.  I got it.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=37&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our new house</title>
		<link>http://monaveluz.com/2008/03/12/our-new-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digs:   Mommy, when we build our new house, I want a &#8216;manure&#8217;. Mona:   A what? Digs:   A &#8216;manure&#8217;. Mona:   (I had no idea what my eight-year old son was talking about.  But like everything else in life, I faked it.)  You make &#8216;manure&#8217; every day.  Little, round ones. Digs:   No, I want a big, big, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monaveluz.com&amp;blog=1543118&amp;post=16&amp;subd=monaveluz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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