Category Archives: The Funny Thing About Family Is That You'll Always Be Related

by kellyanncarroll | February 10, 2012 · 9:48 am

Happy 60th Birthday, Jeanie Carroll!!

Jeanette Susan Turnbull was born to Raymond and Jeannette Turnbull on February 10, 1952. From day one, she’s sported a female afro.

When she was just a junior in high school, the principal told her mother, “the good news is, Jeanette is a born leader. The bad news is, she’s leading everyone in the wrong direction.” She was subsequently expelled from school for setting the bathroom on fire with an errant cigarette butt.

When she was 17, she told her dad she was going to small concert in upstate New York. At a place named Woodstock. We all know how that weekend turned out.

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by kellyanncarroll | February 6, 2012 · 10:32 am

Brett and the Victor Cruz Salsa

Thank God Victor Cruz was one of the Giants’ players that scored last night, because if Brett didn’t get a little salsa in, no one was going home happy. The scene went a little like this:

Brett: Kelly, this dance is so easy. There’s not even steps, you just do something like this.
Me: Well, it’s actually a salsa, so there are steps, buddy. I don’t know what you’re doing but I like it.
Trevor: The steps are on the back of his shirt.

Bow. Applause.

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Deportation: It Can Happen to You

Or anyone, really.

So I’m a little behind on my news because I moved and I have no internet in my new apartment (Time Warner comes on Tuesday and then I’m going to be killing life people) and work has been crazy and well, that’s it really. But I was recently reading this story about a teenage American girl who was erroneously deported to Mexico in May 2011 and was just let back into the States in January. This may sound extraordinary to some of you – implausible, you may say – but I am here to tell you that the line between unassuming American citizen and being arrested as an illegal alien is very thin. I should know.

Like any plucky and enthusiastic teenager, I made my parents take me to the DMV the day I turned 16 so I could get my learner’s permit. What a day! After years of driving my parents around town illegally I was finally going to have a piece of paper to hand over to the police when they pulled me over. I could not have been more excited.

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