<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>My Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.tblog.com/</link><description>A tBlog Blog!</description><lastBuildDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:21:29 -0700</lastBuildDate><language>en-us</language><item><title><![CDATA[no charge for awesomeness]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969997230</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969997230</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:21:23 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[My redhead friend J. tells me (and rightly so) that I don't have to write/blog for anyone but me. Which is true. And yet I feel obligated to this blog as much as I do to the neglected friendships o... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969997230'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[mr. clean, mr. clean]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969989529</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969989529</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 05:30:55 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I haven't blogged in, say, forever, but I've had really good excuses. Spring sports began so our weekends are consumed with balancing care of the kids plus four games and at least one practice, com... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969989529'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[here's how lame i am]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969981700</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969981700</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:28:38 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I'm a little depressed this week. It's Spring Break here in Evanston, and I think we're all in full-on, stir-crazy mode. And now I can't remember if I blogged about our social experiment of the wee... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969981700'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[jacobism]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969981289</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969981289</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:12:48 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The other day, I told Jacob that he is totally his father's son. He looks like DH, picks up on his mannerisms, and has so much of DH's personality that it's kind of freaky. Jacob considered ... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969981289'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[twitter ain't got nothing on this meme]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969981269</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969981269</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:23:20 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Went to see Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day with my friend J. on Saturday night, and&nbsp;she gave me a friendly nudge to the blog.&nbsp;My poor addled ADD&nbsp;brain can't settle on a topic other t... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969981269'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[bad blogger! bad! bad!]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969976492</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969976492</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:02:58 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I'm not even going to look at when my last post occurred because I know it was way too long ago. Blogging, like all sorts of pleasurable and yet healthy things -- working out, sex, cooking -- has t... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969976492'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[quick - fund free mammograms!]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969973487</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969973487</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:49:07 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Breast Cancer Site is having trouble drumming up people -- please head over there and click. ... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969973487'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[hi, i'm june cleaver. and you are?]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969971394</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969971394</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:14:01 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We're dogsitting for my parents this weekend. They drove off to Cleveland to help my aunt, because my uncle is dying horribly from some form of cancer, and wants to do so at home. My aunt and cousi... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969971394'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[responses to t's meme]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969971081</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969971081</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:50:17 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I don't like sending chain email, so I figured I'd blog this. &nbsp;1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? &nbsp;Supposedly, my great-grandmother Ethel (my middle name is Eliz... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969971081'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[honk in the new year]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969970289</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969970289</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:11:07 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Danny got put on a nebulizer yesterday; one ampoule every four hours (even in his sleep, which I totally blew off last night). This morning, he crawled into bed with me and we did his treatment, af... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969970289'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[on the precipice of a new year]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969970235</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969970235</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:06:37 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I hate New Year's resolutions. Have you noticed how many commercials there are right now for various weight-loss and stop-smoking gimmicks and services? It's as blatant to me as Christmas sales. Bl... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969970235'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[how dare he]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969968797</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969968797</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:56:03 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Benjamin turned two yesterday. The nerve of that boy. Our little baby is now a toddler (as DH likes to remind me whenever I call him &quot;baby&quot;), and he's just so incredibly cute and y... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969968797'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[if it ain't one thing]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969968318</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969968318</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:32:40 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I have an employee who truly believes he has congenital bad luck. And he's had terrible things going on around him -- to the point where he's actually had friends who died. I was thinking about wha... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969968318'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[welcome, [parent] hackers]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969965071</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969965071</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:58:09 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I am so excited to have my first book review out! The very kind Asha Dornfest invited me to write a review about ... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969965071'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[gettin' (sunday) schooled]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969965018</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969965018</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:12:26 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We have finally exited Heathen Mode and joined a temple, which means Jake &amp; Danny are now in Sunday School. They started three weeks ago, and were a bit nervous about it. But their first mornin... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969965018'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[fun with the big mouse]]></title><link>http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969964742</link><guid>http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969964742</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:54:24 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I'm in Orlando, attending a big conference on distance education. This is my first time attending this particular conference, and it's supposed to be the bigges... <a href='http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969964742'>more from jt...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[oh, wicked, wicked pills]]></title><link>http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969962311</link><guid>http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969962311</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:54:04 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I forgot to take my pills today, until it was too late. Sounds dramatic, eh? It doesn't catch up with me until the afternoon, when I start yawning uncontrollably. Then, the crankiness sets i... <a href='http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969962311'>more from jt...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[this tricky business of motherhood]]></title><link>http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969962125</link><guid>http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969962125</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:39:45 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I am Newsletter Lady at the boys' school. I've been writing, editing, and publishing the PTA newsletter for almost three years now, and I don't see that job ending anytime soon. It's a mostly-fairl... <a href='http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969962125'>more from jt...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[is it me?]]></title><link>http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969961411</link><guid>http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969961411</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:52:08 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or does it strike anyone funny (ironic-funny, not ha-ha funny) that the man who, IMHO, was supposed to be our president just won the Nobel Peace Prize, while the one who somewhat mis... <a href='http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969961411'>more from jt...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[(it's just like) starting over]]></title><link>http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969961147</link><guid>http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969961147</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:11:53 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I don't want to count the number of posts I've written that start with &quot;boy do I suck because I haven't been writing.&quot; But, boy do I suck because I ha... <a href='http://jt.tblog.com/post/1969961147'>more from jt...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[advice to sittercity sitters]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969958114</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969958114</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:17:32 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Are you interested in babysitting for my kids? Here are my little bits of advice.

1. Don't write me over and over again. Cyberstalking is even less cool when you're not a guy.

2. Use spellcheck ... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969958114'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[you're out! or offsides! oh, whatever.]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969956969</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969956969</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:47:03 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Anybody who knows me personally will find this next nugget of info profoundly hysterical:I'm coaching Danny's soccer team this fall.(Go ahead, laugh. I'll wait.)I didn't really... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969956969'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[take me down to sittercity where the grass is green...]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969956000</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969956000</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:05:03 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The University for whom I work recently added to their benefits a free membership to Sittercity. The U tries to offer ways to get backup childcare whenever possible, and gets discounts for faculty,... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969956000'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[what do you secretly hate?]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969953713</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969953713</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:05:52 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I'm trying to get caught up on blogs since I've been MIA for a while, and read this awesome post... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969953713'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[why i love cable]]></title><link>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969953650</link><guid>http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969953650</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:16:42 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DH and I have gone back and forth for the last several years, cutting back on and then re-establishing our cable service and pay channels. We've had DirecTV for the past several years, and with the... <a href='http://JT.tblog.com/post/1969953650'>more from JT...</a>]]></description></item></channel></rss>