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		<title>Dear Celia, I Killed Your Hamster</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Celia &#8211; Mommy and Daddy have been a bit preoccupied lately and, well, we forgot about the hamster. Although we&#8217;re both fairly sure we checked on her in the last few days, when I went in to check on &#8230; <a href="http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/dear-celia-i-killed-your-hamster/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hudroy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=576844&amp;post=28&amp;subd=hudroy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Want Her Back Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celia went to summer camp the other day. Her little almost 10-year-old self took an airplane &#8211; alone &#8211; to Boston where my cousin Shawn picked her up at the airport. Then drove her to Vermont where she is at &#8230; <a href="http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/i-want-her-back-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hudroy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=576844&amp;post=25&amp;subd=hudroy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Braces and Sexual Activity, OH MY!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There is no denying the adolescence - and therefore impending teenagehood - of a kid with braces. The whole experience was just surreal.  When I was of brace-wearing-age, they did it AFTER you were done growing. Now, they try to catch a major growth spurt so it's more like the braces are guiding your organic growth, rather than trying to undo completed growth that didn't go quite right. It makes sense.....   <a href="http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/braces-and-sexual-activity-oh-my/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hudroy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=576844&amp;post=22&amp;subd=hudroy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing Says Independence Like&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyssa Royse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I kind of love the 4th of July. Mostly because it is a virtual guarantee that I will get to eat Doritos and drink soda, which is what I think the holiday is all about &#8211; freedom to eat crap &#8230; <a href="http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/nothing-says-independence-like/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hudroy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=576844&amp;post=20&amp;subd=hudroy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bathing Suit Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have I mentioned in the last few weeks that I HATE BATHING SUITS? I recently took a little trip to the sun with friends, and had to wear one. But I got over it. I love my body. I really do.  I just don't love having it compared to all of the younger, firmer, tighter and air-brusheder bodies in the collective consciences of our beauty obsessed culture. 

Whatever, it is what it is. 

The irony is that, given the chance, I'm pretty quick to get naked. ...... <a href="http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/bathing-suit-reality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hudroy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=576844&amp;post=15&amp;subd=hudroy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fried Lice for Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/fried-lice-for-mothers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 01:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyssa Royse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Mom, ya know, what could be a better mother's day than this? A nice head massage, a bath, someone washing your hair....." I laughed to myself. My daughter was saying this to me, as I washed her hair, having just spent more than an hour "massaging" oil into her scalp to pick out absolutely countless head lice and nit sacks. (This, in case you were wondering, is the genesis of the phrase nit picking - finding itty bitty little things and meticulously harping on them.) 

Yes, a massage and new-do would indeed be a fabulous mother's day!

But, I wouldn't trade an hour or so of nit-picking for anything. For more than an hour..... <a href="http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/fried-lice-for-mothers-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hudroy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=576844&amp;post=14&amp;subd=hudroy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cookies and Dough</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyssa Royse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm almost done delivering girl scout cookies.  Thank God. I've decided that I hate Girl Scout Cookies.  For a few reasons.

1. Samoas are clearly made by the devil - whoever that is - for the soul purpose of undermining my will, stability and perpetually "almost where I want it" body. They are irresistible little deathbombs laughably shaped like Liferings (proving that irony is a fickle bitch.) 
2. They are a time suck.  It takes a ridiculous amount of energy to...... <a href="http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/cookies-and-dough/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hudroy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=576844&amp;post=13&amp;subd=hudroy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Something Else To Do&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/finding-something-else-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyssa Royse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celia was bad. In almost 10 years, Myles and I have never had to discipline her.  She never stuck anything in an outlet, never tried to drink drain cleaner, never really does anything that involves needing to be disciplined.  We are pretty strict parents, demand manners etc....  But she's a good kid.

As a result, I was pretty stunned when I heard that she, along with her friends, did something that horrified and REALLY angered me. On a lot of levels. It, however, is not the point of the story. It's aftermath is.

The result of her actions was....... <a href="http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/finding-something-else-to-do/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hudroy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=576844&amp;post=10&amp;subd=hudroy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gallows Humor, OR a Cyst Named Maurice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyssa Royse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the time I arrived - 15 minutes early - for my uterine ultrasound this afternoon, my bladder was exploding.  I was feeling like one of those little kids squeezing my legs together, bouncing up and down.  I am sure that I was whining when I explained to the nice guy at the check in desk that I "really had to go, bad!"  He seemed a little unsettled to have a grown woman discussing such thing with him, but I had been given explicit orders arrive with a full bladder at 2:30.  It was 2:15 and I was more than full.  He checked with someone behind the curtain and came back to tell me that I could do a "partial elimination" and it would be okay.  "So, just pee a little?" "Um, yeah...... <a href="http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/gallows-humor-or-a-cyst-named-maurice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hudroy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=576844&amp;post=8&amp;subd=hudroy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One of those moms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend and I were having coffee yesterday, doing our best to photosynthesize in the rare Seattle sun - rare in February anyway.  Sitting outside a cute cupcake shop in big wooden chairs, mellow, happy, a bit zapped meandering only slowly through a lazy conversation. On the curb in front of us stood a mom. Let me disparagingly say, "one of those moms" with perfect jeans, perfect designer bag, perfectly coiffed hair.  (My own hair, for the record, was standing kinda up and kinda over, bed head I couldn't be bothered to fix.) In one of her arms was a cute pink box that we all knew was filled with delicious cupcakes, in her other arm, a darling baby - sweeter than any cupcake. Behind her, like obedient ducklings (and just as cute) were two smaller kids, maybe 3 and 5. From my own haze, I heard her voice, saying to those bigger kids....... <a href="http://hudroy.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/one-of-those-moms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hudroy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=576844&amp;post=6&amp;subd=hudroy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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