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	<title>Busy Mom Dahl&#039;s Blog &#187; Personal</title>
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	<description>Laura&#039;s stories of family, graduate school, and teaching</description>
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		<title>Whoa! A flash flood that tore up my neighborhood streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heavy rain hit at 3:30PM on Tuesday. A total of 1.37 inches fell in my neighborhood during one hour. This not only overwhelmed the sewage system. This created buckled roads and a sinkhole under major road intersections right around my home. My home is locked in a neighborhood locked with only a couple of ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does advertising really do to our self perception as beautiful women?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am fortunate to be in a graduate study with a couple of women who study what media has done to destroy women&#8217;s self perception. They say that the term &#8216;beauty&#8217; has been redefined to a look that is impossible to achieve. They have a great blog about their research and their presentations at Beauty-Redefined.net. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aaaaah! Low vitamin D, again?!</title>
		<link>http://www.busymomdahl.org/2011/06/aaaaah-low-vitamin-d-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My joints are so achy. I am miserable and suspect that my vitamin D is low, again. This problem is so vexing for me because I do not feel comfortable going outside to get a huge dose of sunshine. I had 50 cancerous spots burned off my hands, arms, and face a couple of months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My preferred Vitamin D pills</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 21:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.busymomdahl.org/2011/05/my-preferred-vitamin-d-pills/" title="My preferred Vitamin D pills"><img src="http://www.busymomdahl.org/wp-content/uploads/yapb_cache/vitamind3.d2vq4gi96cggcw800oo00g4s4.a9sxxja1njksswcs400wcc4cg.th.jpeg" width="180" height="120" alt="My preferred Vitamin D pills" style="float:left;padding:0 10px 10px 0;" ></a>My favorite vitamin D3 pills are found in the organic supplements section of a Kroger grocery store. They are called &#8220;Naturally Preferred Vitamin D3&#8243; (1,000 IU). These are wonderful little pills because they digest easily and work like a charm. I have also been noticing the sustained popularity of my vitamin D blog posts. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is why I teach</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a good day teaching. I taught my web design students at my University of Utah class the basics of coding a web page. For most of the 16 students, this was their first experience coding a web page, and their first time connecting to a remote web server to upload files. They all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do mean men call beautiful women Fat?</title>
		<link>http://www.busymomdahl.org/2011/02/why-do-mean-men-call-beautiful-women-fat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a couple of new friends in my new graduate program of Communication Ph.D. at the University of Utah. I have met two fellow, beautiful Ph.D. students, Lindsay and Lexie Kite who are fighting the redefinition of beauty. Look at Barbie and marketing ads. All &#8220;beautiful&#8221; women are size 0 with perfect features. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two-Tiered Cats &#8211; Photo Friday</title>
		<link>http://www.busymomdahl.org/2011/01/two-tiered-cats-photo-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.busymomdahl.org/2011/01/two-tiered-cats-photo-friday/" title="Two-Tiered Cats &#8211; Photo Friday"><img src="http://www.busymomdahl.org/wp-content/uploads/yapb_cache/two_tiered_cats.4ertjcid1awwo80cog8o4400g.a9sxxja1njksswcs400wcc4cg.th.jpeg" width="180" height="270" alt="Two-Tiered Cats &#8211; Photo Friday" style="float:left;padding:0 10px 10px 0;" ></a>Our kitties have been staying in the house the past few days because it is so cold outside. They like to hang out with me and Ray as we work on our computers at night. We have both been goofing off between semesters and getting ready to teach our Spring semester courses. I think I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Friday</title>
		<link>http://www.busymomdahl.org/2010/12/photo-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.busymomdahl.org/2010/12/photo-friday/" title="Photo Friday"><img src="http://www.busymomdahl.org/wp-content/uploads/yapb_cache/snow_drift_outside_my_window_2.tmpbqpo11dwgg8w8k8808gc0.a9sxxja1njksswcs400wcc4cg.th.jpeg" width="180" height="120" alt="Photo Friday" style="float:left;padding:0 10px 10px 0;" ></a>It has been cold and snowing a lot the past few days. We have a frozen pipe, again. Every time it freezes, I pray it does not break. I took a picture of a snow drift in an upstairs window well for my home. I found it interesting that I could see the drift sit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow on a Spring Day</title>
		<link>http://www.busymomdahl.org/2010/03/snow-on-a-spring-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.busymomdahl.org/2010/03/snow-on-a-spring-day/" title="Snow on a Spring Day"><img src="http://www.busymomdahl.org/wp-content/plugins/yet-another-photoblog/YapbThumbnailer.php?post_id=2509&amp;w=180" width="180" height="119" alt="Snow on a Spring Day" style="float:left;padding:0 10px 10px 0;" ></a>Today has been a beautiful Spring day filled with snow storms. As is typical this time of year, the snow fell and melted soon thereafter. This is the type of snow storm that I like. Because if it has to snow, I prefer the moisture and warmish temperatures. I do not like the slippery, icy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben hanging out</title>
		<link>http://www.busymomdahl.org/2010/03/ben-hanging-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.busymomdahl.org/2010/03/ben-hanging-out/" title="Ben hanging out"><img src="http://www.busymomdahl.org/wp-content/plugins/yet-another-photoblog/YapbThumbnailer.php?post_id=2468&amp;w=180" width="180" height="119" alt="Ben hanging out" style="float:left;padding:0 10px 10px 0;" ></a>Ben is here relaxing playing a game on his iPod Touch. He had just practiced playing his beautiful viola. He is a very nice young man, and I am very proud of him. He is studying to take the AP World History exam in May. We got him a study guide, and he has been [...]]]></description>
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