<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from dondi.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 dondi.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-10-11T23:36:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2009-10-11:links.412186024</id><title>Fall, Snow and other things</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/fall_snow_and_other_things.htm"><![CDATA[&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;  &lt;w:WordDocument&gt;   &lt;w:View&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:Zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/fall_snow_and_other_things.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2009-10-11T23:36:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-11T23:36:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2009-09-08:links.412181751</id><title>Moved.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/moved.htm"><![CDATA[&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt; 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First came two competing job offers, a rushed decision, and then regret.&nbsp; I know that no matter which choice I made, there would be some form of regret and that neither option would have]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/stress.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2009-08-19T15:41:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-19T15:41:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2009-07-24:links.412177621</id><title>Changes abound!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/changes_abound.htm"><![CDATA[The past few weeks have brought a lot of changes into my life.&nbsp; Some are going to be good (work) and some not so good (moving).&nbsp; But change is exactly what I have been needing.&nbsp; This year I decided to put myself out there and to take m]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/changes_abound.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2009-07-24T01:03:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-24T01:03:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2009-07-09:links.412176508</id><title>Moving</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/moving.htm"><![CDATA[This weekend after many hours of discussion and weeks of indecision, Ted and I made the decision to move to Minneapolis.&nbsp; He is being offered a management role at the company he has been working remotely for for the past 3 years.&nbsp; Part of t]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/moving.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2009-07-09T23:14:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-09T23:14:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2009-05-22:links.412171549</id><title>vacation, happy cat, sad belly</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/vacation_happy_cat_sad_belly.htm"><![CDATA[Monday and Tuesday, Ted and I acted like tourists downtown.&nbsp; As the possibility of leaving Chicago becomes more real, I have an increased desire to see and do things that I haven&#39;t.&nbsp; I am just glad to have one more summer of opportunity]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/vacation_happy_cat_sad_belly.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2009-05-22T21:47:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-22T21:47:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2009-05-12:links.412169701</id><title>Reconnect</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/reconnect.htm"><![CDATA[I am now forbidding myself from using the internet in the morning.&nbsp; I thought I could quickly check email but should have known that catching up on two weeks of messages would take more than 10 minutes.&nbsp; A nice surprise was waiting.&nbsp; A]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/reconnect.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2009-05-12T14:20:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-12T14:20:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2009-05-04:links.412168228</id><title>GREAT Weekend</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/great_weekend_1.htm"><![CDATA[It was truely a GREAT weekend.&nbsp; The weather was perfect, my energy was high, and Tibult ate some treats!&nbsp; YAY! He ate a fair number of treats both yesterday and this morning.&nbsp; He is acting much more normal.&nbsp; Last week was very dep]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/great_weekend_1.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2009-05-04T14:23:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-04T14:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2009-04-23:links.412165992</id><title>Tibult is home and good news</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/tibult_is_home_and_good_news.htm"><![CDATA[Tibult came home on Monday.&nbsp; The first few days were a bit rough: getting him reacquainted with the other cat, figuring out all the medicines, getting into a routine of the tube feeding. Tibult has narrow tube going from his nose into his stomac]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/tibult_is_home_and_good_news.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2009-04-23T13:19:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-23T13:19:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2009-04-19:links.412165131</id><title>Hoping for fatty liver</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/hoping_for_fatty_liver.htm"><![CDATA[To fill in the back story on Tibult at the vet:&nbsp; When a cat changes his eating habits and starts to loose weight, don&rsquo;t believe the vet when he says there is nothing wrong.&nbsp; Tibult changed his eating sometime around the first of the y]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/hoping_for_fatty_liver.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2009-04-19T20:40:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-19T20:40:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2009-01-26:links.412150240</id><title>Cloudy day</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/cloudy_day.htm"><![CDATA[Today was so cloudy and dark that I did not want to get out of bed.&nbsp; Last week wasn&#39;t my best week at work.&nbsp; It was a daily challenge to get anything done.&nbsp; I must have had a dark cloud of negativity hanging over me.&nbsp; I just w]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/cloudy_day.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2009-01-26T17:33:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-26T17:33:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-12-09:links.412142795</id><title>Chex Mix Please</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/chex_mix_please.htm"><![CDATA[Last night Ted and I were at Dominick&#39;s doing some much needed grocery shopping.&nbsp; We were about done shopping when Ted decided to get some cereal.&nbsp; To be honest there are several isles at the grocery store that I avoid and some that I m]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/chex_mix_please.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-12-09T18:02:00Z</updated><published>2008-12-09T18:02:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-11-06:links.412137594</id><title>Argh!!!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/argh.htm"><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I went to sign up for the Math GRE but got interupted.&nbsp; By the time I got back to it the deadline had passed.&nbsp; So my only option left to&nbsp;have a chance of taking&nbsp;it before&nbsp;April is to do &quot;Stand-by&quot; te]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/argh.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-11-06T00:26:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-06T00:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-10-27:links.412135783</id><title>letting time slip by</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/letting_time_slip_by.htm"><![CDATA[It seems that time has been passing me by.&nbsp; I have been on the brink of a major, life-changing&nbsp;decision for several months now.&nbsp; And I have been unable to move forward with what needs to be done to bring the change.&nbsp; I have been d]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/letting_time_slip_by.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-10-27T17:35:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-27T17:35:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-09-22:links.412129630</id><title>great weekend</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/great_weekend.htm"><![CDATA[This weekend went pretty good.&nbsp; Friday night I joined a group of people from work for a drink at a local bar.&nbsp; The night was very fun and it was a much needed as I don&#39;t have daily interactions with most of them.&nbsp; The weather was b]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/great_weekend.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-09-22T18:10:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-22T18:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-09-19:links.412129286</id><title>Things are looking up</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/things_are_looking_up.htm"><![CDATA[Whoa what a week!&nbsp; It just feels like I was on the go every night this week.&nbsp; I worked late a couple nights and was able to hang with a good friend last night (thai food and mario kart Wii).&nbsp; My personal training sessions are helping m]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/things_are_looking_up.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-09-19T22:37:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-19T22:37:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-09-17:links.412128937</id><title>End of summer blues?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/end_of_summer_blues.htm"><![CDATA[The past few weeks have been a bit stressful to me.&nbsp; I wasn&#39;t feeling well and ended up going to the doctor.&nbsp; I was put on some antibiotics that made me feel better most of the time but really sick a few times a day.&nbsp; I am finally]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/end_of_summer_blues.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-09-17T22:52:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-17T22:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-08-18:links.412123041</id><title>update</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/update.htm"><![CDATA[Seems that I have been using exclamation points a lot lately.&nbsp; I am not sure what that is about.&nbsp; Anyway, things have been going well.&nbsp; I am still settling into my new work group and office.&nbsp; I got a couple pictures for the walls]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/update.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-08-18T20:26:00Z</updated><published>2008-08-18T20:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-08-04:links.412119739</id><title>Baby Shower!!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/baby_shower.htm"><![CDATA[Going to a baby shower is not the greatest thing in the world for me.&nbsp; I generally have as little to do with them as possible.&nbsp; So what felt like an entire weekend devoted to traveling to/from a baby shower was not the most relaxing weekend]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/baby_shower.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-08-04T23:50:00Z</updated><published>2008-08-04T23:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-07-29:links.412118634</id><title>What a fun weekend!!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/what_a_fun_weekend.htm"><![CDATA[Ted and I got out of the city last weekend in honor of my birthday.&nbsp; We went to the beach but we didn&#39;t go south, we went north.&nbsp; We stayed at a Bed and Breakfast in South Haven MI.&nbsp; It was a good couple of days.&nbsp; We rented bi]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/what_a_fun_weekend.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-07-29T13:22:00Z</updated><published>2008-07-29T13:22:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-07-24:links.412117700</id><title>Open the flood gates, here it comes</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/open_the_flood_gates_here_it_comes.htm"><![CDATA[I was having some problems with blog city and my internet browser at work so I haven&rsquo;t blogged in a while.&nbsp; (Yes, I admit it I blog at work.&nbsp; Who wants to look at a computer screen at home when they were forced to stare at one for 8 h]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/open_the_flood_gates_here_it_comes.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-07-24T18:54:00Z</updated><published>2008-07-24T18:54:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-06-30:links.412113302</id><title>Cookout and shopping</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/cookout_and_shopping.htm"><![CDATA[The weekend was great.&nbsp; Ted and I had a few friends over for a vegetarian cookout.&nbsp; Ted has been a vegetarian since November and I have drastically reduced my meat consumption also.&nbsp; For the most part we are keeping the house meat free]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/cookout_and_shopping.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-06-30T18:00:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-30T18:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-06-30:links.412113300</id><title>Summer and beyond</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/summer_and_beyond.htm"><![CDATA[Summer is in full swing here in Chicago.&nbsp; The trees are blooming and filling the air with their fragrance.&nbsp; Gardens are full to the brim with buds and leaves.&nbsp; It has been truly lovely to walk to work recently.&nbsp;&nbsp;Perhaps it is]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/summer_and_beyond.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-06-30T17:59:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-30T17:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dondi.blog-city.com,2008-06-16:links.412110417</id><title>Commuting and being thankful</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dondi.blog-city.com/commuting_and_being_thankful.htm"><![CDATA[Last week I went to training for four days.&nbsp; I am usually excited about training -- sitting and learning, doing exercises and relaxing is always a dream, but this time it seemed more of a chore than usual.&nbsp;&nbsp; The training was in Schaumb]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dondi.blog-city.com/commuting_and_being_thankful.htm"/><dc:creator>dondi</dc:creator><author><name>dondi</name></author><updated>2008-06-16T16:02:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-16T16:02:00Z</published></entry></feed>