<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028</id><updated>2009-11-23T01:31:32.004-06:00</updated><title type='text'>BeccA's  Buzz</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>620</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-7998720366833962883</id><published>2009-11-23T00:00:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-11-23T00:04:37.071-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Give Me Five'/><title type='text'>Give Me Five Monday Meme #56</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Monday, November 23, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;The 'Give Me Five' Monday meme is designed to sh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;are fu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;fo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;wi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ach other in a simple short list! 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It doesn'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;av&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;e to be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ord&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;er of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; importance unless otherwise specified.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Sign up for weekly reminder emails @ beccagirl@charter.net&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s1600-h/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s320/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150193716636931154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R8xGHxZe2WI/AAAAAAAABl8/uBG7ZU-nmuU/s1600-h/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R8xGHxZe2WI/AAAAAAAABl8/uBG7ZU-nmuU/s320/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173587171275102562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Give Me Five reasons you can be thankful this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. I'm humbly thankful for the love of God and the mercy He shows me.&lt;br /&gt;2. I am appreciative of opportunities to be used by Him and thankful He continues to offer them, to me.&lt;br /&gt;3. I'm thankful for the ability to be content even when things around me seem upsetting or scary or not at all working out the way I thought they should.&lt;br /&gt;4. I'm thankful for good times with good friends and family and looking forward to making new memories.&lt;br /&gt;5. I'm still employed! Full time and as a fill in, I am thankful for every hour I am employed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=10913" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyLogo119.gif" border="0" width="119" height="39" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-7998720366833962883?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/7998720366833962883/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=7998720366833962883&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/7998720366833962883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/7998720366833962883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/11/give-me-five-monday-meme-56.html' title='Give Me Five Monday Meme #56'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s72-c/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-2548655690426735043</id><published>2009-11-19T18:37:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2009-11-19T18:52:57.574-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recreation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='faith'/><title type='text'>Happy Birthday, Me!</title><content type='html'>Another year older.....another year full of things I wish I had done...things I wish I hadn't. I'm not going to talk about weight loss and &lt;a href="http://www.dietpillcomparison.net/"&gt;diet pill reviews&lt;/a&gt; or anything like that. My life isn't all about my weight!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SwXoLcIVSZI/AAAAAAAADcQ/RVCgMyHmz1M/s1600/birthday+cake+slice.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SwXoLcIVSZI/AAAAAAAADcQ/RVCgMyHmz1M/s320/birthday+cake+slice.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405982210955495826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;At this point all I can do is learn and move on. Turn the page on yesterday. Much too often I pick it back up and drag it around like a ball on a chain locked to my ankle. Some things happen that I can't control and some I can. So when I can't I will have faith that I will be ok through whatever plan the Lord has for me. Even if it hurts me in the moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots to look forward to!! Dinner with my momma tonight at Red Lobster, dinner with various ladies in my life at the Old Spaghetti Factory tomorrow night, &lt;a href="http://www.fabulousfox.com/shows_page_multi.aspx?usID=149"&gt;Little House on the Prairie tickets&lt;/a&gt; with friends on Tuesday at the Fox Theater, Thanksgiving, trip to Branson with momma over the holiday weekend and then starts the busy and wonderful month of December with all of it's merriment! Holiday parties, caroling, hot chocolate, being with friends and loved ones... who could look forward to all that and not have a smile on your face?? Do yourself a favor, try to see the brightside of things, even if it hurts. ;-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-2548655690426735043?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/2548655690426735043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=2548655690426735043&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/2548655690426735043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/2548655690426735043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-birthday-me.html' title='Happy Birthday, Me!'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SwXoLcIVSZI/AAAAAAAADcQ/RVCgMyHmz1M/s72-c/birthday+cake+slice.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-4770051830599706144</id><published>2009-11-17T10:51:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T11:20:20.553-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shopping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><title type='text'>Home sweet home!</title><content type='html'>Traveling by yourself can be brutal. If for no other reason that there's no one to share the task of driving with in order to get a break. The good part was being able to stop whenever I wanted to, choose my own route and not stopping when I didn't want to LOL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I left my uncle's house around 6:45 am getting off to a later start than I had wanted by wasting a lot of time moseying around a gas station looking for suitable souvenirs or possible Christmas gift trinkets. I ended up changing my mind on everything! What a waste of drive time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later on I decided what I really wanted was a cactus plant so I stopped later and got one from a Home Depot. What better memento of Texas than a cacti and some hot sauce...minus the hot sauce LOL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also took a big detour to an Ikea store not too far from Dallas and I'm SOOOO glad I did! The closest one to St. Louis is like 4 or more hours away and I was going to be about 22 miles from one so I decided to go. I heart Ikea!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I traveled for about 28 hours with all the stops along the way...and was actually there for about 36 hours including the time I was asleep. It was worth it though, good to see family after so long. Family shouldn't feel like strangers!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now it's back to work for me, lots to do to get caught up. No time for &lt;a href="http://www.boldchat.com/"&gt;live chat software&lt;/a&gt; or playing on Facebook! I won't be doing that much until I get home. :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-4770051830599706144?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/4770051830599706144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=4770051830599706144&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/4770051830599706144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/4770051830599706144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/11/home-sweet-home.html' title='Home sweet home!'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-6601960764973220026</id><published>2009-11-13T14:01:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T14:35:13.379-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><title type='text'>RIP Uncle Joe</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Sv285xEv5cI/AAAAAAAADcI/pRWanJmpGvM/s1600-h/uncle+joe.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 286px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Sv285xEv5cI/AAAAAAAADcI/pRWanJmpGvM/s320/uncle+joe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403682828526282178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life goes by so fast these days. There never seems to be enough time or resources to prioritize things the way we wish we could. My &lt;a href="http://www.bozemitchellmckibbin.com/sitemaker/sites/BozeMi1/obit.cgi?user=146842Coffman"&gt;Uncle Joe passed away&lt;/a&gt; on Thursday. For about 6 years I've been wanting to go down to Texas for a visit and have him take me fishing at Lake Fork! He said he would and even told my dad he was blessed to have a daughter who enjoyed fishing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uncle Joe has 3 daughters and I don't think they are very interested in it. I missed my opportunity forever to go fishing with Uncle Joe :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So be praying for me as I will be driving (most likely alone) from St. Louis, MO to Italy, TX. It should take me about 12 hours or so, depending on how many times I need to stop. It'll be a fast weekend visit, no time to sit around and enjoy a &lt;a href="http://www.thesource.ca/estore/category.aspx?language=en-CA&amp;catalog=Online&amp;category=DVD&amp;pagenum=1&amp;sort=1"&gt;bluray&lt;/a&gt; movie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't let let so much time pass not doing things you really would like to do just because you are 'too busy'. Make the time before you are out of time. Rest in peace, Uncle Joe!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-6601960764973220026?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/6601960764973220026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=6601960764973220026&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/6601960764973220026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/6601960764973220026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/11/rip-uncle-joe.html' title='RIP Uncle Joe'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Sv285xEv5cI/AAAAAAAADcI/pRWanJmpGvM/s72-c/uncle+joe.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-5991815221073454481</id><published>2009-11-09T00:00:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T00:14:47.721-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Give Me Five'/><title type='text'>Give Me Five Monday Meme #55</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Monday, November 9, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;The 'Give Me Five' Monday meme is designed to sh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;are fu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;fo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;wi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ach other in a simple short list! 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It doesn'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;av&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;e to be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ord&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;er of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; importance unless otherwise specified.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Sign up for weekly reminder emails @ beccagirl@charter.net&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s1600-h/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s320/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150193716636931154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R8xGHxZe2WI/AAAAAAAABl8/uBG7ZU-nmuU/s1600-h/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R8xGHxZe2WI/AAAAAAAABl8/uBG7ZU-nmuU/s320/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173587171275102562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Give Me Five foods you never want to eat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Snails&lt;/span&gt;: even though they are supposed to be a delicacy, um, yuck!&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cow tongue&lt;/span&gt;: why is this even on a menu?&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Snake&lt;/span&gt;: just can't even stand the thought of it.&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Oysters&lt;/span&gt;: same reason as #1, yucky looking!&lt;br /&gt;5. Anything that is also considered a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;bug&lt;/span&gt; of ANY kind no matter what part of the world I am in....NO HANGIN' WAY!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=9804" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyLogo119.gif" border="0" height="39" width="119" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-5991815221073454481?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/5991815221073454481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=5991815221073454481&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/5991815221073454481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/5991815221073454481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/11/give-me-five-monday-meme-55.html' title='Give Me Five Monday Meme #55'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s72-c/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-5699096960545164378</id><published>2009-10-28T14:12:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-28T14:21:59.359-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recreation'/><title type='text'>It's Fall, ya'll!</title><content type='html'>Fall is here, there's no doubt! Check your &lt;a href="http://www.naturalenviro.com/sections.php?section=pond%20pumps"&gt;pond pumps&lt;/a&gt;, buy a new rake, it's time to 'autumnize' your home. Is that a real word? Now it is :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you rent like me, then thank the good Lord and go on a drive and enjoy the fall colors before they are gone...instead of spending your weekends raking up ginormous mounds of leaves that just blow back down before you can fill the bags LOL Here are a few prime choice photos I found when I Googled 'fall foliage'. Enjoy!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuiZTd8-iTI/AAAAAAAADbw/muLTFOUzFAM/s1600-h/fall+foliage+1.htm"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 211px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuiZTd8-iTI/AAAAAAAADbw/muLTFOUzFAM/s320/fall+foliage+1.htm" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397732713140488498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuiZb__uoQI/AAAAAAAADb4/_34NHzNbtcI/s1600-h/fall+foliage+2.htm"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuiZb__uoQI/AAAAAAAADb4/_34NHzNbtcI/s320/fall+foliage+2.htm" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397732859717787906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuiZllF9A2I/AAAAAAAADcA/3mx9DlEYUoo/s1600-h/fall+leaves+and+reflection.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuiZllF9A2I/AAAAAAAADcA/3mx9DlEYUoo/s320/fall+leaves+and+reflection.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397733024294830946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-5699096960545164378?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/5699096960545164378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=5699096960545164378&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/5699096960545164378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/5699096960545164378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-fall-yall.html' title='It&apos;s Fall, ya&apos;ll!'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuiZTd8-iTI/AAAAAAAADbw/muLTFOUzFAM/s72-c/fall+foliage+1.htm' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-1281534040394942680</id><published>2009-10-26T12:25:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-26T12:49:31.783-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friends'/><title type='text'>A rough start</title><content type='html'>Well, this was a busy weekend. Some good things happened and some not so good things happened. I'm sick, sort of...it seems to just come and go as it pleases. I got to work over 16 hours this weekend for my second job, which is great. I hadn't gotten any hours in over 3 weeks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, had "good" fun at some friends' birthday party, it's always nice to get together and jibber jabber. The kiddos had fun at the playground. Had me some grilled hot dogs...love them! Could have done without the bee problem, but hey they have to eat too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday brought more "good" to the weekend in the form of a vow renewal ceremony for the Quinn family. 15 years and 5 kids later :) They decided they did in fact want to stay together for the long hall. The theme was 'A cord of three strands is not quickly broken'....the third (or first, depends on your point of view) strand would be God, of course :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuXgcvgaO8I/AAAAAAAADbo/vwJyCobZtYI/s1600-h/broken+car+glass.htm"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuXgcvgaO8I/AAAAAAAADbo/vwJyCobZtYI/s320/broken+car+glass.htm" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396966512866769858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The "not so good" for the weekend ended up being a broken window on the parking lot afterwards. I hope the criminals had fun with their bag full of crocheting, magazines, books and raisins which were for the car ride from/to Kentucky. The happy couple's brother and sister in law and their kids were supposed to head home Monday morning but were going to have to get the window fixed first now. Crime is so annoying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After this long weekend, Monday morning came crashing down on me. A rough start indeed, it was hard to get out of bed today....so I just had to force myself up, slapped on some &lt;a href="http://www.sybervision.com/reviews/wrinkle-cream-reviews.php"&gt;wrinkle cream&lt;/a&gt; and poof! I'm ready to start a new week. I guess.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-1281534040394942680?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/1281534040394942680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=1281534040394942680&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/1281534040394942680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/1281534040394942680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/10/rough-start.html' title='A rough start'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuXgcvgaO8I/AAAAAAAADbo/vwJyCobZtYI/s72-c/broken+car+glass.htm' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-8373239459857270457</id><published>2009-10-23T20:34:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-23T20:54:43.524-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='health'/><title type='text'>Am I sick yet?</title><content type='html'>Who knew it would take so long to get sick! For the past two weeks I could *kind of* tell I *might* be getting sick-*maybe*. It has been sort of like a sneaky troll tip toeing behind me. Every time I think I can tell I'm getting sick, I turn around and poof it's gone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuJeQriPa1I/AAAAAAAADbg/Ta_GyHHbG6w/s1600-h/seasons_winter_cold.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuJeQriPa1I/AAAAAAAADbg/Ta_GyHHbG6w/s320/seasons_winter_cold.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395978944200534866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;But now? Well, I mean I'm not sitting here researching &lt;a href="http://www.coloncleanseresearch.com/"&gt;colon cleanser reviews&lt;/a&gt; and decongestants but there's definitely no mistaking that I am positively sick! I'm just worried, it took me 2 weeks for the wind up to being sick, how long is it going to take to get over being sick? Ack! Now pass the tissues and throat lozenges.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-8373239459857270457?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/8373239459857270457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=8373239459857270457&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/8373239459857270457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/8373239459857270457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/10/am-i-sick-yet.html' title='Am I sick yet?'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SuJeQriPa1I/AAAAAAAADbg/Ta_GyHHbG6w/s72-c/seasons_winter_cold.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-6274061637763526041</id><published>2009-10-13T17:32:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T17:48:36.227-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><title type='text'>St. Louis Interactive Festival 2009, it's a blogger thing</title><content type='html'>!!!Free!!! Tickets now available for the &lt;a href="http://www.stlouisbloggersguild.org/interactive/"&gt;2nd Annual St. Louis Interactive Festival&lt;/a&gt; this Saturday, October 17, 2009. It's a  conference and networking event from 9 am to 4 pm with breakfast and lunch included. There are key note speakers with helpful information on blogging from content to creating great looking blogs and why you might want to do that...plus other helpful information as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/StUC2rsFa_I/AAAAAAAADbY/EbSMmc6aYnI/s1600-h/stlouisinteractivelogo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 108px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/StUC2rsFa_I/AAAAAAAADbY/EbSMmc6aYnI/s320/stlouisinteractivelogo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392219267309857778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;My friend Patrick from over at &lt;a href="http://www.patricksays.net/"&gt;Patrick Says&lt;/a&gt; will be one of those speakers! This event is put on by the St. Louis Blogger's Guild (which I am not a member of, maybe after this weekend?) and is being held @ Shock City Music Works. Check it out and if your schedule permits (and you are a St. Louis blogger, I guess) go to the site and register. Did I mention it's all free?? Besides, what could it hurt to meet some fellow bloggers and get some great tips for bettering our blogs? Let me know if you plan to go! Unless you'd rather stay home and get a jump start on finding &lt;a href="http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/catalog/product.list.php?gift_idea_id=62:-"&gt;unique gifts for her&lt;/a&gt; or him...oh, you can't actually see me pointing, can you? :P&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-6274061637763526041?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/6274061637763526041/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=6274061637763526041&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/6274061637763526041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/6274061637763526041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/10/st-louis-interactive-festival-2009-its.html' title='St. Louis Interactive Festival 2009, it&apos;s a blogger thing'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/StUC2rsFa_I/AAAAAAAADbY/EbSMmc6aYnI/s72-c/stlouisinteractivelogo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-9030970279292928278</id><published>2009-10-12T00:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T00:01:55.418-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Give Me Five'/><title type='text'>Give Me Five Monday Meme #54</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Monday, October 12, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;The 'Give Me Five' Monday meme is designed to sh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;are fu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;fo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;wi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ach other in a simple short list! 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It doesn'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;av&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;e to be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ord&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;er of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; importance unless otherwise specified.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Sign up for weekly reminder emails @ beccagirl@charter.net&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s1600-h/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s320/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150193716636931154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R8xGHxZe2WI/AAAAAAAABl8/uBG7ZU-nmuU/s1600-h/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R8xGHxZe2WI/AAAAAAAABl8/uBG7ZU-nmuU/s320/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173587171275102562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Give Me Five favorite or un-favorite things to shop for.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1. Un-Fave: Shoes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2. Fave: Clothes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3. Fave: Crafty Stuff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;4. Fave: Airplane tickets for a trip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5. Fave: Gifts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I went shoe shopping and I was totally traumatized!! Seriously, I'd rather shop for the &lt;a href="http://www.lipovox.com/"&gt;best weight loss pills&lt;/a&gt; or anything else! I got all worked up and was sweating...I finally figured out 2 pair that might work. The problem is I need 2 different sized shoes. I need a 10W for the left and a 10 1/2 W for the right. One pair I got ended up being size 11 because the 10's just weren't right. Of course, they are a little big on me....UGH!! I D*E*S*P*I*S*E shoe shopping!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=7667" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcklinky.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.mcklinky.com/images/MckLinkyLogo119.gif" width="119" height="39" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-9030970279292928278?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/9030970279292928278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=9030970279292928278&amp;isPopup=true' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/9030970279292928278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/9030970279292928278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/10/give-me-five-monday-meme-54.html' title='Give Me Five Monday Meme #54'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s72-c/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-6026208189698078018</id><published>2009-10-07T23:50:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T21:02:42.061-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='laughs'/><title type='text'>Papa John's vs. The Cake Boss</title><content type='html'>Is it just me or does that guy John Schnatter from Papa John's look alot like that guy Buddy Valastro from the Cake Boss?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Ss1w9s1wI6I/AAAAAAAADbQ/RnJNgqI5DBQ/s1600-h/papa+johns+vs+carlos+bakery.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Ss1w9s1wI6I/AAAAAAAADbQ/RnJNgqI5DBQ/s320/papa+johns+vs+carlos+bakery.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390088534343295906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I love finding this kind of stuff!! :) Too funny...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-6026208189698078018?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/6026208189698078018/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=6026208189698078018&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/6026208189698078018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/6026208189698078018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/10/papa-johns-vs-cake-boss.html' title='Papa John&apos;s vs. The Cake Boss'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Ss1w9s1wI6I/AAAAAAAADbQ/RnJNgqI5DBQ/s72-c/papa+johns+vs+carlos+bakery.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-8235985444458756778</id><published>2009-10-06T11:36:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T11:51:27.753-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Sweet, sweet snail mail!</title><content type='html'>I don't remember getting free candy samples in the mail before!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Sst1RdGly8I/AAAAAAAADbA/TXm0YprJwIU/s1600-h/candy+mail+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Sst1RdGly8I/AAAAAAAADbA/TXm0YprJwIU/s320/candy+mail+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389530321809427394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;How in the world did they know I like Twizzlers? Hmmm, big brother perhaps? And how did they know where I live? Strange....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Sst1fUpcXWI/AAAAAAAADbI/2HI6j-zkVuc/s1600-h/candy+mail+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Sst1fUpcXWI/AAAAAAAADbI/2HI6j-zkVuc/s320/candy+mail+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389530560057859426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The package was damaged in the mail, big surprise, but the candy on the inside was undisturbed. I opened the candy packaging but it was quite difficult. The plastic wrapper kept sticking to the candy. The candy was very...well...sticky. I did try a bite of it..but the consistency was off and I had to spit it out. Just not my cup of tea. The flavors were great, I love cherry the best! I just couldn't get past the gooey-ness of the filling and to be honest the twizzler part of the candy seemed different too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Dear Twizzler product engineers,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Thanks, but no thanks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                  Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;                  Me&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-8235985444458756778?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/8235985444458756778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=8235985444458756778&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/8235985444458756778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/8235985444458756778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/10/sweet-sweet-snail-mail.html' title='Sweet, sweet snail mail!'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Sst1RdGly8I/AAAAAAAADbA/TXm0YprJwIU/s72-c/candy+mail+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-6894725545463512085</id><published>2009-10-04T23:58:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-05T00:16:01.056-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Give Me Five'/><title type='text'>Give Me Five Monday Meme #53</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Monday, October 5, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;The 'Give Me Five' Monday meme is designed to sh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;are fu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;fo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;wi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ach other in a simple short list! 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Buy enough food to make sure no one would go to bed hungry anywhere on earth.&lt;br /&gt;2. Health care for everyone!!!&lt;br /&gt;3. Sail around the world, three times.&lt;br /&gt;4. Build my own spaceship and fly into space to orbit the earth. Ok, hire really smart people to build it for me, that is.&lt;br /&gt;5. Buy a house in every one of my favorite places in the world and purchase my own plane to go from one to the next.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow, it's fun to dream, isn't it?? Sometimes it's just nice to let your mind be free to think of the unthinkable, in a good way :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=7170" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-6894725545463512085?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/6894725545463512085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=6894725545463512085&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/6894725545463512085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/6894725545463512085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/10/give-me-five-monday-meme-53.html' title='Give Me Five Monday Meme #53'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s72-c/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-8733676701657101886</id><published>2009-10-02T16:59:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-02T17:17:25.457-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='laughs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home'/><title type='text'>I've never been offered so many husbands in one day before!</title><content type='html'>Today I was offered 3 husbands. That's right, you heard me....3 husbands!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This morning I was having a meeting in my apartment with the building owner and the owner of the businesses on the first floor below all 3 apartments, about some maintenance issues. There is now going to be a yoga place where there was previously nothing, another Mexican restaurant where there had already been 2 failed Mexican restaurants below me and in the middle, there will be a bakery where the &lt;a href="http://www.claflinequip.com/"&gt;medical equipment&lt;/a&gt; store used to be. I didn't know I would be having said meeting in my apartment today or I would have taken some time last night to straighten things up and get ready for it! The place is in a bit of disarray since I have dug around through things to get items to sell at the yard sale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, in mentioning my yard sale, the business owner eye balls a screwdriver of mine laying on the table and offers to buy it from me...as this happened, the building owner, Hector, saw my tool box laying there and offered to buy that from me! I said, "No, no...I need these tools! Since I don't have a husband, I have to fix things myself!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both of their eyes got really big and ginormous smiles came and the business owner said, "I have two guys downstairs and they both need to get married! The one cooks real good (making a motion with his fingers to his mouth)" Then Hector says, "Well, if you don't mind Mexicans, the man who runs the bakery, he need to be married too!! You want me to introduce you??"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SsZ7vyHoCBI/AAAAAAAADa4/aVdc9ozD3RI/s1600-h/3+amigos.htm"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SsZ7vyHoCBI/AAAAAAAADa4/aVdc9ozD3RI/s320/3+amigos.htm" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388130065033201682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We all had a good laugh..but on some level, I think they were serious! LOL I could have my pick of the 3 amigos!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-8733676701657101886?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/8733676701657101886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=8733676701657101886&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/8733676701657101886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/8733676701657101886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-never-been-offered-so-many-husbands.html' title='I&apos;ve never been offered so many husbands in one day before!'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SsZ7vyHoCBI/AAAAAAAADa4/aVdc9ozD3RI/s72-c/3+amigos.htm' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-1202139657636344493</id><published>2009-10-01T15:30:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-01T15:42:34.617-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Give Me Five'/><title type='text'>Oops!!! I did it again...</title><content type='html'>I'm sure by now you all have noticed, I missed the Give Me Five meme this past Monday :) What happened was, on Sunday evening I was in bed with my laptop and I ended up falling asleep before midnight and ya'll know I don't post it early. Well I totally fell asleep before I even decided on a topic and created the original post LOL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SsUTryrz2mI/AAAAAAAADaw/Aj-AnOR-7iI/s1600-h/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 236px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SsUTryrz2mI/AAAAAAAADaw/Aj-AnOR-7iI/s320/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387734172279495266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;So, many apologies from me to you! I know I used to do this from time to time because I was having a hard time choosing a topic but this one was an 'oopsy'. Please come back next week to play along with a new topic. Now you all can go back to your &lt;a href="http://www.konverge.com/SharePointCustomization.aspx"&gt;Sharepoint&lt;/a&gt; or your Youtube videos or whatever else you were doing online before checking in here. :) Perhaps you were playing Mafia Wars over on Facebook? Now you're talking!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-1202139657636344493?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/1202139657636344493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=1202139657636344493&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/1202139657636344493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/1202139657636344493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/10/oops-i-did-it-again.html' title='Oops!!! I did it again...'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SsUTryrz2mI/AAAAAAAADaw/Aj-AnOR-7iI/s72-c/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-3493058496470332490</id><published>2009-09-21T00:09:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-21T00:19:40.094-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Give Me Five'/><title type='text'>Give Me Five Monday Meme #52</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Monday, September 21, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;The 'Give Me Five' Monday meme is designed to sh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;are fu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;fo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;wi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ach other in a simple short list! Here's how it works. Each week, I will&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; put&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; ou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;nd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;m topi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;c fr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;m my list of topics and you share 5 answers of your choice on the g&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ven t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;d&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;k &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ack &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;here! You can add photos, links or stories or just a simple list of your own of 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;thi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;g&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;rela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;te to the topic as it pertains to you and your life experiences. It doesn'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;av&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;e to be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ord&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;er of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; importance unless otherwise specified.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Sign up for weekly reminder emails @ beccagirl@charter.net&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s1600-h/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s320/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150193716636931154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R8xGHxZe2WI/AAAAAAAABl8/uBG7ZU-nmuU/s1600-h/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R8xGHxZe2WI/AAAAAAAABl8/uBG7ZU-nmuU/s320/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173587171275102562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Give Me Five of your favorite drinks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Water&lt;br /&gt;2. Sweet tea&lt;br /&gt;3. Coke Classic&lt;br /&gt;4. Coffee (cream and sweetener, please)&lt;br /&gt;5. Welch's No Sugar Added Concord grape juice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess #5 is pretty specific but I recently tried a bottle of it and I LOVE IT! Being 'no sugar added', I anticipated a tart and unpleasant flavor but I'm really enjoying it. If I decide to start watching my calorie intake, I may just have to consider it a &lt;a href="http://www.weightlossproduct.net/"&gt;weight loss product&lt;/a&gt; :) So how about you, what are 5 of your favorite drinks??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=6151" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-3493058496470332490?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/3493058496470332490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=3493058496470332490&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/3493058496470332490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/3493058496470332490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/09/give-me-five-monday-meme-52.html' title='Give Me Five Monday Meme #52'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s72-c/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-3054357596862768029</id><published>2009-09-20T22:08:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-20T23:04:45.084-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='health'/><title type='text'>Before or After?</title><content type='html'>At our Valley Girl meeting today, one of the ladies brought her Avon makeup supplies to do makeovers on those who were willing. If you read my blog from time to time, you might already know: I hate makeup on me. I hate the way it looks, I hate the way it feels and I hate the way it wipes off onto things like my phone, bleh!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, without further ado...here is the before and after from today's makeover:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Srb6yeMlapI/AAAAAAAADao/AdQJGMpZc0k/s1600-h/Avon+Makeover+9-20-09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 159px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Srb6yeMlapI/AAAAAAAADao/AdQJGMpZc0k/s320/Avon+Makeover+9-20-09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383766149574257298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Just another confirmation that I do not need to be wearing makeup...or that I still haven't found the right makeup for my coloring yet. I look gray! I washed it off immediately when I came home...I sure don't need any excuses to buy an &lt;a href="http://getacnetreatments.com/"&gt;acne treatment&lt;/a&gt;! I've always had phobias about that...but that's another post entirely. For now, the search continues. I vote for the before :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-3054357596862768029?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/3054357596862768029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=3054357596862768029&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/3054357596862768029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/3054357596862768029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/09/before-or-after.html' title='Before or After?'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/Srb6yeMlapI/AAAAAAAADao/AdQJGMpZc0k/s72-c/Avon+Makeover+9-20-09.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-4553374920539488628</id><published>2009-09-17T22:43:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T23:34:07.285-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv'/><title type='text'>Yay, it makes me happy =]</title><content type='html'>Is it wrong for me to be *this* excited that The Office is back on with new episodes? I just watched the season premiere. Great way to start a new season. All the characters were pretty much spot on...that Micheal has some serious issues! Congrats Pam and Jim...now get married already.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next up, pack your bags and call up some &lt;a href="http://www.moveeast.com/"&gt;long distance moving companies&lt;/a&gt; because "You're going to Vegas!!!" I love watching the So You Think You Can Dance (dance, dance, dance) tryouts and this week they are in Phoenix, Az. I don't know what some of these people are thinking! That's not dancing, that's just weird. Day 2 is strange...and what is with the screaming guy? Sheesk! LOL Nigel: How close are we to Roswell? Good question! Next stop, Bean Town.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-4553374920539488628?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/4553374920539488628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=4553374920539488628&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/4553374920539488628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/4553374920539488628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/09/yay-it-makes-me-happy.html' title='Yay, it makes me happy =]'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-6212400876376789290</id><published>2009-09-14T00:01:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-14T00:14:31.351-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Give Me Five'/><title type='text'>Give Me Five Monday Meme #51</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Monday, September 14, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;The 'Give Me Five' Monday meme is designed to sh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;are fu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;fo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;wi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ach other in a simple short list! Here's how it works. Each week, I will&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; put&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; ou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;nd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;m topi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;c fr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;m my list of topics and you share 5 answers of your choice on the g&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ven t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;d&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;k &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ack &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;here! 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It doesn'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;av&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;e to be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ord&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;er of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; importance unless otherwise specified.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Sign up for weekly reminder emails @ beccagirl@charter.net&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s1600-h/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s320/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150193716636931154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R8xGHxZe2WI/AAAAAAAABl8/uBG7ZU-nmuU/s1600-h/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R8xGHxZe2WI/AAAAAAAABl8/uBG7ZU-nmuU/s320/Give+Me+5+Monday+logo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173587171275102562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Give Me Five of your favorite ways to be crafty or creative.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. I love to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;cook&lt;/span&gt;! Can't wait to get my hands juicy and hear that sizzle.&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Scrapbooking&lt;/span&gt;, I love to be creative showing off my pictures.&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Photography&lt;/span&gt;. I've always enjoyed taking pictures of .... well, everything!&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Crocheting&lt;/span&gt;. I'm just getting into it and I'm already creating my own patterns.&lt;br /&gt;5. Various &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;sewing&lt;/span&gt; projects. I think it's a lost art, not many of my friends know their way around a sewing machine, sad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, how about you? What crafts and crea-tivities do you enjoy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=5625" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-6212400876376789290?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/6212400876376789290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=6212400876376789290&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/6212400876376789290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/6212400876376789290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/09/give-me-five-monday-meme-51.html' title='Give Me Five Monday Meme #51'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s72-c/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-5265974763293738701</id><published>2009-09-11T16:10:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-11T16:32:48.750-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community'/><title type='text'>Warning: Political post on health care reform</title><content type='html'>I don't go into politics much here on BeccA's Buzz. From time to time I do come across information on various current issues  that I share with my readers and that sometimes includes what's going on in our government. I'm on record as saying, I'm not one for picking political sides....liberal vs. conservative or democrat vs. republican...I dislike politics on many levels but I get the need to have more than one choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I'd like to share a piece written by Jordan Sekulow. He and his father Jay Sekulow are out there on the front lines fighting and winning legal battles for you and me with the &lt;a href="http://www.aclj.org/"&gt;American Center for Law and Justice&lt;/a&gt;. He has written a very important article called &lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-22911-DC-Foreign-Policy-Examiner%7Ey2009m9d10-Obama-should-be-apologizing-not-Congressman-Wilson"&gt;Obama should be apologizing, not Congressman Wilson&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do agree there needs to be health care reform...I do not agree with the current proposal. Do be careful if you choose to comment. I will be moderating comments closely. Go to the ACLJ.org and &lt;a href="https://www.aclj.org/Petition/Default.aspx?sc=3480&amp;amp;ac=1&amp;amp;Zip=*Zip"&gt;sign the petition if you want to say NO to government run health care&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-5265974763293738701?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/5265974763293738701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=5265974763293738701&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/5265974763293738701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/5265974763293738701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/09/warning-political-post-on-health-care.html' title='Warning: Political post on health care reform'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-7256841363048549473</id><published>2009-09-10T15:50:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-10T15:56:50.965-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opportunities'/><title type='text'>Gold into Cash, serious cash!</title><content type='html'>Seriously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I first thought about that old broken, thin gold chain that was in my jewelry box...I never imagined it would be worth anything. Once I began to go through my old jewelry, I found a few thin chains, a heart locket that was dented and scratched and a big silver cross pendant that would NEVER stay polished. It was a gift and never looked very good because it tarnished faster than I could shine it up!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I decided to find out how much &lt;a href="http://www.gold-cash.com/"&gt;cash for gold&lt;/a&gt; I could get. I went to the website, entered my info and they sent me a FedEx package in the mail. You simply put your gold, silver or platinum in the bag, fill out the inventory sheet (4 necklaces, 1 locket and 1 pendant in my case), seal  up the prepaid package and drop it off at a staffed FedEx location!  A couple of days later, they send you an email with an offer! Here's a picture of the small items I sent in:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SqgQL5NoMPI/AAAAAAAADag/gPfuDQSnMcs/s1600-h/cash+for+gold+gold+to+cash.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SqgQL5NoMPI/AAAAAAAADag/gPfuDQSnMcs/s320/cash+for+gold+gold+to+cash.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379567551416643826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I thought perhaps I'd get $20 or $25 for it. After all, one of the chains was broken and more than one was stamped with 10k, not even 14k. The locket was scratched and dented....anyway, what was taking up room in my jewelry box for usable pieces would certainly not be missed by me. I was delighted to receive an offer by email for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;$69.85&lt;/span&gt;!!! Say what?! Wow, I'm impressed. Now it's a couple of days later and the money has been deposited into my PayPal account. I think I'll go back and see what else I may have in there just taking up space! :) This was a very fun and exciting and profitable experience. I'd do it again! I need to get one of those metal detectors and go out on treasure hunts! LOL&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-7256841363048549473?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/7256841363048549473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=7256841363048549473&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/7256841363048549473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/7256841363048549473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/09/gold-cash-serious-cash.html' title='Gold into Cash, serious cash!'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SqgQL5NoMPI/AAAAAAAADag/gPfuDQSnMcs/s72-c/cash+for+gold+gold+to+cash.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-3715030790639442635</id><published>2009-09-09T16:40:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-09T17:01:36.198-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community'/><title type='text'>Paul Harvey - The Testing Time!</title><content type='html'>I hope you have the time to listen to these 3 parts (about 24 minutes in all) that make up a very pertinent piece from Paul Harvey...from the early 1960's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 1 of 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eGUJTnV7B0E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eGUJTnV7B0E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 2 of 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f3adUQItN2o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f3adUQItN2o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 3 of 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ppkXjvA7BCA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ppkXjvA7BCA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for listening :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-3715030790639442635?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/3715030790639442635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=3715030790639442635&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/3715030790639442635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/3715030790639442635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/09/paul-harvey-testing-time.html' title='Paul Harvey - The Testing Time!'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-2553375101905200720</id><published>2009-09-08T20:37:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-08T21:53:58.639-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='faith'/><title type='text'>'Fearless' by Max Lucado: Book review</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Fearless: Imagine your life without fear&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SqcVNqSMQgI/AAAAAAAADaQ/kP3tRXoZGzc/s1600-h/Fearless+by+Max+Lucado+book+cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 302px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SqcVNqSMQgI/AAAAAAAADaQ/kP3tRXoZGzc/s320/Fearless+by+Max+Lucado+book+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379291604350419458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Wow, what a book! This couldn't have come at a better time for me. This book is a reminder to Christians everywhere that God is still in control and His plan is working to His divine specifications! We are never promised not to have trials. No, we are warned they &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;will&lt;/span&gt; come! As Max so eloquently states, 'Fear not' (and it's variants) is the most common Christ-issued imperative!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have 2 favorite chapters in this book. The first one is the first chapter called '&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Why are we afraid?&lt;/span&gt;' It certainly helps to gain an understanding of where fear comes from. One of the statistics he gave was that '&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;ordinary children today are more fearful than psychiatric patients were in the 1950's.&lt;/span&gt;' (&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Report Newsmagazine Jan, 22, 2001&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He then goes on, discussing letting faith be your default reaction to threats instead of fear. Take the story of the great storm that rose up when Jesus and the disciples were all in the boat out on the Galilean sea...he says, "&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;...this story sends the not-so-subtle and not-too-popular reminder: getting on board with Christ can mean getting soaked with Christ! ... Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions, and as a result, face fears. It's not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also explains that fears cause us to raise doubts about Jesus' character. "&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness. We begin to wonder if love lives in heaven. If God can sleep in our storms, if His eyes stay shut when our eyes grow wide, if He permits storms after we get on His boat, does He care? Fear unleashes a swarm of doubts, anger-stirring doubts. And it turns us into control freaks. Fear at it's center is a perceived loss of control." "Fear drains us dry of contentment.&lt;/span&gt;" "&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;When fear shapes our lives, safety becomes our god. When safety becomes our god, we worship the risk-free life. The fear filled cannot love deeply, it's too risky!&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time after time, Jesus called us to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;courage&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2010:31&amp;amp;version=NIV"&gt;Matt. 10:31&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%206:25&amp;amp;version=NIV"&gt;Matt. 6:25&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%2014:1-3&amp;amp;version=NIV"&gt;John 14:1-3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%2024:38&amp;amp;version=NIV"&gt;Luke 24:38&lt;/a&gt;. These are just a few examples. Matt. 8:26-27 "&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;He replied, 'You of little faith, why are you so afraid?'&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. The men were amazed and asked, &lt;/span&gt;'&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!'&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My second favorite book hits pretty close to home. I must admit having some issues with disheartening direction things seem to be going lately. It is called '&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;What if things get worse? Fear of global calamity&lt;/span&gt;' Jesus has equipped us with "...&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;far-sighted courage. He listed the typhoons of life and then pointed them to the end. Trust in ultimate victory gives ultimate courage!&lt;/span&gt;" This book is just filled with encouragement for believers and biblical reminders that we will face storms and it's likely to get worse instead of better. But don't be fearful because it's all part of His divine and providential plan, even the ugly and painful persecution which seems to be on the rise! Max says, "&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Nature is a pregnant creation, third-trimester heavy. The universe is passing through the final hours before delivery. Painful contractions are in the forecast.&lt;/span&gt;" &lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2024:6-8&amp;amp;version=NIV"&gt;Matt. 24:6-8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I highly recommend this book. Max Lucado is an extremely talented writer and I feel blessed to have this book in my library to give me strength and encouragement..not just for me but for those around me too! We all need to be reminded of what God's Word says about this life and the next. &lt;a href="http://www.thomasnelson.com/consumer/product_detail.asp?sku=9780849921391&amp;amp;dept_id=110301&amp;amp;TopLevel_id=110000&amp;amp;title=Fearless&amp;amp;author=Max-Lucado"&gt;Order Fearless&lt;/a&gt; today and let me know what you think about it's message to you! "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Imagine your life without fear!&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-2553375101905200720?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/2553375101905200720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=2553375101905200720&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/2553375101905200720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/2553375101905200720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/09/fearless-by-max-lucado-book-review.html' title='&apos;Fearless&apos; by Max Lucado: Book review'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/SqcVNqSMQgI/AAAAAAAADaQ/kP3tRXoZGzc/s72-c/Fearless+by+Max+Lucado+book+cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-5158149160795102614</id><published>2009-09-07T07:51:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-07T08:14:22.056-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Give Me Five'/><title type='text'>Give Me Five Monday Meme #50</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Monday, September 7, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;The 'Give Me Five' Monday meme is designed to sh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;are fu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;fo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;n &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;wi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt; e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;ach other in a simple short list! 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I had some goals for this summer that went unattended. Also, some of you might want to sum up some of the summer time excitement that you did actually get around to...or some combination of both! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Visit the river.&lt;/span&gt; Easily one of my favorite summer time activities...didn't happen once this year. :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Finish the kitchen project.&lt;/span&gt; Some of you may remember stories I've posted about getting a new floor in my kitchen and how everything was in my living room....well, there are certain parts of the kitchen that have yet to make it back into a new home in the newly designed kitchen. Still working on it though!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Take advantage of opportunities at my second job.&lt;/span&gt; This I have been able to do! I try to say yes whenever my schedule permits. I figure, if I don't work when someone asks me, that is a wasted opportunity to make money that will only come that one time around. So it's been nice to have the extra money. Only trouble is, I seem to need it when it comes instead of getting ahead. Oh well, sometimes keeping up is just as important as not getting behind!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hang out with friends.&lt;/span&gt; Clearly affected by #3, I did not enjoy this one as much as I would have liked this summer. But there were a couple of fun times with friends :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Give Me Five meme is back!&lt;/span&gt; After a few months on hiatus, I revived the GM5 meme for Mondays and it seems to be a hit, again!! Keep up the great work everyone!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.mcklinky.com/linky_include_basic.asp?id=5112" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15616028-5158149160795102614?l=beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/feeds/5158149160795102614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15616028&amp;postID=5158149160795102614&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/5158149160795102614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15616028/posts/default/5158149160795102614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://beccagirlblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/09/give-me-five-monday-meme-50.html' title='Give Me Five Monday Meme #50'/><author><name>BeccA's Buzz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02069520711318300715</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06529816457998630012'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oxYnus2rUJY/R3kp5fyX1FI/AAAAAAAABT0/co3Pytt0XM8/s72-c/Give%2Bme%2B5%2BMonday%2Blogo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15616028.post-6222561048401983509</id><published>2009-09-05T01:25:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-05T01:32:47.359-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='health'/><title type='text'>I hope you are sitting down...</title><content type='html'>I'm about to talk about makeup! Yes, you heard me right and I warned you to be sitting down!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had fun learning about &lt;a href="http://www.beautybrief.com/bare-minerals.html"&gt;Bare Minerals&lt;/a&gt; makeup and all that it offers, including SPF 15: priceless! I love the idea that it is made from real minerals and not chemicals and preservatives. I always felt like a clown when my friends put makeup on me with the way the other traditional foundations and powders felt packed onto my face. If someone isn't used to the feeling of it, a little feels like a lot! Bare Minerals claims to feel weightless, well I'd love to give that a try! I do have a birthday coming up...Hmmm.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/97js2vClEKE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/97js2vClEKE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Birthday me! I'll just email her the link and I'll be blended and flawless in no time! Well, after some trial and error and a couple of turns on that instructional DVD too! 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