once upon a time a few years ago we made a voyage to the land of fire and ice. in addition to mountaining and lava rock crushing we kept lists of things. one such list was for granola bar consumption. (of course!) and in conclusion, manz ate 12.5 granola bars and coco ate 13.5 granola bars. in a 10 day time frame. hmmm. boy did we get sick of ( Read more... )

we've been friends for about 22 years. and during that time we shared an apartment for 1.5 years. it was a special space because each space or room had its own name. for instance, the fridge was known as the gallery- because it was an art museum on the inside. and the laundry room was known as area 51, just because. i lived on one continent, cort ( Read more... )

we were probably abducted by aliens in early 1994. we were driving down a two lane road in the evening, no problems, oncoming traffic, the usual. then co's car does a 360 in the middle of the road, with oncoming traffic! it spins around once and then continues on a straight path down the road. no ice, no slipping, and luckily no car accident. we ( Read more... )

in late elementary school we created some creatures known as liver people. they lived in our backyard pools and we fed them funions.  we loved and feared them. daddy nelson was the leader and he lived in/under a big tree in coco's yard. they were very real. i think they still live at our old houses...
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when we were nine (the age that our wacky joint adventures began) we biked over to the nearby city park (the one with the big hill and that used to have a train car sitting there until the older kids did naughty things there.) there had been a soccer picnic there earlier in the day and we ended up collecting garbage bags full of pop cans. we biked ( Read more... )