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		<title>Conversations with the Patriarch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My family has a standing dinner each Wednesday at my grandfather&#8217;s house. We have been doing this for probably 25 years. Over the years the nights have changed, but it&#8217;s been a constant. Jason night. It&#8217;s the place to be. &#8230; <a href="http://melissaruth.com/blog/?p=711">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Wedding and an Anti-Wedding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I last posted, Felicia got married and I went to Texas, and I also got a job. I&#8217;ve been busy. Heh. Felicia looked beautiful in her dress (that I stored) and a lovely time was had by all. Here&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://melissaruth.com/blog/?p=689">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting My Cowboy Fix in the Gold Country</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend my dad and I went up to the gold country and Big Trees State Park outside of Arnold up in the Sierra foothills in the Stanislaus Forest. Big Trees is one of my favorite places ever, and &#8230; <a href="http://melissaruth.com/blog/?p=677">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to Sarah!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just because I was away in the mountains falling off a cliff* and bruising my back black and purple on the 24th doesn&#8217;t mean that Sarah is immune to a best friends Birthday Post! Yeah that&#8217;s right, y&#8217;all: it&#8217;s ancient(ish) &#8230; <a href="http://melissaruth.com/blog/?p=670">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lately I&#8217;ve Been</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday I went up to Sebastopol with my mother to the thrift store The Legacy. This is a wonderfully unique thrift store where they only sell craft items, and it benefits the local senior center. My mom was after &#8230; <a href="http://melissaruth.com/blog/?p=661">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Sac and an FO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I headed up to Sacramento (explain to me again why I don&#8217;t live there? I like it so much more than the Bay Area. Oh right, I bought a house here. Sigh.) to help celebrate Malvina&#8217;s belated 30th birthday. &#8230; <a href="http://melissaruth.com/blog/?p=652">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Slackitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always maintained that if there is a chore that I have been putting off because it&#8217;s A) time consuming or B) boring or C) gross or D) expensive, then somehow, if I wait long enough, the universe will &#8230; <a href="http://melissaruth.com/blog/?p=647">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>BIRTHDAY WEEKEND</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, my dad called me his &#8220;late firecracker&#8221; because I was born on the 5th of July, one day too late to share our country&#8217;s birthday. But I&#8217;m okay with that because every year it&#8217;s like &#8230; <a href="http://melissaruth.com/blog/?p=643">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday Hopes &amp; Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People asked for a birthday wishlist so here it is. And I meant to post this last week, but apparently I was too hopped up on library champagne to remember to actually publish it, so there it sat in my &#8230; <a href="http://melissaruth.com/blog/?p=630">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Navy Rainbow Socks (FINALLY) &amp; Etc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I actually finished these socks in early May, shortly before we hied off to Environs Unknown (the midwest). I forgot to blog about them till now. Man, these took For-Freakin&#8217;-Ever! I like how they turned out, though, and so did &#8230; <a href="http://melissaruth.com/blog/?p=551">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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