<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>LibraryLady @ libraryladymom.blog-city.com</title><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/</link><description>(LibraryLady) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 libraryladymom.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:56:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>LibraryLady @ 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>And Now For Something Completely Different--A Post That&apos;s Actually About the Library</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/an_actual_library_related_post.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/an_actual_library_related_post.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:28:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I know, I know. The title of this blog is &quot;The Library Lady Rants&quot;.&nbsp; And lately, there&#39;s been precious little about the library. Beginning to wonder if I DO work in a library?Well, you could go back and find some of my reference ra]]></description></item><item><title>Monday Morning Weigh In: In A Holding Pattern</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_morning_weigh_in_in_a_holding_pattern.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_morning_weigh_in_in_a_holding_pattern.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:43:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;Not down,but then again not up. Which is a good thing--because last week I had my period and when I have my period I eat. And I eat. And I eat.And then I eat some more.I&#39;ll do better this week. Especially if I keep doing things like I]]></description></item><item><title>Sorry, Barack, But Hillary Can Pay Her Own Way</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/sorry_barack_but_hillary_can_pay_her_own_way.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/sorry_barack_but_hillary_can_pay_her_own_way.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:11:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dear Senator Obama,I&#39;m sorry, but you&#39;re totally nuts asking us to help the Clintons pay off their campaign debt.Look, you&#39;re a parent of two daughters. So am I. Is this a life lesson we want to put before them?Hillary (and Bill) Clinton]]></description></item><item><title>Monday Morning Weigh In: Back To Work  &amp; (Hopefully)Back On Track</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_morning_weigh_in_back_to_work___hopefullyback_on__1.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_morning_weigh_in_back_to_work___hopefullyback_on__1.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:03:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m back at work which means I&#39;m away from my house and so I&#39;ll have a lot less temptation to eat things that I shouldn&#39;t be eating. I do munch at work, but there&#39;s a lot LESS to munch, and less time to do it.Despite being home fo]]></description></item><item><title>Washed Out Fireworks</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/washed_out_fireworks.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/washed_out_fireworks.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:20:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dear Security Idiots at the Pentagon,Will you please decide whether or not you are going to allow people to view fireworks at the Pentagon?&nbsp;If you are, what is the point of roping off miles of the parking lot and forcing people to walk miles to]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Thirteen #32: To Nanay With Love</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_32_to_nanay_with_love.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_32_to_nanay_with_love.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:15:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Thursday Thirteen Yesterday would have been my mother-in-law&#39;s 83rd birthday.But she died May 28th of lung cancer. And no, she was NOT a smoker!For anyone who doesn&#39;t read this blog normally (and welcome), I recounted the whole sad stor]]></description></item><item><title>Monday Morning Weigh In: The Vacation Weighs Me Down</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_morning_weigh_in_the_vacations_weighs_me_down.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_morning_weigh_in_the_vacations_weighs_me_down.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:35:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;  Okay, if you&#39;ve been paying attention to these entries (how nice of you!) you will probably have noticed that I am up two pounds since the last entry, 2 weeks ago. Which of course, was the same week I headed out on vacation.I feel bad abo]]></description></item><item><title>We&apos;re Home</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/were_home.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/were_home.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:09:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We got back yesterday and overall had a lovely time. I&#39;ll be putting up some posts about it all over the next few days, because I am still off from work most of the coming week--JR&#39;s first camp doesn&#39;t start until July 7.And I have ONE wo]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Thirteen #31: A Beautiful Place</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_31_a_beautiful_place.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/thursday_thirteen_31_a_beautiful_place.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:06:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thursday&nbsp; Thirteen&nbsp;We are still on the road, or rather, we are now visiting our families in NYC. More about the rest of our trip later, but today I am hopping mad because of the ignoramus tour guide on today&#39;s Circle Line trip.This doof]]></description><category>thursday</category><category>thirteen</category></item><item><title>Road Trip 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/road_trip_2008.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/road_trip_2008.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:39:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For the past few years, every June we have done a road trip as soon as the girls got out of school. We&#39;ve visited our dear friend Beth and her family in upstate New York, plus explored someplace new. We&#39;ve visited Philadelphia, Cape Cod and B]]></description></item><item><title>Monday Morning Weigh In: Despite It All, I&apos;m Still On Track</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_morning_weigh_in_despite_it_all_im_still_on_track.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/monday_morning_weigh_in_despite_it_all_im_still_on_track.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:08:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I haven&#39;t been doing these posts for the last few weeks, since other things were on my mind.But despite unexpected traveling, computer problems (let&#39;s just say I&#39;ve temporarily repossessed my old lap top, the one I gave SC last winter) an]]></description></item><item><title>They Danced</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/they_danced.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/they_danced.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:42:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Ballet recital over. It was a howling success.&nbsp;The class moms did what they needed to do.My two assistants were marvels. Everyone was thrilled by how smoothly things ran. Those hours of work I put in on planning were not in vain.JR, that l]]></description></item><item><title>Ballet Recital Tomorrow</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/ballet_recital_tomorrow.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/ballet_recital_tomorrow.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:39:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[But today was the dress rehearsal. And I&#39;m the Stage Manager. 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If there can be something wonderful in somethi]]></description><category>sticky</category></item><item><title>Paalam, Nanay</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/paalam.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/paalam.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:17:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It means &quot;goodbye&quot; in Tagalog, Nanay&#39;s first language.&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>The Dance</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/the_dance.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/the_dance.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[No entry for today, because I&#39;m going to be at the funeral.Instead, here&#39;s a song I played for SC coming up in the car yesterday, that I think says it al:And now, I&#39;m glad I didn&#39;t know, the way it all would end, the way that it would]]></description></item><item><title>Angry</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/angry.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/angry.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:06:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[SC refused to let me fix her hair tonight.She is going to her Nanay&#39;s funeral tomorrow with her hair sticking up in all directions, and with bits bristling on top. Some of her hair broke last winter after the prescription shampoo she had to use a]]></description></item><item><title>Doing What We Have To Do</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/doing_what_we_have_to_do.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/doing_what_we_have_to_do.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 04:51:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[That&#39;s the motto JR has suddenly made up for our family &quot;We are the C--------- Family. We do what we have to do.&quot;Wednesday:I got the call about Nanay from the Man around 11 AM  I was standing in Target, with a basket full of extra thing]]></description></item><item><title>Spokoynoy Nochi, Nanay</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/spokoynoy_nochi_nanay.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/spokoynoy_nochi_nanay.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 02:56:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It means &quot;peaceful night&quot; in Russian. That&#39;s what I wished her last night. She died at 9:56 this morning.She is at peace now. We&#39;re consoling ourself with that.And we&#39;re dealing with the rest.I want to write about today, because]]></description></item></channel></rss>