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Time Capsule

Superlative Slang Slam

by Lisa Creech Bledsoe on December 3, 2009 · 1 comment

The First: It’s the middle of December and it’s dead warm.
Me: It’s mad dead warm.
The Husband: It’s mad dead G* warm.
Me: It’s mad dead G beast crazy sick warm.

(prolonged stunned silence)

Me: Go on with my bad self!
The First: Don’t ever. Do that again.

*for the uninitiated, “G” is short for gangsta, which sadly, means cool. Now you’re sorry you read this, aren’t you?

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The Smell of the Very Last Baby

November 20, 2009

When the last of my baby boys grew out of his infant clothes I passed all of the marvelous tiny baby things I’d accumulated to another friend who needed them.
Almost all.
One of the Maker’s tee shirts (also worn by his older brothers when they were newborns) I folded carefully — unwashed — into a little [...]

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Dorm Room Archaeology: 1984

October 16, 2009

I uncovered two pictures from my college years, possibly the only two that were ever taken during that period, and boy did they bring back memories. Omg! We had a vaccuum cleaner! I’m pretty sure that belonged to my roomate Lee Ann. She ironed her jeans, for heaven’s sake.
So that’s me in my mother’s University [...]

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On McDonald’s French Fries

August 1, 2009

My recent post about Why Your Workout Isn’t Working prompted a funny chain of comments on Facebook, which I totally enjoyed. Most of them related bad food favorites, and McDonald’s was named in the very first comment (Hi, Greg!).
Sigh. I love MickeyD’s french fries more than any other fast food french fries. And back when [...]

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An 80’s Video Game Salute

July 29, 2009

I grew up in the 80’s. Wait, maybe “grew up” is too judgmental, but I did live in the 80’s. We didn’t have an Atari 2600 because we didn’t have a television. But we had a computer, so I got started with a Commodore 64 game system. The 64 stood for kilobytes, baby. We had [...]

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The Perfect Jersey Number

July 11, 2009

The Best Jersey Number Ever from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo.
This is a short little story about the First that I hadn’t thought of in years, but it’s a great one because it’s just so like him to think of something like this!
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How I Accidentally Saw Elvis Dead

July 7, 2009

It was hot as hell on August 17th, 1977, the day I accidentally saw Elvis dead.
It was the year that Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind hit movie theaters like a neutron bomb, the year that Rocky won an Academy Award for best picture. I had my first kiss that year — [...]

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The Ice’s Cat Gene

July 4, 2009

The Ice’s Cat Gene from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo.
This is one of our family’s favorite stories about The Ice. We’ve told it so many times that now he tells it. I added a little bit here, and also let Henry the cat have his say. Oh, and it’s actually true that he said the [...]

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Where Were You in ‘72? (Happy Birthday Title IX!)

June 24, 2009

In 1972 I was learning to play driveway basketball with the older boys across the street who had the only goal on our block. They were tall, fierce, and perfectly willing to outrun, outshoot, and outmanuver me with plenty of grins and laughter. There were two rules:
1. Take the ball out past the end of [...]

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Disco Balls and Jesus

March 29, 2009

I don’t know why we never tried a normal nightlight.
Maybe we did, and it wasn’t adequately addressing our boys’ collective fear of the dark combined with a tremendous reluctance to go to bed. But I noticed one Christmas how hypnotic we all found the scattered stars thrown from a mirrored-ball ornament. After Christmas I found [...]

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