Sunday, January 01, 2006

The Fob Family DVD


Tonight Foxy and I watched the DVD of family photos my brother and sisters spent countless hours over the last couple years putting together. I have come to the following conclusions:

1. I like my family.
2. There are many unhappy, uncomfortable, and downright painful moments in my family's past. And probably in our present and future too. And I feel no need to pretend those moments don't exist, but I'm also glad to be reminded that there are even more happy, peaceful, and downright fun moments to remember.
3. Puff Daddy's "It's All About the Benjamins" as the soundtrack to my segment of the DVD (my idea, by the way), while fun for a few moments, is somewhat overbearing after a while. I'm glad Svoid faded it out before Lil' Kim started her verse.
4. The Fob (referring to my last name, which you must never know) family genes are strong. Even though my two oldest sisters' father is Seneca Indian, they look more like my mom than any of the rest of us. We Fobs are all very much Fobs. As is S-Boogie. We all have Daddy's nose, if you will.
5. I like my family.
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10 comments:

  1. B.G. Christensen1/01/2006 11:32 PM

    Can you guess which people in the photo are Fobs by blood and which are Fobs by marriage?

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  2. TK1/02/2006 11:41 AM

    And which one is the mother? :)

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  3. B.G. Christensen1/02/2006 11:50 AM

    Is one of them the mother? I assumed they were all sisters, being the beautiful young women they are.

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  4. TK1/02/2006 12:31 PM

    Excellent conclusion, Master Fob.

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  5. TK1/03/2006 9:00 AM

    I think your ability to look at the big picture and appreciate the positive, as opposed to focussing only on the negative and getting depressed, is commendable - perhaps a sign of maturity and wisdom.

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  6. Th.1/03/2006 1:52 PM

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    UNRELATED COMMENT--REFERS TO ENGLISHBEN


    I'm jealous! I want to do this with my high schoolers, but I have access problems for that many students.

    My BritLit classes at BC were done in large part in a preblog list-email and it worked very nicely.

    I'm intrigued to see how this works for you.

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  7. Christian1/04/2006 11:47 AM

    UNRELATED COMMENT TO THREAD BUT RELATED TO TH.'S COMMENT

    Perhaps I am merely unfamiliar with the nature of Fobness, but can EnglishBen be a Fob if he is another manifestation of Master Fob?

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  8. B.G. Christensen1/04/2006 3:45 PM

    English Ben is one of my dearest friends and thus a Fob of the highest order. I waffled between placing him under Fobs by Blood or Marriage or Official Fobs, but decided on the former because he is technically a Fob by blood and because he comes first alphabetically on that list.

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  9. Thirdmango1/05/2006 3:46 AM

    Just checked out English Ben, that is way sweet. I was thinking because of that I should take your class.... Well maybe not. I don't like english classes. But I'll come visit.

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  10. skyeJ1/05/2006 5:59 AM

    Hey, my link should read "SkyeJ" and not "Skyej". I like the english blog!! cool! My english teachers were mostly old ladies. Too bad you weren't ever my english teacher. You my Enlish teacher? That's unpossible!

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