<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from libraryladymom.blog-city.com</title><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 libraryladymom.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:33:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from libraryladymom.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Monday Weigh In #6: Progress, But Other Things Matter More Right Now</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_weigh_in_6_progress_but_other_things_matter_more_r.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_weigh_in_6_progress_but_other_things_matter_more_r.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=monday%5Fweigh%5Fin%5F6%5Fprogress%5Fbut%5Fother%5Fthings%5Fmatter%5Fmore%5Fr</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve lost 2 1/2 pounds this week. Weight Watchers is funnily enough warning me that that is TOO much--but that extra half pound of so is from where my weight went UP last week, so I&#39;m not too concerned.I&#39;m more concerned about Nay. The Ma]]></description></item><item><title>Mother&apos;s Day</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/mothers_day_1.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/mothers_day_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 13:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mothers%5Fday%5F1</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s tomorrow and I don&#39;t give a damn that there will be no flowers, no jewelry, no fancy meal.All I give a damn about is that my mother-in-law has a pulmonary embolism and there is talk about &quot;lesions&quot; on her liver. It may all be t]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Thirteen #28: So What If Obama WAS A Muslim?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_28_so_what_if_obama_was_a_muslim.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_28_so_what_if_obama_was_a_muslim.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 13:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thursday%5Fthirteen%5F28%5Fso%5Fwhat%5Fif%5Fobama%5Fwas%5Fa%5Fmuslim</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Note to those of you who proclaim yourselves prominently on your blogs that you are &quot;Christians&quot;:If you feel that you are &quot;saved&quot; and those of us who do not share your belief system are going to hell,&nbsp; you&#39;re probably not]]></description><category>thursday</category><category>13</category><category>thirteen</category></item><item><title>Monday Weigh In #5--What Goes Down Is Not Supposed to Go Back Up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_weigh_in_5what_goes_down_is_not_supposed_to_go_bac.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_weigh_in_5what_goes_down_is_not_supposed_to_go_bac.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 13:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=monday%5Fweigh%5Fin%5F5what%5Fgoes%5Fdown%5Fis%5Fnot%5Fsupposed%5Fto%5Fgo%5Fbac</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;But sometimes it does!It&#39;s just a pound or so, and every board I&#39;m seeing at Weight Watchers says this is normal and happens. But I was doing so well, durnit!Oh well.&nbsp; To paraphrase one of my favorite lines in John Irving&#39;s Hot]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Thirteen #27--I&apos;d Rant, If Only I Had the Time</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_27id_rant_if_only_i_had_the_time.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_27id_rant_if_only_i_had_the_time.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 02:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thursday%5Fthirteen%5F27id%5Frant%5Fif%5Fonly%5Fi%5Fhad%5Fthe%5Ftime</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But I don&#39;t. So here are:THIRTEEN THINGS I WISH I HAD TIME TO RANT ABOUT THIS WEEK:1)The moronic parents who think that teen drivel such as &quot;Hannah Montana&quot; and &quot;Zoey 101&quot; are appropriate for their 8 year olds, then cluck when]]></description><category>thursday</category><category>thirteen</category></item><item><title>Monday Weigh In #4: One Third Down</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_weigh_in_4.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_weigh_in_4.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=monday%5Fweigh%5Fin%5F4</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Well, it&#39;s a pound and a half--&#39;s more than last week&#39;s change, which was NONE. And considering that it was the &quot;time of the month&quot; when I am always hungry, I&#39;m pleased that I did it. Plus, I&#39;m about 1/3 of the wa]]></description></item><item><title>Saturday At the Reference Desk:</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/saturday_at_the_reference_desk.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/saturday_at_the_reference_desk.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=saturday%5Fat%5Fthe%5Freference%5Fdesk</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had to deal with our dotty part-time librarian who for some reason decided to be helpful to a young patron and log him onto a computer. I still don&#39;t get this. Normally she doesn&#39;t want to go near the computers, let alone help anyone with t]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Thirteen#26:They Can Share the Date With the REAL Superstar, Or:Happy Birthday, Dad!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen27.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen27.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thursday%5Fthirteen27</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ShakespeareJames Buchannan&nbsp;Stephen Douglas&nbsp;Max Planck&nbsp;Michel Fokine&nbsp;Shirley TempleHalstonHerve Villechaize&nbsp;Lee MajorsSandra Dee&nbsp;Roy OrbisonMichael Moore&nbsp;Valerie Bertinelli&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;Out Came the Sun and Dried Up All the Rain....&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/out_came_the_sun_and_dried_up_all_the_rain.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/out_came_the_sun_and_dried_up_all_the_rain.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=out%5Fcame%5Fthe%5Fsun%5Fand%5Fdried%5Fup%5Fall%5Fthe%5Frain</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had an adorable toddler girl in my lap and an equally cute(but far more serious) toddler girl leaning on my shoulder during Mother Goose Time today. Meanwhile a charming little boy kept trying to get me to wear his baseball cap: &quot;Hat! Hat!&quo]]></description></item><item><title>Monday Weigh In #3: I Was Grumpy Anyway</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_weigh_in_3_i_was_grumpy_anyway.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_weigh_in_3_i_was_grumpy_anyway.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=monday%5Fweigh%5Fin%5F3%5Fi%5Fwas%5Fgrumpy%5Fanyway</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;You&#39;ll notice, if you&#39;ve been watching, that there is no additional loss this week. I&#39;m still where I was last week.I&#39;d be grumpy about that--I AM a bit grumpy about it, but I can attribute part of that to normal m]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Thirteen #25: Why I Rant About the Workfront</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_25_why_i_rant.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_25_why_i_rant.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thursday%5Fthirteen%5F25%5Fwhy%5Fi%5Frant</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[1) Leaving the stuffed animals all over the floor under the sign that says &quot;please help your child clean up the toys&quot;2)Bringing in food even though the signs say &quot;no food&quot;, and then leaving Cheerio crumbs all over the place for th]]></description><category>thursday</category><category>thirteen</category></item><item><title>Tuesday on the Reference Desk</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/tuesday_on_the_reference_desk.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/tuesday_on_the_reference_desk.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tuesday%5Fon%5Fthe%5Freference%5Fdesk</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[April 15 is the day library staff used to dread. The entire world would converge on the library for forms, to use the Xerox machine, to ask us tax questions we couldn&#39;t answer.For me it was the end of a whole season of misery. I used to work in a]]></description></item><item><title>Monday Weigh In #2  Plus a Passover Recipe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_weigh_in_2__plus_a_passover_recipe.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_weigh_in_2__plus_a_passover_recipe.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=monday%5Fweigh%5Fin%5F2%5F%5Fplus%5Fa%5Fpassover%5Frecipe</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Thirteen #24: Pounds to Go, But I Can Eat</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_24_pounds_to_go_but_i_can_eat.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_24_pounds_to_go_but_i_can_eat.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thursday%5Fthirteen%5F24%5Fpounds%5Fto%5Fgo%5Fbut%5Fi%5Fcan%5Feat</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[1)I can eat with the rest of the family is eating--I just have to measure out my portions. 2)Measuring my food doesn&#39;t have to be fiddly--I figured out how much various dishes hold, and occasionally I use a measuring cup.3)I can&#39;t go back for]]></description><category>thursday</category><category>thirteen</category></item><item><title>No hablamos Espanol aqui.     Und wir sprechen nicht Deutsches auch nicht.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/no_hablamos_espanol_aqui_and_wir_sprechen_nicht_deutsches_a.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/no_hablamos_espanol_aqui_and_wir_sprechen_nicht_deutsches_a.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=no%5Fhablamos%5Fespanol%5Faqui%5Fand%5Fwir%5Fsprechen%5Fnicht%5Fdeutsches%5Fa</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dear Spammer,I know my married name is Spanish (though we&#39;re not--the Man is Filipino) so I understand the occasional phone calls in Spanish. I understand the credit card offers and all the other junk mail in Spanish. I even get the calls from bi]]></description></item><item><title>Monday Morning Weigh In #1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_morning_weigh_in_1.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_morning_weigh_in_1.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=monday%5Fmorning%5Fweigh%5Fin%5F1</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was as skinny as JR when I was a kid. Then adolescence hit--finally--when I was about 14, and I&#39;ve never been skinny since.It wasn&#39;t until my mid 20s that it became a real problem. And having 2 kids in my 30s made it worse.Now, at 46, I wei]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Thirteen #23: Microwave Magic</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/microwave_13.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/microwave_13.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=microwave%5F13</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Attention, Mark Bittman of the NY Times:What do you mean making risottos in the microwave is not for you--&quot;all that stirring&quot;?Hey, Mark, it&#39;s okay if you ignore me and all the others who told you on your &quot;Bitten&quot; blog that we]]></description><category>thursday</category><category>thirteen</category></item><item><title>Garden Day 1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/garden_day_1.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/garden_day_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=garden%5Fday%5F1</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Went out today to discover--much to my relief--that things in the garden were in pretty good shape.All that time I spent covering the paths with plastic sheeting and wood chips and tarping the beds with black landscaping fabric was well worth it.The]]></description></item><item><title>Saturday at the Ref Desk--Or Should I Say the Tech Support Desk?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/saturday_at_the_ref_deskor_should_i_say_the_tech_support_d.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/saturday_at_the_ref_deskor_should_i_say_the_tech_support_d.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=saturday%5Fat%5Fthe%5Fref%5Fdeskor%5Fshould%5Fi%5Fsay%5Fthe%5Ftech%5Fsupport%5Fd</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In a hour at the desk I:Helped a lady from out of town get a visitor&#39;s pass to use the computer.Showed a guy how to get a printer card so he could print his work from the computer.Showed a girl how to turn the sound down so she could use her head]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Thirteen #22: Thinking Green</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_22_thinking_green.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_22_thinking_green.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thursday%5Fthirteen%5F22%5Fthinking%5Fgreen</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have had a community garden for nearly 20 years. It&#39;s just a 15 x 15 1)Peas--sugar snap peas and shelling types. One of the main reasons to garden.2)Salad greens3)Spinach and kale4)Pole Beans5)Zucchini6)Eggplant7)Peppers8)Tomatoes9)Cherry Tomat]]></description><category>thursday</category><category>thirteen</category></item><item><title>The Noble Internet--Not--Or: I Didn&apos;t Go Into All That Debt For My Masters Degree To Run An Internet Cafe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/the_noble_internetnotor_i_didnt_go_into_all_that_debt_.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/the_noble_internetnotor_i_didnt_go_into_all_that_debt_.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fnoble%5Finternetnotor%5Fi%5Fdidnt%5Fgo%5Finto%5Fall%5Fthat%5Fdebt%5F</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I went to a library in another local jurisdiction on Monday and was amused to see a sign up about Internet usage at the library. Apparently, the traffic at the library is incredible, and patrons were being urged to limit their Internet usage and to u]]></description></item><item><title>From the &quot;No Sh*t, Sherlock&quot; Department:</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/from_the_no_sht_sherlock_department_here.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/from_the_no_sht_sherlock_department_here.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=from%5Fthe%5Fno%5Fsht%5Fsherlock%5Fdepartment%5Fhere</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The radio is full of talk today about the pollens in the air.And all I can say is &quot;DUH&quot;!I am a pollen barometer. And I have been having problems with watery eyes and CONGESTION for at least two weeks now. 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So all I can do is describe it as going]]></description></item><item><title>Easter Blow Out</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/easter_blow_out.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/easter_blow_out.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=easter%5Fblow%5Fout</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We don&#39;t celebrate Easter in the religious sense, but we&#39;ve always had Easter baskets for the girls and gone out to eat. Often that has meant going out to elaborate hotel buffets with my in-laws. My mother and father-in-law (who ARE devout Ca]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Thirteen #21: For Purim, The &quot;Whole Megillah&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/21_for_purim_the_whole_megillah.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/21_for_purim_the_whole_megillah.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=21%5Ffor%5Fpurim%5Fthe%5Fwhole%5Fmegillah</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s Purim this weekend, so I&#39;m busy baking hamantaschen. Huh?If you didn&#39;t get some of those words, you&#39;re in luck. Because here for all you shaygets and shiksa is another installment of my fractured guide to my grandparents&#39; mam]]></description><category>thursday</category><category>thirteen</category></item></channel></rss>