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	<title>Thoughts from the Dirty City &#187; Design</title>
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		<title>Life Without Sirius</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not talking about the star. I&#8217;m referring to satellite radio.
A few years ago I was commuting from Akron to Cleveland every day for work. When you are in the car for hour long stretches (some days longer) twice a day the radio can get tedious. It wasn&#8217;t even the commercials&#8230;it was just hearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of Inspiration, Excuses and Just Plain Being Lazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it&#8217;s been a while.
What can I say? Spring came and brought with it all kinds of stress and to-do lists. It also brought with it a sickness that leveled me for, what seemed like, an eternity. Once the plague had cleared up I was left with absolutely no desire to be a functioning member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WT Week 3 &#8211; Getting Caught Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully by the end of this week I will be all caught up with the rest of the gang on the WT tasks.
The tasks for week 3 are Bottoms Up:
Part 1: Pile!
I have two basic pant piles, work pants and jeans. I should preface this by saying that I have recently endeavored to change my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Life Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a holiday&#8230;so I was busy with family and visiting and all the standard stuff that comes with a holiday. I&#8217;m still trying to recover a bit from the whirlwind fatigue that follows. I&#8217;m looking forward to the free time of my usual weekend. One that will allow for extra sleep and some much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WT Week 2 &#8211; I know, I&#8217;m Late</title>
		<link>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/wt-week-2-i-know-im-late/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/wt-week-2-i-know-im-late/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit it, I have been putting off this post. The topic is something I am self conscious about and have not looked forward to discussing. It is what it is though. The time has come to accept, get over and learn to love.  Blah. Blah. Blah.
Anyway, be warned. There will be talk of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WT Week 2 &#8211; Color Me Happy</title>
		<link>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/color/wt-week-2-color-me-happy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/color/wt-week-2-color-me-happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to making piles, the participants of Wardrobe Therapy were asked to indentify their Joyous Colors.
Joyful Colors: These are colors that make you happy. With any luck, some of them also give you clear skin and sparkling eyes when worn next to your face. (Quick-and-dirty trick: match your eye color or go with its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Things Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I almost forgot!
A few weeks ago I started this. I have trouble getting things done on the weekend. I just go into these zones and the next thing I know it is Sunday evening and I am scrambling to accomplish something. So I decided that every Friday I would list FIVE things I want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How bored?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think this is how I must look every Friday afternoon when leaving the office.
It is certainly how I feel.
(click image to view)

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		<title>FrankenFinger Unwraped</title>
		<link>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/frankenfinger-unwraped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick update:
Last week I wrote about the tragic mishap that led to me needing 7 (I counted when the bandage came off) stitches. I&#8217;m not posting the picture of it all unwrapped (you&#8217;re welcome) but I will post this one:

I took that yesterday and today&#8217;s bandage is even smaller! Hooray for being able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WT Week 2: Miles of Piles</title>
		<link>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/wt-week-2-miles-of-piles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s week two of Wardrobe Therapy! What does that mean? Time to pile some shirts (and at some point bras&#8230;but I&#8217;m saving that torture for another post). If you have no idea what &#8220;piles&#8221; are all about you can read all about them on drwende&#8217;s site here. Honestly though, they aren&#8217;t too complicated.
Anyway. Tops. Sorting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life without lefty</title>
		<link>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/life-without-lefty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have deemed it the FrankenFinger.

(the bruising doesn&#8217;t show in this pic, but the swelling and current bandaged-ness does)
See, I had a bit of an accident at work yesterday. Took off a large potion of my finger with an exacto. Luckily, I work in a hospital so the ride to the ER was quick. Six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WT Week One Task Time</title>
		<link>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/wt-week-one-task-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Remove one (and only one!) unsuccessful item from your wardrobe.I mentioned in my previous post I was considering one of my many bottles of OPI. But finding a bottle I was willing to part with was proving to be a bit more challenging than I figured it would be. Thankfully, I had a backup plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The OPI Collection As of Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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This weeks Wardrobe Therapy task includes getting rid of ONE item. This is photographic proof that I am contemplating making my one item a bottle of nailpolish. There are a few bottles in that line up that don&#8217;t get worn often. But there are isn&#8217;t a single color there that NEVER got worn. And for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wardrobe Therapy: qustionnaire eddition</title>
		<link>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/wardrobe-therapy-qustionnaire-eddition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve signed up on for some Spring Wardrobe Therapy. Consider yourself warned.
Phase one, filing out the questionnaire.
1. Thinking primarily (but not necessarily exclusively) about looks, who&#8217;s your favorite performer of your own gender and species? Why?

Dita Von Teese (street wear, not stage wear)
She has such a defined style and always looks perfectly put together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Thing Friday</title>
		<link>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/five-thing-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been really bad about getting anything accomplished on the weekends. Well, anytime really. But getting nothing accomplished on a Sunday is somehow more upseting than getting nothing accomplished on a Wednesday night.Because of this, I&#8217;ve decided to post a list every Friday of FIVE things I would like to accomplish over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong Calling</title>
		<link>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/hong-kong-calling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s post that there was a new OPI line out, and that I was on it. Actually, the line came out early February as it always does. But in the hubbub of the other new line I completely overlooked it. See, right about the same time the Spring line was released, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe She Was Born With It, But I Sure As Hell Wasn&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Historically I have been a big believer in fancy make-up and cleansers from department stores. They smell pretty and have amazing packages. For some reason those two things combine in magical ways that make you forget how ridiculous the price tag is.
But then the economy tanked and the whole world went broke, my self included. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cotoure: Spring 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring 2010 Couture]]></description>
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		<title>Changin the Way I Do Bidnez</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as a student I was told that when you show a client multiple designs they are almost always going to choose the design you like the least. It was a lesson they taught us early to prevent us from even showing a design we weren&#8217;t happy or at least comfortable with. It&#8217;s like magic, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proenza Schouler, and Tracy Reese &#8211; Spring 2010 RTW</title>
		<link>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/proenza-schouler-and-tracy-reese-spring-2010-rtw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/proenza-schouler-and-tracy-reese-spring-2010-rtw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that we are all biased to the staple looks that date to our own coming of age. It was the time we really started to define our character and personal style so it is only natural that the basic/popular looks of those times will always be appealing. I&#8217;m not saying we can&#8217;t all [...]]]></description>
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