The metabolism seems mostly from my mother, from what I can tell. Supposedly she was barely 100 pounds when she and my dad got married. Though both of my dad’s brothers are also on the skinny side for sure, so it’s possible I also get it from my his mother who seems like she’s always been pretty petite.

I haven’t seen you since two Christmases ago, Kaye, but I think I’d guess you were in your late 20s if I didn’t know otherwise. The lack of aging thing seems to be pretty widespread on the McLellan side. Randy, Ray, Bucky, you, Michelle, Sarah, Seth, Elijah, and I all strike me as looking considerably younger than we actually are.

And that super-metabolism . . . must be a superpower derived from both sides of your family, because it’s definitely not a dominant gene on the McLellan side or it would have overtaken my “look at food and gain weight” gene from my dad’s side.

The “Benjamin Button” reference is apt . . . only in my case, it was that I looked like I was in my mid-twenties from about age 12 until . . . well, hopefully still now, but I’d at least hope I can pass for a few years younger than I actually am (being the age that the lady *thought* your mom was).

And Hecht, next time you should just do a guest blog.

And glad you showed that girl who was boss, even if you did cheat by using your super-powers to do so.

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Well the fact that your parents have blue eyes, if one of their parents had brown, is awesome. But to have blue eyes you need to have the genetic marker bb (lower case for recessive) and bb (once again recessive) the punnet square (tool for figuring out odds of genetics) would look like this

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So the fact that both your parents have blue eyes means that you could ONLY have blue eyes.

http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=59

So you kicked nothing in the balls.

It’s all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole Fizzy Lifting Drinks, you bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed, and sterilized, so you get NOTHING, YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY SIR!

Extremely high sense of Luck. I don’t have to explain how lucky I am. My best example is how I got those Wicked tickets in that raffle.

Finding an Inner Strength. I don’t think it’s strong enough to constitute as super strength, but when I ran a 5K this weekend, towards the end (when I was about ready to drop dead), some girl tried passing me, and it set off this inner power I have. With my left shoe falling half off, I began to sprint and passed like three more people in front of me. I tapped into some hidden energy.

And the third power is a little unclear to me. It could still be the Luck thing, or go hand in hand with it. It may be some sort of premonition, where instead of seeing the future, I just feel it (not like a deja vu, although I have those all the time). I thought it may be the ability to kinda read minds, because sometimes I can tell exactly what someone is feeling and can finish their thought. But that doesn’t explain how sometimes I avoid disaster by seconds. (I almost got in a car accident the other day, but my “spidey sense” tingled and saved me) But I think it’s more premonition, because if it’s premonition, I’m not really reading people’s thoughts, I just know how they’re going to react in the next couple of seconds. So it could be something, I’m just not sure what that something is.

Looking back at how much I wrote, I should’ve just done a guest blog.