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		<title>Day 1, all over again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today will be yet another first day of work for me. I put in my last day at American Equity Mortgage last week, took off for Chicago for the weekend and am now ready to rumble.
I accepted an offer from the Belleville News-Democrat about two weeks ago. I&#8217;ll be designing and editing primarily, but it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=134&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/day-1-all-over-again/</link>
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		<title>A mixed bag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend was my birthday, and it was awesome. My parents and brother came in for a visit, and we planned to hit up the winery. The weather, however, had other ideas. It rained all day, so we had a delicious dinner on The Hill and watched movies instead.
We also acquired a new kitten.
We&#8217;d seen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=132&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/a-mixed-bag/</link>
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		<title>Rage-inducing heat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past few weeks have been so incredibly hot and humid here that I don&#8217;t feel like doing anything but taking a cold shower and sitting around in my underwear after work. Hence the lack of updates.
I started my new job as a loan processor at American Equity Mortgage about two weeks ago. Aside from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=125&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/rage-inducing-heat/</link>
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		<title>Ladies and gentlemen, enter career path #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So life has been a little hectic lately, and I could write loads and loads about all the craziness pertaining to my work situation, but I&#8217;ll spare you some of the details to avoid sounding petty.
Basically, the company I worked for as a software tester decided to randomly cancel all of the workers&#8217; contracts and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=120&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/ladies-and-gentlemen-enter-career-path-3/</link>
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		<title>A fair warning:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you uninvitedly come into my house and look anything like this, I will most likely systematically kill you and your entire family.  Especially if you sneak up on me.
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		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/a-fair-warning/</link>
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		<title>Pounding the pavement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t do much running during the winter months of this year, which is unusual. I typically enjoy running in the cooler/cold weather, but I guess living in South Carolina for the short time that I did changed that a little. Not to mention that we were insane busy during the holidays and work was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=113&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/pounding-the-pavement/</link>
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		<title>Long day.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, my productivity is at an all-time high as of late.  Here is all the ridiculous junk I did today:

Called to hassle the credit card company that&#8217;s making us insane.
Called the cable company to cancel our cable (the promotion ran out and we don&#8217;t ever use it)
Called Ticketmaster to get them to resend the concert [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=109&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/long-day/</link>
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		<title>A hint of organization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, Dan and I are constantly booked. I realized, after inadvertantly double-booking us on multiple occasions, that the month-by-month dry erase board on the kitchen wall wasn&#8217;t gonna cut it.
Enter: Moleskine Weekly Planner
I&#8217;ve always had an affinity for fancy notebooks and snazzy writing implements. For some reason, I ignored the fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=104&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/a-hint-of-organization/</link>
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		<title>Weekend Warriors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan and I have had a crazy couple of weekends.  With all of the traveling, company coming into town and catching up we have to do from the aforementioned, we&#8217;ve hardly had time to breathe.
Last weekend, my sister came into town so we could take her to her first &#8220;real&#8221; concerts.  Friday night we hit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=100&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/weekend-warriors/</link>
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		<title>My life as of late</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who care:
-Dan and I started working similar schedules and no longer have to wake up at the crack of dawn to get to work.
-I got a wicked raise.
-We went to Louisville and surprised our friends Zak and Sean so hard that their heads about fell off. While we were there, we: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=98&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/my-life-as-of-late/</link>
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		<title>Yowza. What a week.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past week started off innocently enough. Work was barreling along and the weekend was fast approaching. That doesn&#8217;t happen often.
Then Wednesday rolled around.
I left work a little earlier than usual to go pick Dan up so we could finally enjoy a home-cooked dinner together. We swung by the store on our way home and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=90&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/yowza-what-a-week/</link>
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		<title>Today is Valentines Day.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a pretty sappy idea, really; a marketing ploy to get people to buy even more dumb stuff that they don&#8217;t need. Stuff like this.
I do want to take a moment, however, to say how thankful I am for my Valentine.
My life would be so completely different without Dan. Every day that we are together, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=84&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/today-is-valentines-day/</link>
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		<title>As if eight-plus hours a day weren&#8217;t enough&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I keep having dreams where I am at work. I am sitting at my desk, in front of my computer, staring at the same software that I test every day.
In my dreams, I&#8217;m worried because I can&#8217;t think of any new tests to do. I sit there, glaring at the home screen, fretting.
I don&#8217;t exactly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=80&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/as-if-eight-plus-hours-a-day-werent-enough/</link>
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		<title>Why did those five things cost $96?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week was one of those weeks when you run out of all of your toiletries at the same time. Typically, I only have to buy one or two of these items in one shopping trip, but every so often the cycles line up and it&#8217;s all gone at the same at once.
I needed:
-Face lotion
-Mascara
-Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=74&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/why-did-those-five-things-cost-96/</link>
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		<title>Not that anyone cares, but&#8230;</title>
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I      never liked learning about history as a kid. I thought it was boring and      pointless, and am extremely ignorant when it comes to past events as a      result. I hate it and I’m trying to fix it. Right now, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salliehickle.wordpress.com&blog=2417012&post=72&subd=salliehickle&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://salliehickle.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/not-that-anyone-cares-but/</link>
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