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		<title>A crack in the ice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ve uploaded this before&#8230; Nonetheless, it&#8217;s a very powerful video IMHO. It&#8217;s a video the hubby made of one of the songs in their band&#8217;s latest album, Beacon of Light &#160; Tagged: Adventure, Beacon of Light, Crack in the Ice, music, video clip<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoergasbord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3942513&amp;post=497&amp;subd=smoergasbord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Almost there&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok. I know. The hubby has said it a thousand times. Lately I have been very much obsessed with being able to make that most finicky of all French baked goods&#8211; the almighty macaron Yup, ever since I tasted my first macaron from l&#8217;Atelier Jean Luc Pelé in Cannes, it has become my obsession to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoergasbord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3942513&amp;post=492&amp;subd=smoergasbord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bienvenido a Gran Canaria</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, after 6 hours on the plane, we&#8217;ve arrived in warm and sunny Gran Canaria!! Well, at least I&#8217;m hoping it will be warm and sunny during our stay here&#8211; given my condition, I wasn&#8217;t at all sure how smart it is to travel out of the country. But then, this winter in Norway is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoergasbord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3942513&amp;post=484&amp;subd=smoergasbord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All clear!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just received a call from the hospital&#8211; I don&#8217;t need to undergo amniocentesis! They said the levels of free β-hCG and PAPPA in my blood are normal. They added that at this point, the chances of my baby having trisomy is considerably lower than the chances of miscarriage following amniocentesis. I am happy for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoergasbord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3942513&amp;post=473&amp;subd=smoergasbord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So far so good&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just came from the hospital. I had to go through an early ultrasound today plus some bloodtests as part of an evaluation if I need to undergo amniocentesis. The tests are mandatory, since the risk for my baby having trisomy is somewhat higher at my age&#8230; So far so good though&#8211; my attending doctor/sonographer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoergasbord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3942513&amp;post=457&amp;subd=smoergasbord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HURRAH!!</title>
		<link>http://smoergasbord.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/hurrah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; need I say more?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoergasbord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3942513&amp;post=453&amp;subd=smoergasbord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I love Nice!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, perhaps it&#8217;s still too early to say for sure&#8230; But thus far, that&#8217;s exactly how I feel: I LOVE THIS PLACE! I must admit though that at first, I was really skeptical when the hubby suggested this year&#8217;s summer holiday to be at the French Riviera. But now, I am really thankful he convinced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoergasbord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3942513&amp;post=413&amp;subd=smoergasbord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cannes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://smoergasbord.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/cannes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first day here in Nice&#8230; and since we don&#8217;t have any concrete ideas yet of what we should do the next fourteen days, we decided to follow what everyone else is doing&#8211; visit nearby Cannes. Famous for the film festival held annually in May, Cannes was, unfortunately, a bit of a disappointment for me. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoergasbord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3942513&amp;post=438&amp;subd=smoergasbord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever happened to the saying &#8220;the customer is always right&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://smoergasbord.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/whatever-happened-to-the-saying-the-customer-is-always-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever we hear the word &#8220;service&#8221;, the first thing that almost always comes to mind is the act of doing something for someone. While this may be true, there are also such things as good service and bad service, each of which is distinguished from the other by the way it has been performed. Good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoergasbord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3942513&amp;post=408&amp;subd=smoergasbord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wall flower</title>
		<link>http://smoergasbord.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/wall-flower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my first post after a long time, I would have liked this to be something a lot more interesting. But except for being my first one using my überkühl mobile phone, I guess I would have to disappoint&#8230; Nonetheless, the silence does have to be broken at some point I&#8217;m actually out sitting at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoergasbord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3942513&amp;post=397&amp;subd=smoergasbord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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