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		<title>Newt&#8217;s inspiration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It takes a depraved mind to think that a child should be forced to work, instead of being educated. Newt Gingrich is that kind of dude. Newt Gingrich for child labor. (LAT)]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2012/02/02/newts-inspiration/</link>
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		<title>Found you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s pretty appropriate that the prompt for Day 2 of #FEBphotoaday is &#8216;words&#8217;. I was cleaning out  my garage, still trying to streamline and found a box of utter randomness. I won&#8217;t get into details but for everything I pulled out, I said, &#8220;What? How did this get in here?!&#8221; Then my eyes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2012/02/02/found-you/</link>
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		<title>A photo a day?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I came across a photo on Tumblr tagged with #JANPHOTOADAY. Being bored and a photography nut, I looked up the link, which lead me to FatMumSlim&#8216;s site. She was requested to do another Photo-A-Day set for February and complied. Yay! So, now I&#8217;m in on the action. If you want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2012/02/01/a-photo-a-day/</link>
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		<title>Fideos and veggies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a ton of pasta. Not only that, but we have random types of pasta. It&#8217;s almost too much to try new ways to use certain kinds. When I cook with fideo, I always wind up making a Mexican dish. This time around, I wanted to see if fideo could be good in just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2012/01/26/fideos-and-veggies/</link>
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		<title>Sloughing it off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We moved, in a rush, in late September. Even though we had tossed a lot of stuff and already had many things organized in boxes, we were not prepared for losing the storage capacities of a 2-car garage and a basement when moving to a one-car garage. To say that our current garage is in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2012/01/26/sloughing-it-off/</link>
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		<title>Chicken Wings?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t read Korean, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that this is neither Karaoke, nor chicken wings. What say you?]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2012/01/25/chicken-wings/</link>
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		<title>Bringing Parks to Koreatown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I decided to head over to K-Town to take some photos. I did not expect to bump into a press conference, let alone one regarding something I find important: parks. Though we have many beautiful large and pocket parks in Los Angeles, the fact is, we have the lowest number of parks per capita, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2012/01/25/bringing-parks-to-koreatown/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the little things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love Koreatown. There are so many fun little gadgets to be found in that neighborhood. My husband likes it because he thinks it&#8217;s the closest he can get to Blade Runner within the city&#8217;s confines. We both agree there is a lot of forward-thinking going on in many places there. In many restaurants in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2012/01/25/little-things/</link>
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		<title>Taking in CicLAvia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times when an idea is good. There are times when the implementation of that idea is excellent. CicLAvia falls into the latter category. To make it even better, the weather in Los Angeles was perfect for a bike ride through the city. On Sunday, I packed up the kids and we went over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2011/04/11/taking-in-ciclavia/</link>
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		<title>Stopping to smell the roses&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a habit of being nosy. I also have a habit of putting off somethings. Everyday, I drive by a building with a scarecrow painted on the wall. I love the look of it, and sometimes hope for a little back up in traffic, so I can look at it longer. For the past [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2011/04/07/stopping-to-smell-the-roses/</link>
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		<title>Saving our Teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things are dire in LAUSD and being a parent at a lower-income school, it&#8217;s even worse. Six highly trained and credentialed teachers were given pink slips. In a world of budget cuts and people losing their jobs, this may be ho-hum to most, but these 6 are extraordinary individuals. Our school has a great Dual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2011/03/17/saving-our-teachers/</link>
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		<title>SSDD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember my last post back in August 2010 about the cover of Women&#8217;s Running Magazine? I did wind up canceling that subscription and oddly, my Runner&#8217;s World subscription stopped coming to me at the same time.  That was no skin off my nose, as I wasn&#8217;t interested in reading it anyway. Or so I thought. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2011/03/14/ssdd/</link>
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		<title>The neglected blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember when I used to write? When each new discovery and test and general silliness was posted here? Lots of things have happened that made me stop updating this site, in general, but I think I&#8217;m ready again. To be sure, I never stopped writing. There are 117 drafts&#8211;spanning between August 2009 and last Friday&#8211;are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2011/03/14/the-neglected-blog/</link>
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		<title>Black Women Run, Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently received the Sept/Oct 2010 Women&#8217;s Running magazine and there&#8217;s a strong chance I may cancel the subscription. The magazine itself has some almost-useful-to-me information, but each time it comes in the mail, I&#8217;m reminded that the magazine is really not geared to me as a black female. Just a glance at recent covers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/08/18/black-women-run-too/</link>
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		<title>So you want to grow your own food (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your soil is prepped and you have a rough sketch of your water needs, as mentioned in Part 1, but now it&#8217;s time for the best part: picking your plants. Choosing Your Plants Find Your Zone I love growing vegetables, even the ones I won&#8217;t particularly eat. I often grow extra produce so that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/07/31/so-you-want-to-grow-your-own-food-part-2/</link>
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		<title>So you want to grow your own food (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve been asked about how to grow food at home. This is something I get rather excited about, not only because I love gardening, but I love seeing people talk about how they use the food they grow in their meals. Let&#8217;s face it, this economy has us all re-evaluating out food choices. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/07/31/so-you-want-to-grow-your-own-food/</link>
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		<title>Trust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trust in friendships is a fickle thing. For some people, it&#8217;s easy to trust others. For people like myself, there&#8217;s a brick wall that needs to be torn down before trust can be established. In my case, that can take years. I may not develop a lot of friendships, but those I do have are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/07/20/trust/</link>
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		<title>Activities That Take Less Time Than Registering for Swim Classes at Richard Alatorre Pool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s incompetence and then there&#8217;s mind blowing WTFness that makes you worry that the people in charge are capable driving, breeding and/or voting. Today&#8217;s experience registering for swim classes definitely fall into the latter. With only 36 families in front of us, what should have taken, at the most 10 minutes, took a little under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/06/27/activities-that-take-less-time-than-registering-for-swim-classes-at-richard-alatorre-pool/</link>
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		<title>Blah, blah EVO 4G, blah&#8230;ooh pictures!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed my World Wide Web orgasm, I got an EVO 4G.  Go me. Yay. Anyway&#8230;this isn&#8217;t a post on my thoughts of the phone because if you&#8217;re following me on FriendFeed or Twitter, you&#8217;ve already read them and just want me to shut it already. This post is about my (our) evolution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/06/04/blah-blah-evo-4g-blah-ooh-pictures/</link>
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		<title>UPDATED: Is it that hard to pay attention?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received another email from this person again, update below. ****** I often get press releases and invites to events for things that are outside my frame of reference or interests. Somehow, there are people out there that think that my blog is the perfect place for me to write about cleaning supplies for pets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/06/02/is-it-that-hard-to-pay-attention/</link>
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		<title>A Different View of the Bay Area</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We took advantage of the 4-day weekend and Adrian&#8217;s upcoming birthday (tomorrow!) to go visit friends in the Bay Area. This time around we didn&#8217;t do what we usually do, which is spend too much time and money in The City. Instead, we poked around Oakland and even wound up spending a day in Antioch. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/06/01/a-different-view-of-the-bay-area/</link>
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		<title>Things I learned about SiriusXM Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a Ford Focus for 4 days and it came with SiriusXM Radio. It was an interesting time, but I&#8217;m still not sure that service is worth $10 &#8211; $20 a month. Here&#8217;s a handful of things I&#8217;ve discovered about the service and myself: There really is no need for a Grateful Dead station [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/04/30/things-i-learned-about-siriusxm-radio/</link>
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		<title>MINI DEATHWATCH: $2200 for a 4th transmission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The MINI was towed yesterday and the mechanic said it wasn&#8217;t the clutch, it was the transmission. Again. This will make it the 4th transmission in the 8 years we&#8217;ve had the car. Luckily, the first one was replaced under warranty. I believe the 2nd, we only paid half the price and the dealership covered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/04/27/mini-deathwatch-2200-for-a-4th-transmission/</link>
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		<title>What a difference a week makes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, panic ensued because it sounded like the MIL was ready to buy us a car of her choosing. I felt we didn&#8217;t need a car because our 8 year old MINI was running just fine, gets good gas mileage, is fun to drive and is perfect for city driving. To be sure, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/04/25/what-a-difference-a-week-makes/</link>
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		<title>The comforts of a car</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been offered a &#8220;gift&#8221; of a new car.  The string attached, is that the car must seat 5, comfortably.  You know, unlike our MINI Cooper. The last 3 cars we&#8217;ve bought were months and months of research and test driving. I think normal people do it much quicker. This &#8220;gift&#8221; is a race against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faboomama.com/2010/04/20/the-comforts-of-a-car/</link>
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