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Abby -- she's my sister. She's my sister! Far across the sea, or right next door to me, wherever she may be, she's my sister. . . . She's my sister. She's my sister! She's my friend.

Claire -- the very cool sister of my very cool friend Jordan. Claire is all the time thinking about interesting and/or hypothetical curiosities and articulates these things that swirl around in her brain quite nicely for the rest of us to enjoy. From what I have gathered in the few short months I've known her, Claire gets fantastically preoccupied (obsessed?) with new things, which explains why she wrote about 752 posts the first month she had a blog. Lots of fun, that Claire!

La familia Godfrey -- I think I've mentioned this before, but Pepper, of yesterday's links, once said that I only make sense in the context of my family. I think that's pretty cool, because I like my family, and why would I want to make sense anyway? Unfortunately, this blog does not very accurately reflect the dynamics of my family because my brother Ryan is the only one geeky enough--I mean smart enough-- to remember how to post to the blog without a full tutorial each time. And for some unknown reason, Ryan never posts. Go figure.

Comments

abby said…
Um, is that a song? I like.
June 13, 2007 11:12 PM
Emily said…
. . .and we'll walk hand in hand with God, holding to the iron rod. With faith something something (enduring?) to the end, we will be eternal friends. . .
June 13, 2007 11:19 PM
debi said…
When I read your 'description' for Abby's blog- it took me a second- and then I started laughing. I absolutely cannot believe you remember the lyrics to that song. You are amazing!!!
June 14, 2007 7:41 AM
Claire said…
Thanks for the shout out, Emily. You picked up on my obessiveness w/ cool new things more quickly than most. Thanks for helping increase my blog hits!
June 17, 2007 3:05 PM
Anonymous said…
Abby, that's two songs now: SOME LIKE IT HOT and SHE'S MY SISTER. Both eighties classics!
June 17, 2007 10:45 PM
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