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		<title>Three Magic Kings&#8217; Parade in Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Mike (from Spain) writes: Today is the Epiphany, January 6th. Every kid find their gifts from The Three Magic Kings when they get up in the morning&#8230; Here&#8217;s a look at the The Three Magic Kings&#8217; Parade (Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos)&#160;which took place in Madrd&#160;last evening.&#160; There are parades in every town in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mike (from Spain) writes: <em><font color="#000080">Today is the Epiphany, January 6th. Every kid find their gifts from The Three Magic Kings when they get up in the morning&#8230; Here&#8217;s a look at the The Three Magic Kings&#8217; Parade (Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos)&nbsp;which took place in Madrd&nbsp;last evening.&nbsp; There are parades in every town in Spain at the same time.</font></em></p>
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<p><font color="#808080"><em>Thanks Mike</em></font></p>
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		<title>Auld Lang Syne</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonco</dc:creator>
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		<title>Washing away the old year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p></p> <p>via+</p> <p>&#160;</p> ]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Eve Open Mic</title>
		<link>http://bitsandpieces.us/2011/12/31/new-years-eve-open-mic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p></p> <p>It&#8217;s hard to believe another year bites the dust tonight.&#160; The older I get the faster the time seems to go.&#160; </p> <p>Appropriately we went to the movies last night and saw the film New Year&#8217;s Eve.&#160; It had quite a few stars in it including Robert DeNiro. Michelle Pfieffer, Hillary Swank, Halle [...]]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe another year bites the dust tonight.&nbsp; The older I get the faster the time seems to go.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Appropriately we went to the movies last night and saw the film <a href="http://newyearsevemovie.warnerbros.com/index.html">New Year&#8217;s Eve</a>.&nbsp; It had quite a few stars in it including Robert DeNiro. Michelle Pfieffer, Hillary Swank, Halle Berry, Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Seth Meyers, Jon Bon Jovi, Katherine Heigl, Jessica Biel, Abigail Breslin and&nbsp;Zac Efron just to name a few.&nbsp; It was very good.</p>
<p>New Year&#8217;s Eve will most likely be rather quiet around our house.&nbsp; I think we&#8217;re just going to stay in and play some cards and/or watch the festivities on TV if I can stay up that late.</p>
<p><strong>What are your plans for bringing in the new year?&nbsp; </strong></p>
<p><strong>Do you have any New Year&#8217;s Resolutions?</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Loading 2012 ████████████████] 99.9% Complete </p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>Happy New Year everybody! I know its a bit early but I often suffer from premature congratulations! My new year&#8217;s resolution is to improve my powers of concentra&#8230; oh look a butterfly </p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong><font color="#800000">Happy New Year everybody! I know its a bit early but I often suffer from premature congratulations! My new year&#8217;s resolution is to improve my powers of concentra&hellip; oh look a butterfly</font> </strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong><font color="#000080">Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average&hellip; Which means you have met your New Year&#8217;s resolution.</font> </strong></p>
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<p><font color="#800000"><strong>I made a new year&#8217;s resolution to stop being so optimistic about everything.</strong></font></p>
<p><strong><font color="#800000">I&#8217;m 100% sure I can do it!</font> </strong></p>
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<p><strong><font color="#000080">You know you have hit a new low when you celebrate New Year online on Facebook.</font> </strong></p>
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<p><strong><font color="#800000">I&#8217;ve thought long and hard, and have decided on my New Year&#8217;s resolution.</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font color="#800000">1024&#215;768.</font> </strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong><font color="#000080">I stopped making New Year Resolutions once I realized they were lasting no longer than my New Year Hangovers.</font> </strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong><font color="#800000">It&#8217;s a good job Apple isn&#8217;t in charge of New Year; we&#8217;d all be expecting 2012 and get 2011S instead.</font> </strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong><font color="#000080">My new year&#8217;s resolution is to save enough to buy a Velcro wall.</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font color="#000080">And I plan on sticking to it.</font> </strong></p>
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<p><strong><font color="#800000">New Year&#8217;s celebrations already under way in Sydney.</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font color="#800000">Typical Aussies, can&#8217;t wait to start boozing.</font> </strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong><font color="#000080">Being a young person and trying to remember New Year&#8217;s Eve on New Year&#8217;s Day is how I&#8217;d imagine it is for an old person trying to remember the war. We&#8217;ve all got stories, but no one knows for sure what happened.</font> </strong></p>
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<p><strong><font color="#800000">I&#8217;ll never forget our countdown to the new year. There were four of us, me, my wife and our one year old twins&#8230;But they don&#8217;t count.</font> <font color="#000000"></strong></p>
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<p><strong><font color="#000080">A dog&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Resolution: </font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font color="#000080">I will not chase that stick unless I actually see it leave his hand!</font> </strong></p>
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<p><font color="#800000"><strong>I won&#8217;t be making any new year&#8217;s resolutions this year.</strong></font></p>
<p><strong><font color="#800000">Last year I got all dizzy and felt sick.</font> </strong></p>
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<p><strong><font color="#000080">I&#8217;ve broken my New Year&#8217;s resolution already.</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font color="#000080">I said I wouldn&#8217;t contradict myself this year and I just haven&#8217;t. </font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong><strong><font color="#000080">&nbsp;</p>
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<td style="COLOR: #000000"><font color="#800000" size="4">Youth is when you&#8217;re allowed to stay up late on New Year&#8217;s Eve. <br />Middle age is when you&#8217;re forced to.</font> </td>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p></p> <p>via</p> <p>&#160;</p> ]]></description>
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		<title>Realities of the holiday season</title>
		<link>http://bitsandpieces.us/2011/12/13/realities-of-the-holiday-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonco</dc:creator>
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		<title>After Thanksgiving dinner</title>
		<link>http://bitsandpieces.us/2011/11/28/after-thanksgiving-dinner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Mary sends along this picture describing how she felt after Thanksgiving dinner.&#160; Luckily her family was there to help her get up so she could do the dishes.</p> <p></p> <p>Thanks Mary</p> <p>&#160;</p> ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mary sends along this picture describing how she felt after Thanksgiving dinner.&nbsp; Luckily her family was there to help her get up so she could do the dishes.</p>
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<p><font color="#808080"><em>Thanks Mary</em></font></p>
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		<title>I&#8217;m thankful for&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bitsandpieces.us/2011/11/24/im-thankful-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Today is Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., a day set aside for us to give thanks for all the things in our lives.&#160; </p> <p>I&#8217;m thankful for my family.&#160; They make my life very interesting (some times too interesting)&#160;and so very&#160;rewarding.</p> <p>I&#8217;m thankful for Gus and Trixie for their ability to bring a smile [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., a day set aside for us to give thanks for all the things in our lives.&nbsp; </p>
<p>I&#8217;m thankful for my family.&nbsp; They make my life very interesting (some times too interesting)&nbsp;and so very&nbsp;rewarding.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m thankful for Gus and Trixie for their ability to bring a smile to my face in an instant.&nbsp; Sometimes I feel they did more to rescue me than I did when I adopted them.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m thankful for my friends for they make my life fun.&nbsp; They&#8217;re&nbsp;enjoyable to be around and they make me laugh.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m thankful for all of my friends in the B&amp;P neighborhood, many of whom I have met in person and many, many&nbsp;more that I will probably never meet.&nbsp; Thousands come here every day and never leave a comment, and I&#8217;m thankful for them.&nbsp; I&#8217;m especially thankful for those that do comment.&nbsp; This place wouldn&#8217;t be the same without you, the regulars&hellip; and I appreciate your support.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m thankful for my fellow bloggers who inspire me and feed me content for my websites.&nbsp; </p>
<p><a href="http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/imagesmike-from-spain2.gif"><img border="0" alt="Mike from spain2" align="right" src="http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/imagesmike-from-spain2_thumb.jpg" /></a>Chris from <a href="http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/">Blame It On The Voices</a> sent me this Google screen capture he made.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img border="0" alt="Right arrow2" align="middle" src="http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/imagesright-arrow24.jpg" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="#808080"><em>Click the image&nbsp;to enlarge it<br /></em>It</font> is a reminder to thank all of you who send me things that you run across.&nbsp; Mike (from Spain) sends me stuff almost every weekday, much of which I&#8217;ve not seen before.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t often respond to all the emails that people send, but I do appreciate them, even if it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve seen or posted before.&nbsp; I even appreciate it if I don&#8217;t understand what the heck it is.&nbsp; After all, it&#8217;s the thought that counts.&nbsp; Thanks to all of you.</p>
<p><strong>What are you thankful for?</strong></p>
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		<title>Map of Thanksgiving dinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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