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Entries from November 2007

Mommy, your getting fat!

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

I know I usually do a Thursday post lately about a childhood story, but since I’ll be at my parents house this weekend and largely without internet access, I figure I’ll grace you all today with one. Also, I apologize if I don’t email you back after post a comment, my ISP is being […]

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Tags: As A Child · General

I had a pet duck.

November 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments

My house growing up was in, what was then, the middle of nowhere. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. You see, I lived on a street with about 20 houses on about a third of a mile. The surrounding 10 miles consisted of corn fields, pig farms, and forest. Of course there […]

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Tags: As A Child · Family Issues · General

Climbing Everest

November 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I was a little monkey when I was growing up. Like, literally. I even to this day have freakishly long digits on my feet that aided me in climbing when I was a youngster. It didn’t matter what it was either. Cabinets? Those were like a small hill. A […]

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Tags: As A Child · Family Issues · General

Beer Can Chicken

November 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

So I’m on the verge of screwing up the month-o-blogging on the first Saturday I faced. But fear not, I have something that may even be interesting to check out.
Today we made Beer Can Chicken, for the second time. Beer can chicken is when you essentially stick a can of beer up a […]

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Tags: Food · General

I’m Given’ ‘er All She’s Got Cap’n!

November 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Captains log. Stardate: 20071102
The crew of the Starship McNelis glided last night into an asteroid belt of free books. Sources point to the Chicago Reader as the cause for the malestrom, which took books from the McNelis in exchange for the McNelis taking books.
In a well known area of the Chicago galaxy called […]

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Tags: General

As a child, I liked my huck.

November 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Welcome to my personal kickoff of NaBloPoMo!. Somehow I doubt I’ll be able to keep up with the demands of at least one entry per day…but we’ll try.
To really set the tone I’m going to try to start a new regular feature here, and if you guys are interested in me keeping it going […]

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Tags: As A Child · Funny · General