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	<title>Betty on a Box</title>
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	<description>navigating the world as a married, childless, 40ish, manic-depressive woman</description>
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		<title>I wish I hadda…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know about you, but sometimes I’ll be watching a film and I&#8217;ll be, like, “Man, I wish I had written that screenplay.” Like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind    Or I&#8217;ll be listening to a song and think: “Man, I wish I’d come up with that lyric.” Like: “&#8230;Meat-eating orchids forgive no one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=761</link>
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		<title>Arranged marriages and other musings about wedded bliss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The topic on Insight this week was Attraction. Lovely subject, attraction. I remember listening to Doctor Karl on Triple J years ago talking about pheromones and how The Pill messes with our sense of smell. This led me to theorise that the reason why most marriages end in divorce is because women are smelling the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=753</link>
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		<title>Songs in the key of &#8220;oh my God we have a new piano&#8221;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(with apologies to Stevie Wonder) Now, I wouldn&#8217;t say that JJ and I are the spontaneous sorts. I mean, definitely impulsive, but not too spontaneous. So un-spontaneous are we that a few years ago we went through this lovely (tedious for JJ) exercise of writing down things we would like to do and put them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=736</link>
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		<title>Life and death and the glittery stuff in between&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, things move me to the point of tears. Come on, I know you&#8217;ve been there - an old European man limps down your street and your heart skips a beat, or your puppy yelps dejectedly from the other room because she can&#8217;t jump up onto the bed. A few years ago, I saw a wonderful documentary about Mark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=705</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m so happy, cos today I found my friends were in my head&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ (with apologies to the late Kurt Cobain)   I started taking Lithium just over a week ago, increasing the dose last Friday, and I&#8217;m sitting here wondering when, when, when it&#8217;s all going to kick in and I&#8217;m going to achieve, what that ad I saw in some American magazine promised me so many years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=495</link>
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		<title>My new toy &#8211; part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little while ago, I wrote about my new toy. See the results here: http://www.yoyolovespeaches.blogspot.com/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=648</link>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s something I made earlier&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because I like to mulitask, I&#8217;ve resurrected an only blog of mine, dedicated to make things and finding my way through life&#8217;s jungle. Et Voila. Meet YoyolovesPeaches.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=642</link>
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		<title>A (very freaking) long way to Tipperary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, JJ and I went up to the Country &#8211; hitherto known as the Little Chalet (which is neither little nor a chalet but there are lots of gnomes in the garden and it doesn&#8217;t look like a cottage so it makes perfect sense&#8230;) We went for a walk with the puppies. JJ: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=622</link>
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		<title>Have you met the Joneses?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JJ and I are fairly far removed from being le family Jones. We try not to keep up. But there is the Dyson vacuum incident, which I won&#8217;t go into.  But when I&#8217;m alone, the Jonesing gets a tad loud.  Like the other day, I was rather blue, so I went to that great bastion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=551</link>
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		<title>oh i forgot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something I prepared earlier&#8230; Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=529</link>
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		<title>Play some funky music…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(with apologies to Wild Cherry)  So here’s the thing, right: I don’t (really) want to use this blog as a platform to complain about people and things &#8211; despite the fact that I&#8217;ve called it Betty on a Box &#8211; on a soapbox geddit. BORING. And despite being gainfully employed, I will never change my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=511</link>
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		<title>The thing about Melbourne&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love big cities and, along with JJ, I&#8217;ve seen a few and j&#8217;adore each of them for different reasons. For example: New York &#8211; Where else can you walk around all day saying &#8220;hey, that&#8217;s my favourite painting. No, that&#8217;s my favourite. hang on, that&#8217;s&#8230;&#8221;? Cairo &#8211; I mean, taking a leisurely stroll in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=445</link>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t hate children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As one of the many involuntarily childless in the world, I just want to make it very clear that I am not childless because: I hate children; The baby bonus isn&#8217;t big enough; I&#8217;m selfish; I&#8217;m single; JJ and I aren&#8217;t in love; Etc. In fact, I really like babies. I&#8217;m not used to children [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=366</link>
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		<title>Not quite 15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m (not) going to be turning 15 tomorrow. Not that you&#8217;d know it given my penchant for the fictional undead (seriously, a total obsession for vampires) and the absolute anxiety I feel whenever I have to buy concert tickets. I&#8217;ll let it be known right from the start that, yes, I did manage to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=432</link>
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		<title>A life. In eight pages.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well there’s nothing quite like having your entire life handwritten on eight pages with a lovely black fountain pen and then read back to you – well, the nutshell version of it. Actually, there’s nothing quite like having this happen at 9am, just before work on a Wednesday, a week before your 41st birthday and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=422</link>
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		<title>I know you&#8217;ve already got me a birthday present, but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A wise American once said: &#8220;Don&#8217;t be fooled by the rocks that I got I’m still, I’m still [Betty on a box] Used to have a little, now I have a lot No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx!)&#8221; Well, Sunshine via West Footscray, via a tree-free village [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=406</link>
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		<title>The day a mob flashed Prahran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I joined the Glamourpuss Studios tap dancing academy. For shits and giggles. This year, I decided that travelling ACROSS THE RIVER just wasn&#8217;t on. Now, normally, it&#8217;s the folk from the other side of town who don&#8217;t like to cross the river but I&#8217;m well-and-truly guilty of reverse classism. But the thing is, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=399</link>
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		<title>Do I really need to be the freaking best I can be, Oprah? Do I?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[multitasking, crochet, roller derby, journalist, teacher, photographer, embroidery, jeweller, art, tap dancing, life coch, circus, weight loss, bipolar, the Age]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=394</link>
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		<title>I like to shop online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hold the presses! I know, right? I&#8217;m the only one. I can&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;ve become an avid internet shopper. I mean, what about the sensual experience that you can only get from walking into a shop, trying something on, squishing the new wool, smelling the pure leather, sliding your fingers across the surface of a porcelain plate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=383</link>
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		<title>A birthday pressie. And it&#8217;s not even my birthday!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So for weeks now, JJ has been teasing me about how he&#8217;s got me the best birthday present ever and how he&#8217;s completely outdone himself. Now, I happen to find that hard to believe because, well, here&#8217;s a very short list of the birthday presents I&#8217;ve received from him over the years: Shopping trip to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bettyonabox.com/?p=368</link>
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