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	<title>Cynical Sarah</title>
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	<description>Welcome to my special view of the world.</description>
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		<title>Crazy Busy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My resolution to write more and keep up with this site better obviously fell by the wayside again. Life just got super busy in the last month or so. Even with my "No TV During the Day Challenge" there just didn't seem to be much time to sit and write. Other life factors got in the way to make me lose ambition too.

I'm going to leave it all a mystery for now. Well, not all of it. I've been working on trying to get more freelance work, also known as "fill in the gap in the resume work." I signed up with oDesk and managed to get a little work through that site. 

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		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/crazy-busy/</link>
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		<title>No TV During the Day Challenge: The Rest of the Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One week  of the No TV During the Day Challenge turned out to be pretty easy. It certainly helps when you have a mound of things taken from your cupboards and closets and furniture all piled in front of the TV to make room for a work crew.
Monday and Tuesday we had people in here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/no-tv-during-the-day-challenge-the-rest-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>No TV During the Day Challenge: Day 2 &amp; 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 2 of my TV challenge already brought the need for a clarification in the rules of the challenge. I completely neglected to factor in that the NFL regular season started Sunday.

How could I possibly stick to not watching TV during the day when the games start at 10 a.m. and run most of the day? 

The clarification had to be that I can't mindlessly watch TV during the day. If I'm actively participating in a show, like watching football to see how my fantasy football team players are doing, that's acceptable. If I'm just watching TV to pass the time without really caring what I'm watching, that's not acceptable.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/no-tv-during-the-day-challenge-day-2-3/</link>
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		<title>No TV During the Day Challenge: Day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It begins. Generally my weekends are the same as my week days since I'm not working, so TV watching is my time killer pretty much any day of the week. What makes it harder to stick to the challenge and break away from the TV on the weekends is that Troy is also home, and I have a hard time making plans to get out of here if he doesn't want to do anything.

Today I already had a plan in place to combat that. I haven't gone to Stanley Park and walked the seawall all summer this year. I usually find a reason to go a few times each summer, but not this one. We didn't have anyone come visit, and I didn't make plans with anyone to walk  the seawall for fun this time.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/no-tv-during-the-day-challenge-day-1/</link>
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		<title>Sleeping Genius</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been more than a month since I've posted anything on my site. No blogs, no book reviews, no movie review, nothing. That's what I was thinking about as a lay in bed last night trying to get to sleep. 

I've had all sorts of free time, and the end result hasn't been lots more writing done. Instead, it's been dull boredome that has drained my brain of creativity and ideas to write about. So not only have I been lacking in the site upkeep department, I haven't been good about writing any fiction like I want to or even editing the work I have done.

So there I lay in bed thinking about this and I have the brilliant revalation that the story I'm working on needs to be in first-person, and then I start writing the blog I want to post about these thoughts in my head.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/sleeping-genius/</link>
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		<title>Those Darn Kids!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's nothing like hearing about an 8-year-old whose paintings sell for thousands of dollars and a pop idol who is something like 12 penning his first memoirs to really make a person feel pretty behind the life curve. Not only have I been mainly unemployed for more than a year, I seem to have been wasting my life since second grade based on the teen phenoms sprouting up everywhere.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/those-darn-kids/</link>
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		<title>Wheat Salad – Meh, Oven-Fried Chicken – Thumbs Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s nectarine season! I know Spring/Summer has finally come to Vancouver when I can head to the little fruit and veggie stores near me and see one of my favorite fruits amid all the usual apples and oranges.

Sure, I could probably get nectarines or their fuzzy cousins, the peach, year round at the big chain grocery stores, but the little, less expensive stores within walking distance only get them when they’re in season. They’re so much better in season – I’m not really sure why. Perhaps it’s because they can be picked a little closer to ripe since they don’t have to be shipped so far. The ones that get boated up from South America in the dead of winter are hard as rocks still and never do ripen up very well.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/wheat-salad-%e2%80%93-meh-oven-fried-chicken-%e2%80%93-thumbs-up/</link>
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		<title>Blood in the Social Media Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm jobless. That gives me a lot of time to surf the net and seek out job hunting advice. In the past year, I've probably seen a dozen or so articles about how people need to be careful about what they post on their social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

The warning is, someone is going to see it. Your drunken photos; your posts about hating your boss; the "free" supplies you told the world about getting from the office.

It's out there for the whole world to see, including potential employers. Even if you have your privacy settings set right, it's still possible the supervisor or hr person at the company you want to work for is connected to you through a friend of a friend.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/blood-in-the-social-media-water/</link>
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		<title>Review: Eat, Pray, Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Generally I chose books like I choose the movies I watch; I look for entertainment value above all else. However, sometimes I stumble across a more artsy/enlightening/literary/soul searching book that catches my interest. This time it was Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert.

In a moment of weakness I was watching Julia Roberts on Oprah discussing the book and her experience starring in the movie. I’d never even heard of Eat, Pray, Love and here it was inspiring Julia Roberts, being talked about on Oprah and developing a small cult following.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/review-eat-pray-love/</link>
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		<title>Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can’t recall ever reading a Jane Austen novel. I’ve seen a few of the movies based on her books, but based on what I saw, I had no urge to read the books. At heart they seem to be basically Victorian era romance novels; however, you throw in some zombies, and I’m intrigued.

I had actually stopped at the bookstore the other day to pick up a different book, but in a moment of judging a book by its cover, I decided I had to give Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith a try. I was curious how someone could incorporate zombies into a Jane Austen novel without treading too much on her own style of storytelling as well as her basic storyline.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/review-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/</link>
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