<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774</id><updated>2012-01-31T03:37:00.908-05:00</updated><category term='motherhood'/><category term='mother friends'/><category term='Fun Friendship'/><category term='friendship songs'/><category term='Just Friends vs. Best Friends'/><category term='Wish Your Women Friends on Women&apos;s Day'/><category term='friend in other languages'/><category term='Special Friends'/><category term='Happy Valentine&apos;s Day'/><category term='Friendships and arguments'/><category term='Friends Forever'/><category term='aries'/><category term='gemini'/><category term='guest post'/><category term='Smiles'/><category term='taurus'/><category term='women friends'/><category term='american independence'/><category term='boyfriends and girlfriends'/><category term='friendships that matter'/><category term='Halloween Friends'/><category term='friendship movie'/><category term='ages'/><category term='Unusual friendships'/><category term='friendship dilemmas'/><category term='new graduate'/><category term='Friendship Angels'/><category term='family'/><category term='postcards'/><category term='video'/><category term='goodwill'/><category term='best friends'/><category term='friendship and motherhood'/><category term='Missing You'/><category term='harry potter'/><category term='friendships in need'/><category term='mother&apos;s day'/><category term='i value your friendship day'/><category term='Getting together with friends'/><category term='friends quiz'/><category term='Best Friends Forever'/><category term='Friendship Bonds the Transcend Time'/><category term='friend ship'/><category term='memorial day'/><category term='Internet Friends'/><category term='friendship network'/><category term='friendships in movies'/><category term='graduation ecards'/><category term='friendship and fun'/><category term='Inspiration'/><category term='Secretary&apos;s day Greetings For Your Friends'/><category term='civil rights'/><category term='fourth of july'/><category term='july 4th friendship'/><category term='friendship during depression'/><category term='Springtime Friendships'/><category term='friendships and health'/><category term='wishes'/><category term='Friendship  -  Love is In'/><category term='social networks'/><category term='I&apos;m Always Here For You'/><category term='Keep in touch with friends'/><category term='end of friendship'/><category term='friendship quotes'/><category term='Thinker Blog Award'/><category term='pen pals'/><category term='buddha on friendship'/><category term='making friends for mothers'/><category term='friendship bracelet'/><category term='friendship and crushes'/><category term='New Friends'/><category term='friendship images'/><category term='love'/><category term='friendship hugs'/><category term='Social networking'/><category term='new grad  wishes'/><category term='Friendships Among Women'/><category term='Welcome to the Friendship Blog'/><category term='friendship gifts'/><category term='Wanna Be Friends'/><category term='Eid ul-Fitr friends'/><category term='angel friends'/><category term='easter wishes for Your Friends'/><category term='Cinco de Mayo recipes'/><category term='flash graduation greetings'/><category term='christmas'/><category term='Friendship Lessons'/><category term='Hugs and Caring'/><category term='Sorry'/><category term='Hello'/><category term='Women friendships'/><category term='zodiac'/><category term='friendship treasures'/><category term='happy chinese new year'/><category term='mother&apos;s day in many languages'/><category term='Let&apos;s Get Together'/><category term='Teen Friends'/><category term='Women&apos;s Day'/><category term='Between Friends'/><category term='humanitarian mission'/><category term='mothers and friendships'/><category term='Friendship Thoughts'/><category term='Thanks Friend'/><category term='new year resolutions'/><category term='friendships and hugs'/><category term='friendships'/><category term='what price friendship'/><category term='comments'/><category term='friends'/><category term='Labor Day Weekend'/><category term='Friendship week'/><category term='religious friends'/><category term='odd friendships'/><category term='appreciating friendships'/><category term='Maintain friendships'/><category term='Spring Friendships'/><category term='saying sorry'/><category term='Friends After Life'/><category term='appreciate friendships'/><category term='valentine'/><category term='Problems in Friendship'/><category term='Spanish Whishes for Friendship'/><category term='Friendship means being there in all weather'/><category term='weekend'/><category term='friendship poem'/><category term='death of a friendship'/><category term='television'/><category term='Homemade Cookies Day'/><category term='Chinese Cards for Friendship'/><category term='best friends day'/><category term='Friendship Blogs'/><category term='Between Women'/><category term='friendship'/><category term='world peace'/><category term='old friends'/><category term='Wish You Were Here'/><category term='Friends At Work'/><category term='Eight ways to be a better friend'/><category term='Childhood Friends'/><category term='Keeping Friendships Alive'/><category term='Online Friendship'/><category term='The Best of Frienship Songs'/><category term='net friendships'/><category term='Inspiring Friends'/><category term='Wisdom of Friendship'/><category term='friendship poetry'/><category term='Making new friends'/><category term='friendships- getting rid of them'/><category term='first kiss'/><category term='friendship in Jesus'/><title type='text'>The Friendship Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>Friendship blog is about keeping relationships and dealing with friendships through rain or shine with a special emphasis on friendship ecards and friendship greetings. Friendship blog also is a place to find friendship advice and resources.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>124</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-6153607291093738239</id><published>2007-11-27T04:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-27T04:36:26.985-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas'/><title type='text'>Christmas Countdown starts!</title><content type='html'>Has anyone started preparations for the Christmas? Well, I have. Right after Thanksgiving, I have started planning for the gifts and decorations. You know, I am very excited. I just put up a colorful  Christmas Countdown widget to add the flavor of Christmas in my blog. I think it's perfect for any  decorating your profile. 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class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-6153607291093738239?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6153607291093738239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=6153607291093738239&amp;isPopup=true' title='434 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6153607291093738239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6153607291093738239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/christmas-countdown-starts.html' title='Christmas Countdown starts!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>434</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-5640743329263747870</id><published>2007-10-24T11:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T01:20:25.229-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Halloween Friends'/><title type='text'>Halloween With Friends</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed title="Halloween special friends" alt="Halloween spellbound friends" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eoct_hallo_friendship/8412-004-50-1062.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eoct_hallo_friendship/8412-004_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eoct_hallo_friendship/8412-004-50-1062.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="211" width="335"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/halloween/friendship_n_love/friends29.html"&gt;Send this Halloween Friends eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Halloween night be a fun night with friends around. Just imagine the fun dressing up in your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/halloween/costumes/"&gt;Halloween costume&lt;/a&gt; with your friends and scaring everybody who comes by. This year some of the hottest Halloween costumes are &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pirate, Spiderman, Gangster, Grim Reaper, Scooby Doo, Prince Charming, Gothic Vampire, Renaissance Gypsy, Cinderella, SuperGirl, Harry Potter&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Batman&lt;/span&gt;. So dress up in any of these Halloween costumes and enjoy with your friends. Enjoy this forever funny “&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Friends&lt;/span&gt;” video which has &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chandler&lt;/span&gt; looking super cute as the Pink Bunny on Halloween!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kxgld65iTpQ&amp;amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kxgld65iTpQ&amp;amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Halloween+Fun" rel="tag"&gt;Halloween Fun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Halloween+Friendship" rel="tag"&gt;Halloween Friendship&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Enjoy+Halloween+with+Friends" rel="tag"&gt;Enjoy Halloween with Friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-5640743329263747870?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5640743329263747870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=5640743329263747870&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5640743329263747870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5640743329263747870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/halloween-with-friends.html' title='Halloween With Friends'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-6702807792474003631</id><published>2007-10-08T07:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-08T08:40:33.819-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Childhood Friends'/><title type='text'>Childhood Friendship is Golden</title><content type='html'>Childhood friends are forever! Examples of such friendships are galore where a childhood friend has forsaken everything for his friend. Such friendships never blossom as we mature and grow old. The friendship that develops between two friends in school or through living in the same locality, often goes on to become everlasting and is never broken by any outside force. I am still in touch with my childhood friend from school and she is like a pillar of support to me. She lives in a different city, but we keep in touch through phone, letter and email. She also makes it a point to come down at my place in holidays or during special occasions. The bond that forms between two childhood friends is unbreakable. Such friendships are intuitive, where one friend understands the mind of the other. Do you have a childhood friend who makes your life worth living? If yes, do share your &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/"&gt;friendship thoughts&lt;/a&gt; with me. Surprise your childhood friend with this &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/"&gt;warm friendship&lt;/a&gt; greeting!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed title="warm best friend e-wishes" alt="for my best friend" src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader7_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-123-1442.swf&amp;amp;mus=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-123-1442.mp3?rand=8145" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="211" width="335"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="new" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/bestfriends49.html"&gt;Send this Best Friend eCard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/?pos=tl_10015/target=" new=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;More Best Friend eCards&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/friendship+wishes" rel="tag"&gt;friendship wishes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/true+friends" rel="tag"&gt;true friends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/forever+friends" rel="tag"&gt;forever friends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/best+friend" rel="tag"&gt;best friend&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/childhood+friendships+" rel="tag"&gt;childhood friendships &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-6702807792474003631?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6702807792474003631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=6702807792474003631&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6702807792474003631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6702807792474003631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/childhood-friendship-is-golden.html' title='Childhood Friendship is Golden'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-7986263396710154422</id><published>2007-10-03T07:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-03T07:33:06.978-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Online Friendship'/><title type='text'>How to make friends on Facebook</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Making &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/net_pals/"&gt;online friends&lt;/a&gt; is quite easy. You just need a computer with an Internet connection and a little netiquette (online etiquette) to survive in the online world. You don't need to learn technical skills in order to make friends online. Just a blend of the friendly attitude, sociable manners, and the ability to maintain the right kind of contacts with like-minded people will earn you a lot of friends within a short period of time. Of all the popular social networks, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; is hot among people of all ages and interests. Watch this video that's going to teach you the fundamentals of making friends in this trendy social network. Check out this video on how to make friends on Facebook if you're scared of venturing out there on your own...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" align="middle" height="345" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.videojug.com/film/player?id=e3046988-3fab-3acd-1421-ff0008c9570d"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.videojug.com/film/player?id=e3046988-3fab-3acd-1421-ff0008c9570d" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="345" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.videojug.com/"&gt;VideoJug&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-contact-and-make-friends-on-facebook"&gt;How To Contact And Make Friends On Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheer up your friends by sending this &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/funny/"&gt;fun friendship&lt;/a&gt; e-wishes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed title="friendship fun and cheers" alt="cool and fun wishes for friends" src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader7_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_funny/1029-025_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_funny/1029-025-20-1068.swf&amp;amp;mus=/eventsnew/friend_funny/1029-025-20-1068.mp3?rand=" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="211" width="335"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/funny/wishes11.html"&gt;Send this Fun Friendship eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/friendship+wishes" rel="tag"&gt;friendship wishes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/making+friends" rel="tag"&gt;making friends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/online+friends" rel="tag"&gt;online friends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/social+networks" rel="tag"&gt;social networks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/net+friends" rel="tag"&gt;net friends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Facebook" rel="tag"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7986263396710154422?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7986263396710154422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7986263396710154422&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7986263396710154422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7986263396710154422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-make-friends-on-facebook.html' title='How to make friends on Facebook'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3260691240742148049</id><published>2007-10-01T04:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-01T08:39:03.725-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eid ul-Fitr friends'/><title type='text'>Warm Eid ul-Fitr Friendship Wishes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/eid_ul_fitr/"&gt;Eid ul-Fitr&lt;/a&gt; or referred commonly as Eid, is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. Celebrate this special occasion with your friends and dear ones by saying your prayers and taking part in merrymaking and festivities that follows thereafter. Dress up in your best clothes and convey your deepest emotions and thanks to God for practicing self control and for giving you inner strength. Since Eid is the time for giving and sharing, send in your warmest friendship wishes to your dear friends with these memorable &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/eid_ul_fitr/friends/"&gt;Eid ul-Fitr friendship greetings&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed title="Eid friendship wishes" alt="Eid warm wishes" src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_500x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/edec_eidulfitr_frnd/8515-003_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/edec_eidulfitr_frnd/8515-003-02-1021.swf?mus=http://img.123greetings.com//eventsnew/edec_eidulfitr_frnd/8515-003-02-1021.mp3" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="211" width="335"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/eid_ul_fitr/friends/friends2.html"&gt;Send this Friendly Eid Greetings eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed title="warm Eid friends greetings" alt="harmony and friendship on Eid" src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_525x300.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/edec_eidulfitr_frnd/8515-003_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/edec_eidulfitr_frnd/8515-003-16-1027.swf?mus=http://img.123greetings.com//eventsnew/edec_eidulfitr_frnd/8515-003-16-1027.mp3" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="211" width="335"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/eid_ul_fitr/friends/friends16.html"&gt;Send this Warm Eid Friendship eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/friendship+and+harmony" rel="tag"&gt;friendship and harmony&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Eid+ul-Fitr+friends+greetings" rel="tag"&gt;Eid ul-Fitr friends greetings&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/special+Eid+wishes" rel="tag"&gt;special Eid wishes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3260691240742148049?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3260691240742148049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3260691240742148049&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3260691240742148049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3260691240742148049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/warm-eid-ul-fitr-friendship-wishes.html' title='Warm Eid ul-Fitr Friendship Wishes'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2918475761042846959</id><published>2007-09-26T04:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-26T07:24:57.487-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Homemade Cookies Day'/><title type='text'>Bake Cookies With Friends</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Wanna know what's my favorite hobby? It's baking cookies along with my closest pals. You won't believe, but I find great relaxation in baking cookies of various shapes, sizes and tastes! My mom makes great cookies too! My favorite is the chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies. There are really interesting and yummy &lt;a href="http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Desserts/Cookies/Main.aspx"&gt;cookie recipes&lt;/a&gt;, which you'll love to make at home. On &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/homemade_cookies_day/"&gt;Homemade Cookies Day&lt;/a&gt;(Oct1) I'm gonna prepare some mouthwatering and crispy cookies along with Jason, Emily, Jennifer and Aaron. They are my close friends from college and share common interest about baking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Check out a wide selection of &lt;a href="http://www.pastrywiz.com/archive/category/cookies.htm"&gt;cookie recipes&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add to the fun of making cookies by sending these fun-filled crunchy cookie greetings to your buddies and loved ones!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/homemade_cookies_day/homemadecookiesday1.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 350px; height: 250px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eoct_homemadecookiesday/1263-001-01-1103.gif" alt="Send this free Crunchy Cookies Friendship eCard" title="yummy cookie friendship greetings" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/homemade_cookies_day/homemadecookiesday1.html"&gt;Send this crunchy Friendship eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/homemade_cookies_day/homemadecookiesday2.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 350px; height: 250px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eoct_homemadecookiesday/1263-001-02-1103.gif" alt="Send this free delicious friendship e-Card" title="crunchy yummy friendly wishes" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/homemade_cookies_day/homemadecookiesday2.html"&gt;Send this Yummy Friendship e-Card !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/friendship+greetings" rel="tag"&gt;friendship greetings&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/yummy+friendship+wishes" rel="tag"&gt;yummy friendship wishes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/cute+friendship+wishes" rel="tag"&gt;cute friendship wishes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2918475761042846959?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2918475761042846959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2918475761042846959&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2918475761042846959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2918475761042846959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/bake-cookies-with-friends.html' title='Bake Cookies With Friends'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-7368044254896861401</id><published>2007-08-31T03:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-31T03:57:00.827-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Labor Day Weekend'/><title type='text'>Friends - Happy Labor Day Weekend</title><content type='html'>Just a quick post here to wish you a happy happy weekend. I'll be back with more posts on Friendship, Friendship Poems and Friendship Quotes! Take care and have an excellent weekend!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- Code Starts --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x325.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/esep_laborday_friends/8301-008_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/esep_laborday_friends/8301-008-04-1086.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="225" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/labor_day/friends/friend4.html"&gt;Send this Labor Day eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/labor_day/friends/"&gt;Click Here To Get More Cool MySpace Labor Day Friends Comment Codes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;!-- Code Ends --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy The HTML Code And Paste It In Your Friends' "Post Comment" Box...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;textarea rows="5" name="S1" cols="50"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x325.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/esep_laborday_friends/8301-008_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/esep_laborday_friends/8301-008-04-1086.swf" quality="high" width="450" height="225" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/labor_day/friends/friend4.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/labor_day/friends/"&gt;Click Here To Get More Cool MySpace Labor Day Friends Comment Codes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- Text Area Code Ends --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Labor+Day+Weekend" rel="tag"&gt;Labor Day Weekend&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Labor+Day+" rel="tag"&gt;Labor Day &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7368044254896861401?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7368044254896861401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7368044254896861401&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7368044254896861401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7368044254896861401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/friends-happy-labor-day-weekend.html' title='Friends - Happy Labor Day Weekend'/><author><name>Casey Galatos</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OaqdE0BYMac/R4dE_Dx3RqI/AAAAAAAAAFY/CjtkLKqgGDQ/S220/Casey_Galatos.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-5805511367479147683</id><published>2007-08-22T08:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T08:47:10.771-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships in movies'/><title type='text'>Delirious Friends of the Celebrity World</title><content type='html'>If you haven't seen Delirious starring Steve Buscemi you should definitely watch. It's directed by Tom DiCillo the director of Living in Oblivion (also starring Steve Buscemi). I think Tom DiCillo is just continuing to explore the 'celebrity culture' theme. He does it beautifully in Delirious -- depicting the fact that everyone is connected to the food chain. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing I liked about the movie is the underlying theme of friendship -- weird and quirky. People bond almost in an instant and loose friends just as easily. In the nether world of celebrities the right time in the right place counts just like Toby (played by Michael Pitt) learns. One wrong move and you're gone. Such is the ups and downs of celebrity friendships portrayed in a satirical movie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the trailer that you can check out:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fYxHfD77kTs"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fYxHfD77kTs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also read the &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/movies/15deli.html"&gt;NY Times Review&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go watch it, preferably with a friend. And if have seen it, let me know what you make of it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/friendships+in+movies" rel="tag"&gt;friendships in movies&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/delirious+movie" rel="tag"&gt;delirious movie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/celebrity+friends" rel="tag"&gt;celebrity friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-5805511367479147683?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5805511367479147683/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=5805511367479147683&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5805511367479147683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5805511367479147683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/delirious-friends-of-celebrity-world.html' title='Delirious Friends of the Celebrity World'/><author><name>Casey Galatos</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OaqdE0BYMac/R4dE_Dx3RqI/AAAAAAAAAFY/CjtkLKqgGDQ/S220/Casey_Galatos.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-6644154808441563366</id><published>2007-08-20T09:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-20T09:07:59.604-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship quotes'/><title type='text'>Friendship Quote from Marlene Dietrich</title><content type='html'>Here's a friendship quote from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich"&gt;Marlene Dietrich&lt;/a&gt; -- "It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."  Remember her career started as a cabaret singer, chorus girl and film actress in the 1920s. In the 30s she was a Hollywood start and during World War II she was entertaining in the front lines. So I think she knows a lot about friendships -- don't you think? You can check out her complete profile on &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000017/"&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; or visit the &lt;a href="http://www.marlene.com/"&gt;Marlene Dietrich&lt;/a&gt; official site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I love about her is her classic charm. Here's a short clip on "I get a Kick Out of You"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AVElfbe2_f4"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AVElfbe2_f4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/friendship+quotes" rel="tag"&gt;friendship quotes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Marlene+Dietrich" rel="tag"&gt;Marlene Dietrich&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-6644154808441563366?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6644154808441563366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=6644154808441563366&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6644154808441563366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6644154808441563366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/friendship-quote-from-marlene-dietrich.html' title='Friendship Quote from Marlene Dietrich'/><author><name>Casey Galatos</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OaqdE0BYMac/R4dE_Dx3RqI/AAAAAAAAAFY/CjtkLKqgGDQ/S220/Casey_Galatos.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-7373330932443663350</id><published>2007-08-17T09:39:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-18T02:41:07.530-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Problems in Friendship'/><title type='text'>Toxic Friendships</title><content type='html'>What exactly is a 'toxic friend'?&lt;br /&gt;According to Jenn Berman -- a psychologist in Beverly Hills, CA -- is someone who after spending time with them makes you feel bad about yourself instead of good. You can read more about what she has to say in this article on &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/26/health/webmd/main1242335.shtml"&gt;How to handle toxic Friendships&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do you know if you're in a toxic friendship? You can take this quick online quizz to determine if &lt;a href="http://www.lhj.com/lhj/quiz.jhtml?quizId=/templatedata/lhj/quiz/data/IsSheaToxicFriendQuiz_12062002.xml"&gt;She's a Toxic Friend&lt;/a&gt;. Oprah's &lt;a href="http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/tows_2000/tows_past_20001009.jhtml"&gt;Toxic Relationships&lt;/a&gt; web page also have a bunch of articles and resources to help you if you think you're in a toxic friendship. You can't miss iVillage's&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://love.ivillage.com/fnf/fnffightfriends/0,,nxwf,00.html"&gt;6 Types of Toxic Friends and How You Can Deal with Them&lt;/a&gt; article either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you're not in a toxic friendship and if you are I'm wishing you a very good luck in handling, facing, confronting your friend. And in advanced -- here's a virtual hug from me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader7_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_hugsncaring/1029-020_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_hugsncaring/1029-020-30-1099.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/hugs_n_caring/hug30.html"&gt;Personalize and Send this as an eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/toxic+friends" rel="tag"&gt;toxic friends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/problem+friendships" rel="tag"&gt;problem friendships&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7373330932443663350?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7373330932443663350/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7373330932443663350&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7373330932443663350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7373330932443663350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/toxic-friendships.html' title='Toxic Friendships'/><author><name>Casey Galatos</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OaqdE0BYMac/R4dE_Dx3RqI/AAAAAAAAAFY/CjtkLKqgGDQ/S220/Casey_Galatos.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-5720016007933695895</id><published>2007-07-20T03:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-20T03:04:27.761-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships in movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='harry potter'/><title type='text'>Harry Potter Friendship Lessons</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://logosresourcepages.org/images/potter3.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://logosresourcepages.org/images/potter3.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello people it's almost that 'back to school' time again and summer vacation is almost over. I really had fun this time around hanging out with my friends and really enjoying their company. I just did this really cool quiz on &lt;a href="http://pages.prodigy.net/hpdevo/quiz"&gt;Which Harry Potter character are you?&lt;/a&gt; And here's the result:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://pages.prodigy.net/hpdevo/quiz/hermi.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pages.prodigy.net/hpdevo/quiz"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Which HP Kid Are You?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretty cool huh? I really liked the new movie for Harry Potter. In fact I love all the movies. I'm a big fan of Harry Potter because I think it they teach you a lot about friends. Friends really stick out for each other and are there for each other through thick and thin. Sometimes I feel out of this world facing my own monsters and problems but with friends I feel different because we can face it all together. It's less of a burden and more fun. At times you're having so much fun with your friends that you forget your troubles all together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you seen the Lego HP spoof? It's soooo funny you have to see it. Check it out here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0o_J5QzQs3g"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0o_J5QzQs3g" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, I hope to be able to post on a more regular basis from here on out. Take care, and visit back soon!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-5720016007933695895?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5720016007933695895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=5720016007933695895&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5720016007933695895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5720016007933695895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/hello-people-its-almost-that-back-to.html' title='Harry Potter Friendship Lessons'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2402367768650278401</id><published>2007-07-03T07:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-03T07:11:41.071-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comments'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='american independence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='july 4th friendship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='graduation ecards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fourth of july'/><title type='text'>Wish Your Friends a happy July 4th</title><content type='html'>The day is finally here . On American Independence day  wish your friends, buddies, friends on MySpace,Facebook,Friendster and all your online and offline friends a happy July 4th . Let us all come together and share the glory  of the great American Dream .Lets strive to make this country what our founding fathers once envisaged .America.... The land of the Free and The Home of The Brave . Let each one of us forget our background, our religion and our political affiliations  and make this Country Truly the Greatest place for everyone. Happy Independence day America !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy23.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejul_fourthjuly_wishes/8265-002-39-1027.gif" alt="Choose A Patriotic Song... Inspire patriotism among your dear ones with the timeless tunes of 'The Star Spangled Banner' or 'America The Beautiful'." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy23.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;Choose A Patriotic Song...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy23.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Inspire patriotism among your dear ones with the timeless tunes of 'The Star Spangled Banner' or 'America The Beautiful'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Interactive ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy34.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejul_fourthjuly_wishes/8265-002-52-1086.gif" alt="Wishes Across The Miles... Send your wishes to a dear one who is far away on Fourth of July with this warm and bright ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy34.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;Wishes Across The Miles...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy34.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Send your wishes to a dear one who is far away on Fourth of July with this warm and bright ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy12.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejul_fourthjuly_wishes/8265-002-24-1027.gif" alt="Happy Fourth Of July ! Send this ecard filled with bright sparkles to wish your friends/ acquaintances/ dear ones a Happy Fourth Of July." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy12.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;Happy Fourth Of July !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy12.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Send this ecard filled with bright sparkles to wish your friends/ acquaintances/ dear ones a Happy Fourth Of July.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy19.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejul_fourthjuly_wishes/8265-002-34-1047.gif" alt="Happy Independence Day ! Celebrate your freedom with this bright and elegant ecard for Fourth of July." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy19.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;Happy Independence Day !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/wishes/happy19.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Celebrate your freedom with this bright and elegant ecard for Fourth of July.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth11.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejul_fourthjuly_celebrations/8265-003-23-1064.gif" alt="4th Of July Sparkling With Fun ! Wish your dear ones a sparkling Fourth of July with this dazzling ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth11.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;4th Of July Sparkling With Fun !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth11.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Wish your dear ones a sparkling Fourth of July with this dazzling ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Interactive ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth38.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejul_fourthjuly_celebrations/8265-003-49-1047.gif" alt="Celebrating The Glory Of Our Nation ! A bright and beautiful ecard to celebrate the glory of America on Fourth of July." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth38.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;Celebrating The Glory Of Our Nation !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth38.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;A bright and beautiful ecard to celebrate the glory of America on Fourth of July.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth37.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejul_fourthjuly_celebrations/8265-003-48-1062.gif" alt="Spectacular Fireworks Show For You ! Dazzle up your dear ones' Fourth of July with this beautiful ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth37.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;Spectacular Fireworks Show For You !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth37.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Dazzle up your dear ones' Fourth of July with this beautiful ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Interactive ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth4.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejul_fourthjuly_celebrations/8265-003-16-1064.gif" alt="Wishing You A Happy Fourth Of July ! Add more sparkles to your dear ones' Fourth of July with this warm and bright ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth4.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;Wishing You A Happy Fourth Of July !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/celebrations/fourth4.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Add more sparkles to your dear ones' Fourth of July with this warm and bright ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;      &lt;td&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/patriotic_cards/patriot1.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejul_fourthjuly_patriotic/8265-008-02-1047.gif" alt="Proud To Be Part... Send this ecard to celebrate Fourth of July with someone who is as proud to be an American as you are." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/patriotic_cards/patriot1.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Proud To Be Part...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/patriotic_cards/patriot1.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Send this ecard to celebrate Fourth of July with someone who is as proud to be an American as you are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/patriotic_cards/patriot2.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejul_fourthjuly_patriotic/8265-008-03-1064.gif" alt="Celebrating Our Great Nation... Share your pride of being an American with this beautiful ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/patriotic_cards/patriot2.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Celebrating Our Great Nation...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/patriotic_cards/patriot2.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Share your pride of being an American with this beautiful ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2402367768650278401?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2402367768650278401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2402367768650278401&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2402367768650278401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2402367768650278401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/wish-your-friends-happy-july-4th.html' title='Wish Your Friends a happy July 4th'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-6597203026379720920</id><published>2007-06-06T04:07:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T05:12:23.484-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thinker Blog Award'/><title type='text'>Thinker Blog Award!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5020/thinkingbloggerpf8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 59px;" src="http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5020/thinkingbloggerpf8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Family man of &lt;a href="http://buildtomorrow.blogspot.com/"&gt;Build Tomorrow&lt;/a&gt; had given the Friendship Blog (that's this blog!) The Thinking Blog Award. It was started by Llker Yodas at&lt;a href="http://www.thethinkingblog.com/2007/02/thinking-blogger-awards_11.html"&gt; The Thinking Blog&lt;/a&gt; if you don't know what a Thinking Blog is you can read &lt;a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2007/02/20/are-you-a-thinking-blogger/"&gt;Are you a thinking blogger?&lt;/a&gt;  to know what it's all about.    &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;So what are the blogs that makes me think? And the ones that I'm giving the Thinker Blog Award to? (Drum rolls) Here it is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;1. Ben Yoskovitz's &lt;a href="http://www.instigatorblog.com/"&gt;Instigator Blog&lt;/a&gt; is a place I visit almost everyday for a daily dose of wisdom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;2. Beth Ellen's &lt;a href="http://eclecticstudiocafe.com/blog/"&gt;Eclectic Studio Cafe&lt;/a&gt; is a place I love hanging out just to relax and feast my eyes. Her photography is simply amazing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;3.  And when I'm suck I always run to &lt;a href="http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/"&gt;Beta Bloggers for Dummies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;4. When I need inspiration or a couple of laughs I go to &lt;a href="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/"&gt;We Blog Cartoon&lt;/a&gt;s  (Dave even lets me use his cartoons in my blog!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;5. And let's not forget another Dave with his very cool &lt;a href="http://lovepoemslovequotes.blogspot.com"&gt;Love Poems &amp; Love Quotes&lt;/a&gt; blog always sets me in a romantic mood!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The rules of the blog meme is simple enough -  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Whoever I've tagged to in the above list is under no obligation to accept the award, link back or to even carry on the meme. Should the bloggers choose to carry on with the mission however:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. You have to write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;2. Have link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;3. Optionally display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote. There's also other &lt;a href="http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/421/thinkingblogger2ql6.jpg"&gt;silver&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5020/thinkingbloggerpf8.jpg"&gt;gold&lt;/a&gt; version to fit the design of your blog.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-6597203026379720920?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6597203026379720920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=6597203026379720920&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6597203026379720920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6597203026379720920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/thinker-blog-award.html' title='Thinker Blog Award!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-7336875419279239790</id><published>2007-05-26T00:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-26T03:36:45.469-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='memorial day'/><title type='text'>In Rememberance...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_memorial_wishes/8941-002-39-1086.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 101px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_memorial_wishes/8941-002-39-1086.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post is dedicated to those who have fallen and for those who are fighting for our freedom. We will be always grateful for their sacrifices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Flanders Field&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;by John McCrae (1872-1918)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;In Flanders fields the poppies blow&lt;br /&gt;Between the crosses, row on row&lt;br /&gt;That mark our place; and in the sky&lt;br /&gt;The larks, still bravely singing, fly&lt;br /&gt;Scarce heard amid the guns below.&lt;p&gt;  We are the Dead.  Short days ago&lt;br /&gt;We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,&lt;br /&gt;Loved and were loved, and now we lie&lt;br /&gt;In Flanders fields.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  Take up our quarrel with the foe:&lt;br /&gt;To you from failing hands we throw&lt;br /&gt;The torch; be yours to hold it high.&lt;br /&gt;If ye break faith with us who die&lt;br /&gt;We shall not sleep, though poppies grow&lt;br /&gt;In Flanders fields.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/center&gt;If you can't decide what movies to watch with your friends this Memorial Day weekend - try Flags of Our Fathers. Here's the trailer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eiOMtdneUVc"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eiOMtdneUVc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might also be interested in watching the companion movie "Letters to Iwo Jima" I think it's one of the best Clint Eastwood films --&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_fGgkDGF2Ts"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_fGgkDGF2Ts" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend1.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_memorial_friends/8941-018-03-1042.gif" alt="Our Great Friendship... Cute Memorial Day ecard to cherish the spirit of America and your friendship." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend1.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Our Great Friendship...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend1.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Cute Memorial Day ecard to cherish the spirit of America and your friendship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend5.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_memorial_friends/8941-018-07-1086.gif" alt="Having U As A Friend... Say a cool hi to your friend on Memorial Day with a cute egreeting." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend5.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Having U As A Friend...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend5.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Say a cool hi to your friend on Memorial Day with a cute egreeting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend3.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_memorial_friends/8941-018-05-1047.gif" alt="Your Friendship Fills My Life... Send this warm thought and touch your friend's heart on Memorial Day." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend3.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Your Friendship Fills My Life...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend3.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Send this warm thought and touch your friend's heart on Memorial Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend4.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_memorial_friends/8941-018-06-1042.gif" alt="I Feel Proud... Express what he means to you and your pride in him with this beautiful ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend4.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;I Feel Proud...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/memorial_day/friends/friend4.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Express what he means to you and your pride in him with this beautiful ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Animated ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7336875419279239790?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7336875419279239790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7336875419279239790&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7336875419279239790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7336875419279239790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-rememberance.html' title='In Rememberance...'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2148168799088607588</id><published>2007-05-23T03:05:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-23T03:52:53.703-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='best friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='best friends day'/><title type='text'>Tips On Fitting In</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/best_friends_day/happy/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 114px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejun_bestfriendsday_happy/8272-002-29-1027.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that final exams are almost over or are done with for most of us so we are all ready for hanging out, BBQs and having summer parties. So I thought I'd do a little research on friendships and how to get along. I found some tips on 'fitting in' with your friends -- they're &lt;a href="http://succeedsocially.com/traitstohang"&gt;Traits that Help You Hang Out with Other People&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://succeedsocially.com/"&gt;Succeed Socially&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Here's a gist of those tips:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;A tolerance for mildly flaky, unreliable behavior&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A tolerance for unpredictability (or the ability to go with the flow)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The ability to amuse yourself when you have to&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A tolerance for other people's stupidity (being drunk, reckless, messy, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A thick enough skin to not take joking too seriously&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A tolerance for little annoyances in the situations you find yourself in&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Not being too stingy with your money&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You can throw yourself into what everyone else is doing and not get stuck in your head&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You're not too self-focused&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You can contribute to people's conversations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Pretty handy right? Read the full article &lt;a href="http://succeedsocially.com/traitstohang"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Remember &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/best_friends_day/info/index.html"&gt;Best Friends Day&lt;/a&gt; is coming up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/best_friends_day/happy/ejun_bestfriendsday_happy_ani5.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 416px; height: 270px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/ejun_bestfriendsday_happy/8272-002-06-1075.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/best_friends_day/happy/ejun_bestfriendsday_happy_ani5.html"&gt;Send this Best Friends Day eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2148168799088607588?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2148168799088607588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2148168799088607588&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2148168799088607588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2148168799088607588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/tips-on-fitting-in.html' title='Tips On Fitting In'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3725958399714901909</id><published>2007-05-16T03:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-16T06:23:24.242-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='women friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social networks'/><title type='text'>Friendship Humor</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://chickencrap.com/images/89.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://chickencrap.com/images/89.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What will we do with friendships without humor? Every now and then we have to laugh right? It's the best way to bond and laughter is the best medicine. "A woman can never have enough love, laughter, or great friendships in her life," wrote Tina Frazer, founder of &lt;a href="http://www.letsbefriends.net/"&gt;Lets Be Friends Community&lt;/a&gt;.   It's a social network community for women to socialize and make new friends.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3725958399714901909?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3725958399714901909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3725958399714901909&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3725958399714901909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3725958399714901909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/friendship-humor.html' title='Friendship Humor'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-998515454066690499</id><published>2007-05-11T01:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-11T01:51:33.008-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mother&apos;s day in many languages'/><title type='text'>Mother's Day in Many Languages</title><content type='html'>Mother's day is this weekend! Isn't that great? You'll get to spend you time with her and pamper her. I found a bunch of Mother's Day in other languages -- now you can say "Mother's Day" in tongues! Check them out here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Albanian&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dita e Nënës&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arabic  Eid&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Al-Omm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Armenian&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mayrutyan or&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bengali&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Shubo Matri Dibosh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bosnian&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;dan majki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinese&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;mu qin jié&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Czech&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Den Matek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Danish&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mors dag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dutch&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Moederdag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;German&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Muttertag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estonian&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Emadepäev&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dari&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ruz-e Madar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finnish&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Äitienpäivä&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Fête des mères&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hebrew&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Yom ha-em&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hindi&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Matru din&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Croatian&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Majcin dan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/emay_mothersday_angel_ani1.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_angel/8962-010-22-1086.gif" alt="I Call You My Guardian Angel... Send this warm ecard to say thanks to someone who's angelic and close to your heart." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/emay_mothersday_angel_ani1.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;I Call You My Guardian Angel...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/emay_mothersday_angel_ani1.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Send this warm ecard to say thanks to someone who's angelic and close to your heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Animated ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/mothersday12.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_angel/8962-010-25-1047.gif" alt="You Are My Angel ! On Mother's Day wish someone who's a precious gift of God for you." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/mothersday12.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;You Are My Angel !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/mothersday12.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;On Mother's Day wish someone who's a precious gift of God for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/mothersday13.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_angel/8962-010-26-1042.gif" alt="I Have You In My Life ! Express your love and affection to an Angel with this cute ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/mothersday13.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;I Have You In My Life !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/mothersday13.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Express your love and affection to an Angel with this cute ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Interactive ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/emay_mothersday_angel_pcard2.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_angel/8962-010-24-1027.gif" alt="I Started Believing In Angels... Greet your mom/ sis/ grandma/ aunt with this beautiful ecard on Mother's Day." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/emay_mothersday_angel_pcard2.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;I Started Believing In Angels...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/angel_mother/emay_mothersday_angel_pcard2.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Greet your mom/ sis/ grandma/ aunt with this beautiful ecard on Mother's Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Postcard ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hungarian&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Anyák napja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Irish&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lá na Mháithair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Icelandic&lt;/span&gt;  Mæðradagur&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indonesian&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hari Ibu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lithuanian&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Festa della mamma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Japanese&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Haha no Hi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Korean&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Oboi Nal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Latvian&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mates diena&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Malay&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hari Ibu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maltese&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Jum l-Omm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Montenegrin&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dan majki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Norwegian&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Morsdag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Persian&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Rouz-e Maadar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Polish&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dzien Matki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portuguese&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dia da Mãe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Romanian&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ziua mamei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spanish&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Día de la Madre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Slovak&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Den matiek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Slovenian&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Materinski dan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Swedish&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mors dag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Swahili&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Liepstacoq Bua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tagalog&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Araw ng mga Ina/Nanay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tamil&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Annaiyar Dhinam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turkish&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Anneler günü&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welsh&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sul y Mamau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Malayalam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ammamar Dinam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kannada&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ammandira Dina&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Happy Mother's Day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/emay_mothersday_spanish_ani1.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spanish/8962-042-01-1086.gif" alt="Deseos Del Día De La Madre... Una etarjeta cordial para sus amados en el día de la Madre." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/emay_mothersday_spanish_ani1.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Deseos Del Día De La Madre...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/emay_mothersday_spanish_ani1.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Una etarjeta cordial para sus amados en el día de la Madre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Animated ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/spanish1.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spanish/8962-042-02-1086.gif" alt="¡ Feliz Día De La Madre ! Extienda la mano a su mamá con esta etarjeta hermosa and deséele 'Feliz día de la Madre.'" border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/spanish1.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;¡ Feliz Día De La Madre !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/spanish1.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Extienda la mano a su mamá con esta etarjeta hermosa and deséele 'Feliz día de la Madre.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/spanish2.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spanish/8962-042-03-1047.gif" alt="Deseos Cordiales Y Pensamientos Felices... En el día de la Madre envíe esta etarjeta cordial a su mamá/ querida y hágale sentirse especial." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/spanish2.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Deseos Cordiales Y Pensamientos Felices...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/spanish2.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;En el día de la Madre envíe esta etarjeta cordial a su mamá/ querida y hágale sentirse especial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/spanish3.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spanish/8962-042-04-1042.gif" alt="¡ Un Ramo De Deseos ! Desee a todo el mundo a que conoce con esta etarjeta hermosa en el día de la Madre." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/spanish3.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;¡ Un Ramo De Deseos !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/spanish/spanish3.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Desee a todo el mundo a que conoce con esta etarjeta hermosa en el día de la Madre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Animated ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-998515454066690499?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/998515454066690499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=998515454066690499&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/998515454066690499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/998515454066690499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/mothers-day-in-many-languages.html' title='Mother&apos;s Day in Many Languages'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-5431883929029446704</id><published>2007-05-08T06:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T07:04:12.354-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship and motherhood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mother friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='making friends for mothers'/><title type='text'>How to make friends for mothers!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;There's a magazine called New Beginnings for new mothers. The main feature of this magazine is for parents who are staying home for their children. There are very interesting responses to a lady who was having trouble &lt;a href="http://www.lalecheleague.org/NB/NBNovDec02p222.html"&gt;making 'mother' friends&lt;/a&gt; after giving birth to her baby. There's a lot of great advice. Check it out!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/mothersday2.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spl_momtobe/8962-023-05-1086.gif" alt="You'll Be Soon Holding The Li'l Fingers... Send your warm wishes to a Mom To Be for all the future happiness." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/mothersday2.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;You'll Be Soon Holding The Li'l Fingers...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/mothersday2.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Send your warm wishes to a Mom To Be for all the future happiness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/emay_mothersday_spl_momtobe_pcard2.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spl_momtobe/8962-023-03-1062.gif" alt="You're 'Bout To Step Into Motherhood... For the coming joys, send your warm wishes to a Mom To Be on Mother's Day." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/emay_mothersday_spl_momtobe_pcard2.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;You're 'Bout To Step Into Motherhood...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/emay_mothersday_spl_momtobe_pcard2.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;For the coming joys, send your warm wishes to a Mom To Be on Mother's Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Postcard ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/mothersday1.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spl_momtobe/8962-023-04-1047.gif" alt="A Gift Of God... On Mother's Day, congratulate a would-be mom for the blessed gift that she's gonna receive soon." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/mothersday1.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;A Gift Of God...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/mothersday1.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;On Mother's Day, congratulate a would-be mom for the blessed gift that she's gonna receive soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/emay_mothersday_spl_momtobe_ani1.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spl_momtobe/8962-023-02-1075.gif" alt="Cute Face... Sweet Smiles... A beautiful ecard to wish a would-be mom lotsa joy and happiness in her days to come." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/emay_mothersday_spl_momtobe_ani1.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;Cute Face... Sweet Smiles...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/mom_to_be/emay_mothersday_spl_momtobe_ani1.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;A beautiful ecard to wish a would-be mom lotsa joy and happiness in her days to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Animated ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/emay_mothersday_spl_tributes_pcard1.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spl_tributes/8962-021-04-1027.gif" alt="You're Appreciated... On Mother's Day send this warm note and beautiful bouquet to your mom." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/emay_mothersday_spl_tributes_pcard1.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;You're Appreciated...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/emay_mothersday_spl_tributes_pcard1.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;On Mother's Day send this warm note and beautiful bouquet to your mom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Postcard ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/emay_mothersday_spl_tributes_ani2.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spl_tributes/8962-021-03-1086.gif" alt="I Cannot Do Without U ! A beautiful ecard to appreciate someone close to your heart on Mother's Day." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/emay_mothersday_spl_tributes_ani2.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;I Cannot Do Without U !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/emay_mothersday_spl_tributes_ani2.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;A beautiful ecard to appreciate someone close to your heart on Mother's Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Postcard ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/tribute3.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spl_tributes/8962-021-05-1042.gif" alt="I May Not Say It Often... With this warm ecard say thanks to someone dear on Mother's Day." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/tribute3.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;I May Not Say It Often...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/tribute3.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;With this warm ecard say thanks to someone dear on Mother's Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Animated ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/tribute4.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_spl_tributes/8962-021-06-1047.gif" alt="A Li'l Note To Say... With this lovely ecard tell your mom a heartfelt thanks for everything she does for you." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/tribute4.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;A Li'l Note To Say...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/specials/tributes/tribute4.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;With this lovely ecard tell your mom a heartfelt thanks for everything she does for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-5431883929029446704?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5431883929029446704/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=5431883929029446704&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5431883929029446704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5431883929029446704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-make-friends-for-mothers.html' title='How to make friends for mothers!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3857823387768774390</id><published>2007-05-07T06:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T02:06:00.729-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mother&apos;s day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='motherhood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mothers and friendships'/><title type='text'>Mothers and their Friendships</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 123px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_friends/8962-009-19-1086.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://stress.about.com/od/stressmanagementtools/a/friends.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;very Mother Needs Her Friends!&lt;/a&gt; Says Elizabeth Scott - the guide to Stress Management on About.com&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Mothers are at an increased risk of depression starting with the baby blues and it goes on throughout her life. That's why  her friends are her most valuable resource.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Friendships and motherhood go hand in hand for not just social support and sharing advice. Mothers need friends to get them out of the house for enjoying the outdoors or for just having a "moms' night out". On top of that their kids can meet and interact with each other -- which is an important part of the bonding process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/mom12.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_friends/8962-009-21-1086.gif" alt="As A Mother And My Friend... Reach out to someone, who makes this world a brighter and happier place with this elegant ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/mom12.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;As A Mother And My Friend...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/mom12.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Reach out to someone, who makes this world a brighter and happier place with this elegant ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Postcard ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/mom13.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_friends/8962-009-22-1047.gif" alt="You Are What A Perfect Woman Should Be ! On Mother's Day, wish a wonderful friend with this warm 'n beautiful ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/mom13.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;You Are What A Perfect Woman Should Be !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/mom13.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;On Mother's Day, wish a wonderful friend with this warm 'n beautiful ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/emay_mothersday_friends_pcard2.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_friends/8962-009-04-1049.gif" alt="Our Friendship Has Grown... Send this beautiful ecard to an old girl pal on Mother's Day." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/emay_mothersday_friends_pcard2.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;Our Friendship Has Grown...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/emay_mothersday_friends_pcard2.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Send this beautiful ecard to an old girl pal on Mother's Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Postcard ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/mom8.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_friends/8962-009-17-1042.gif" alt="It's Amazing... Wish someone special on Mother's Day with this beautiful ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/mom8.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;It's Amazing...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/friends/mom8.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Wish someone special on Mother's Day with this beautiful ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;      &lt;td&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women6.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_betweenwomen/8962-038-09-1042.gif" alt="When It Comes To Being A Mother... On Mother's Day reach out to a wonderful woman with this beautiful ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women6.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;When It Comes To Being A Mother...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women6.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;On Mother's Day reach out to a wonderful woman with this beautiful ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women14.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_betweenwomen/8962-038-13-1021.gif" alt="Great Women, Greater Moms... Let your friend/girlfriend/wife know how much they mean to you on mother’s day..." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women14.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Great Women, Greater Moms...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women14.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Let your friend/girlfriend/wife know how much they mean to you on mother’s day...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/homeimages/new2.gif" alt="New" border="0" height="9" width="23" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women1.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_betweenwomen/8962-038-02-1062.gif" alt="Your Friendship Is A Joy... With this beautiful 'n warm thought greet your special friend on Mother's Day." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women1.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Your Friendship Is A Joy...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women1.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;With this beautiful 'n warm thought greet your special friend on Mother's Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women3.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_mothersday_betweenwomen/8962-038-05-1027.gif" alt="All Rolled In One ! A smart way to wish 'Happy Woman's Day' to a woman... who's a great mother 'n friend." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women3.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;All Rolled In One !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothers_day/between_women/women3.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;A smart way to wish 'Happy Woman's Day' to a woman... who's a great mother 'n friend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3857823387768774390?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3857823387768774390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3857823387768774390&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3857823387768774390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3857823387768774390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/mothers-and-their-friendships.html' title='Mothers and their Friendships'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-8813623755783189877</id><published>2007-05-05T03:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T03:11:15.908-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cinco de Mayo recipes'/><title type='text'>Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Friends!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x400.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emay_cincodemayo/8918-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emay_cincodemayo/8918-001-29-1076.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="300" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/cinco_de_mayo/cinco20.html"&gt;Send this Cinco de Mayo eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Cinco de Mayo! I found these great recipes from &lt;a href="http://www.mexgrocer.com/"&gt;Mex Grocer&lt;/a&gt; that you can add to your party.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Non-veg Cinco de Mayo Fajita:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Ingredients:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;8 Mission® Corn Tortillas or Fajita Size Flour Tortillas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1 Tbsp. Vegetable Oil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1 Onion halved and sliced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1 Green Bell Pepper cut into strips&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1 lb. Sirloin or Flank Steak (or Chicken Breasts) cut into strips&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1 pkg. (1.27 oz.) Lawry's® Fajita Spices and Seasonings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1/4 cup Water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1 Tomato cut into wedges &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Directions:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Cook onions and green pepper in an oiled skillet over medium high heat until tender; set aside. In same skillet, brown meat; drain fat. Mix in seasonings and water.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Bring mixture to boil; reduce heat to low and cook uncovered for 5 minutes. Return onions and bell peppers to skillet; add tomatoes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Heat through and serve with warmed tortillas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/cinco_de_mayo/emay_cincodemayo_ani6.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 394px; height: 317px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emay_cincodemayo/8918-001-15-1064.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/cinco_de_mayo/emay_cincodemayo_ani6.html"&gt;Send this Cinco de Mayo eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Here's the vegetarian version:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Ingredients:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;2 Tbsps. Oil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1 Green Bell Pepper sliced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1 Yellow or Red Bell Pepper sliced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1/2 medium Onion sliced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1 large Tomato chopped&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;8 Mission® 8" Soft Taco sized Flour Tortillas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Guacamole, Sour Cream and Salsa as desired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Directions:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Heat oil in large skillet or wok over medium-high heat until hot. Add bell pepper and onion; cook and stir 2 or 3 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender. Add tomato, salt and pepper; cook until thoroughly heated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;To serve, place 1/2 cup of the vegetable mixture in center of each warmed tortilla with desired toppings. Fold or roll up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Enjoy and have fun this Cinco de Mayo!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x375.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emay_cincodemayo/8918-001_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emay_cincodemayo/8918-001-21-1062.swf" quality="high" width="450" height="275" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/cinco_de_mayo/cinco13.html"&gt;Send this Cinco de Mayo eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-8813623755783189877?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8813623755783189877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=8813623755783189877&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8813623755783189877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8813623755783189877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/celebrate-cinco-de-mayo-with-friends.html' title='Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Friends!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-5110187414557980321</id><published>2007-05-04T01:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T01:59:30.946-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friends After Life'/><title type='text'>Friends After Life</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 121px; height: 121px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_thoughts/1029-012-45-1080.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;I found a story about friendship on &lt;a href="http://www.adoptacatfoundation.org/true_friends.htm"&gt;True Friends&lt;/a&gt; at Adopt A Cat Foundation site.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;A man carrying his cat was walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He remembered dying, and that the kitty in his arms had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading them. After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine marble.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight. When he was standing before it, he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother of pearl, and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold. He and the cat walked toward the gate, and as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;When he was close enough, he called out, "Excuse me, where are we?"&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"This is Heaven, sir," the man answered.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"Wow! Would you happen to have some water?" the man asked.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have some ice water brought right up." The man gestured, and the gate began to open.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"Can my friend," gesturing toward his kitty, "come in, too?" the traveler asked.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"I'm sorry, sir, but we don't accept pets."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/friend_thoughts_ani4.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 457px; height: 249px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012-26-1060.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/friend_thoughts_ani4.html"&gt;Send this friendship thoughts eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and continued the way he had been going with his cat. After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a dirt road which led through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed. There was no fence. As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and reading a book.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"Excuse me!" he called to the reader. "Do you have any water?"&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there". The man pointed to a place that couldn't be seen from outside the gate. "Come on in."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"How about my friend here?" the traveler gestured to the cat.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"There should be a bowl by the pump."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it. The traveler filled the bowl and took a long drink himself, then he gave some to the kitty. When they were full, he carried the cat back toward the man who was standing by the tree waiting for them.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"What do you call this place?" the traveler asked.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"This is Heaven," was the answer.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"Well, that's confusing," the traveler said. "The man down the road said that was Heaven, too."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Nope. That's Hell."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"Doesn't it make you mad for them to use your name like that?"&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"No. I can see how you might think so, but we're just happy that they screen out the folks who'll leave their best friends behind."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012-27-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/frithoughts1.html"&gt;Send this friendship thoughts eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-5110187414557980321?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5110187414557980321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=5110187414557980321&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5110187414557980321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5110187414557980321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/friends-after-life.html' title='Friends After Life'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3805167441243510577</id><published>2007-05-03T05:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-03T05:44:21.673-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship Lessons'/><title type='text'>Friendship Lessons</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3ec.us/creatingfun/imgs/albums/friendship/ca8d41e9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 329px;" src="http://3ec.us/creatingfun/imgs/albums/friendship/ca8d41e9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I crossed my 100th post! That's so great and I wanted to post 100 things about friendship but I hadn't had the time to post with papers and stuff that I have to write. So here's a little something that I'd like to share with you all about friendship and life -- something I got over the email.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A good friend will come bail you out of jail....&lt;br /&gt;But a true friend will be sitting next to you saying WE screwed up, but we had fun!&lt;br /&gt;Proud to be your Friend!&lt;br /&gt;Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence, and don't skip ahead .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've learned... that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've learned... that money doesn't buy class.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've learned... that it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've learned...that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've learned...that to ignore the facts does not change the facts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've learned...that the less time I have to work, the more things I get done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To all of you...make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;HAVE A GREAT DAY!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_friendsforever/1029-033_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_friendsforever/1029-033-03-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/friends_forever/friends1.html"&gt;Send this friendship eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3805167441243510577?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3805167441243510577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3805167441243510577&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3805167441243510577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3805167441243510577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/friendship-lessons.html' title='Friendship Lessons'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3943477516257956527</id><published>2007-05-03T01:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-03T01:49:56.255-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='postcards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new grad  wishes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new graduate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='graduation ecards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flash graduation greetings'/><title type='text'>Wish happy Graduation to Your Friends</title><content type='html'>All the hard work is done and college is over. Now it's time for all the grads to don the robe, put on the cap and have a wonderful Graduation ceremony. Reach to all the new grads you know in their moment of pride and congratulate them on their Graduation with our cool and cute College Graduation ecards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/college_graduation/college3.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_graduation_collgrad/9024-017-03-1042.gif" alt="Wanna Celebrate With You ! Invite your dear ones to the Graduation party of your son/ daughter/ dear one with this elegant ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/college_graduation/college3.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;Wanna Celebrate With You !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/college_graduation/college3.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Invite your dear ones to the Graduation party of your son/ daughter/ dear one with this elegant ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Interactive ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/college_graduation/college5.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_graduation_collgrad/9024-017-05-1062.gif" alt="Scribe Happiness And Success ! A warm and inspiring wish for your son/ daughter/ student/ dear one who has graduated." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/college_graduation/college5.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;"  &gt;  &lt;b&gt;Scribe Happiness And Success !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/college_graduation/college5.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;"  &gt;A warm and inspiring wish for your son/ daughter/ student/ dear one who has graduated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" height="140" width="140"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat;" align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad22.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_graduation_wishes/9024-002-33-1042.gif" alt="Your Hard Work Has Blossomed ! Reach out to the new grads you know with this warm and beautiful ecard." title="Your Hard Work Has Blossomed ! Reach out to the new grads you know with this warm and beautiful ecard." align="absmiddle" border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad22.html" title="Your Hard Work Has Blossomed ! Reach out to the new grads you know with this warm and beautiful ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Your Hard Work Has Blossomed !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad22.html" title="Your Hard Work Has Blossomed ! Reach out to the new grads you know with this warm and beautiful ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Reach out to the new grads you know with this warm and beautiful ecard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad22.html" title="Your Hard Work Has Blossomed ! Reach out to the new grads you know with this warm and beautiful ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" height="140" width="140"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat;" align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad17.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_graduation_wishes/9024-002-28-1062.gif" alt="Reach For The Stars ! Send this cute ecard to appreciate and encourage your friend/ bro/ sis/ loved one who has graduated." title="Reach For The Stars ! Send this cute ecard to appreciate and encourage your friend/ bro/ sis/ loved one who has graduated." align="absmiddle" border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad17.html" title="Reach For The Stars ! Send this cute ecard to appreciate and encourage your friend/ bro/ sis/ loved one who has graduated."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Reach For The Stars !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad17.html" title="Reach For The Stars ! Send this cute ecard to appreciate and encourage your friend/ bro/ sis/ loved one who has graduated."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Send this cute ecard to appreciate and encourage your friend/ bro/ sis/ loved one who has graduated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad17.html" title="Reach For The Stars ! Send this cute ecard to appreciate and encourage your friend/ bro/ sis/ loved one who has graduated."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" height="140" width="140"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat;" align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad16.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_graduation_wishes/9024-002-27-1062.gif" alt="Congrats To You ! Say congratulations to all the proud grads you know with this cool and cute ecard." title="Congrats To You ! Say congratulations to all the proud grads you know with this cool and cute ecard." align="absmiddle" border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad16.html" title="Congrats To You ! Say congratulations to all the proud grads you know with this cool and cute ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Congrats To You !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad16.html" title="Congrats To You ! Say congratulations to all the proud grads you know with this cool and cute ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Say congratulations to all the proud grads you know with this cool and cute ecard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad16.html" title="Congrats To You ! Say congratulations to all the proud grads you know with this cool and cute ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" height="140" width="140"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat;" align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad13.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_graduation_wishes/9024-002-19-1047.gif" alt="May Your Dreams Come True ! Congratulate and encourage all your dear ones who have graduated with this beautiful ecard." title="May Your Dreams Come True ! Congratulate and encourage all your dear ones who have graduated with this beautiful ecard." align="absmiddle" border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad13.html" title="May Your Dreams Come True ! Congratulate and encourage all your dear ones who have graduated with this beautiful ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;May Your Dreams Come True !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad13.html" title="May Your Dreams Come True ! Congratulate and encourage all your dear ones who have graduated with this beautiful ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Congratulate and encourage all your dear ones who have graduated with this beautiful ecard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad13.html" title="May Your Dreams Come True ! Congratulate and encourage all your dear ones who have graduated with this beautiful ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" height="140" width="140"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat;" align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad2.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_graduation_wishes/9024-002-02-1064.gif" alt="Congrats On Graduating ! Appreciate the hard work of your friend/ fellow grad/ bro with this cool ecard." title="Congrats On Graduating ! Appreciate the hard work of your friend/ fellow grad/ bro with this cool ecard." align="absmiddle" border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad2.html" title="Congrats On Graduating ! Appreciate the hard work of your friend/ fellow grad/ bro with this cool ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Congrats On Graduating !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad2.html" title="Congrats On Graduating ! Appreciate the hard work of your friend/ fellow grad/ bro with this cool ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Appreciate the hard work of your friend/ fellow grad/ bro with this cool ecard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad2.html" title="Congrats On Graduating ! Appreciate the hard work of your friend/ fellow grad/ bro with this cool ecard."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" height="140" width="140"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat;" align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad21.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emay_graduation_wishes/9024-002-32-1027.gif" alt="Every Day Is Yours ! Make your daughter/ student/ friend feel special on her Graduation with this warm and inspiring wish." title="Every Day Is Yours ! Make your daughter/ student/ friend feel special on her Graduation with this warm and inspiring wish." align="absmiddle" border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad21.html" title="Every Day Is Yours ! Make your daughter/ student/ friend feel special on her Graduation with this warm and inspiring wish."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Every Day Is Yours !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad21.html" title="Every Day Is Yours ! Make your daughter/ student/ friend feel special on her Graduation with this warm and inspiring wish."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Make your daughter/ student/ friend feel special on her Graduation with this warm and inspiring wish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/graduation_month/wishes/grad21.html" title="Every Day Is Yours ! Make your daughter/ student/ friend feel special on her Graduation with this warm and inspiring wish."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3943477516257956527?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3943477516257956527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3943477516257956527&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3943477516257956527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3943477516257956527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/wish-happy-graduation-to-your-friends.html' title='Wish happy Graduation to Your Friends'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-460353481599597041</id><published>2007-05-02T03:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-02T04:08:58.086-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wisdom of Friendship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buddha on friendship'/><title type='text'>Wisdom of Friendship</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/buddha_purnima/emay_buddhapurnima_pcard2.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 404px; height: 220px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emay_buddhapurnima/8899-001-04-1081.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/buddha_purnima/emay_buddhapurnima_pcard2.html"&gt;Send this Buddha Purnima eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Tommrrow is Buddha Purnima -- the most sacred day in the Buddhists regard every full moon as sacred by the full moon of the months between April - May is very special significance because Buddha was born, attained enlightenment, and attained Nirvana when he died on this day. It is this strange, three fold coincidence that makes Buddha Purnima to be very important.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Buddha often talked about what friendship is and what a good friend is supposed to be in his teachings. He also said, "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." A good friend gives a kind of happiness by knowing the fact that we are all connected inside. That's what a good friend is really all about.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;A true friend helps us when we're in need. They protect us. A good friend is a refuge in life. A friend who is constantly there no matter we're facing happiness or sorrow or trouble in our lives. We share secrets in friendship and the friend will not betray our secrets - in fact, good friends warn us when we're treading on dangerous roads. This sort of a friend is a gift.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emay_buddhapurnima/8899-001_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emay_buddhapurnima/8899-001-02-1052.swf" quality="high" width="450" height="250" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/buddha_purnima/buddha2.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-460353481599597041?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-1900259573065452493</id><published>2007-05-01T04:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-01T04:58:32.828-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wish You Were Here'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wanna Be Friends'/><title type='text'>Test 4</title><content type='html'>Test 4 Posting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-1900259573065452493?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1900259573065452493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=1900259573065452493&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/1900259573065452493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/1900259573065452493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/test-4.html' title='Test 4'/><author><name>Casey Galatos</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OaqdE0BYMac/R4dE_Dx3RqI/AAAAAAAAAFY/CjtkLKqgGDQ/S220/Casey_Galatos.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-669211014344287517</id><published>2007-05-01T04:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-01T04:57:53.256-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sorry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Missing You'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thanks Friend'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Smiles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Let&apos;s Get Together'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pen pals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spanish Whishes for Friendship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship quotes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Teen Friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Special Friends'/><title type='text'>Test 3</title><content type='html'>Test 3 posting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-669211014344287517?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/669211014344287517/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=669211014344287517&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/669211014344287517'/><link 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term='angel friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship Angels'/><title type='text'>Test 1</title><content type='html'>Test 1 posting&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7378273668544125017?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7378273668544125017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7378273668544125017&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7378273668544125017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7378273668544125017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/test-1.html' title='Test 1'/><author><name>Casey Galatos</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_OaqdE0BYMac/R4dE_Dx3RqI/AAAAAAAAAFY/CjtkLKqgGDQ/S220/Casey_Galatos.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3219901339311941201</id><published>2007-04-27T03:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-27T05:16:55.155-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='end of friendship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='death of a friendship'/><title type='text'>How to end a friendship</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/thoughts30.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 445px; height: 275px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012-52-1069.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/thoughts30.html"&gt;Send friendship thoughts this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wrote about Death of a Friendship yesterday so I wanted to tell you more of how to end a friendship. "Breaking up with a friend is a lot like breaking up with a boyfriend" says Emily Battaglia -- and she's right. But sometimes ending a friendship is the healthy thing to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She writes in her article that, "A great friendship may be few and far between, but if you’re lucky enough to cultivate one, you are truly blessed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that's not the only thing that's assured in life right? Just like friendship that lasts forever.  We have our life journeys, people grow up, they change.  Ms. Battaglia even goes to the point that in the long run the friendship that's running a bad course might becomes counter-productive. She calls it the 'toxic friendship'. Read her article on &lt;a href="http://www.lifescript.com/channels/healthy_living/life_tips/ending_a_friendship.asp?page=1"&gt;How to End a Fading Friendship.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012-57-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/thoughts35.html"&gt;Send this friendship thoughts eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3219901339311941201?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3219901339311941201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3219901339311941201&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3219901339311941201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3219901339311941201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-end-friendship.html' title='How to end a friendship'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-8819393923104956067</id><published>2007-04-26T00:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-26T01:35:52.500-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='end of friendship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='death of a friendship'/><title type='text'>Death of a Friendship</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 127px; height: 127px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_thoughts/1029-012-25-1067.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The sad part of friendships, and it is a sad reality is that they do die. You need to cultivate your friendships and keep them going Here's a friendship poem by Brenda Sparkman -- You should go to the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.inspiringthots.net/movie/friendship-d.php"&gt;Death of a Friendship&lt;/a&gt; page to really get the feel and the scenery of the whole poem. Here's the text part:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/friend_thoughts_ani16.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 385px; height: 230px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012-22-1042.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/friend_thoughts_ani16.html"&gt;Send this friendship thoughts eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.sassy4daze.com/"&gt;Death of A friendship &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;by Brenda Sparkman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;Your letters seem like form letters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;I get in the mail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;I try not to let it bother me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;but my feelings are quite frail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;No salutaion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;No how do you do,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;No real ending&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;or what is happening with you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;So much that has happened.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;All now forever in the past.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;I tried again to write to you,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;but how much longer can it last.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;I try to keep my letters upbeat,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;doing my best to not complain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;I talk about other things&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;the leaves, the wind, the rain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;Did it really mean that much&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;or was I just unaware.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;I tried my best to be a friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;but you do not seem to care.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;I felt we had a bond&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;I shared with you my pain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;Then when i had to ask a favor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;right away I felt a strain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;I had broken one of your rules&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;and I did not even know.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;Somthing came up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;and you would not let go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;So now the bond is broken&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;and I must move on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;The pain is real, it hurts so much&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;For the death of a friendship that now gone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;It shouldn't end this way&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed 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title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=8819393923104956067&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8819393923104956067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8819393923104956067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/death-of-friendship.html' title='Death of a Friendship'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2922487967971009790</id><published>2007-04-25T02:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-25T02:15:09.531-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship quotes'/><title type='text'>Friendship Quotes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_quotes/1029-027-26-1069.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 107px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_quotes/1029-027-26-1069.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; found the &lt;a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friendship"&gt;friendship quote&lt;/a&gt; page in WikiQuote. It's really great and it's a source that I didn't know before. Here are a couple of friendship quotes from Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start. -- Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Oeuvres poétiques&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;A friend in need's a friend indeed. -- Pure Morning, a song by Placebo&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity. -- The Bible, Proverbs 17:17 (NRSV)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother. -- Proverbs 17:17 (WEB)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. -- Anaïs Nin, Diary entry, March 1937&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. -- Jacques Delille, Malheur at Pitié (Canto I), 1803&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Friendship is not for merriment but for stern reproach when friends go astray. -- Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 784&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,&lt;br /&gt;And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib, A Hundred Sayings&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. -- Still Remains, a song by Stone Temple Pilots&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;I get by with a little help from my friends. -- With a Little Help from My Friends, a song by The Beatles&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success — yours or his. -- Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, 29 November 1953&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. -- The Bible, Proverbs 18:24&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Think where man's glory most begins and ends,&lt;br /&gt;And say my glory was I had such friends. -- William Butler Yeats, The Municipal Gallery Re-Visited&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. -- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. -- Richard Bach, Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. -- Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;EMBED src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_quotes/1029-027_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_quotes/1029-027-24-1068.swf" quality=high width="450" height="250" bgcolor="" menu=false wmode=Transparent type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/quotes/frquote24.html"&gt;Send this friendship eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. -- The Bible, Hebrews 13:2&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. -- Attributed to Sun Tzu, may also be an interpretation of text contained in The Prince&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." -- The Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:4&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. -- The Bible, John 15:13&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;EMBED src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_quotes/1029-027_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_quotes/1029-027-23-1068.swf" quality=high width="450" height="250" bgcolor="" menu=false wmode=Transparent type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/quotes/frquote23.html"&gt;Send this friendship eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2922487967971009790?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2922487967971009790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2922487967971009790&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2922487967971009790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2922487967971009790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/friendship-quotes.html' title='Friendship Quotes'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2515886891932713047</id><published>2007-04-24T01:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-24T02:02:52.920-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boyfriends and girlfriends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='first kiss'/><title type='text'>Remember Your First Kiss</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/yourfirstkissday/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 112px; height: 112px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/eapr_firstkissday/7213-001-03-1100.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"  &gt;D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;o you remember your first kiss? Of course you do! Don't lie. I had mine in Junior High -- you know in 8th Grade when you're in 'senior year' and you're supposed to have a 'boyfriend'? Well those were fun days. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.whereihadmyfirstkiss.com/"&gt;Where I Had My First Kiss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; is a site I found where they're mapping first kisses around the world. It's kinda like a neat message boards with all the accounts of first kisses. It's Pretty neat idea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x375.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eapr_firstkissday/7213-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eapr_firstkissday/7213-001-03-1100.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="275" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/yourfirstkissday/kiss1.html"&gt;Send this First Kiss eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/yourfirstkissday/"&gt;Remember your first kiss day&lt;/a&gt; is also around the corner -- on April 26th! Most likely we had our first kiss with our best friends at the time. So don't forget them...&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x400.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eapr_firstkissday/7213-001_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eapr_firstkissday/7213-001-04-1100.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="300" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/yourfirstkissday/kiss2.html"&gt;Send this Remember Your First Kiss eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2515886891932713047?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2515886891932713047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2515886891932713047&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2515886891932713047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2515886891932713047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/remember-your-first-kiss.html' title='Remember Your First Kiss'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-1751746229354984678</id><published>2007-04-23T03:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T03:16:03.092-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Women friendships'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='women friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships'/><title type='text'>Five Friends Every Woman Should Have</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;"Friends are the family we choose for ourselves," writer Edna Buchanan once said. I consider the "family" I've gathered—with five kinds of pals I count on for completely different things—among the wisest choices I've made. If you can find even one who embodies any of the characteristics that follow, you can consider yourself fortunate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. The Uplifter &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This woman's favorite word: &lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt;. You could tell her you're trading your six-figure income for a career in offtrack betting, and she'd barely pause before yelping "Go for it!" Don't you need someone who looks past the love handles to notice the extraordinarily gorgeous you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. The Travel Buddy &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the hotel in St. Lucia is a bust, one characteristic becomes all-important: flexibility. This agreeable companion need not be the girl you traded pinkie swears with on the playground; it's enough that she's comfortable with quiet (between gabfests) and is a teensy bit mischievous (as in tequila after midnight).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. The Truth Teller &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Intent is what separates the constructive from the abusive. Once you've established that the hard news is spoken in love (not in jealousy or malice), you'd be smart to seek out this woman's perspective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/between_women/friend_betweenwomen_ani4.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 461px; height: 277px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_betweenwomen/1029-024-08-1060.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/between_women/friend_betweenwomen_ani4.html"&gt;Send this friendship between women eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. The Girl Who Just Wants to Have Fun&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One Saturday a pal and I—and yes, we're both over age 12—pored over every glitter lip gloss in a drugstore aisle for an entire 45 minutes. Forget the crisis download (for that, see the Uplifter); this partnership is about spontaneous good times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. The Unlikely Friend&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive," Anaïs Nin wrote. My friends—some twice my age, others half, some rich, others homeless, some black like me, others Korean, Mexican, Caucasian—have added richness to my life that only variety can bring.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://www.oprah.com/relationships/relationships_content.jhtml?contentId=con_200505_5friends.xml"&gt;Oprah.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_betweenwomen/1029-024_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_betweenwomen/1029-024-18-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/between_women/sis16.html"&gt;Send this friendship betwene women eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-1751746229354984678?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1751746229354984678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=1751746229354984678&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/1751746229354984678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/1751746229354984678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/five-friends-every-woman-should-have.html' title='Five Friends Every Woman Should Have'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-4539041170557247829</id><published>2007-04-21T02:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-21T02:47:43.888-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Secretary&apos;s day Greetings For Your Friends'/><title type='text'>Secretary's day Greetings For Your Friends</title><content type='html'>Administrative Professionals' Day (previously known as Secretary's Day) is an unofficial secular holiday observed on the third or fourth Wednesday of April (i.e. April 26, 2006; April 25, 2007; to recognize the work of clerical employees such as administrative assistants, receptionists, paralegals, etc. It is celebrated as part of a larger Administrative Professionals Week, which takes place&lt;br /&gt;In the United States, Administrative Professionals Day® is a registered trademark with the serial number 75898930. The registrant is the International Association of Administrative Professionals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;n the United States, the day is often celebrated by giving one's assistant flowers, candy, small gifts, or lunch at a restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the United States, Administrative Professionals Day® is a registered trademark with the serial number 75898930. The registrant is the International Association of Administrative Professionals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Send These  Classy cards to your co workers , your support staff and your secretary/admin professional to let them know that your thankful for all their assistance they have given you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;      &lt;td&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/eapr_adminprofday_wishes_pcard3.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/eapr_adminprofday_wishes/8857-002-10-1062.gif" alt="Thank You For Your Hard Work ! Wish a very special admin pro you know with a warm and heartfelt Thank You." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/eapr_adminprofday_wishes_pcard3.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Thank You For Your Hard Work !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/eapr_adminprofday_wishes_pcard3.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Wish a very special admin pro you know with a warm and heartfelt Thank You.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Postcard ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish7.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/eapr_adminprofday_wishes/8857-002-13-1042.gif" alt="A Pleasure Working With You ! A warm and beautiful ecard to wish your secretary/ admin officers/ colleagues on Admin Pro Day." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish7.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;A Pleasure Working With You !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish7.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;A warm and beautiful ecard to wish your secretary/ admin officers/ colleagues on Admin Pro Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish24.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/eapr_adminprofday_wishes/8857-002-31-1062.gif" alt="Happy Administrative Professionals Day® ! Wish all the admin pros you know with a bunch of beautiful flowers." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish24.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Happy Administrative Professionals Day® !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish24.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Wish all the admin pros you know with a bunch of beautiful flowers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/eapr_adminprofday_wishes_pcard1.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/eapr_adminprofday_wishes/8857-002-05-1052.gif" alt="Wish From My Cubicle To Yours... Reach out to your colleagues/ friends on Admin Pro Day with this cute ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/eapr_adminprofday_wishes_pcard1.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Wish From My Cubicle To Yours...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/eapr_adminprofday_wishes_pcard1.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Reach out to your colleagues/ friends on Admin Pro Day with this cute ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Postcard ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish10.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/eapr_adminprofday_wishes/8857-002-18-1047.gif" alt="Perfect Time To Wish You ! Tell your secretary/ colleague what a pleasure it is to work with him/ her with this beautiful Admin Pro Day ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish10.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Perfect Time To Wish You !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish10.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Tell your secretary/ colleague what a pleasure it is to work with him/ her with this beautiful Admin Pro Day ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish9.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/eapr_adminprofday_wishes/8857-002-17-1062.gif" alt="Happy Admin Pro Day ! Bring on the smiles of all the admin pros you know with this cute ecard." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish9.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Happy Admin Pro Day !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish9.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Bring on the smiles of all the admin pros you know with this cute ecard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish5.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/eapr_adminprofday_wishes/8857-002-06-1062.gif" alt="Happy Admin Pro Day To You ! Send this smart ecard to wish all the administrative professionals you know on their special day." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish5.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Happy Admin Pro Day To You !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/wish5.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;Send this smart ecard to wish all the administrative professionals you know on their special day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Flash ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;table height="140" width="140"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" background="http://img.123greetings.com/images/imgback_thumb.gif"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/eapr_adminprofday_wishes_ani6.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/eapr_adminprofday_wishes/8857-002-21-1062.gif" alt="SOS Or Call Of Duty... A special compliment for an ace admin pro who is also a great friend." border="0" height="115" width="115" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="middle" width="21%"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/eapr_adminprofday_wishes_ani6.html"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;  &lt;b&gt;SOS Or Call Of Duty...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/administrative_professionals_day/wishes/eapr_adminprofday_wishes_ani6.html"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:MS SANS SERIF;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"&gt;A special compliment for an ace admin pro who is also a great friend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ Animated ]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-4539041170557247829?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4539041170557247829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=4539041170557247829&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4539041170557247829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4539041170557247829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/secretarys-day-greetings-for-your.html' title='Secretary&apos;s day Greetings For Your Friends'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-9052699104117249447</id><published>2007-04-20T03:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T03:50:19.913-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships in need'/><title type='text'>What are friends for?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/thank_you/friendship/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/thank_friendship/2232-005-07-1084.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;What are your friends for? Do you ever ask yourself that? Sometimes you get caught up with things that are sad or stressful like the recent events that have shocked the nation. And you look for answers that are not there. Things may happen for a reason or they may not have one at all but friends are there. And friendships are there for a reason. Here's a video of Westlife -- it's an old song done in a different way but that song never grows old for me. For good times and bad times that's what friends are for...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8G0hWEMVLpI"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8G0hWEMVLpI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;And don't forget to appreciate your friendships, cultivate them.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/friend18.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 417px; height: 271px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_foryou/1029-014-24-1069.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/friend18.html"&gt;Send this friendship eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;And remember, keep smiling, keep shining!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/thank_you/friendship/friendship6.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 457px; height: 270px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/thank_friendship/2232-005-06-1084.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/thank_you/friendship/friendship6.html"&gt;Send this friendship eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-9052699104117249447?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/9052699104117249447/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=9052699104117249447&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/9052699104117249447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/9052699104117249447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-are-friends-for.html' title='What are friends for?'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-899180579897677878</id><published>2007-04-19T02:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T03:04:46.347-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship bracelet'/><title type='text'>Celebrate Friendships by Making Friendship Bracelets!</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_your_special_friend/friend22.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 407px; height: 362px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_specialfriend/1029-009-65-1069.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_your_special_friend/friend22.html"&gt;Send this friendship eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mediamessage.com/kayton/GirlScouts/bracelet2.htm"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.mediamessage.com/kayton/GirlScouts/Images/Bracelet2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use four colors of string - two strands of each color, each about one yard in length.  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;1.  Start by making the overhand knot and installing the string on your clipboard - arrange the strings with matching colors next to each other.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;2.  For this project the two strings of the same color will be used together as if they're one string.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;3.  Start with the first two strings on the right and use them together to do the basic knot around all the other strings held together as a group. Pull the knot tight. Repeat these knots until you have a single color slide about one inch long.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;4.  Then use the next pair of strings to knot around all the others for an inch length also. Continue this way until your bracelet is as long as you wish. End your bracelet as usual with the overhand knot.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Check out more &lt;a href="http://www.mediamessage.com/kayton/GirlScouts/bracelet.htm"&gt;friendship bracelets&lt;/a&gt; from the Girl Scouts!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_specialfriend/1029-009_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_specialfriend/1029-009-48-1042.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_your_special_friend/friendecard.html"&gt;Send this friendship eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-899180579897677878?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/899180579897677878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=899180579897677878&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/899180579897677878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/899180579897677878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/celebrate-friendships-by-making.html' title='Celebrate Friendships by Making Friendship Bracelets!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2910912926049608160</id><published>2007-04-18T02:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-18T02:39:03.676-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanitarian mission'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friend ship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships'/><title type='text'>Friend Ships in Action</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 129px; height: 129px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/thank_friendship/2232-005-05-1084.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://friendships.org/"&gt;Friend Ships&lt;/a&gt; define the old saying of &lt;i&gt;"a friend in need is a friend indeed."&lt;/i&gt; It's an organization that's made up of ships which are ready for disaster releif and humanitarian aid.  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Friend Ships grew from Park West Children's Fund in 1983. The charity sponsored special programs for battered, abused and handicapped children. In 1985 Park West got MV Spirit -- a 5000 Ocean going cargo ship and started its international missions of mercy. It first distributed food for the needy people in the US and spread worldwide.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/friend19.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 428px; height: 272px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_foryou/1029-014-25-1068.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/friend19.html"&gt;Send this Friendship eCard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Now, Friend Ships have missions for disaster relief to Isreal, Haiti and Honduras. Friend Ships provide food, water, medical supplies and materials for emergency shelters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_foryou/1029-014_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_foryou/1029-014-23-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/friend_foryou_ani21.html"&gt;Send this Friendship eCard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2910912926049608160?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2910912926049608160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2910912926049608160&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2910912926049608160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2910912926049608160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/friend-ships-in-action.html' title='Friend Ships in Action'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2223684669112006688</id><published>2007-04-17T03:35:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-17T03:35:55.929-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship poem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship'/><title type='text'>The meaning of friendship</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;I found this great friendship poem I'm going to post it so you can enjoy it too. It's really cool.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;The meaning of friendship  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;As beautiful as snow on the hills,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;As deep as the ocean so blue,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;As warm as the summer sun.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;With everyday something new&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;As we share a thought or smile,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;An idea, a book or star.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;No matter what the distance&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Be it close or very far.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A friend for life I will be&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;And this comes from the heart.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_poetry/1029-023_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_poetry/1029-023-12-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/poetry/poetry6.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2223684669112006688?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2223684669112006688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2223684669112006688&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2223684669112006688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2223684669112006688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/meaning-of-friendship.html' title='The meaning of friendship'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-8945912845633162913</id><published>2007-04-16T01:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-16T02:01:51.097-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship network'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='world peace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goodwill'/><title type='text'>Frienships for Goodwill and World Peace</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/smiles/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 104px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_smiles/1029-028-06-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;H&lt;/span&gt;ow about this idea for friendship – global goodwill and world peace through friendship. Neat right? That's what &lt;a href="http://www.friendshipforce.org/"&gt;Friendship Force International&lt;/a&gt; is all about. Their total aim is to have world peace through the world of friends and a global friendship network.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_smiles/1029-028_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_smiles/1029-028-17-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/smiles/frsmile17.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;It was established in 1977 with the support and endorsement of President Jimmy Carter and has grown into a friendship network of diverse people and cultures in more than 60 countries. The Friednship Force International was even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;And you know what the best part is about Friendship Force International? Club members get to travel! Check out the &lt;a href="http://www.friendshipforce.org/"&gt;Friendship Force International &lt;/a&gt;site for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_smiles/1029-028_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_smiles/1029-028-06-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/smiles/frsmile6.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-8945912845633162913?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8945912845633162913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=8945912845633162913&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8945912845633162913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8945912845633162913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/frienships-for-goodwill-and-world-peace.html' title='Frienships for Goodwill and World Peace'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-5640372501091376395</id><published>2007-04-14T01:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T01:55:20.513-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship images'/><title type='text'>Friendship Images</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3ec.us/creatingfun/imgs/friendship"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://3ec.us/creatingfun/imgs/albums/friendship/monkey_friends.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Did you like that picture? I found this great image depository of &lt;a href="http://3ec.us/creatingfun/imgs/friendship"&gt;friends and friendships&lt;/a&gt;. They contain a lot of images that you can share with your friends online. Enjoy and happy weekend!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/gen_weekend_friends/1012-049_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/gen_weekend_friends/1012-049-04-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/general/enjoy_the_weekend/friends/friends2.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/general/enjoy_the_weekend/friends/gen_weekend_friends_ani4.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 389px; height: 324px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/gen_weekend_friends/1012-049-03-1069.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/general/enjoy_the_weekend/friends/gen_weekend_friends_ani4.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-5640372501091376395?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5640372501091376395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=5640372501091376395&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5640372501091376395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5640372501091376395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/friendship-images.html' title='Friendship Images'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-7971178780453718215</id><published>2007-04-13T01:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-13T02:00:48.610-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship dilemmas'/><title type='text'>Friendships vs. Boyfriends or Girlfriends</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/friends_forever/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 116px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_friendsforever/1029-033-06-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;I '&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;stumbled upon&lt;/span&gt;' a great blog – &lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://theimperfectmom.com/"&gt;I'm the Perfect Mom&lt;/a&gt; today by Jenn. And in her post Why friends will never win over boyfriends or girlfriends, she writes about her roommate and a guy who was cheating on her roommate.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_friendsforever/1029-033_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_friendsforever/1029-033-05-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/friends_forever/friends3.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Now some of us have gone over this dilemma before. Whether to tell our friend that his or her boyfriend or girlfriend is no good for them. Sometimes some people are not compatible. Sometimes it's more complicated like when you know for sure that your friend's been cheated on. So then what do you do? Are you like Jenn who would stick out for your friend or are you a person who would just bite your tongue and pray everything comes out ok?  Holla back!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_friendsforever/1029-033_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_friendsforever/1029-033-03-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/friends_forever/friends1.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7971178780453718215?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7971178780453718215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7971178780453718215&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7971178780453718215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7971178780453718215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/friendships-vs-boyfriends-or.html' title='Friendships vs. Boyfriends or Girlfriends'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-6794214797992941984</id><published>2007-04-12T01:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T01:54:43.538-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social networks'/><title type='text'>To Acquire or not to Acquire – Yahoo's dilemma</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Fred Stutzman of &lt;a href="http://claimid.com/"&gt;claimID&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/"&gt;Unit Structures&lt;/a&gt; wrote about Yahoo! not acquiring &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;. I really like Facebook better than the rest of the social network sites because they have more security features in place than the other social networks. There are also more 'in house' activities available like giving virtual gifts, poking, networking and organizing events. More than those, the best part about Facebook is the design aesthetics – it's not messy like MySpace and other social networks.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;A lot of analysts like Needham &amp; Co. said that Yahoo! is missing the target by not acquiring Facebook. You can &lt;a href="http://www.needhamco.com/Research/Documents/CPY25924.pdf"&gt;read their report here&lt;/a&gt;. In the &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/yahoo.html"&gt;Wired article&lt;/a&gt;, Fred Vogelstein retraces the Yahoo – Google history and explains the recent history of how Yahoo was not able to buy Google. And how Google became ahead of the search engine wars.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_netpals/1029-013_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_netpals/1029-013-24-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/net_pals/net21.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All that aside, the only problem I have with Yahoo acquiring Facebook is that it'll become so blown up and filled with spam. Like how &lt;a href="http://mybloglog.com/"&gt;MyBlogLog&lt;/a&gt; had become. A couple of folks had been testing MyBlogLog on whether it can sustain spam or not and that's great bu the result is it still has lots of spam comments. (Yahoo recently acquired MyBlogLog)    &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;So there you have it, I think Facebook should stay they way it is and give IPOs only when it's ready. What do you think? Should Yahoo really go for it or would you rather have Facebook wait? Fred Stutzman thinks that it's a &lt;a href="http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2007/04/thinking-about-yahoos-acquisition-of.html"&gt;deadly proposition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2007/04/thinking-about-yahoos-acquisition-of.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Holla back!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/net_pals/net22.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 394px; height: 236px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_netpals/1029-013-22-1069.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/net_pals/net22.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-6794214797992941984?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6794214797992941984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=6794214797992941984&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6794214797992941984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6794214797992941984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/to-acquire-or-not-to-acquire-yahoos.html' title='To Acquire or not to Acquire – Yahoo&apos;s dilemma'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-8307037067122611843</id><published>2007-04-11T02:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T03:53:36.129-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='civil rights'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships'/><title type='text'>Friendships During the Civil Rights Movement</title><content type='html'>Today is the anniversary of the signing of the Civil Right Act of 1968. It's a follow up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Right Act of 1968 prohibited the following forms of discrimination:&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion or national origin. People with disabilities and families with children were added to the list of protected classes by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Discrimination against a person in the terms, conditions or privilege of the sale or rental of a dwelling.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Advertising the sale or rental of a dwelling indicating preference of discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin (and, as of 1988, people with disabilities and families with children.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coercing, threatening, intimidating, or interfering with a person's enjoyment or exercise of housing rights based on discriminatory reasons or retaliating against a person or organization that aids or encourages the exercise or enjoyment of fair housing rights.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;        &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/civil_rights_day/civilrightsday2.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 365px; height: 325px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eapr_civilrightsday/9970-001-05-1081.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/civil_rights_day/civilrightsday2.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;You can read more at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968"&gt;wiki site&lt;/a&gt;. You'd think that they would've included everything in the first Civil Rights act but they didn't. Due to some federal laws people of color were not able to acquire a place to stay just because of the draconian laws. I can't imagine my friends not having a place to stay just because they're black or Hispanic. Some say that the bill was pushed by the fact that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; – just a week before.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Reading about them got me thinking the Civil Rights Movement wouldn't be successful if blacks and whites were not friends. These friendships no matter what color your skin is forged bonds that made a better future for kids. Now you and me can have friends no matter what color skin we have!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;EMBED src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_quotes/1029-027_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_quotes/1029-027-23-1068.swf" quality=high width="450" height="250" bgcolor="" menu=false wmode=Transparent type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/quotes/frquote23.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-8307037067122611843?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8307037067122611843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=8307037067122611843&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8307037067122611843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8307037067122611843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/friendships-during-civil-rights.html' title='Friendships During the Civil Rights Movement'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-915279298863440494</id><published>2007-04-10T03:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T04:03:42.921-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship poetry'/><title type='text'>Friendship Poetry</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;April is National Poetry Month! Inspired by Desi Girl's poetry, I'm going to post more friendship poems this month – so stay tuned and check in often!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/poetry/fpoetry17.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 403px; height: 360px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_poetry/1029-023-25-1068.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/poetry/fpoetry17.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;A friend is someone we turn to&lt;br /&gt;when our spirits need a lift.&lt;br /&gt;A friend is someone we treasure&lt;br /&gt;for our friendship is a gift.&lt;br /&gt;A friend is someone who fills our lives&lt;br /&gt;with beauty, joy, and grace.&lt;br /&gt;And makes the whole world we live in&lt;br /&gt;a better and happier place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-- Jean Kyler McManus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;EMBED src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_poetry/1029-023_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_poetry/1029-023-27-1069.swf" quality=high width="450" height="250" bgcolor="" menu=false wmode=Transparent type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/poetry/fpoetry19.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-915279298863440494?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/915279298863440494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=915279298863440494&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/915279298863440494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/915279298863440494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/friendship-poetry.html' title='Friendship Poetry'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-5025654048552871102</id><published>2007-04-09T00:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-09T01:20:04.595-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guest post'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='what price friendship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship poem'/><title type='text'>What Price Friendship?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#660000;"&gt;I found a great poem over at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://desigirlposts.blogspot.com/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Desi Girl's blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#660000;"&gt; and asked her if I could re-post her poem. She gave me the permission so here it is! (YAY!) I just really love this poem. Thanks Desi Girl. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#660000;"&gt;If you have the answer to the question please feel free to leave it in the comments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://desigirlposts.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-price-friendship.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3333ff;"&gt;What Price Friendship?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quiet giggles in a corner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shared jokes&lt;br /&gt;Laughter and Yeats over a samosa&lt;br /&gt;Bust-ups and making up&lt;br /&gt;Those were the days when anything went&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angry words soon forgotten&lt;br /&gt;Insults that never stuck&lt;br /&gt;Fights and arguments the norm&lt;br /&gt;But the feelings remained the same&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time passed&lt;br /&gt;People changed&lt;br /&gt;With it, the nature of friendship&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Words became barbs&lt;br /&gt;Looks did kill&lt;br /&gt;Patience and love, non-existant.&lt;br /&gt;This isn’t friendship&lt;br /&gt;This isn’t relationship&lt;br /&gt;This is nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so,&lt;br /&gt;here we are today,&lt;br /&gt;askingwhat price friendship?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;EMBED src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_specialfriend/1029-009_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_specialfriend/1029-009-60-1068.swf" quality=high width="450" height="250" bgcolor="" menu=false wmode=Transparent type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_your_special_friend/friend17.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-5025654048552871102?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5025654048552871102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=5025654048552871102&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5025654048552871102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5025654048552871102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-price-friendship.html' title='What Price Friendship?'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-5691608259719293051</id><published>2007-04-06T05:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-06T05:40:19.381-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship in Jesus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='religious friends'/><title type='text'>Friendship in Jesus</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/good_friday/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 115px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/eapr_goodfriday/8826-001-41-1062.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I go off from blogosphere this weekend I'd like to share something with you. It's Chonda Pierce's "What a friend we have in Jesus". We count on human or earthly friendships so much that sometimes we forget the fact that we have a friend in Jesus. Chonda tells us exactly that in her testimony. So when you're down and out, don't forget that you can always call on Him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7mALemrMgcg"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7mALemrMgcg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/good_friday/eapr_goodfriday_ani6.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 419px; height: 392px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eapr_goodfriday/8826-001-32-1042.gif" alt="Send this Good Friday free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/good_friday/eapr_goodfriday_ani6.html"&gt;Send this Good Friday eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-5691608259719293051?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5691608259719293051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=5691608259719293051&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5691608259719293051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5691608259719293051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/friendship-in-jesus.html' title='Friendship in Jesus'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-7602560408395980682</id><published>2007-04-04T09:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-04T09:55:25.037-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='easter wishes for Your Friends'/><title type='text'>Easter Wishes and Easter Greetings</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/easter"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eapr_easter_happy/8869-002-25-1021.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://easterwishes.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Easter is here . If You do want to send Easter Greeting cards Check out this Blog  at &lt;a href="http://easterwishes.blogspot.com/"&gt;Easter Wishes and Easter Greetings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7602560408395980682?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7602560408395980682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7602560408395980682&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7602560408395980682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7602560408395980682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/easter-wishes-and-easter-greetings.html' title='Easter Wishes and Easter Greetings'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-4958763565374046600</id><published>2007-04-04T03:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-04T03:49:46.848-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maintain friendships'/><title type='text'>Maintain friendships by Keeping in touch with Friends</title><content type='html'>Friendships go through trials when someone moves away or move out. It's just apart of life whether we're growing up, going away  to college or changing jobs. Instead of just missing them, here are quick 5 things you can do to keep your friendship alive though state, national and international boundaries.  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Call them often&lt;/span&gt;. It's an old cliché when we say 'it's just a phone call away' but how often do you take the time and have really called your long lost friend? Now's the time, just grab the phone and call.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Email &lt;/span&gt;– the best, cheapest and fastest way to keep friendships alive is email. We all get on the internet and check our emails. Get to that contact list of yours and email him or her once in a while. Even if it's junk mail about friends and friendships – they'll brighten the person's day and will tell them that you're thinking of them. Better yet, you can choose any of the ecards on my blog and send them! Spread the love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cards and Notes&lt;/span&gt; --  You can get to any stationery store and get a box of cards and notes. All you have to do is write to your friends once in a while put a stamp and mail it! How long is that going to take? 30 minutes at the max. It's personal, it's cute and it'll help with your friendship.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_wishyou/1029-019_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_wishyou/1029-019-05-1040.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/wish_you_were_here/wish1.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Small Gifts&lt;/span&gt; – Who wouldn't be happy to receive a gift? Since friendship is the gift that keeps on giving, why not share it too. With small gifts you can send your love on your friend's birthday, anniversary or just because and they won't burn your pocket.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Annual Get Togethers &lt;/span&gt;– This is the best way to meet in person – to make it a point to really get together with your classmates or childhood friends.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_wishyou/1029-019_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_wishyou/1029-019-08-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/wish_you_were_here/wish4.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-4958763565374046600?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4958763565374046600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=4958763565374046600&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4958763565374046600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4958763565374046600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/maintain-friendships-by-keeping-in.html' title='Maintain friendships by Keeping in touch with Friends'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3206284836577860263</id><published>2007-04-02T02:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-02T03:05:44.245-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship and fun'/><title type='text'>Friendships and fun</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/april_fools_day/friends/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 107px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_funny/1029-025-18-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;F&lt;/span&gt;riendships can't survive without fun. Sometimes we just have to be silly and play some pranks and jokes on our friends, because we love them that much. Humor keeps friendships healthy and fun. Here's a story of two famous friends...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" &gt;Sherlock Holmes and Watson are camping in the desert; they set up their tent and fall asleep. Some hours later, Sherlock Holmes wakes his friend.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;"Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Watson replies, "Me see millions of stars."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;"What does that tell you?" asks Sherlock Holmes.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Watson ponders for a minute.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;"Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo. Time wise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three. Theologically, it's evident the Lord is all powerful and we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you,?"&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Sherlock Holmes is silent for a moment, then speaks.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;"&gt;"Watson, you idiot, someone has stolen our tent."  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Read more &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.famousfriendshipquotes.com/humor.html"&gt;friendship humor stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eapr_aprilfoolsday_friends/8829-003_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/eapr_aprilfoolsday_friends/8829-003-12-1086.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/april_fools_day/friends/friends12.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3206284836577860263?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3206284836577860263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3206284836577860263&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3206284836577860263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3206284836577860263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/friendships-and-fun.html' title='Friendships and fun'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-4529918708432995828</id><published>2007-03-30T01:51:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T02:02:52.848-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship and crushes'/><title type='text'>Friend or Crush and how should you proceed?</title><content type='html'>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 121px; height: 121px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/efeb_valen_crushes/8701-028-03-1021.gif" alt="friendship blog" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"  &gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;ometimes friendships between friends become so smooth that it's too good to be true. Sometimes those friendships cross the line and become something else. What do you do when you start falling for a friend? There is a fine line that most of us probably have gone through at one time or another. I checked out Yahoo Answers on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070316113720AAPRAiM"&gt;Can you be friends with someone you like?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; It had all sorts of answers from 'yes, you should go ahead with it' to 'no, you'll end up getting hurt'.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_your_special_friend/friend26.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 419px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_specialfriend/1029-009-68-1068.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_your_special_friend/friend26.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Probably the best advice I found was from Toni Coleman's &lt;a href="http://www.sideroad.com/Relationships/friends-crush.html"&gt;Dealing with a Crush on a Friend&lt;/a&gt;. She advises to not ignore, hide your feelings or distance yourself. Ms. Coleman writes that "we cannot be intimate with another while hiding or denying our true feelings and needs to them." And that the choice is always yours -- so choose wisely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_specialfriend/1029-009_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_specialfriend/1029-009-63-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_your_special_friend/friend20.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;My take? You're the best when it comes to making the decision that would effect your friendship. You're in on the ground floor and have the best view so go with your gut feeling. No friendship can start without people liking each other. And you'll form an even stronger bond when a relationship is based on friendship.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;For all you know, your friend also might be having a crush on you!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-4529918708432995828?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4529918708432995828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=4529918708432995828&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4529918708432995828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4529918708432995828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/friend-or-crush-and-how-should-you.html' title='Friend or Crush and how should you proceed?'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3127567550863588181</id><published>2007-03-28T01:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-28T02:02:07.646-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship quotes'/><title type='text'>Encourage and Inspire your friends with famous quotes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 105px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_foryou/1029-014-23-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;F&lt;/span&gt;riendships are never complete without each other consoling or inspiring each other. If you can't use your own words why not quote people? There's something really profound about quoting famous people who either are your role models or who have really inspired you.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/inspiration/inspiration11.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 442px; height: 265px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_inspiration/1029-005-25-1068.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/inspiration/inspiration11.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;"God does not play dice with the universe." --A. Einstein&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;"A miracle is simply a do-it-yourself project." --S. Leek&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;"If the human brain were simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it." --a co-developer of Prozac, quoted from "Listening to Prozac"&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;"You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to live an ordinary life?" --from the movie "Little Women" (Marmee to Jo)&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. -- Henry David Thoreau&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/inspiration/friend_inspiration_ani2.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 384px; height: 341px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_inspiration/1029-005-16-1045.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/inspiration/friend_inspiration_ani2.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3127567550863588181?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3127567550863588181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3127567550863588181&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3127567550863588181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3127567550863588181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/encourage-and-inspire-your-friends-with.html' title='Encourage and Inspire your friends with famous quotes'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3880983904678775476</id><published>2007-03-27T03:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T03:58:20.046-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship during depression'/><title type='text'>12 best things you can say to your depressed friend</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 118px; height: 118px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_sorry/1029-017-07-1068b.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;hen a friend is depressed, the one thing we always want to do is solve the problem. Sometimes that is not the other person wants. Before you jump to being their shrink and not their friend, here's a dozen things you can say to your friends to make him or her feel better.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;li&gt;"I love you!"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; "I care"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"You're not alone in this"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; "I'm not going to leave/abandon you"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; "I understand your pain and I empathize."  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"It will pass, we can ride it out together."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"All I want to do know is give you a hug and a shoulder to cry on.."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"May the strength of the past reflect in your future."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"You are important to me."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"We are not primarily on earth to see through one another, but to see one another through"  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"I understand your pain and I empathize."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"Hey, you're not crazy!"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/friend16.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 429px; height: 257px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_foryou/1029-014-17-1068.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/friend16.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3880983904678775476?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3880983904678775476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3880983904678775476&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3880983904678775476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3880983904678775476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/12-best-things-you-can-say-to-your.html' title='12 best things you can say to your depressed friend'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-93407736330802358</id><published>2007-03-26T03:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T03:30:14.832-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships and health'/><title type='text'>Cultivate Friendships for your Health</title><content type='html'>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/friends_forever/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_friendsforever/1029-033-05-1068.gif" alt="Friends Forever" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;F&lt;/span&gt;riendships keep you healthy. Period. But how can you make the most of your friendships? Friendships can reduce stress and even prolong your life. You have to build a support network of your own – here's how:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Meet people: In the age of cell phones, instant messengers and social networks it's easy not to meet your friends face to face. But meeting people – new and old is so much essential for your support network. The more people you meet, the more friends you will have in your so you're ensured that your friends will be there for you.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Manage your time: Sometimes we feel that we don't have the time, but you know the age old saying – if you don't have time, make time. Get organized and get some time management skills because you need to spend time with your friends in order for your friendships to grow.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_friendsforever/1029-033_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_friendsforever/1029-033-04-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/friends_forever/friends2.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Listen to your friends: Listening in friendships is as important as talking things out. You can build bonds and be supportive to your friends by just listening to them. Just remember these three points when you're listening:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ask questions about their feelings. And just listen.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Respond back by reflecting that you have truly understood.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stop thinking about how to reply or connecting to you experiences and just listen to them.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;    &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Listen to your intuition: In order for friendships to work, you have to listen to yourself too.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Can you communicated properly with your friend?  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Does he or she support you and understand you?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Are you supportive and understand them in return?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;After you meet them do you feel depressed or energized?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do you leave them depressed or energized after you meet them?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;      &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Be honest to yourself and answer these questions. You will find out whether your friend and you are meant to be or not.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Let go: Now that you've answered those tough questions, you would know who can be your friend and who cannot be. If someone is making you feel bad about yourself and doesn't really share your interests or your values, there's really no point to have them as your friend. People change according to  time. If you're having a hard time, you can check out my post on &lt;a href="http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/friendships-running-away-and-ditching.html"&gt;Getting &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/friendships-running-away-and-ditching.html"&gt;Rid of Friendships&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_friendsforever/1029-033_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_friendsforever/1029-033-03-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/friends_forever/friends1.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-93407736330802358?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/93407736330802358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=93407736330802358&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/93407736330802358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/93407736330802358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/cultivate-friendships-for-your-health.html' title='Cultivate Friendships for your Health'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-5306740384354073351</id><published>2007-03-23T03:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T05:09:55.253-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships and health'/><title type='text'>Friendships and Your Health</title><content type='html'>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 115px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_thoughts/1029-012-48-1086.gif" alt="friendship blog, friendship thoughts" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Did you read that article on MSN? It's about &lt;a href="http://boomers.msn.com/articleLHJ.aspx?cp-documentid=376471&amp;GT1=9206"&gt;How Friendships Keep You Healthy&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The &lt;a href="http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/SMA-3716/building.asp"&gt;US Department of Health&lt;/a&gt; also tells us that friendships make us richer and stronger mentally. So what qualities should be there in friendships for your mental health? Here's a short list are the qualities of good friendships --&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;being independent and self-sufficient&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;being positive, upbeat, and warm&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;talking about others in a positive way&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;being honest and dependable&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;doing your share of both the talking and listening&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;being respectful of the other person's feelings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;keeping yourself clean and well-groomed&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;accepting your individual differences&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;listening closely without interrupting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;being nonjudgmental&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;giving the other person plenty of "space"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/friend_thoughts_ani10.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 416px; height: 369px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012-21-1017.gif" alt="Send this free eCard on friendship" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/friend_thoughts_ani10.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;But don't limit that list for yourself! There's plenty of other qualities you can come up with too. Share with me if you have some too!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;EMBED src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012-48-1086.swf" quality=high width="450" height="250" bgcolor="" menu=false wmode=Transparent type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/thoughts21.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-5306740384354073351?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5306740384354073351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=5306740384354073351&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5306740384354073351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5306740384354073351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/friendships-and-your-health.html' title='Friendships and Your Health'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-124290637758244977</id><published>2007-03-22T03:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T03:29:20.817-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spring Friendships'/><title type='text'>Spring Friendship Encouragements</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;EMBED src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x300.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_spring_friends/8782-010_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_spring_friends/8782-010-13-1042.swf" quality=high width="450" height="200" bgcolor="" menu=false wmode=Transparent type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/spring/friends/friend13.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Spring friendships was what I was looking for and I just found this great poem to share with you guys. It's a sort of postcard that you can get at the &lt;a href="http://thecorner.org/default_prog/postcard/images/today.jpg"&gt;Corner&lt;/a&gt; Here is the text to the poem --&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Just for Today&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;     &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"&gt;Decide to be happy today, to live with what is yours --&lt;br /&gt;Your family, your business, your job, your luck.&lt;br /&gt;If you can't have what you like,&lt;br /&gt;maybe you can like what you have.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"&gt;Just for today, be kind, cheerful, agreeable,&lt;br /&gt;responsive,caring, and understanding.&lt;br /&gt;Be your best, dress your best, talk softly,&lt;br /&gt;look for the bright side of things.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"&gt;Praise people for what they do&lt;br /&gt;and don't criticize them for what they cannot do.&lt;br /&gt;If someone does something stupid, forgive and forget.&lt;br /&gt;After all, it's just for one day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"&gt;Who knows, it might turn out to be a nice day.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;EMBED src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_spring_friends/8782-010_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_spring_friends/8782-010-15-1047.swf" quality=high width="450" height="250" bgcolor="" menu=false wmode=Transparent type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/spring/friends/friend15.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Have a great day!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-124290637758244977?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/124290637758244977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=124290637758244977&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/124290637758244977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/124290637758244977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/spring-friendship-encouragements.html' title='Spring Friendship Encouragements'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-8800872255744998322</id><published>2007-03-21T03:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T04:09:14.072-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Springtime Friendships'/><title type='text'>Springtime Friendships</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/spring/friends/friend14.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 414px; height: 272px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_spring_friends/8782-010-14-1086.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/spring/friends/friend14.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Renewing friendships is a great way to celebrate spring. (Besides Spring Break!) I'm going back to FL for a while to see my family and my old friends. I'm not doing the summer semester. I'll be joining back college in the fall. I'm gonna really enjoy the beach this spring.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;The greatest thing about moving out to a new place is that you forge new friendships with the local folks. I've really enjoyed that. I've enjoyed meeting people from all over this country and some from other countries. And I'd like to share with you a story – this one comes from down under – New Zealand.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;It all started when a man, Leonard Clough's bike was stolen. He's been taking a commuter train for about seven years and had formed various kinds of friendships with the passengers. He works at Wellington Central Library – a job which he goes to by cycling. Last month his bike was stolen. And guess what the passengers (around 60 of them) did? They banded up together and got him a new bike! It tells you how little friendships can go a long way doesn't it? &lt;a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/3986002a11.html%29"&gt;Read the full story here.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Hope that cheered you up. Happy Spring to you and yours!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_450x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_spring_friends/8782-010_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_spring_friends/8782-010-02-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="350" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/spring/friends/friend1.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-8800872255744998322?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8800872255744998322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8800872255744998322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/springtime-friendships.html' title='Springtime Friendships'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-7414801518807394320</id><published>2007-03-20T03:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-20T04:02:24.773-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friend in other languages'/><title type='text'>The Word Friend in Other Languages</title><content type='html'>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_chinese/1029-030-11-1069.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 110px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_chinese/1029-030-11-1069.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Friendships of course transcend the boundaries of languages. But it's still good to know what the word 'friend' is in other languages right? I just found out a bunch at Holiday Spot. Check it out.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Albanian -- mik&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Afrikaans - vriend&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Chinese - péngyou&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Here's an ecard for friends in Chinese!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_chinese/1029-030_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_chinese/1029-030-12-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/chinese/frchi11.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dutch - vriend, vriendje&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Danish - ven&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Estonian - sõber&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;French - ami&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;German - freund&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Georgian - megobari&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hungarian - barát&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Indian - dost&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Italian - amico&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Irish - cara&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Japanese -- tomodachi&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Korean -- jingu&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Latin -- amicus&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manx -- carrey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Old English -- freond, wine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Persian -- dust&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Russian -- prijátel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sanskrit -- mitra&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Spanish -- amigo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Swahili -- rafiki&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Turkish – dost, arkadas  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Here's another ecard in Spanish enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_spanish/1029-007_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_spanish/1029-007-27-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/spanish/spanish44.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7414801518807394320?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7414801518807394320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7414801518807394320&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7414801518807394320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7414801518807394320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/word-friend-in-other-languages.html' title='The Word Friend in Other Languages'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-7705692792185529254</id><published>2007-03-19T01:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-19T01:23:44.829-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships and hugs'/><title type='text'>Friendships and hugs</title><content type='html'>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_hugsncaring/1029-020-26-1068.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 117px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_hugsncaring/1029-020-26-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Friendships and hugs go hand in hand. Period. We've all heard about how babies are smarter when they grow up because they were hugged more as babies. But hugs are pretty tricky, like when is it the right time to hug your friend? Right after you become friends or a month? A year? We don't usually know. Is it ok to hug someone you just met. For us girls in the west, we have it more easy it's not threatening our “sexuality” or egos or whatever you can think of to just up and hug another girl. But for guys sometimes it's a big problem. Should you or should you not hug some other guy? If so when? How? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Since hugging is so much apart of the friendship etiquette, here is a video with instructions for you guys out there on how to hug another guy! Check it out it's really funny... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" align="middle" height="345" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.videojug.com/player/videoJugPlayer.swf?id=4ddc3bdc-3329-00df-c8e3-ff0008c9047f"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.videojug.com/player/videoJugPlayer.swf?id=4ddc3bdc-3329-00df-c8e3-ff0008c9047f" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="345" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.videojug.com/"&gt;VideoJug&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-give-a-great-man-to-man-hug"&gt;How To Give A Great Man To Man Hug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Did you like that one? Now send your friends hugs over the Internet via hugging ecards! Check it out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_hugsncaring/1029-020_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_hugsncaring/1029-020-12-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/hugs_n_caring/hug4.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_hugsncaring/1029-020_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_hugsncaring/1029-020-22-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/hugs_n_caring/hug22.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7705692792185529254?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7705692792185529254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7705692792185529254&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7705692792185529254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7705692792185529254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/friendships-and-hugs.html' title='Friendships and hugs'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3991511766894763319</id><published>2007-03-15T01:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-15T03:07:45.734-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='appreciate friendships'/><title type='text'>How to appreciate friendships</title><content type='html'>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 111px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_justpals/1029-008-42-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;ometimes in friendships we're quick to blame others in times of trouble. But there are friends that just do the right things at the right moments. My best friend is an example. I'm not saying everything is perfect – we've had our fair share of rough patches but there are times when I needed her and she just seem to be there. She makes things so easy for me even when I'm down depressed to the rock bottom.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Even though we have 'all weather friends' we don't appreciate them as much as we should. We take them for granted at times. So take a moment and think about a friend who's been there for a long time and who had always helped you and appreciate them. Here's just a couple of points on how you can do that:&lt;/p&gt;            &lt;ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Make your friend a mixed CD of all the songs that define your friendship (or ones that you just happen to mutually like!)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Submit a Friendship Tribute to your friend to be posted on the web.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Call all those old friends you haven't spoken to in ages.. remember the girl scout motto: "Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold"!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Write a nice card for your friend telling them how much you appreciate their friendship.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Spill out your heart to them as though there is no tomorrow.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Make a special friendship book for your best friend. Include photos, quotes and poetry telling your friends how special they are.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Send your friend a Happy Friendship Day greeting online to brighten their day.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;All the more &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/everything_you_do_right_day/"&gt;Everything You Do is Right Day&lt;/a&gt; is coming up so you can send them ecards that tells them that they are the right person and everything they do is right on that day. Here's a couple of ecards that you can get a preview of:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/everything_you_do_right_day/right4.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 481px; height: 340px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_everyudorightday/10625-001-04-1078.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/everything_you_do_right_day/right4.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_everyudorightday/10625-001_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_everyudorightday/10625-001-06-1078.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/everything_you_do_right_day/right5.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3991511766894763319?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3991511766894763319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3991511766894763319&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3991511766894763319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3991511766894763319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-appreciate-friendships.html' title='How to appreciate friendships'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2316766245855882912</id><published>2007-03-14T02:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T02:57:08.251-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships that matter'/><title type='text'>Friendships of a Genius</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_inspiration/1029-005-27-1068.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 111px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_inspiration/1029-005-27-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Did you know that today is Einstein's birthday? If he lived he would be 128 years old. He was a genius. Period – there's nothing else that is needed to be said about him. He contributed a lot of stuff to theoretical physics and helped the field grow and today because of him we understand our universe better than we did before. But that is all beside the point.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Take a moment and think about it. If you look at Einstein's life, it's filled with catalyst friends that move him forward to the next level. When Albert Einstein was about ten a family friend, Max Talmud introduced him to key science and philosophy texts from authors like Kant and Euclid. Soon Einstein was doing calculus! Einstein's biggest support was a friend  Mileva Marić (the only woman studying mathematics at the institute Einstein was in – ETH) and later they became romantic partners.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;EMBED src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_gifts/1029-031_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_gifts/1029-031-09-1068.swf" quality=high width="450" height="250" bgcolor="" menu=false wmode=Transparent type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/gifts/frigifts9.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;It was also another friend Michele Besso introduced him to the works of Ernst Mach – which allowed him to publish a paper in  Annalen der Physik entitled "Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen" ("Consequences of the observations of capillarity phenomena"), on the capillary forces of a straw. In this paper his quest for a unified physical law becomes apparent, which he followed throughout his life. As a cause of this slowly the academic community considered him as "the best sounding board in Europe" for physical ideas.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The bottom line is, he wouldn't have made it without his friends. He wouldn't be known as Einstein the genius today. What about you? Your friends? Who pushes you the most? Who's there for you? Why don't you take a pause and appreciate those friendships? Here's a couple of ecards to help you along --&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_inspiration/1029-005_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_inspiration/1029-005-27-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/inspiration/inspiration13.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2316766245855882912?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2316766245855882912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2316766245855882912&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2316766245855882912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2316766245855882912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/friendships-of-genius.html' title='Friendships of a Genius'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-4814147635162665754</id><published>2007-03-13T01:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T02:13:34.953-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Getting together with friends'/><title type='text'>Getting together with friends</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;We're so busy these days that sometimes we forget to take time off for our friends. And sometimes our friendships just dwindle and die. We move apart. We get to college, we're busy with our careers, we get married, have kids and friends just go away further. Some times we're so lost it's like the lyrics from the song of The Fray “Where did I go wrong?” Check this new music video version:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JHg2q5M6WnY"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JHg2q5M6WnY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Don't let your friendship dwindle away just get together, just say hi, just get together – here's a couple of ecards that you can use just to email your friends to start the conversation flowing again...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/get_together/friend_gettogether_ani1.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 365px; height: 324px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_gettogether/1029-022-04-1060.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/get_together/friend_gettogether_ani1.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;EMBED src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_gettogether/1029-022_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_gettogether/1029-022-02-1042.swf" quality=high width="450" height="250" bgcolor="" menu=false wmode=Transparent type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/get_together/friends.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-4814147635162665754?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4814147635162665754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=4814147635162665754&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4814147635162665754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4814147635162665754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/getting-together-with-friends.html' title='Getting together with friends'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-7562549072170604645</id><published>2007-03-12T02:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T03:01:31.022-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Keeping Friendships Alive'/><title type='text'>Keeping Friendships Alive</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_netpals/1029-013-20-1069.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 105px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_netpals/1029-013-20-1069.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Back at the end of 2005 Friends Reunited was bought for $208m.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recently Yahoo Answers added a social networking feature to their site.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Facebook is rumored to be generating $1m per week in revenue. (This is going to be $2m very soon.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/net_pals/friend_netpals_ani9.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 396px; height: 264px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_netpals/1029-013-07-1040.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/net_pals/friend_netpals_ani9.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is such a craze going on with social networking? My take is that it's all about friends and friendships. Writing about Harriet Tubman in my last post got me thinking that back in the 80s or earlier people connected using telephones and snail mail. Now, people are keeping in touch with friends using the latest tech gadgets and websites -- frankly, I really don't know how I'd keep in touch with all the friends I have at the same time without all these social networks and messengers -- do you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com%20/eventsnew/friend_netpals/1029-013_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_netpals/1029-013-24-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/net_pals/net21.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7562549072170604645?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7562549072170604645/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7562549072170604645&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7562549072170604645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7562549072170604645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/keeping-friendships-alive.html' title='Keeping Friendships Alive'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2832383113384560582</id><published>2007-03-10T02:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T02:16:04.133-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship Bonds the Transcend Time'/><title type='text'>Friendship Bonds the Transcend Time</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emar_tubmanday/7554-001-03-1087.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 114px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/emar_tubmanday/7554-001-03-1087.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;D&lt;/span&gt;id you know that today is &lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/harriet_tubman_day/"&gt;Harriet Tubman Day&lt;/a&gt;? A lot of people might not know about this so go and tell your friends and folks. Harriet Tubman Day was dedicated with Public Law 101-252 from both the Senate and the House of Representatives in March of 1990. You can read the full story on the &lt;a href="http://www.harriettubman.com/day.html"&gt;Harriet Tubman site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x375.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_tubmanday/7554-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_tubmanday/7554-001-03-1087.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="275" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/harriet_tubman_day/tubmanday1.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;We all know about Harriet Tubman who was born into slavery around 1820 and escaped in 1849. But she didn't forget about her friends. She could've easily stayed in the north and lived her life free but she chose not to. She became a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Although she was driven with a sense of ideology that all humans should be free I don't think she could've done in without feeling the bonds of friendship. She recognized the bond of human friendship and helped out the people even when she didn't know them personally.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/harriet_tubman_day/tubmanday2.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 470px; height: 299px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/emar_tubmanday/7554-001-04-1087.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/harriet_tubman_day/tubmanday2.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The greatest thing about the bonds of friendship is that they continue to grow without regard to time or space. In the early 1980s in search of Harriet Tubman's trail for the Underground Railroad, the Harriet Tubman Historical Society reached Dorchester County. They were trying to reconnect the Maryland and Delaware Underground Railroad. Vivian Abdur-Rahim visited the Dorchester County Public Library and spoke with librarian Gloria Henry. Ms. Henry led her to members of the now Harriet Tubman Organization. Now the trail is re-established and both organizations had established a friendship network that continues today with Evelyn Townsend and officials of Harriet Tubman Organization.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Isn't that just great? It gives me goose bumps when I read about stuff like this!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2832383113384560582?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2832383113384560582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2832383113384560582&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2832383113384560582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2832383113384560582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/friendship-bonds-transcend-time.html' title='Friendship Bonds the Transcend Time'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-1479523600947231517</id><published>2007-03-09T01:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-09T01:41:43.839-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendships Among Women'/><title type='text'>Friendships Among Women</title><content type='html'>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_betweenwomen/1029-024-11-1068.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 103px; height: 103px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_betweenwomen/1029-024-11-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;'m just gonna run another really great chain mail I got. (Ok I promise this is the last one... for now.) But it's really true that every one should know this. Check it out --&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A set of screwdrivers,&lt;br /&gt;a cordless drill, and&lt;br /&gt;a black lace bra..&lt;/i&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE... &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One friend who&lt;br /&gt;Always makes her Laugh...&lt;br /&gt;And one&lt;br /&gt;Who lets her cry...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A good piece of furniture&lt;br /&gt;not previously owned by&lt;br /&gt;Anyone else in her family...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eight matching plates,&lt;br /&gt;Wine glasses with stems,&lt;br /&gt;And a recipe for a meal that will&lt;br /&gt;Make her guests feel honored.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A feeling of control over&lt;br /&gt;Her destiny...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_betweenwomen/1029-024_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_betweenwomen/1029-024-21-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/between_women/sis19.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to fall in love&lt;br /&gt;Without losing herself...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to quit a Job&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Break up with a lover&lt;br /&gt;and confront a friend without ruining the friendship&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW... &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When to try harder... and&lt;br /&gt;WHEN TO WALK AWAY.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That she can't change&lt;br /&gt;The length of her calves,&lt;br /&gt;The width of her hips, or&lt;br /&gt;The nature of her parents...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That her childhood&lt;br /&gt;May not have been&lt;br /&gt;Perfect..but;&lt;br /&gt;Its over...&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVER Y WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What she would and&lt;br /&gt;Wouldn't&lt;br /&gt;Do for love or more...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to live alone...&lt;br /&gt;even if&lt;br /&gt;She doesn't like it...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whom she can trust,&lt;br /&gt;Whom she can't,&lt;br /&gt;And why she shoul dn't&lt;br /&gt;Take it personally...&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where to go...&lt;br /&gt;Be it to her best friend's kitchen table..&lt;br /&gt;Or a charming inn in the woods...&lt;br /&gt;When her soul needs soothing...&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What she can and can't accomplish&lt;br /&gt;In a day...&lt;br /&gt;A month..&lt;br /&gt;And a year...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/between_women/sis18.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 436px; height: 277px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_betweenwomen/1029-024-20-1069.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/between_women/sis18.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-1479523600947231517?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1479523600947231517/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=1479523600947231517&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/1479523600947231517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/1479523600947231517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/friendships-among-women.html' title='Friendships Among Women'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3668121423897857978</id><published>2007-03-08T01:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-08T03:06:35.689-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Just Friends vs. Best Friends'/><title type='text'>Just Friends or Best Friends?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;I came upon this really nice chain email that makes you really think of what your friends do and what your best friends do. I don't know who started all this but if you do know please let me know. And since I came upon it for free, you can go ahead and pass it along to friends.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Just Friends vs. Best Friends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 122px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend/1029-034-05-1028.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A 'just friend' says hi..., hello..., bye... and walks away...&lt;br /&gt;A best friend always stops by your side and asks how are you doing?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/sorry/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 114px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_sorry/1029-017-13-1042.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A 'just friend' has never seen you cry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A best friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/sorry/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 111px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_sorry/1029-017-01-1028.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A 'just friend' thinks the friendship is over, when you have an argument.&lt;br /&gt;A best friend knows it's not a friendship, until after you've had a fight. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/general/goodnight/goodnight13.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 109px; height: 109px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/gen_goodnight/1012-017-20-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;A 'just friend' hates it when you call, after he/she had gone to bed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;A best friend asks you... why you took so long to call. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/clean_out_your_refrigerator_day/clean3.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 110px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/enov_cleanrefrigday/8497-001-05-1078.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; A 'just friend', when visiting, acts like a guest.&lt;br /&gt;A best friend opens your fridge and help themselves.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/anniversary/love/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 109px; height: 109px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/love_anniv/1036-025-03-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A 'just friend' is jealous about your romantic history.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A best friend wonders of your love story...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 110px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_foryou/1029-014-22-1069.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; A 'just friend' expects you to be always there for any help.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A best friend is always there, wherever you require any help.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/get_together/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 111px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_gettogether/1029-022-02-1042.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A 'just friend' doesn't have time in his or her busy schedule.&lt;br /&gt;A best friend always have time for you in his or her busy schedules...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/get_together/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 109px; height: 109px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_gettogether/1029-022-01-1040.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A 'just friend' phones you whenever he/she has some work.&lt;br /&gt;A best friend calls you often just to hear your voice...  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_netpals/1029-013-18-1068.gif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/net_pals/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 115px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_netpals/1029-013-18-1068.gif" alt="friendship blog, internet friends" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A 'just friend' doesn't have anything to talk to you on the phone.&lt;br /&gt;A best friend doesn't know what all to finish...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3668121423897857978?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3668121423897857978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3668121423897857978&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3668121423897857978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3668121423897857978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/just-friends-or-best-friends.html' title='Just Friends or Best Friends?'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2189496196897520486</id><published>2007-03-07T03:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-08T03:07:19.013-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Women&apos;s Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Women friendships'/><title type='text'>Celebrate Women Friendships this Women's Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Did you read bout the 2004 &lt;a href="http://www.annieappleseedproject.org/femrestostre.html"&gt;UCLA study on friendship among women&lt;/a&gt;? It suggests that friendships between women are special – they shape who we are and who we are yet to be. The study finds that women respond to stress with a cascade of brain chemicals that cause us to make and maintain friendships with other women!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Women's Day is tomorrow so why not celebrate it with your girlfriends and make the bond even stronger. There are studies that suggest that it might even give you longevity!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Even if you can't be with them because you're away in college (like me) or traveling you can send them an email or even an ecard to celebrate and cheer them up. 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href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/wish-your-women-friends-on-womens-day.html' title='Wish Your Women Friends on Women&apos;s Day'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-7890090637187982501</id><published>2007-03-06T01:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-06T02:38:11.762-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saying sorry'/><title type='text'>Stay friends, just say sorry</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_sorry/1029-017-06-1068b.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 137px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_sorry/1029-017-06-1068b.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;K&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;eeping a friendship together is a lot of hard work. It's especially taxing after an argument or a conflict. Make sure you guys cool down and talk about it calmly. Getting others involved can complicate matters too – so don't.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;If you were wrong admit it. I know sometimes it's really hard to say that you've made a mistake but there's no reason to say otherwise either, right? Plus you'd know it in your heart that saying 'sorry' would make a difference. It's that little word that really matters in the end.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;If you're still stuck on saying sorry in person, you can pick and choose the following ecards to help you say it --&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_sorry/1029-017_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_sorry/1029-017-15-1042.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/sorry/frdsorry4.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_sorry/1029-017_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_sorry/1029-017-04-1042.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/sorry/sorry.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7890090637187982501?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7890090637187982501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7890090637187982501&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7890090637187982501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7890090637187982501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/stay-friends-just-say-sorry.html' title='Stay friends, just say sorry'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-8383563151397875937</id><published>2007-03-05T00:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-05T02:07:38.363-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendships and arguments'/><title type='text'>Friendships and arguments</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 109px; height: 109px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_thoughts/1029-012-32-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;F&lt;/span&gt;riendships go through a trial of arguments and misunderstandings. Something a friend or a person close to you can ruin the whole friendship all together. The best way to move on with life is to forgive and forget. We all know that when we let go of things and it will lighten the load. But that's easier said then done. Here are a couple of things you can do to smoothen the process:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Think of what happened.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Acknowledge your feelings. Seek out for anger or hurt or sadness that you might feel.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Accept responsibility for your own emotions. If you were wronged and your emotions maybe justified, it's still up to you to be ready to stop feeling angry or upset.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Talk to the other person of the behavior that make you feel upset or angry. You might not feel ready to forgive until the person had heard and understood your point of view.  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Try and understand the other person's point of view. Even if you don't agree with him/her.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rebuild trust in the relationship. Make agreements about what is acceptable future behavior when the situation calls.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Make a decision to forgive. Tell that to the other person. Once you've done this make sure you really move on and that you make all efforts to let go completely.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;      &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/friend_thoughts_ani26.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 430px; height: 218px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012-24-1040.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/friend_thoughts_ani26.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/thoughts34.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 426px; height: 271px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thoughts/1029-012-56-1068.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thoughts/thoughts34.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-8383563151397875937?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8383563151397875937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=8383563151397875937&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8383563151397875937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8383563151397875937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/friendships-and-arguments.html' title='Friendships and arguments'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-8322370248650162220</id><published>2007-03-02T01:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-05T02:09:46.102-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Best Friends Forever'/><title type='text'>Best Friends Forever</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-83-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/bestfriends7.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Talk about friendships, Owen and Mzee are not the only animals that are forming unusual friendships in the animal kingdom. Check out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://letsbefriends.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lets Be Friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;. This blog has lots of cool photos of unusual best friends! I'll be putting the link in my template soon so you can check back with them even if you can't find this post. And talk about best friends check out this video You're My Best Friend by Queen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wdt5QwssWY4"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wdt5QwssWY4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-97-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/bestfriends4.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-8322370248650162220?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8322370248650162220/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=8322370248650162220&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8322370248650162220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8322370248650162220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/best-friends-forever.html' title='Best Friends Forever'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-476402273891769313</id><published>2007-03-01T02:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T02:32:20.755-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unusual friendships'/><title type='text'>Unusual Friendships</title><content type='html'>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.flickr.com/30/94698873_7b0d2e869e.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 186px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/30/94698873_7b0d2e869e.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"  &gt;H&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;ave you heard about the latest friendship craze between a hippo and a century old turtle? It's about a baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast and formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, they're in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, Nairobi. Their names are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://owenandmzee.com/omweb/home.html"&gt;Owen and Mzee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Isn't that just great? Shows you how far friendships can go even in the animal kingdom doesn't it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;And here's a couple of more ecards that celebrate friendships. Go ahead, pass them along. Make someone you love happy and feel loved today...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/friend_justpals_ani21.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 456px; height: 319px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_justpals/1029-008-38-1088.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/friend_justpals_ani21.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/friends26.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 457px; height: 298px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_justpals/1029-008-43-1068b.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/friends26.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-476402273891769313?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/476402273891769313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=476402273891769313&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/476402273891769313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/476402273891769313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/unusual-friendships.html' title='Unusual Friendships'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-6348708567908045962</id><published>2007-02-28T01:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-28T02:50:06.046-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='appreciating friendships'/><title type='text'>Don't take friendship for granted</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;We're so busy these days in our lives that sometimes we forget to stop and think and reflect about people in our lives. We start taking our friends for granted and people start to drift apart. But friends don't have to be the ones you hang out with all the time. Friends can be the bus driver that drives the bus you get onto in the morning rush hour. People who work in the subway, the teller at your bank, your doorman, and even the guy next door who shares the elevator with you every now and then. They're not big friendships but they're friends that are there throughout your days to help you where you're going. They are a part of your everyday life. Don't forget these friends.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thankyou/1029-011_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thankyou/1029-011-24-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thank_you/thank2.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;So today when you go to office, college or on the way back make sure you thank someone and make them feel special, because without them you wouldn't be able to get to where you're going. They're the little parts of your life that makes a big difference. Perhaps Dale Carnegie said it best when he wrote &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;"Try leaving a friendly trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader6_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thankyou/1029-011_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_thankyou/1029-011-20-1040.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/thank_you/friends.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-6348708567908045962?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6348708567908045962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=6348708567908045962&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6348708567908045962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6348708567908045962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/dont-take-friendship-for-granted.html' title='Don&apos;t take friendship for granted'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-8993183019726317641</id><published>2007-02-27T07:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-28T02:51:02.937-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eight ways to be a better friend'/><title type='text'>8 Ways To Be A Better Friend</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Being a friend isn't just something that we do. It's a skill that we can learn and improve upon. Here, eight ways to be a better friend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Number One:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Like yourself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;The first step in having a good relationship with a friend is to have a good relationship with yourself. When we genuinely like ourselves, we become more attractive to other people. We have more to offer others because we are not constantly focused on our own image and reputation. We become better friends because we don't cling. We are secure enough to spend time with a friend because we want to, not because we need to. And relax--the journey to self-acceptance is life long. Practice it in small steps along the way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;Friend For Life ! Celebrate the special bond you share with your best girl friend with this touching message.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-81-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="410"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/bestfriends5.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Number Two: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Choose wisely&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Relationships among true friends take a steady dose of time and energy--two resources in limited supply for all of us. Identify the friends with whom you wish to create a closer bond. It's perfectly okay if not all of your acquaintances make the list. The closeness of your connections is far more important than the length of your guest lists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;Good Friends Just Like You... Let your best pal feel how special he/ she is.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-99-1086.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="410"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/bestfriends24.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Number Three: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Make the time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Friends are important in many ways--so much so that these relationships often take on a life of their own. You owe it to yourself (and to your friends) to make these relationships a priority. Carve out some quality time for one another.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;Thanks For Always Being There ! A warm, heartfelt message for your friend who's like a blessing in your life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-79-1042.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="410"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/bestfriends1.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Number Four: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Make the first move&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;This is where I have trouble, and I know I'm not alone. If you want to improve your relationships, put your fear of rejection aside and start taking more risks. Invite your friends to lunch. Organize a new playgroup. Invite them over for dinner. Too often, we fail to follow up with our friends. Don't miss out - just make the first phone call. Your friends are just as anxious to get together as you are.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;Lucky To Have You As My 'Best Friend' ! A cute way to let your friend/ loved one know how happy you are to be friends.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-102-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="410"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/bestfriends10.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Number Five: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Golden Rule&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Treat your friends as you wish to be treated. Stated another way: "To have a friend, be a friend." Focus more on being interested than on being interesting. Be enthusiastic and energetic. Avoid complaining, gossiping, and criticizing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;I'm One Of The Lucky Few ! A special ecard for a special friend to make him/ her feel happy and nice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-95-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="410"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/special1.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Number Six: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sweat the Small Stuff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Make your friends feel significant by remembering small kindnesses. Notice her new haircut. Remember to ask about her mother-in-law's surgery. Send flowers or a simple email when you know she needs it most.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;The Word Best Friend Describes You ! Let your friend know that he/ she is everything which makes him/ her your best friend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-107-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="410"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/bestfriends32.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Number Seven: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Listen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Good listeners are hard to find, and honing your skills can be a long-term project.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;A few tips: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Slow down. Try not to finish your friend's sentences. If you catch yourself planning your response while your friend is still talking, gently remind yourself to focus on the speaker.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Show her you are listening. Maintain eye contact. Offer nods and murmurs that indicate you understand her point of view.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Minimize distractions. Ask questions. Be careful with advice. Assume your friend wants to just vent her frustrations, not ask you for a plan of action. Avoid the phrase, "what you ought to do is..." Offer your opinion only if your friend specifically asks for it (and you believe she will benefit).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;Your Friendship Means The World ! Send this warm wish to let your best friend know how much his/ her friendship means to you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/friend_bestfriends_ani22.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-96-1069.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" height="250" width="410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/friend_bestfriends_ani22.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Number Eight: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Be loyal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;We all need someone in our corner. If your friend isn't there to defend herself against gossip or criticism, speak up, and know she would do the same for you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;Look Forward To Each Day... A warm wish for your best girlfriend/ sis who's like a friend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/friend_bestfriends_ani26.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_bestfriends/1029-001-100-1074.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" height="250" width="410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/best_friends/friend_bestfriends_ani26.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-8993183019726317641?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8993183019726317641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=8993183019726317641&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8993183019726317641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8993183019726317641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/8-ways-to-be-better-friend.html' title='8 Ways To Be A Better Friend'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-5948269631052311317</id><published>2007-02-27T07:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-28T02:43:14.230-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship Lessons'/><title type='text'>Friendship Lessons Part II</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Ok here are the other 7 points on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;How to Make Friends and Influence People &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;based on the book by Dale Carnegie --&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Begin in a friendly way.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Appeal to the nobler motives;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Call attention to people's mistakes before criticizing the other person.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Let the other person save face.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Neat huh? Now go forth and make friends! (Tell 'em Emmie J sent you) Here's a couple of ecards to help you along...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_justpals/1029-008_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_justpals/1029-008-35-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/friends11.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_justpals/1029-008_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_justpals/1029-008-34-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/friends10.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-5948269631052311317?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5948269631052311317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=5948269631052311317&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5948269631052311317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5948269631052311317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/friendship-lessons-part-ii.html' title='Friendship Lessons Part II'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-9016729228721454298</id><published>2007-02-26T23:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-27T03:13:12.295-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship Lessons'/><title type='text'>Friendship Lessons Part I</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_justpals/1029-008-36-1088.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 95px; height: 95px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_justpals/1029-008-36-1088.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Have you ever read the international best seller "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;How to Win Friends and Influence People&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;" by Dale Carnegie? It's one of the best 'self help' books out there. I don't usually read self help books but I really like what he rights. And besides, whatever he says in his books will make your life a lot easier, if not more successful at what you're doing. You can practically summarize How to Win Friends and Influence People into fourteen points. I'll give you the first 7 now and I'll give you the rest on a later post...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Don't criticize, condemn, or complain.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Give honest, sincere appreciation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Arouse in the other person an eager want.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/friend_justpals_ani14.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 382px; height: 256px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_justpals/1029-008-32-1068.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/friend_justpals_ani14.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Become genuinely interested in other people.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Make the other person feel important -- do it sincerely.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, "you're wrong."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Begin in a friendly way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_justpals/1029-008_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_justpals/1029-008-31-1069.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/friend9.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-9016729228721454298?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/9016729228721454298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=9016729228721454298&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/9016729228721454298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/9016729228721454298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/friendship-lessons-part-i.html' title='Friendship Lessons Part I'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2438948028554222966</id><published>2007-02-26T04:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-27T03:12:14.348-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Best of Frienship Songs'/><title type='text'>The Best of Frienship Songs</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Friends are one of the most valuable tools in life. It is always said that if you have one best friend in your lifetime, then you have lived a successful life. Friendship comes in all sorts, but that's what makes it so interesting. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Freindship.html"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; are a few quotes to get your brains in motion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;- George Washington (1732 - 1799) US Statesman.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;But do not dull thy palm with entertainment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;- William Shakespeare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;- Helen Keller&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Having a friend, a buddy, someone to share memories with, is a wonderful part of life. It is an opportunity to go outside the family circle, and build relationships with others a long the road to life. It does take time mind you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;It was Georgia O'Keeffe who said:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Thje Friendliest Music of All Time I found &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Freindship.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;1.  Lean On Me - Bill Withers (or Club Nuveau)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;2.  You've Got a Friend - James Taylor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;3.  Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;4.  We're Going To Be Friends - The White Stripes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;5.  You're My Best Friend - Queen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;6.  Rubber Ducky - Ernie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;7.  Friends - Beach Boys&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;8.  Graduation (Friends Forever) - Vitamin C&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;9.  Stand By Me - Ben E. King&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;10.  Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Life is a beautiful Journey with Friends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/between_women/friend_betweenwomen_ani3.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_betweenwomen/1029-024-12-1069.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" height="250" width="350" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/between_women/friend_betweenwomen_ani3.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;11.  I'll Stand By You - The Pretenders&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;12.  You Got A Friend In Me - Randy Newman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;13.  Memories - Barbara Striesand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;14.  I'll Be Around - Spinners&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;15.  Thank You For Being a Friend - Andrew Gold&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;16.  He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother - The Hollies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;17.  I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;18.  With a Little Help From My Friends - Beatles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;19.  Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;20.  My One True Friend - Bette Midler&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;21.  Old Friends - Everything But the Girl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;22.  My Best Friend - Tim McGraw&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;23.  (Ya Gotta Have) Friends - Bette Midler&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;24.  Thank You - Dido&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;25.  My Friend - Blessed Union of Souls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Friendship is a Blessing for Life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/between_women/friend3.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_betweenwomen/1029-024-16-1069.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" height="250" width="350" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/between_women/friend3.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;26.  You've Got A Friend in Me - Randy Newman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;27.  Ben - Michael Jackson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;28.  Anytime You Need A Friend - Mariah Carey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;29.  Friends - Elton John&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;30.   In My Life - Beatles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;31.  Cool - Gwen Stefani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;32.  I Turn To You - Christina Aguillera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;33.  Wind Beneath My Wings -by Bette Midler&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;34.  I'd Do Anything - Oliver Soundtrack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;35.  I Will Come To You - Hanson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;36.  I'll Remember - Madonna&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;37.  Anchorage - Michelle Shocked&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;38.  Thank You - Dido&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;39.  Forever Friends - Sandi Patti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;40.  Friends Forever - Thunderbugs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Friends Forever&lt;br /&gt;A Frienship Ecard to convey your Deepest Appreciation for being Friends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/quotes/friend_quotes_ani5.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_quotes/1029-027-16-1068.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" height="250" width="350" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/quotes/friend_quotes_ani5.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;41.  Photograph - Nickleback&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;42.  Best Friend - Aqua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;43.  We're All In This Together - High School Musical cast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;44.  Best Friend - SCLUB 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;45.  Welcome Back - John Sebastian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;46.  Kind and Generous - Natalie Merchant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;47.  Best Friend - 50 Cent &amp; Olivia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;48.  What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;49.  I'm Your Friend - Bobby Brown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;50.  Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Lifetime Friendships&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/friend_justpals_ani16.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_justpals/1029-008-30-1068.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" height="250" width="350" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/just_between_pals/friend_justpals_ani16.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2438948028554222966?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2438948028554222966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2438948028554222966&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2438948028554222966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2438948028554222966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/best-of-frienship-songs.html' title='The Best of Frienship Songs'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-6080979549529562636</id><published>2007-02-26T01:59:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-27T03:10:50.981-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Keep in touch with friends'/><title type='text'>Keep in touch with friends</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;So have you made friends or pen pals from distant lands? There are lots of ways to keep in touch with them, especially in this electronic world. Besides chatting and sending plain old emails, you can send them cute ecards that keeps them in touch with you! Besides, I'm finding out day by day that they works really well on social networking sites like myspace and tagworld. Take a look at the cards I picked out. Have fun!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_keepintouch/1029-004-39-1069.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_keepintouch/1029-004-39-1069.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/keep_in_touch/pal14.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_keepintouch/1029-004_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_keepintouch/1029-004-30-1042.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/keep_in_touch/kit1.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-6080979549529562636?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6080979549529562636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=6080979549529562636&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6080979549529562636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6080979549529562636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/keep-in-touch-with-friends.html' title='Keep in touch with friends'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-4754360663864828844</id><published>2007-02-23T08:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-27T03:10:11.062-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pen pals'/><title type='text'>Friends from afar</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;You know one of the best ways to make friends is to learn a new language or have pen pals. I found this really funny clip of Joey in Friends trying to learn French. Enjoy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;embed style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/126762/joey_trying_to_talk_french.swf" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="345" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/126762/joey_trying_to_talk_french/"&gt;Joey Trying To Talk French&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.metacafe.com/"&gt;The most popular videos are here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/pen_pals/penpals1.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_penpals/1029-010-01-1068.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/pen_pals/penpals1.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_penpals/1029-010_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_penpals/1029-010-02-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/pen_pals/penpals2.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-4754360663864828844?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4754360663864828844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=4754360663864828844&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4754360663864828844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4754360663864828844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/friends-from-afar.html' title='Friends from afar'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-4692640912123102498</id><published>2007-02-23T02:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T02:59:22.735-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship week'/><title type='text'>Celebrate Friendship Week - 2 Days Left ONLY!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Hey guys there's just two days left of&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;International Friendship Week&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; What are you doing to celebrate it? Lately I've been surfing the Internet and there's so many pictures and videos about unusual friendships between animals of different species. Check this video out to know what I mean.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;embed style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/25125/cat_and_bird.swf" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="345" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/25125/cat_and_bird/"&gt;Cat and Bird&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.metacafe.com/"&gt;More free videos are here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;And don't forget to have fun for the rest of&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;International Friendship Week&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_450x400.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-04-1040.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="300" width="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/friendship3.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x325.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-19-1052.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="225" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/friendship8.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-4692640912123102498?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4692640912123102498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=4692640912123102498&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4692640912123102498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4692640912123102498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/celebrate-friendship-week-2-days-left.html' title='Celebrate Friendship Week - 2 Days Left ONLY!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2033026818060538013</id><published>2007-02-22T06:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T03:02:44.365-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship week'/><title type='text'>Celebrate Friendships in Friendship Week!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-23-1078.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 102px; height: 102px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-23-1078.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Talk about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://www2.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2033026818060538013" html=""&gt;cartoons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;! I found a really neat site aniBOOM and just watched this great, really funny animation about a girl and a bull. I think it's made by Spanish artists. It's fantastic!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="372" width="448"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://api.aniboom.com/embedded.swf?videoar=2004"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://api.aniboom.com/embedded.swf?videoar=2004" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="372" width="448"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Here are more wishes from me for your friendship week!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x400.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-24-1078.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="300" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/friendship13.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_500x375.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-20-1052.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="275" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/friendship9.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2033026818060538013?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2033026818060538013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2033026818060538013&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2033026818060538013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2033026818060538013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/celebrate-friendships-in-friendship.html' title='Celebrate Friendships in Friendship Week!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-1912590237170198691</id><published>2007-02-22T00:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T03:06:01.217-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Making new friends'/><title type='text'>Making New Friends!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 108px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-04-1040.gif" alt="Friendship week" border="0" /&gt;  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;o how's your friendship week going? Mine is just swell. I've realized recently that humans are really social beings and we need to be in groups or cliques. (I've touched on this topic previously in &lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" href="http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/friendship-through-ages-defining.html"&gt;Friendships through the ages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; But how are we when we are making new friends? A lot of people move around with their families from time to time and their kids have to adjust. I've never faced that situation. I've been lucky enough to have a cool set of steady friends, until last semester when I joined college. I moved out of my home town so naturally forced to make new friends in college and in the dorm. Thinking about International friendship week made me think about all this. How are you with making new friends? Do you always stick to an old group or are you a social butterfly like me? Check this cool quiz.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;embed style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" name="flashplayer" src="http://www.funquizcards.com/quiz/quizzes/how-friendly-are-you.swf" quality="high" swliveconnect="true" allowscriptaccess="samedomain" height="383" width="450"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target="new" href="http://www.funquizcards.com/"&gt;Free Fun Quizzes at FunQuizCards.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;embed name="flashplayer" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" swliveconnect="true" allowscriptaccess="never" height="1" width="1"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x325.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-17-1076.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="225" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/friendship7.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_500x400.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-13-1049.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="300" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/friendship6.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-1912590237170198691?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1912590237170198691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=1912590237170198691&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/1912590237170198691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/1912590237170198691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/celebrate-friendship-month-with-cool.html' title='Making New Friends!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-7386070149956844049</id><published>2007-02-21T01:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T02:26:32.408-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship week'/><title type='text'>Happy Friendship Week!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 102px; height: 102px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-22-1076.gif" alt="Friendship Week" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;D&lt;/span&gt;id you know that this whole week is '&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/"&gt;Friendship Week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;'? I just found that out too! Besides watching Friends and other 'grown up' television shows I also really like cartoons. (Who wouldn't!) One of the the age old shows on TV that really celebrates friendship is between Fred and Barney. I really love those guys. Here's a clip from the Gazoo episode. Enjoy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D8nw9CNEotg"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D8nw9CNEotg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;And here's wishing you all --&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;embed style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x375.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-23-1078.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="275" width="450"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/friendship12.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/efeb_friendweek_pcard8.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_friendweek/8669-001-12-1062.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/friendship_week/efeb_friendweek_pcard8.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-7386070149956844049?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7386070149956844049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=7386070149956844049&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7386070149956844049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/7386070149956844049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/happy-friendship-week.html' title='Happy Friendship Week!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-553055071548950103</id><published>2007-02-20T00:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-20T01:05:45.177-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship quotes'/><title type='text'>Friendship Quotes</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_quotes/1029-027-02-1071.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 124px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_quotes/1029-027-02-1071.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;OPS! I have updated the 'friendship quote of the week'! It's been like friendship quote of the months! Sorry guys I've been really busy with the new semester. But friendship quotes are really nice to browse through and inspire you. What I usually do is browse through the four top favorite sites and find a quote I like at the time. I just go by my gut instinct and pick them! You can check out these sites for yourself too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_friendship.html"&gt;Brainy Quote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.friendship.com.au/quotes/"&gt;Friendship.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_friendship.html"&gt;Wisdom Quotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/friendship/"&gt;Quotation Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;You can also send your friends ecards which already have friendship quotes in them. Check these out! Oh, and about the friendship quote of the week, I'll be updating this week, dun worry!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_quotes/1029-027_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_quotes/1029-027-03-1060.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/quotes/frquote3.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_quotes/1029-027_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_quotes/1029-027-18-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/quotes/frquote15.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-553055071548950103?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/553055071548950103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=553055071548950103&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/553055071548950103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/553055071548950103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/friendship-quotes.html' title='Friendship Quotes'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3853955783988135130</id><published>2007-02-19T00:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-19T00:35:42.291-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship means being there in all weather'/><title type='text'>Friendship -  being there in all weather!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_foryou/1029-014-09-1060.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 123px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_foryou/1029-014-09-1060.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;You know the age old saying, "A friend in need, is a friend indeed." I don't know about you, but when my friends are in trouble, I try my best to be there for them. Even if I can't do anything but hug them or just listen to them. The same way a lot of my friends are like that. All I have to do is pick up the phone and call them and they'd be there for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;But sometime's it's not enough to just be there, you have to tell your friends that you're there for them. Because sometimes, when we're in trouble, we forget that there are friends whom we can call. So tell them that you're not just a fair weather friend that you'd be there in whatever weather it is. Here's some ecards you can check out that say exactly those things!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/friend_foryou_ani6.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 428px; height: 299px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_foryou/1029-014-03-1040.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/friend_foryou_ani6.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/friend_foryou_ani20.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 447px; height: 308px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_foryou/1029-014-22-1069.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/for_you/friend_foryou_ani20.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3853955783988135130?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3853955783988135130/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3853955783988135130&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3853955783988135130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3853955783988135130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/friendship-being-there-in-all-weather.html' title='Friendship -  being there in all weather!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-4124476413598132146</id><published>2007-02-17T02:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-17T03:18:05.913-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happy chinese new year'/><title type='text'>Happy Chinese New Year!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/chinese_new_year/happy/?pos=hpside_in"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 116px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/ejan_chinese_happy/8658-002-38-1027.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Hey guys and gals, Chinese New Year is tomorrow! Here's a couple of ecards you can send to your friends to wish them a Happy New Year!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_500x325.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/ejan_chinese_happy/8658-002_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/ejan_chinese_happy/8658-002-38-1027.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="225" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/chinese_new_year/happy/chinese28.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_chinese/1029-030_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_chinese/1029-030-20-1068.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/chinese/frchi18.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-4124476413598132146?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4124476413598132146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=4124476413598132146&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4124476413598132146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4124476413598132146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/happy-chinese-new-year.html' title='Happy Chinese New Year!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-5402594279863272</id><published>2007-02-16T00:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T01:20:46.761-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='angel friends'/><title type='text'>Angel Friends</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/angels/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 117px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_angels/1029-018-10-1069.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"  &gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;ometimes friendships can extend beyond this realm into another world. Do you believe in angels? At times I do believe that there are beings sent from heaven to watch over us. It makes me feel more secure. I love hearing stories about angels coming down and telling people what to do or warning them of God's wrath. Instead of those epic stories, I believe that angels whisper in our ears or stop us from crossing the road when danger is ahead. I found &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.angelfriends.com/"&gt;Angel Friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; started by Rick and Tina who are big believers in angels.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Of course there are earthly human beings that act like angels too. Some of my friends are like that and I'm very fortunate to have them. They are those friends that you can call up 3am in the morning because you're feeling lonely or depressed. They are those friends who will always be there no matter the situation, the weather, or who you are as a person. I feel like those people are also my angel friends too. So here's a couple of cards I found dedicated to these friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_angels/1029-018_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_angels/1029-018-06-1067.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/angels/angelecards.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_550x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_angels/1029-018_ldr.swf&amp;amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_angels/1029-018-07-1049.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="450"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/angels/angelsgreet.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-5402594279863272?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5402594279863272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=5402594279863272&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5402594279863272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/5402594279863272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/angel-friends.html' title='Angel Friends'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2472065933643378648</id><published>2007-02-14T00:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-14T00:44:14.167-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Happy Valentine&apos;s Day'/><title type='text'>Happy Valentine's Day!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Wishing you all, a very Happy Valentine's Day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_500x350.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_valen_happy/8701-004_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_valen_happy/8701-004-77-1047.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/valentines_day/happy/valentine47.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/valentines_day/happy/valentine65.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 423px; height: 257px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_valen_happy/8701-004-94-1042.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/valentines_day/happy/valentine65.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/valentines_day/happy/valentine67.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 433px; height: 276px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_valen_happy/8701-004-96-1047.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/valentines_day/happy/valentine67.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2472065933643378648?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2472065933643378648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2472065933643378648&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2472065933643378648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2472065933643378648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/happy-valentines-day.html' title='Happy Valentine&apos;s Day!!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-3506309303706241539</id><published>2007-02-13T06:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-13T06:47:16.828-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='i value your friendship day'/><title type='text'>I Value Our Friendship!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/efeb_ivaluefrndday/8661-001-02-1062.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/efeb_ivaluefrndday/8661-001-02-1062.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Happy 13&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of February. You know why else you should be happy? It's “I Value Our Friendship Day” that's why! Check out these ecards so you can send them to your friends too and tell them how much you value their friendship!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/i_value_our_friendship_day/efeb_ivaluefrndday_pcard5.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_ivaluefrndday/8661-001-14-1078.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/i_value_our_friendship_day/efeb_ivaluefrndday_pcard5.html"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://img.123greetings.com/loaders/dynaloader_500x375.swf?ldrName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_ivaluefrndday/8661-001_ldr.swf&amp;crdName=http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_ivaluefrndday/8661-001-04-1062.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="" menu="false" wmode="Transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="275" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www2.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.123greetings.com/events/i_value_our_friendship_day/friend3.html%E2%80%9D"&gt;Send this ecard!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-3506309303706241539?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3506309303706241539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=3506309303706241539&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3506309303706241539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/3506309303706241539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-value-your-friendship.html' title='I Value Our Friendship!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-2872675154295260846</id><published>2007-02-13T00:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-13T00:43:08.811-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wishes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='valentine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship'/><title type='text'>Friendship  -  Valentine Wishes</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/valentines_day/kisses/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 126px; height: 126px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/efeb_valen/8701-001-13-1075.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Love makes the world go around - so it is said. And what better day to celebrate the feeling of love and passion than on Valentine's Day. Beating hearts, unspoken words and lingering glances... love is wonderful and being in love is the best thing that can happen to You !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/388773/happy_valentines_day_dear_friend.swf" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="345" width="400"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/388773/happy_valentines_day_dear_friend/"&gt;Happy Valentine's Day... Dear Friend - video powered by Metacafe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/390418/valentines_day_wish_for_someone_special.swf" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="345" width="400"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/390418/valentines_day_wish_for_someone_special/"&gt;Valentine's Day Wish For Someone Special - video powered by Metacafe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-2872675154295260846?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2872675154295260846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=2872675154295260846&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2872675154295260846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/2872675154295260846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/friendship-valentine-wishes.html' title='Friendship  -  Valentine Wishes'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-6049485056964093796</id><published>2007-02-12T01:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-12T01:48:50.813-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship  -  Love is In'/><title type='text'>Friendship  -  Love is In!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://http//www.123greetings.com/events/valentines_day/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/efeb_valen/8701-001-09-1062.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Just 1 day more to go for Valentine's Day! There is love in the air and the world is filled with hues of pink and red! Romance is what people are looking for... it works both ways, single or in a relationship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;So, if your are lost as to what is to be done for V-day, then here's a &lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://valentinesday4all.blogspot.com/"&gt;great blog &lt;/a&gt;that I found. It is a one-stop solution to all love remedies and love facts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;From advice on gifts, relationships, romance and food -  it has it all.  So, friends as well as lovers... just get ready for Valentine's Day, for love is in the air!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/valentines_day/happy/efeb_valen_happy_ani1.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 410px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/efeb_valen_happy/8701-004-34-1062.gif" alt="Send this free eCard" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/events/valentines_day/happy/efeb_valen_happy_ani1.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-6049485056964093796?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6049485056964093796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=6049485056964093796&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6049485056964093796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6049485056964093796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/friendship-love-is-in.html' title='Friendship  -  Love is In!'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-6317601834040700160</id><published>2007-02-10T02:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-10T02:47:22.607-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gemini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships'/><title type='text'>Friendship - Zodiac Friends : Gemini</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Gemini Friendship Profile&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;The social butterfly of the Zodiac has lots of friends. In fact, the Twins should have twice as many as any other Sign. One side of a Gemini will want to go hang-gliding and run around outside, while the other is keen on sitting cozily at home and playing a board game. Their friends need to be as diverse as they are in order to keep up, or they just need to know when to let Gemini go free. The Twins can bond well with lots of different kinds of groups. If they get bored with one set of people, they always have a few more groups that will be more interesting -- for awhile. Gemini is a sociable creature who enjoys having friends. If you can match their pace and mercurial temperament, you and your friend will have a blast. The best way to develop a bond with a Gemini is to make an intellectual connection. Interested in exploring anything at all? Take along your Gemini pal and enjoy the new perspective they give to even the most ordinary situations. If you can match wits with this one, they'll respect your intellect and work to develop this worthwhile friendship.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Best friend Bets&lt;/span&gt;: Aries, Leo  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/get_together/friends3.html"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 404px; height: 257px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/eventsnew/friend_gettogether/1029-022-09-1068.gif" send="" this="" free="" ecard="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123greetings.com/friendship/get_together/friends3.html"&gt;Send this eCard !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-6317601834040700160?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6317601834040700160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=6317601834040700160&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6317601834040700160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/6317601834040700160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/friendship-zodiac-friends-gemini.html' title='Friendship - Zodiac Friends : Gemini'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-8962238391126089985</id><published>2007-02-08T23:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-08T23:56:15.158-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='taurus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships'/><title type='text'>Friendship - Zodiac  Friends : Taurus</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Taurus Friendship Profile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;When they say they're your best friend forever, the Bull means it. They take childhood friendship oaths seriously, and still have the other half of that charm necklace in which are inscribed the words "Best Friends Forever." Their friendship stands the test of time, and many Taurean friends have been this devoted since childhood. Constant, steady, loyal and devoted, this friend will stand by you through life. If you need to call someone to pick you up in the middle of a snowy night because your car broke down, Taurus will be there in a flash, hot cocoa in gloved hand. Be warned, though, this is only if you've proven yourself to be as loyal a friend to them as they are to you. It's a case of them scratching your back if you scratch theirs. Taurus makes a steady friend, but be careful not to arouse their jealousy. This Fixed Sign will be possessive of their buddies and aren't so likely to understand the old adage that "absence makes the heart grow fonder." You'll find a wonderful friend in Taurus, so long as you don't cancel any plans at the last minute.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Best Friend Bets:&lt;/span&gt; Pisces, Cancer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-8962238391126089985?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8962238391126089985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=8962238391126089985&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8962238391126089985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/8962238391126089985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/friendship-zodiac-friends_08.html' title='Friendship - Zodiac  Friends : Taurus'/><author><name>Emmie</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_bPmgDitWGds/R420sDnumSI/AAAAAAAAAR0/oIZclFsKSHc/S220/Emmie_Johnson.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297267200335179774.post-4803471071976513533</id><published>2007-02-08T01:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-08T23:54:21.949-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aries'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zodiac'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendships'/><title type='text'>Friendship - Zodiac Friends : Aries</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_wannabefriends/1029-021-02-1067.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 122px;" src="http://img.123greetings.com/thumbs/friend_wannabefriends/1029-021-02-1067.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Friendships are very important to us. They are best when your friend is in perfect compatibility with you, something like before you open your mouth... he or she knows what you are about to speak on!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Compatibility is a factor that is more or less sought in all kinds of relationships. It is a fact that life does gets easier if you are compatibile with your friends or loved ones... for the matter with anyone! So, if you want to know more about your friends... I guess astrology has a solution to that. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Zodiac friendships - something that might tell you that extra bit more about your friends. I found some on the twelve signs, so will be posting a preview of each of them in the next few days!&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Aries Friendship Profile&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="trebuchet ms" style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;As fire can be a fleeting thing, so can be the friendship of a Ram. If you want to call an Aries up for a night on the town, you'll have an exciting companion for the evening -- but don't try to make plans for next week. This Sign needs variety in their friendships. If one group of people can't keep up with their constantly changing interests, they'll move on to new friends. Not that they ever lack for companionship: The Ram is well liked for their edge, so making new friends is never a big problem. Friends are nice, but not exactly necessary for independent Aries, who doesn't need a big group to have fun. When they are in one, though, their competitive nature is liable to get the better of them. Don't try to borrow even a cup of sugar from this one. Ruled by the First House of Self, selfishness can sometimes take the upper hand when it's a choice between people and possessions. On the other hand, the Ram can be very warm toward their friends. As long as Aries feels that they are the number one friend in your life, you can count on having an exciting, albeit brief, whirlwind of fun.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Best Friend Bets&lt;/span&gt;: Gemini, Aquarius  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5297267200335179774-4803471071976513533?l=friendshipblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4803471071976513533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5297267200335179774&amp;postID=4803471071976513533&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4803471071976513533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5297267200335179774/posts/default/4803471071976513533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://friendshipblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/friendship-zodiac-friends.html' title='Friendship - 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