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		<title>Things I never thought I&#8217;d say&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; to a toddler under two. Don&#8217;t climb the screen door higher than the door handle. Put the beer bottle down. Take the SD card out of the laptop and put it back in the camera. Now! It is not polite to call your uncle &#8216;boring&#8217;. You can have Sushi on Saturday. It&#8217;s not nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mellow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 01:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you never been mellow? Have you never tried to find a comfort from inside you? Have you never been happy just to hear your song? Have you never let someone else be strong? -Olivia Newton John: Have you never been mellow Yes I know I just lost every ounce of credibility when I posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk about &#8230; My fine line</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a fine line, at least in my pretty little head, between submitting to someone else&#8217;s will and choosing to find happiness in someone else&#8217;s happiness. You might need to read that one again. It is a really, really, fine line. This is a really complicated issue. At least for me. The concept of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I used to love like a man</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.rachaelstott.com/?p=939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About 10 years ago I was falling asleep to Bryan Adams &#8216;All for love&#8217; and &#8216;Everything I do I do it for you&#8217;. On the other side of my double bed (fully clothed) was my mate and at the foot of my bed on a futon was my now husband and our other best mate. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My point? Yes I do have one – other than to whine about all of the tiny things that drove me insane – is this; if so many things were to go wrong in the lead up to any other event I would have reconsidered. I would have pondered the possibility that the universe/god/whoever was trying to tell me something. I would have read the writing on the wall.]]></description>
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		<title>Happily married</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/03/happily-married/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=happily-married</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is effectively my out of office reply. I am currently up the mountains with family and friends and my very very new husband (formerly my old boyfriend and fiance). I have a habit of running my mouth off drunk. If you have ever had a drunken conversation with me you will know things you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things you probably don&#8217;t know about me.</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/03/things-you-probably-dont-know-about-me/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=things-you-probably-dont-know-about-me</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a million blog posts floating around in my pretty-little-head, all of which are too introspective, profound or unformed at this point for me to write articulately about. So I figured I would write the least profound post that is in me to write &#8211; a little about me. I am getting married ridiculously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landslide&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/03/landslide/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=landslide</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.rachaelstott.com/?p=910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are anything like me when the going gets tough you get tea, ice cream and your favourite song. This song has soothed my frayed nerves as I approached and crossed the boundaries of my comfort zone again and again. So it is no shock to me that I crave it now (along with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk about&#8230;. my imperfection</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/03/lets-talk-about-my-imperfection/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lets-talk-about-my-imperfection</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.rachaelstott.com/?p=905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog should have been written 24 hours ago. Maybe more. No excuses here, mind you. I am open to criticism and may she who embodies perfection throw the first stone. Any takers? No? Really? That&#8217;s no surprise to me. But it does bring up an important question &#8211; Why do we try so hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The price of motherhood</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/03/the-price-of-motherhood/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-price-of-motherhood</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t realise how many erroneous beliefs I had absorbed about motherhood until I had my son. Then suddenly all I felt was guilty for all the things I assumed I was doing &#8216;wrong&#8217;. I felt horribly sub par as a mother every time the baby cried. Every time I winced audibly when he attached to my breast, I felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE Wait</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/02/the-wait/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-wait</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate it. You probably do too. I think I hate the wait more than the requisite pissing on the stick. You know the wait I am talking about. It is the oh-god-I-think-my-life-might-change-in-a-millisecond-once-this-5-minute-wait-is-up wait. If you are a sexually active woman, you have probably experienced this wait at least once. I mean, no contraception is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk about&#8230;Housework</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ironic that of all the unspoken &#8216;women&#8217;s business&#8217; to discuss I begin with one of the backbones of the Feminine  Mystique. I can see the eyes roll &#8211; she thinks housework is more important to discuss than maternity leave?!? You may think that housework is not a real issue for women these days.  Well, the research says [...]]]></description>
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