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	<title>Suzi Strauss Notes</title>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Aunt Tina</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SuziQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess every family has a renegade, of sorts. My family has Aunt Tina. She is very colorful and always has exciting stories to share at the holiday dinners when she comes. She moved to Maine and has a little house there, but she travels all over the country and we never know where she]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess every family has a renegade, of sorts. My family has <a title="Tina Langley" href="http://tinalangley.com/" target="_blank">Aunt Tina</a>. She is very colorful and always has exciting stories to share at the holiday dinners when she comes. She moved to Maine and has a little house there, but she travels all over the country and we never know where she is. LOL</p>
<p>But I do know that today is her birthday, so I hope she stops by my blog and sees this post:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Happy Birthday, Aunt Tina!</strong></p>
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		<title>Making A Statement With Flower Girl Baskets</title>
		<link>http://suzistrauss.com/2013/01/making-a-statement-with-flower-girl-baskets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SuziQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decorating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flower girl baskets are a great place to add details and style to compliment the special occasion. Watching the flower girl stroll down the aisle selecting rose petals out of the flower girl basket and dropping them gingerly on the floor is one a highly photographed moment. Make sure your flower girl basket stands out and doesn&#8217;t]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flower girl baskets are a great place to add details and style to compliment the special occasion. Watching the flower girl stroll down the aisle selecting rose petals out of the flower girl basket and dropping them gingerly on the floor is one a highly photographed moment. Make sure your flower girl basket stands out and doesn&#8217;t look boring and plain.</p>
<p>Flower girls baskets are easy to make unique and one of a kind by adding embellishments including lace, beads, ribbon, pearls, and of course the flowers. By adding just a few simple details you can take your plain and ordinary flower girl basket from drab to fab. The best part about it is it doesn&#8217;t have to be expensive. Flower girl baskets can be very affordable, especially when you embellish them yourself.</p>
<p>You might even consider giving the flower girl basket tot he flower girl as part of her wedding favor after the wedding. I&#8217;m sure she would love it. What little girls doesn&#8217;t like to parade around in her dress up clothes and pretend she is doing something very special. After her having the chance to be the flower girl in your wedding she will have those wonderful memories to look back on and can use the flower girl basket in all of her adventurous pretend play.</p>
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		<title>Wedding Flutes To Make Your Toasts Memorable</title>
		<link>http://suzistrauss.com/2013/01/wedding-flutes-to-make-your-toasts-memorable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SuziQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wedding flutes can be a terrific item to have personalized in order to commemorate your special day. You can get fancy wedding flutes or even simple and elegant wedding flutes, it all depends on your style and taste. During my searches I&#8217;ve even come across sets of wedding flutes that sit in a stand together and share]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wedding flutes can be a terrific item to have personalized in order to commemorate your special day. You can get fancy wedding flutes or even simple and elegant wedding flutes, it all depends on your style and taste. During my searches I&#8217;ve even come across sets of wedding flutes that sit in a stand together and share a base.  I think these types of wedding flutes are precious and really make a statement, especially when the stems form a heart together.</p>
<p>Perhaps you would like your wedding flutes to be etched with your new monogram or the date that you are joined in holly matrimony, all of these options are available to you. Selecting the perfect champagne flutes for your wedding reception will make each and every toast that much more memorable.</p>
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		<title>I Want To Brag A Minute</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SuziQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I want to brag for a minute or so. I&#8217;ve been working really hard to keep my new year&#8217;s resolution to work out 3 times a week and so far I&#8217;ve been doing great with that. But, That&#8217;s not what I want to brag about. I want to brag about the fact that my kitchen has]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, I want to brag for a minute or so. I&#8217;ve been working really hard to keep my new year&#8217;s resolution to work out 3 times a week and so far I&#8217;ve been doing great with that. But, That&#8217;s not what I want to brag about. I want to brag about the fact that my kitchen has been spotless for the past 12 days.</p>
<p>My sink has been spotless every night before I go to bed and the dishes haven&#8217;t piled up because I do a load every night as soon as the dishwasher is full. Then in the morning I empty while I&#8217;m making myself coffee so the sink never has a chance to have a dirty dish left in it because the dirty dishes can go straight into the dishwasher as soon as we are done with them.</p>
<p>It has felt absolutely amazing to go to bed and wake up with a clean kitchen. I don&#8217;t know what inspired me but I hope that I can continue it because it feel s amazing. I suppose it will just take some discipline and determination to keep going and to not give up.  Why would I want to stop doing something that makes me feel so fantastic?</p>
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		<title>Educating Myself About Annuities</title>
		<link>http://suzistrauss.com/2013/01/educating-myself-about-annuities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SuziQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really know that much about anything at all when it comes to annuities. It wasn&#8217;t something that anyone ever took the time to explain to me or teach me about. Well I keep hearing the term tossed around so I thought I would educate myself. I did a little bit of work by searching online and came]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t really know that much about anything at all when it comes to annuities. It wasn&#8217;t something that anyone ever took the time to explain to me or teach me about. Well I keep hearing the term tossed around so I thought I would educate myself. I did a little bit of work by searching online and came across annuity advantage.com.</p>
<p>Annuity advantage.com gives you all kind of information for you to learn about, compare and even buy different kinds of annuities. Hopefully after a little while spent on this website along with subscribing to their annuity rate newsletter I won&#8217;t feel so in the dark when people are discussing annuities.</p>
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		<title>Listen To Pandora For All Of Your Music Needs</title>
		<link>http://suzistrauss.com/2013/01/listen-to-pandora-for-all-of-your-music-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SuziQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music and Concerts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pandora is one of my all time favorite sites to go to to listen to music.  I usually always have it on in the background of whatever I am doing. I like that I can type in a song, artist, or keyword and it will create a station based just on that. I think it&#8217;s]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pandora is one of my all time favorite sites to go to to listen to music.  I usually always have it on in the background of whatever I am doing. I like that I can type in a song, artist, or keyword and it will create a station based just on that. I think it&#8217;s wonderful.  Of course there are stations you can choose from but I usually just type in something I&#8217;d like to listen to and go with that for the day.</p>
<p>I always have about 5 channels on my account. I do remove channels through the year and based on my mood. For example, I&#8217;m not quite ready to remove my Christmas music station. I think I might leave it on there until the end of next week and then get serious about putting all of the Christmas stuff away.</p>
<p>Do you use Pandora to listen to music online? If you do, do you have any favorite channels that you like to listen to? Are there any groups or artists that you have found since listening in on Pandora that you didn&#8217;t know about before you started using Pandora? I know I&#8217;ve come across quite a few artists that I didn&#8217;t know about since I started listening to music with Pandora and it&#8217;s been a true blessing.</p>
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		<title>Day Trip To Go Hiking As A Family</title>
		<link>http://suzistrauss.com/2013/01/day-trip-to-go-hiking-as-a-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SuziQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Event Planning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband told me he would like to plan a day trip where we can all go hiking as a family, I think that sounds like a great idea. He has some really nice lowa renegade hiking boots that he got for Christmas that he has been dying to break in. I can&#8217;t blame him, if I got something like that as]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My husband told me he would like to plan a day trip where we can all go hiking as a family, I think that sounds like a great idea. He has some really nice lowa renegade hiking boots that he got for Christmas that he has been dying to break in. I can&#8217;t blame him, if I got something like that as a gift I would want to use it right away.</p>
<p>We like to get outdoors when the weather is not too cool and not too hot which is exactly what the weather has been lately. Well, it has been kind of crazy some days but that&#8217;s besides the point. Maybe we can go next weekend or weather permitting maybe even tomorrow. We don&#8217;t&#8217; have anything else planned really and it could be a lot of fun.</p>
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		<title>Things To Consider Before Accepting A Facebook Friend Request</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SuziQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted about Facebook earlier on in the week. I personally use it to stay in touch with friends and family. But a few of my readers e-mailed me with their thoughts and I thought I would share. One reader asked me how I feel about friending in-laws. Do I do it and where does the line]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I posted about Facebook earlier on in the week. I personally use it to stay in touch with friends and family. But a few of my readers e-mailed me with their thoughts and I thought I would share.</p>
<p>One reader asked me how I feel about friending in-laws. Do I do it and where does the line stop?</p>
<p>Yes, I have accepted my in-laws as my friends on my Facebook page.  I currently have my mother and father-in-law and then my sister-in law. I also have a few of my husbands aunts. It might seems like a bit much to invite your extended family that you personally do not know to be your friend on Facebook.</p>
<p>Another reader asked about accepting the friend requests of people I barely knew in high school.</p>
<p>If I really didn&#8217;t know them then I probably am not going to accept their friend request now. I&#8217;m happy to let them send me messages and then maybe if I feel the need to accept the request I might do so later but I think it&#8217;s pretty stupid just to want to add me just because we went to the same school.</p>
<p>Finally, another reader asked about friending people from work.</p>
<p>Well, that&#8217;s a tricky subject. I suppose it depends on what you post on your wall. If you posts things you wouldn&#8217;t want your co-workers to see then don&#8217;t friend them. My wall does not have anything I would be ashamed of showing my grandmother on it so I&#8217;m pretty safe in that department.</p>
<p>What are you thoughts on what you consider before adding someone as a friend?</p>
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		<title>Online Book Club Using Audio Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SuziQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently thought about joining a book club. Well, now I&#8217;m thinking that would be great but it would also be great if I could listen to audio books online free. I would love to be able to the books as I&#8217;m doing other things at the same time like doing the dishes, folding laundry, or even sweeping]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently thought about joining a book club. Well, now I&#8217;m thinking that would be great but it would also be great if I could listen to audio books online free. I would love to be able to the books as I&#8217;m doing other things at the same time like doing the dishes, folding laundry, or even sweeping and mopping.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a busy mom and I have a lot on my plate. I&#8217;d like to be able to get in some reading and still take care of all my responsibilities. I&#8217;ll have to see what books I can find online and then maybe start a book club myself based on the books I find. I know I can&#8217;t be the only one out there that has the same dilemma that I do, and wants to be a productive mom and still get in some fun entertainment time. Audio books sound like the way to go. Pun intended.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an idea. Do any of you want to join a book club with me? We could do an online book club and check in with each other here or maybe in a Facebook group or something. Any suggestions on books we should read?</p>
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		<title>Family Movie Night Starring Tinkerbell</title>
		<link>http://suzistrauss.com/2013/01/family-movie-night-starring-tinkerbell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SuziQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woo hoo! We made it through the week. I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s Friday! I&#8217;m looking forward to having a nice relaxing weekend at home with the family. I noticed that the new Tinkerbell movie is on Netflix instant streaming. I added it to our queue while I ate my lunch today. I think we&#8217;ll do a family]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woo hoo! We made it through the week. I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s Friday! I&#8217;m looking forward to having a nice relaxing weekend at home with the family. I noticed that the new Tinkerbell movie is on Netflix instant streaming. I added it to our queue while I ate my lunch today. I think we&#8217;ll do a family movie night tonight when I get home.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to see this movie ever since I found out that it was coming out. I found out by stumbling across videos on YouTube one day and then got hooked. I&#8217;m a huge Tinkerbell fan. I&#8217;m not ashamed to admit it. I&#8217;m a big kid at heart.</p>
<p>Anyway, family movie night tonight. I think it would be fun to order pizza and make banana splits. I&#8217;ll have to run by the grocery store really quick on my way home to get some ice cream and bananas but I think I can do it and still get home at a reasonable time.</p>
<p>What are your plans for the weekend? Do you have anything fun planned or are you just going to take it one day at a time and see what life brings your way? I&#8217;ll love to be inspired for plans next week. Share away.</p>
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