http://www.windycitizen.com/blogs/myunread Shows unread posts in a member's blogs en http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/05/14/hearth-and-ho-me <p><!--paging_filter-->When I was in 8th grade, our fiercely challenging, academically stringent, hard-knocks Catholic school sponsored a week-long class ski trip in the middle of the school year. Reach for those accredited stars, Sacred Heart School. Anyway, we sold overpriced wrapping paper to pay for it – the kind where the company would award the top seller with White Sox tickets. Laura Bales would always kick ass because her dad would take the order form to work and have all his coworkers go bananas on it. My dad worked by himself. And I was a shit salesperson. Still am. I so take no for an answer.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="first last og_links"><a href="http://themouth.windycitizen.com/" class="og_links">The Mouth</a></li> </ul></div><p><a href="http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/05/14/hearth-and-ho-me">read more</a></p> http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/05/14/hearth-and-ho-me#comments Ukrainian Village cook cooking food fudge funny ho homemade lentil ski skiing soup The Mouth Wed, 14 May 2008 21:02:28 -0500 1431 at http://themouth.windycitizen.com http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/05/11/getting-over-it <p><!--paging_filter-->I started eating seafood about four years ago. As a child, I would have to leave the house if my mom was making tuna-fish sandwiches and put my head between my knees and do deep breathing exercises if I was fish-adjacent at a restaurant. I forced myself to get over this abject fear while at some Cajun joint in southern Louisiana. It was either the grilled shrimp or a zydeco meat pie. I appreciated the transparency in the shrimp option. As it turns out, they were pretty freaking good. </p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="first last og_links"><a href="http://themouth.windycitizen.com/" class="og_links">The Mouth</a></li> </ul></div><p><a href="http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/05/11/getting-over-it">read more</a></p> http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/05/11/getting-over-it#comments crab Louisiana salmon seafood tuna The Mouth Sun, 11 May 2008 23:56:43 -0500 1384 at http://themouth.windycitizen.com