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		<title>The poor girl&#8217;s guide to auto body repair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer when I was in Arizona, someone dinged my car while it was parked on the street outside my house in Seattle. The inconsiderate someone didn&#8217;t leave a note or offer to pay for repairs, and I was too poor at the time to get it fixed (I&#8217;m still too poor). So the dent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday, Celia!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I woke up with a headache and sore throat, so I seriously contemplated skipping class and staying home to look at pictures and watch videos of my angel sister, Celia, since today is her birthday. Then I started thinking about the last few days of Celia&#8217;s life. Last year I spent the night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t sleep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile I have a bout of insomnia. Last night was one of those times. It didn&#8217;t help that the tapping I kept hearing outside my window reminded me of those creepy urban legends (or contemporary folktales, as we called them in my BYU folklore class) my friends used to tell me. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mushpots.com/2010/04/cant-sleep/</link>
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		<title>Librarians galore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got home from the Public Library Association&#8216;s 13th national conference in Portland. Oy. I think when my brain has had a chance to process everything, I&#8217;ll find that I learned a lot while I was sitting in those dark rooms of the Oregon Convention Center, but the main impression I had was that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mushpots.com/2010/03/librarians-galore/</link>
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		<title>Big Climb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The overblown, schmaltzy strains of Queen&#8217;s &#8220;We Are the Champions&#8221; filled my ears as I stepped through the doors of the 73rd floor of the Columbia Center in downtown Seattle. I had just climbed 1,311 stairs &#8212; 69 floors &#8212; in Seattle&#8217;s tallest building to help raise awareness and money (by the way, you still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood donation, take two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I donated blood at a blood drive at my church today, and it went much better than my Halloween attempt. The guy doing the needle insertion popped it right into my vein, and I pumped out a pint in 5 minutes. As I was pumping blood, I heard the phlebotomist tell another guy, &#8220;Great start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mushpots.com/2010/01/blood-donation-take-two/</link>
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		<title>Happy Halloween!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Halloween, I tried to treat Puget Sound Blood Center to a pint of clean, pure O- blood, but the phlebotomist played a mean trick and didn&#8217;t get the needle in my vein right, so my blood stopped flowing midway through my donation. The same guy has messed up the needle insertion before, so he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mushpots.com/2009/10/happy-halloween/</link>
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		<title>Blessings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about doing this post for a long time, and I really don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;ve been putting it off. The past several months have been really hard for me &#8212; I think I&#8217;ve cried more since March than I did my entire life up until then. But I&#8217;ve also had a chance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mushpots.com/2009/09/blessings/</link>
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		<title>Celia Turley Memorial Blood Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, my sister Celia passed away May 16 from complications related to Acute Promyelotic Leukemia (M3). During her short stay in the hospital, Celia received numerous transfusions of blood products. In Celia&#8217;s memory and in gratitude to the people who gave blood that was used in her treatment, my sister Maria [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mushpots.com/2009/07/blood-drive/</link>
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		<title>Campin&#8217; my style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a couple of camping trips this summer, although neither was what I would call &#8220;real&#8221; camping. No tents were involved. My mom was the Girls Camp music director this year, and she recruited me to play the guitar for singing around the campfire. I have to admit, it was a lot more fun [...]]]></description>
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