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		<title>Do I Really</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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I came home from school today to find a note on my counter that reads, &#8220;&#8230;sorry for the late notice, but you need to be out by 4/1&#8243;.  Somehow I managed to not scream, cry or do both concurrently, placing my books down on the counter before asking Butterfinger to please explain to me that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Go Repack Your Bags</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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My first bad experience with the TSA was in Austin, TX while heading home from a holiday trip.  It was 5 am, the line was almost out the door, and I was very low on my egg McMuffin intake, so I was understandably cranky.  After waiting about 90 minutes to get to the xray machine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H.D. Coli</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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My roommate is not known for his attention to detail, and this includes keeping on top of expiration dates and removing rotting food from the fridge.  Knowing this, about once a week I spend some time going through the contents of our community refrigerator &#8211; removing hairy strawberries, watching cheese age before my eyes, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Move Out, Don&#8217;t Mess Around&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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Our landlord called today and told us we need to move out.  His reason?  He is having trouble finding people to rent the vacant room because there are three Pit Bulls that live here.  Nice.  I will save the Pit Bull discrimination sob story for another post, but basically this breaking news means we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pointing Fingers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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I have tried to be nice.  I make conversation with you while I am outside scooping poo and finding avocados.  I do the neighborly wave when we pass one another on the street, and I make my naughty dog stop when he thinks its amusing to bark at you while you incessantly water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PDRS</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/pdrs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 06:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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As I arose from bed this morning at the ripe hour of noon, I came to the sneaking realization that a dangerous and incapacitating disability was going to rule my every action this cinco de Mayo.  As a result of my celebratory behaviors last evening, I awoke with the many symptoms associated with PDRS, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 Posts, Here&#8217;s to 100 More!</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/100-posts-heres-to-100-more/</link>
		<comments>http://startupfiance.com/2008/100-posts-heres-to-100-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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Today, not-withstanding my Christmastime blogging break, I am writing my 100th post as the Startup Fiance.  Given that I usually spend roughly 30 minutes writing, editing, and publishing each post, I have now officially spent at least 50 hours perfecting my literary craft; I think 50 hours is a gross understatement, but is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bye-Bye Mounds and Bizzy</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2007/bye-bye-mounds-and-bizzy/</link>
		<comments>http://startupfiance.com/2007/bye-bye-mounds-and-bizzy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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I arrived home today to find a large dumpster in our driveway, thanks Dave, while other items around the house seemed to be missing, including Butterfinger, Tucker, and Guapo.  I was pretty excited to see the dumpster since we have neglected to take the trash out for almost 2 months now, but the missing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatchamacallit</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2007/whatchamacallit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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It has been about a month now since my last Whatchamacallit sighting.  I believe when he first moved in was right around my birthday, so it has been a solid 3 months since his transplantation from east to west coast.  He had been calling Butterfinger and I for months prior to his planned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep or Coma?</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2007/sleep-or-coma/</link>
		<comments>http://startupfiance.com/2007/sleep-or-coma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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I am a very light sleeper, I suppose that is part of the reason I have a hard time understanding how someone could sleep through an alarm clock louder than a nuclear power plant evacuation bell, and carry on conversations while they float in the purgatory between sleep and consciousness.  For as long as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kitchen Ninja</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2007/the-kitchen-ninja/</link>
		<comments>http://startupfiance.com/2007/the-kitchen-ninja/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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I have a sometimes roommate named Nutrageous.  Nutrageous has been a mutual friend of Butterfinger and I since high school, probably even before high school for Butterfinger.  He is an amazingly talented artist and a genuinely kind individual, but he is lacking in the area of domestic intelligence.  I am not sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Butterfinger&#8217;s Lair</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2007/butterfingers-lair/</link>
		<comments>http://startupfiance.com/2007/butterfingers-lair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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What used to be a 5 bedroom house has transformed itself over the past 2 years into a 4 bedroom house with an upstairs office, a half empty downstairs living space, and a family room with a couch that doubles as a bed for the nomadic peoples traveling through.  For the most part we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Skull vs. The Toaster</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2007/the-skull-vs-the-toaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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&#8220;The Skull&#8221; is my much beloved 1999 VW Beetle.  She has taken me to most of my college classes, endured many renditions of Whitney Houston&#8217;s &#8220;I Will Always Love You&#8221;, slipped into the tiniest of parking spaces, and  fearlessly lead my mom and I cross-country.  She is always out there in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Misunderstood Concept of &#8220;Rent&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2007/the-misunderstood-concept-of-rent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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As I mentioned in my first post, Butterfinger and I have roommates, and right now we have three bodies occupying rooms, in addition to ourselves.  Up until about two days ago I had mistakenly assumed it to be common knowledge and practice for a person, not living with their parents or another gracious family [...]]]></description>
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