<?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-7029177117891060700</id><updated>2011-11-27T15:44:32.640-08:00</updated><category term='cheap'/><category term='#1'/><category term='Goodwill'/><category term='dog'/><category term='clothing'/><category term='cute'/><title type='text'>Stuff i Like</title><subtitle type='html'>Stuff i like from my crazy life</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stufflaurenlikes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7029177117891060700/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stufflaurenlikes.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Muah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01083932364361641074</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzssntUzcPI/AAAAAAAAAGY/EkGmvEZkMBg/S220/Photo+44.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-7029177117891060700.post-4838651008764557063</id><published>2009-12-30T23:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-05T18:08:52.820-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Goodwill'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cheap'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clothing'/><title type='text'>#2: The Goodwill</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzwGvY9DtkI/AAAAAAAAAHA/CFjr5CEM360/s1600-h/Goodwill_Industries_Logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzwGvY9DtkI/AAAAAAAAAHA/CFjr5CEM360/s200/Goodwill_Industries_Logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"&gt;In the early hours of 1902, a Methodist man by the name of Edgar Helms decided to open an organization, gathering up torn and broken items, only to be fixed by people who needed the $. Today, this organization earns billions of dollars every year, using 84 percent of the profit to provide those in need with jobs, training &amp;amp; support.&amp;nbsp;Proof&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_Industries"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Now I'm going to tell you why I enjoy the bright blue character's company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Sweet, funky clothing that is&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: blue;"&gt;C&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: blue;"&gt;H&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: blue;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: cyan;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: blue;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: magenta;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: blue;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"&gt;I told my mom I wanted to go the Goodwill after Christmas- yes, for me it was PART of my christmas present. (I wanted some unique clothing pieces that couldn't compare to the plain black turtle necks and sweaters I got.) And I was ready to embark on the adventure of not knowing WHAT I would find. Well, this particular trip was one of the best, granting me 3 blouses, 2 sweaters, a dress, tee and two pairs of Keds for all under 20 bucks. Miracle? Indeed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzwQAtzzLrI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/5TJIBDIrV68/s1600-h/Photo+65.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzwQwYBSmLI/AAAAAAAAAHg/8luXrCnP48U/s1600-h/Photo+67.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzwQwYBSmLI/AAAAAAAAAHg/8luXrCnP48U/s200/Photo+67.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzwQAtzzLrI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/5TJIBDIrV68/s320/Photo+65.jpg" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzwQuW3gdAI/AAAAAAAAAHY/7L4h5aeJM9g/s1600/Photo+64.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzwQuW3gdAI/AAAAAAAAAHY/7L4h5aeJM9g/s1600/Photo+64.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzwQuW3gdAI/AAAAAAAAAHY/7L4h5aeJM9g/s200/Photo+64.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"&gt;One find: An Anna&amp;nbsp;Sui Dress. &amp;nbsp;How much you may ask?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; $3 &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Another:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;A Kilamanjaro Safari shirt, with Tanzania &amp;amp; many happy zebras displayed proudly on it. &lt;span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;$1 &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;: )&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7029177117891060700-4838651008764557063?l=stufflaurenlikes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stufflaurenlikes.blogspot.com/feeds/4838651008764557063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stufflaurenlikes.blogspot.com/2009/12/2-goodwill.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7029177117891060700/posts/default/4838651008764557063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7029177117891060700/posts/default/4838651008764557063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stufflaurenlikes.blogspot.com/2009/12/2-goodwill.html' title='#2: The Goodwill'/><author><name>Muah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01083932364361641074</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzssntUzcPI/AAAAAAAAAGY/EkGmvEZkMBg/S220/Photo+44.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzwGvY9DtkI/AAAAAAAAAHA/CFjr5CEM360/s72-c/Goodwill_Industries_Logo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029177117891060700.post-4550732952637501339</id><published>2009-12-29T22:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-29T23:04:08.634-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cute'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='#1'/><title type='text'>#1: My dog, Bianca</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I like my dog Bianca. &amp;nbsp;She is a beautiful white Maltese, six pounds, ten smacking years old. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/Szrw-JG7zZI/AAAAAAAAACo/nxmpl8V0Fm4/s1600-h/Photo+64.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/Szrw-JG7zZI/AAAAAAAAACo/nxmpl8V0Fm4/s320/Photo+64.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This is muah, and her on vacation this past year at Corolla, North Carolina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;She is nine here. &amp;nbsp;Such a cutie. &amp;nbsp;Hasn't aged a bit in years, if I do say so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/Szrw-JG7zZI/AAAAAAAAACo/nxmpl8V0Fm4/s1600-h/Photo+64.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/Szru-PU8LjI/AAAAAAAAACg/xW5cZtKx26g/s1600-h/Photo+62.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/Szru-PU8LjI/AAAAAAAAACg/xW5cZtKx26g/s320/Photo+62.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Bianca, A.K.A. "Bebe" lying down on her fluffy white blanket. (Or mine, but does it really matter?) That's a Carebear, I know, and let me just point out that its HEAD is bigger than Bianca's whole being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/Szru-PU8LjI/AAAAAAAAACg/xW5cZtKx26g/s1600-h/Photo+62.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/Szrt22NsE0I/AAAAAAAAACY/IycaKK-EATU/s1600-h/Photo+61.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/Szrt22NsE0I/AAAAAAAAACY/IycaKK-EATU/s320/Photo+61.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A few years ago. &amp;nbsp;That bunny in her mouth... she has done many things to. &amp;nbsp;This is after it had lost an eye, tail, stuffing, dignity...&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/7029177117891060700-4550732952637501339?l=stufflaurenlikes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stufflaurenlikes.blogspot.com/feeds/4550732952637501339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://stufflaurenlikes.blogspot.com/2009/12/1-my-dog-bianca.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7029177117891060700/posts/default/4550732952637501339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7029177117891060700/posts/default/4550732952637501339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stufflaurenlikes.blogspot.com/2009/12/1-my-dog-bianca.html' title='#1: My dog, Bianca'/><author><name>Muah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01083932364361641074</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/SzssntUzcPI/AAAAAAAAAGY/EkGmvEZkMBg/S220/Photo+44.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YwBAwsBLWmA/Szrw-JG7zZI/AAAAAAAAACo/nxmpl8V0Fm4/s72-c/Photo+64.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>
