<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585789028077048820</id><updated>2011-05-07T00:23:13.836-07:00</updated><category term='too much to handle'/><category term='happy anyway'/><title type='text'>Adventures With Toughy</title><subtitle type='html'>Regular life is exciting too.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventureswithtoughy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7585789028077048820/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventureswithtoughy.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Toughy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09305126993593146049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8wNcjGiu21w/TbsV81kWrOI/AAAAAAAAAH8/PGwZWGtw_4k/s220/noname.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585789028077048820.post-3002091914537610961</id><published>2011-04-29T13:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-29T13:05:15.191-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happy anyway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='too much to handle'/><title type='text'>Laundry? I think not...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o7EmrdVh0TM/TbsZKdsTA4I/AAAAAAAAAIc/jI73zd4Byq4/s1600/29April2011a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o7EmrdVh0TM/TbsZKdsTA4I/AAAAAAAAAIc/jI73zd4Byq4/s320/29April2011a.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Three baskets of to-be-folded laundry on the kitchen table. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;Two loads of laundry pending.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;Dishwasher of clean dishes to be emptied.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;Sink of dirty dishes to be washed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;At least eight more hours of office work to be done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;I'm in trouble... But hey, the munchkin is smiling, and I am too!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7585789028077048820-3002091914537610961?l=adventureswithtoughy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventureswithtoughy.blogspot.com/feeds/3002091914537610961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7585789028077048820&amp;postID=3002091914537610961' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7585789028077048820/posts/default/3002091914537610961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7585789028077048820/posts/default/3002091914537610961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventureswithtoughy.blogspot.com/2011/04/laundry-i-think-not.html' title='Laundry? I think not...'/><author><name>Toughy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09305126993593146049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8wNcjGiu21w/TbsV81kWrOI/AAAAAAAAAH8/PGwZWGtw_4k/s220/noname.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o7EmrdVh0TM/TbsZKdsTA4I/AAAAAAAAAIc/jI73zd4Byq4/s72-c/29April2011a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7585789028077048820.post-8782451336705277779</id><published>2011-04-28T12:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-29T13:26:08.187-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Here we go...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;I became “Toughy” when I was very young. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;I earned the name Toughy when I was a very strong and stubborn two year old. I’m no Tomboy, but I easily &lt;em&gt;could have&lt;/em&gt; ended up a bully.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;I don’t believe life is a cakewalk for anyone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Me? I live in a basement apartment with my husband and ultra-adorable two-year old son. Full-time&amp;nbsp;housewife, full-time mom, and full-time employee. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;I’d like to proclaim that my house is spotless, my family always eats nutritious homemade meals, and I go to bed at a decent hour&amp;nbsp;each night, with my to-do list all marked off.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Yeah. Right.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;But you know, if I &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; honestly claim those things, where's the adventure in that?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7585789028077048820-8782451336705277779?l=adventureswithtoughy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventureswithtoughy.blogspot.com/feeds/8782451336705277779/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7585789028077048820&amp;postID=8782451336705277779' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7585789028077048820/posts/default/8782451336705277779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7585789028077048820/posts/default/8782451336705277779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventureswithtoughy.blogspot.com/2011/04/here-we-go.html' title='Here we go...'/><author><name>Toughy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09305126993593146049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8wNcjGiu21w/TbsV81kWrOI/AAAAAAAAAH8/PGwZWGtw_4k/s220/noname.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
