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		<title>Kate’s Escapades – Football 101  (What every girl needs to know about football)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PrintHow many football players are on the field for a team at any given time?
How many points does a team get for a touchdown?
Confused about the difference between a punt, a kick-off and a field goal?
If you don&#8217;t know the answers to these questions, maybe it&#8217;s time for you to read through Football 101 before the next big game. You see, football is my favorite sport.  It wasn&#8217;t always this way, it&#8217;s been an acquired taste.  I used to find myself glassy eyed and staring at the TV as a blur of colors ran willy nilly across the screen.  I could actually get through an entire game without knowing the names of the two teams that had just played.  Amazing I know, but I&#8217;m betting there are others of you who have done the same thing.
One day I finally decided this was no way to watch football, so I started ...]]></description>
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		<title>Liz’s rant: 10 ways to just say no to the nail stalkers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PrintMaybe it&#8217;s just me, but ever since the little nail kiosk appeared in the mall, walking from store to store has become more an obstacle course with one mission: Avoid the girls at the nail kiosk at all costs.
Maybe you&#8217;ve run into them. They&#8217;re the ones who hunt down every person who passes by their booth with a seemingly innocent, &#8220;May I ask you a question?&#8221;
Memorize this word, dear readers: No.
Because should you answer in the affirmative, or even acknowledge their presence, you&#8217;ll be sorry. Just ask my daughter Hannah.
She and one of her friends were spending the afternoon at the mall, with pockets full of birthday money and mall gift cards &#8211; a teenager&#8217;s paradise. All was well with the world.
Until they passed the kiosk from you know where and made eye contact with their new stalkers.
&#8220;Do you have acrylic nails?&#8221; they asked.
&#8220;No,&#8221; she answered.
&#8220;Good,&#8221; they said. I imagine ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kate goes on an Adventure to an Oxygen Bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PrintKate Goes to an Oxygen Bar. 
Tag along with Kate as she makes an attempt at being cool, hip and trendy.
Oxygen bars are all the rage these days among the young trendy yuppie types. While I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that I am neither young or trendy, I do occasionally try to be hip. My latest attempt at &#8220;hipness&#8221; involved putting pink plastic tubes up my nose and breathing  the scent of an orange grove, all while trying to relax and not look ridiculous.
Now in case you are reading this and thinking, &#8220;What in the sam hill is an oxygen bar?&#8221; here&#8217;s the Wiki definition:

&#8220;An oxygen bar is an establishment, or part of one, that sells oxygen for recreational use. Individual flavored scents may be added to enhance the experience. The flavors in an oxygen bar come from bubbling oxygen through bottles containing aromatic solutions before it reaches the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Get your party on: 1/17-1/23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PrintWe have an amazingly strange week of holidays this week, beginning with none other than Doo Dah Parade Day on Jan. 18.  Oddly enough, there are several days of the year when this one is celebrated, and apparently Pasadena has quite the parade (not on the 18th&#8230;). but since I can&#8217;t figure out what the sam hill this one is all about, let&#8217;s all break out in a round of Camp Town Ladies sing this song&#8230; doo dah&#8230; doodah&#8230; and leave well enough alone, shall we?
Rid the World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day follows on Jan. 18. While I think the originators of this day probably had the best of intentions, I don&#8217;t see this one ever happening. Fad diets and gimmicks have been around since food itself. Might I suggest that the best way to celebrate this one would be to drop any fad diet just for today ...]]></description>
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		<title>Betcha Didn&#8217;t Know &#8211; Dyeing your hair recharges your batteries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PrintBetcha didn&#8217;t know&#8230;
dyeing your hair recharges your batteries.
In addition to making you look younger, coloring your hair makes you feel more energized. British researchers who measured how women felt before and after a dye job (even just to cover a few stray grays) discovered that 100% of the women experienced a surge in energy and confidence!
Changing your hair is the easiest way to transform yourself and replenish your zest for life, says Charla Krupp, author os How Not to Look Old.
~Woman&#8217;s World Magazine

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		<title>Recipe of the week –  Cheater Chicken Parmesan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PrintHere at Coffee Break we just LOVE our Cheater recipes.
So what&#8217;s a &#8220;Cheater&#8221; recipe?  It&#8217;s a way to end up with a delicious home cooked meal, side dish or dessert without spending lots of  time to get there.
This recipe was sent to us by Coffee Break reader, Susan Stephens. I (Kate) decided to give the Cheater Chicken Parmesan recipe a try this week to see if the family would like it.  I took some pics to show you just how yummy it looked.

Cheater Chicken Parmesan
28-oz. jar spaghetti sauce
1/4 cup red or white wine or water
4 to 6 Tyson fully cooked frozen breaded chicken patties
4 to 6 slices provolone cheese
2 to 4 tablespoons Parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Spray a 13&#215;9 pan with cooking spray.  Spread the spaghetti sauce in the pan.  Pour the wine or water over the sauce and stir.  Arrange the frozen chicken patties on top.  Place a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kate&#8217;s Escapades &#8211; my secret yearning to Snuggie it up</title>
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You&#8217;ve all seen the annoying commercials.  Either you love &#8216;em, or you think they&#8217;re the most ridiculous thing you&#8217;ve ever seen.   I&#8217;d venture to guess that many of you, whether you&#8217;ll admit or not,  secretly want one.  It&#8217;s the oh so cozy  blanket with sleeves: the snuggie.
I&#8217;ve secretly wanted one for years, but never had the guts to buy one for fear of being ridiculed by my fellow man.  This winter I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s high time I embrace my secret yearning for a snuggie. So here&#8217;s my proclamation to the world&#8230;
I WANT A SNUGGIE!
And not just any plain old snuggie, a zebra print one, thank you very much.  If I&#8217;m going to snuggie it up, I may as well do it in style, right?
So guess who else has succumbed to their hidden snuggie desire&#8230;
Weezer, that&#8217;s who!
Weezer’s lead singer Rivers Cuomo, may have summed up the strange Snuggie phenomenon best. “Snuggies ...]]></description>
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		<title>Betcha Didn&#8217;t Know &#8211; This tip for reversing winter weight gain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PrintBetcha didn&#8217;t know&#8230;
this tip for reversing winter weight gain. Soak up some sun to curb cravings.  Without enough sunlight, your body&#8217;s production of the feel-good hormone serotonin dips dramatically. That may trigger cravings for chips, cookies, ice cream and other refined carbs, which have the power to raise serotonin levels, too, but for a price: calories. But sitting in the sun (or even a brightly lit room) for at least 10 &#8211; 15 minutes a day can do the same thing.
~Woman&#8217;s World
*Leave a comment on this, or any, post and be automatically entered in this week&#8217;s giveaway.
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		<title>Kate’s Escapades – Start some new Christmas traditions  Ornament Exchange Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PrintChristmas is a time for traditions, a time for making memories with your loved ones.  When I ask my kids what some of their favorite Christmas memories are, they always seem to mention memories centered around our family traditions. For us, it&#8217;s what makes the holidays have that warm and cozy feel.
I am a big believer in holiday traditions, and for my family it&#8217;s not just the  Christmas routines, mind you, I&#8217;ve got traditions for practically every holiday of the year. If anything, I think I tend to ere on the side of OVER-doing it. But Christmas is the biggie, the granddaddy, the big kahuna of holidays. The other holidays are just warming me up for the grand finale holiday of the year.
I&#8217;ve been at this mom business for a long time, and over the years I&#8217;ve added some new traditions and dropped others which didn&#8217;t stand the test of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Liz&#8217;s rant: Santa&#8217;s coming!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PrintCan you believe this is the week of Christmas? That in only a few days, Santa &#8211; the man in the big red suit &#8211; will be coming down the chimney? Maybe it&#8217;s just me but it seems like those last couple of weeks before the most wonderful time of the year always fly by.
Sometimes, even that ritual visit to see Santa gets put off until the last minute. So this year, I figured I&#8217;d be one step ahead and actually plan the day for our visit. We headed to Lexington Green before 9 a.m. on Saturday. The plan was simple: I&#8217;d pick up a few things from the bookstore, and by the time we were done there, Santa would be arriving, Colton would divulge his wishlist, and we&#8217;d be outta there before millions of other Lexingtonians were even awake. (OK, so there are a million people in Lexington, but ...]]></description>
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