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	<description>**the pursuit of the pursuit of eternal happiness**</description>
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		<title>A house?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not written specifically in this blog for a while and I&#8217;ve got a great article coming, but until then a post from my WordPress (http://kaitco.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/a-house/) will have to suffice: For the first time in my life I considered that idea that I should be a homeowner. I actually started to look into what homes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2012/02/02/a-house/</link>
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		<title>Dorienne vs. the devil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Re-posted from my WordPress.com blog: Every Sunday for the past three or four years, I&#8217;ve had a personal ritual that took me close to a year to recognize. Each Sunday following church, I require a three to five-hour nap. The nap by itself is nothing remarkable as many people take naps on weekends because the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2011/08/22/dorienne-vs-the-devil/</link>
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		<title>Dear Netflix: I still heart you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I like many other Netflix users, received a disheartening e-mail today about a change in the Netflix pricing. Now, instead of receiving streaming and DVDs together at one price, each service is offered separately and charged separately. Currently, I have 5 discs out at a time and I get free streaming for the pretty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2011/07/12/dear-netflix-i-still-heart-you/</link>
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		<title>The Potter&#8217;s House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t actually listening to the song tonight as I wrote but I thought the title fitting for this post. I&#8217;ve always adored the song because the lyrics just help me see that there&#8217;s always &#8220;someone&#8221; to help me in dire matters: Verse 1: In case you have fallen by the wayside of life; dreams [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2011/03/20/the-potters-house/</link>
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		<title>In vain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pasted from my wordpress.com (since I&#8217;m not talented enough to create for two blogs right now): One of the more fascinating things about writing a novel is crafting the personalities and voices of the many characters that appear on the page. What I find simultaneously enjoyable and frustrating is the physical act of creating dialogue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2011/02/28/in-vain/</link>
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		<title>A good start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With only laying out just two major goals for myself as of 1/1/11 (be a better child of God and write every day), I think I have done a decent job so far: I managed to get to church on Sunday and I&#8217;ve written something every day. I suppose now is as good a time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2011/01/04/a-good-start/</link>
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		<title>A new year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pasted from my wordpress.com: I made it to see another year! Go me! I was just going to post something to have something entered, but then I thought, &#8220;Dorienne&#8230;you know you need to write something today.&#8221; so I did. I got through exactly 1200 words and decided to break my mid-point in Chapter 7 into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2011/01/01/a-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Why is there suffering?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyday I get up and read about some new catastrophe that has befallen the world. Cholera, tsunamis, murder, rape, war&#8230;It gets to the point where I become apathetic about it. With all the evil that exists in this world, people (mostly Christians) get asked where God is amongst all this tragedy. A question long asked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/10/29/why-is-there-suffering/</link>
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		<title>Dorienne, age 26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout most of 2009, I ran around in a frantic tizzy about getting old and turning 25. There were so many things I desired to do before getting &#8220;old&#8221; and, yet, it was happening nonetheless. Despite all the planning and scurrying, I managed to accomplish very little by my actual birthday and started to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/09/15/dorienne-age-26/</link>
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		<title>I feel blessed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got promoted again today&#8230;that&#8217;s not why I feel blessed though. Nine months ago, I found myself wallowing in a depression, the likes of which I had not experienced since before I was saved. In the passing weeks and months, He has blessed me time and time again, but&#8230; I always found myself thinking back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/07/28/i-feel-blessed/</link>
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		<title>iPhone vs. Android; Apples and Oranges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; (Pun fully intended) I keep hearing all this fuss about Android and how it&#8217;s gaining ground on iPhone and how it has surpasses iPhone sales and how it&#8217;s the saviour of all things in smartphones and blah, blah, blah&#8230;The problem is that when pundits are comparing iPhone and Android, they are not comparing like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/06/19/iphone-vs-android-apples-and-oranges/</link>
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		<title>What is happening in China??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mean, besides the obvious&#8230; I&#8217;ve long since had &#8220;issues&#8221; with China, from their deplorable human rights record, to the way they devalue their currency and to the way they pretend to be on par with the Western leaders of the world, yet refuse to take the responsibilities that come with that when it comes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/05/24/what-is-happening-in-china/</link>
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		<title>The iPad&#8230;still unimpressed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With my iPhone&#8217;s glass cracked, I ventured on a trip to the Apple store. I had been avoiding this for a while to keep my adoration for iPhone from pushing me into purchasing a MacBook or something worse. Lately, the major cause for stay had been because of the &#8220;magical&#8221; iPad. I&#8217;ll say this first: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/05/12/the-ipad-still-unimpressed/</link>
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		<title>Cracked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My iPhone slipped on some haphazardly laying items on my kitchen table and crashed upon the kitchen tiles. I can replay the moment over and over in my head and, each time it plays in slow motion as the single most important object in my life hit the floor and cracked. It is still very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/05/11/cracked/</link>
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		<title>An update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;because it was time. I&#8217;ve not written on this blog in almost a year. Not for lack of love, I might say. I&#8217;ve got at least seven drafted posts just sitting and waiting; most are completely outdated by now. No, the absence of writing was mostly due to simply too darn much happening at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/05/09/an-update/</link>
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