<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:06:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>simply*bittersweet</title><description>my belief is that//life is simply bittersweet//beautiful and rough</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/</link><managingEditor>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>105</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387.post-8884955404013404229</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T21:54:27.763-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>haiku</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>work</category><title>and sleep off the black fury</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;i’d like to go home&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;and sleep off the black fury&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;this job makes me feel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-8884955404013404229?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2010/01/and-sleep-off-black-fury.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387.post-3705529863552194099</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T21:53:53.625-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>birthdays</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>haiku</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>family</category><title>happy birthday, girls!</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;aunt monica and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;aarah…happy birthday, girls!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;hope it’s amazing...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-3705529863552194099?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2010/01/happy-birthday-girls.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total 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class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;but i’ll still love you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-8550097013745553623?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2010/01/happy-birthday-bub.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387.post-5531504999234153504</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T21:51:54.739-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>death</category><category 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src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-5531504999234153504?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2010/01/rest-in-peace-christie.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387.post-1574105106967054879</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T21:50:56.567-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>haiku</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>life</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>seasons</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>family</category><title>we’re in tennessee</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;we’re in tennessee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;after a long wint’ry drive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;family greets us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-1574105106967054879?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2010/01/were-in-tennessee.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total 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mourn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;a cousin’s passing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-215255149436692997?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2010/01/cousins-passing.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387.post-7244007137347961580</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T21:48:37.942-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>haiku</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>life</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>seasons</category><title>….at least we THOUGHT so. :(</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;packing warm sweaters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;for an even warmer state….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;….at least we THOUGHT so. :(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-7244007137347961580?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2010/01/at-least-we-thought-so.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387.post-8506063463819228133</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T21:47:47.068-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>haiku</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>work</category><title>there’s no job today!</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;there’s no job today!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;one more day of sleeping in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;and seeking new work&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-8506063463819228133?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2010/01/theres-no-job-today.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387.post-6058506694427950610</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T21:46:15.880-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>haiku</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>life</category><title>the house was quite quiet then</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;everyone is gone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;the house was quite quiet then&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;until we Wii'd it up! :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-6058506694427950610?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2010/01/house-was-quite-quiet-then.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387.post-1102837461420619611</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T21:46:30.346-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>haiku</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>life</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><title>random ice cream trips</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;random ice cream trips&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;into windy, cold downtown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;to please the best friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-1102837461420619611?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2010/01/random-ice-cream-trips.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387.post-2505900434934627085</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T21:44:39.439-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>haiku</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>life</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><title>i'm not hungover</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;i'm not hungover&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;which is good…the best friend just&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;wants to ride the train&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-2505900434934627085?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2010/01/im-not-hungover.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387.post-6594934474616050676</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T21:43:52.661-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>haiku</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>family</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>holidays</category><title>happy new years eve!</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;happy new years eve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;board games and video games&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;with good friends and booze!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5303633274083727387-6594934474616050676?l=www.simplybittersweet.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.simplybittersweet.com/2009/12/happy-new-years-eve.html</link><author>heather@simplybittersweet.com (Heather)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303633274083727387.post-6845584346010986975</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T21:43:06.656-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>haiku</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>life</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>family</category><title>and cracking up as we die</title><description>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;nights of playing wii&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; 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