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		<title>Pregnant at the Mafia? No more!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Punch up dinner with this new recipe site</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trixiehicks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon a new web site the other day that aggregates (brings info from many sources together in one place) recipes from sites all over the internet, it&#8217;s called Punchfork. This site visually appealing and it has an amazing amount of variety. Of course it does pull the recipes off of a ton of  [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I stumbled upon a new web site the other day that aggregates (brings info from many sources together in one place) recipes from sites all over the internet, it&#8217;s called <a href="http://punchfork.com">Punchfork</a>. This site visually appealing and it has an amazing amount of variety. Of course it does pull the recipes off of a ton of  sites, creating a place with a wide variety of tastes and styles. I think my favorite thing about Punchfork is the convenience. I don&#8217;t have to visit all of my favorite sites, I just go to one and see all of the latest post and more. I&#8217;ve also found a few new sources for great recipes as well!<br />

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<img src="http://ico.punchfork.net/simplyrecipes.com.ico" alt="" />Simply Recipes and <img src="http://ico.punchfork.net/thekitchn.com.ico" alt="" />The Kitchn. We use conversations on social networks to bring you high quality recipes that passionate cooks are talking about <em>right now</em>.
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		<title>Pregnancy at the Menopause Mafia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnneElliot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did I ever tell you that this site is named after my two older sisters who suffer from hot flashes and sticky spots left by those hormone patches? In fact one of them is old enough to be out of the menopause by now. I&#8217;m explaining, because if not it will cause some confusing when [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did I ever tell you that this site is named after my two older sisters who suffer from hot flashes and sticky spots left by those hormone patches? In fact one of them is old enough to be out of the menopause by now. I&#8217;m explaining, because if not it will cause some confusing when I say&#8230;..I&#8217;m pregnant!!!!!!</p>
<h3>It&#8217;s about freakin&#8217; time!</h3>
<p>Captain Wentworth and I had been work, work, working at this for a little while (TMI moment).  I had gotten to the point where I wasn&#8217;t obsessing over getting my period or not and BANG! I&#8217;m finally going to be a parent, joyfully embracing my job as a Mom and preparing to unleash another genetic smart-ass on the world. I couldn&#8217;t be more excited.</p>
<p>Or more sick.</p>
<h3>Pregnancy is a beautiful thing!</h3>
<p>What a complete load of shit. Pregnancy is the most miserable state of joyfulness you will ever experience. Unless you are a freak who&#8217;s body does not betray them with nausea, vomiting, flatulence, constipation, exhaustion and mood swings. I&#8217;ve left the bizarre cravings off that list because they are in a class by themselves.<br />

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				By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. ~Phyllis Diller
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This is all a shock to me. No one had ever explained these things to me my dear reader, and I don&#8217;t want the same thing to happen to you.  I&#8217;ve always heard people say to pregnant women  &#8220;you&#8217;re glowing&#8221; and &#8220;you look radiant&#8221; and &#8220;there&#8217;s nothing as beautiful as an expectant mother&#8221; or my favorite &#8220;pregnancy suits you.&#8221;</p>
<p>WTF? Are people just being nice? Or are they blind the to green tinge your skin has right before you puke in the waste basket under your desk? &#8220;Pregnancy suits you&#8221; is this one used by Frenemies to snidely say you look like shit?</p>
<h3>Does that mean I don&#8217;t recommend being preggers? NO! It does not mean that!</h3>
<p>All I&#8217;m try to do is prepare you for what might happen. After all, I didn&#8217;t know I was pregnant. I thought I had the stomach flu and was about to drag myself in to the doctor for help. DOH!</p>
<p>All of this will all be worth it when they hand me my little bundle of joy! After all, women do this over and over again after going through it once, right?</p>
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		<title>Prositution or Compromise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trixiehicks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the day from the offices in Sunny Cleveland Ohio: The exchange of goods for sex within a monogamous relationship is not considered prostitution, it&#8217;s just a compromise. &#160; Tweet Pin It]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><span style="color: #800000;">Quote of the day from the offices in Sunny Cleveland Ohio:</span></h3>
<blockquote><p>The exchange of goods for sex within a monogamous relationship is not considered prostitution, it&#8217;s just a compromise.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>2 Sangria recipes to die for</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trixiehicks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For summer sippin nothing beats a cold glass of Sangria. Here are two recipes you&#8217;ll love. The red Sangria has a hint of cinnamon and the Blackberry is a sweeter version rich with berries. This is one of my absolute favorite drinks, a fruity Sangria with a little splash of cinnamon. Delicious! It&#8217;s easy to [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><span style="color: #800000;">For summer sippin nothing beats a cold glass of Sangria.</span></h4>
<p>Here are two recipes you&#8217;ll love. The red Sangria has a hint of cinnamon and the Blackberry is a sweeter version rich with berries.</p>
<p>This is one of my absolute favorite drinks, a fruity Sangria with a little splash of cinnamon. Delicious! It&#8217;s easy to make, but it does work best with a particular brand of Sangria mix. Monin makes a few different kinds of Sangria mix, this recipe calls for the Red.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #800000;">Sangria</span></h3>
<p>1 1/2 liters red wine</p>
<p>2 1/4 cups orange juice</p>
<p>1 1/4 cups Monin Red Sangria mix</p>
<p>5 oz. brandy</p>
<p>1/4 teaspoon cinnamon</p>
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<p>Mix the cinnamon in a couple of teaspoons of warm wine to ensure it does not clump up as you mix it with the rest of the ingredients. Mix all ingredients together and chill. Serve cold or over ice with lemon and orange slices.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #800000;">Blackberry Sangria</span></h3>
<p>1 1/2 liters any sweet red Italian wine</p>
<p>14 ounces cranberry juice (not cranberry cocktail)</p>
<p>14 ounces Monin Blackberry Sangria mix</p>
<p>6 ounces Tuaca Italian liqueur (vanilla citrus liqueur)</p>
<p>Mix all ingredients together and chill. Serve cold or over ice with a few fresh blackberries.</p>
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		<title>Have shower cap, will get dirty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trixiehicks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that men think shaking your parts is the way to get us interested? We were recently sitting around shooting the shit when a dear friend told us about her boy friend meeting her at the door in his Man Panties or to be more specific boxers. He announced that he was all [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Why is it that men think shaking your parts is the way to get us interested?</h3>
<p>We were recently sitting around shooting the shit when a dear friend told us about her boy friend meeting her at the door in his Man Panties or to be more specific boxers. He announced that he was all sweaty and was going to jump in the shower.  We all thought &#8220;Awwww, how cute. He was making an offer.&#8221; This makes a girl feel wanted, even if it&#8217;s a cheesy hit. What we didn&#8217;t realize was that our buddy didn&#8217;t get it, and when we say &#8220;it&#8221; we mean she didn&#8217;t know that he was offering a romp in the shower. So, she didn&#8217;t get &#8220;it&#8221; at all since she was hanging out on the couch while he was in the shower.</p>
<h3>W<a href="http://www.menopausemafia.com/2011/07/28/have-shower-cap-will-get-dirty/naked-man/" rel="attachment wp-att-181"><img class="size-medium wp-image-181 alignright" title="Naked man" src="http://www.menopausemafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Photoxpress_5982571-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a>ho taught you about romance Larry Flynt?</h3>
<p>When we discussed this situation and why she wouldn&#8217;t view this as an invitation to play soapy spank spank, our friend was appalled at the idea of getting her hair wet when she just walked in the door. What if they wanted to go out? Do something? She would be un-presentable. [insert rolling laughter here] We suggested a shower cap or sticking your head out of the curtain.</p>
<h3>Try harder!</h3>
<p>The thing that really makes us laugh about this story is the poor guy who thought that showing up sporting some ratty Man Panties- is a sure fire way to get our friend out of her clothes. Romance is dead if Man Panties and shower are the best you can do.</p>
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		<title>Based loosely on the Sookie Vampire Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 02:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnneElliot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Charlaine Harris books, all of them even the ones without Eric Northman I&#8217;m not so crazy about the HBO version of this authors books. I can live with the gratuitous sex, the bad acting and the cheesy sets. What I&#8217;m having a hard time with is the way HBO is screwing with the [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><span style="color: #ff0000;">I love Charlaine Harris books, all of them even the ones without Eric Northman</span></h3>
<p>I&#8217;m not so crazy about the HBO version of this authors books. I can live with the gratuitous sex, the bad acting and the cheesy sets. What I&#8217;m having a hard time with is the way HBO is screwing with the story.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #ff0000;">I was waiting for Bubba, I know you where too</span></h3>
<p>The line up of characters has changed.  No Bubba, Jessica has been added and we have yet to see Claude. I mean Tara is black, poor and this season she&#8217;s a lesbian. I guess it&#8217;s okay then that they left out J.B. du Rone. I have to admit that this change to the stories is one of my big pet peeves, well that and the time spend with all the other characters. I guess I just wanted them to be more true to the books.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #ff0000;">Eric is still hot and the character we love (except for the foil wraps)</span></h3>
<p>Even with the weird changes in the character line up it&#8217;s a fun watch most of the time. Defiantly not for the family since there are scenes that include gang rape, bondage and worse (thinking of the twisted neck on Lorena here).  This Sookie is a new person we haven&#8217;t met- after all how many times have you seen this one cleaning the house? The thing to know here for those of you who have not read the books is that this is not the same story or the same characters as Charlaine Harris wrote them. Reading them after watching the HBO series will be an unexpected treat.</p>
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		<title>Instead of buzzword bingo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Did you get a cat?</title>
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		<title>I like you better than her anyway!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 03:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trixiehicks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I read something on Facebook that was posted on the page of a woman I know. Family isn&#8217;t always blood. It&#8217;s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier today I read something on Facebook that was posted on the page of a woman I know.</p>
<blockquote><p>Family isn&#8217;t always blood. It&#8217;s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what. ~ Re-post if you have at least one person like this in your life.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now- let me tell you this did not go unnoticed by some of the family. There were comments posted back and forth and the usual drama I-can&#8217;t-believe- you said-that-shit went on for a bit. Family comes first, we always support you, how dare you and the basic WTF?</p>
<h3>It made me think about how inappropriate people are on sites like Facebook.</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.menopausemafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/iStock_000007909523Medium.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-69" title="iStock_000007909523Medium" src="http://www.menopausemafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/iStock_000007909523Medium-223x300.jpg" alt="" width="223" height="300" /></a>I mean seriously? Does a fifty-plus year old woman need to post like this&#8230;. with the &#8220;re-post if you&#8217;re a douche&#8221; at the end?</p>
<p>Why not just grow a pair and call those people you always seem to insult on Facebook and just tell them you like your high school friends better and get it the fuck over with. Then we can all get back to important stuff like playing bubble burst games and Farmville.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s something disturbing about what&#8217;s going on on Facebook. It seems to suck the common sense out of people. They are now posting the most boring, mundane, rude, ugly, and dirty thoughts on their Facebook streams. Most of the time they manage all of those in the same day. It makes for entertaining reading, but leaves nothing to the imagination.</p>
<h3>When did it become okay to put in writing things you would never say out loud?</h3>
<p>What the hell are we all going to have to fight about at Christmas if this shit keeps up?</p>
<p>Next subject- Becoming the most overexposed housewife on Facebook, ten signs this could be you!</p>
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