Oh my son-of-a-Gunder! What's this?!

Oh my son-of-a-Gunder! What's this?! A family blog... well, this is an ingenious concept. And I am proud to be one of the first Gunders to get-a-bloggin'. I didn't know there were so many famous Gundersens (see right hand side for details). Look at Gil Gundersen... does that look like a superbly bad comb-over or what?! Why haven't we tried to locate Fawn "Bunny" Gundersen for family reunions? That could be interesting.

So, I guess since I don't have kids and I don't have a picture of our new house and I've already done the Elvi pug pictures thing... it looks like I'm strapped for a topic. We can go one of two ways... 1) We can discuss in great depth the social injustice of the peons in Mexico (I just finished watching my weekly Russian propaganda film (that was the topic this week)... or 2) we just go with our all time favorite line from a movie?

This is one of my favorite movie lines from "The Raven":

Dr. Bedloe (played by Peter Lorre): But son, you know that, that everything I tried in life I was a failure. Only, only the day I joined the Brotherhood of Magicians. Oh I, I was the happiest man on earth. I still remember how happy I was. And then when, when Dr. Scarabus offered to teach me superior magical knowledge for luring Dr. Craven here, I just couldn't resist that magnificent award. But Erasamus, believe me with all my heart I regret what I have done to you.

Dr. Craven (played by Vincent Price): You are not alone in guilt sir. I too have failed at the task of living.

Look forward to reading your favorites!

P.S. If this pithy dialogue doesn't get to you, you might want to consider renting "The Raven" just to see Jack Nicholson in tights!

Lemon Garlic Shrimp

2 lbs cooked shrimp (31-40)
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1/2 to 1 cup fresh parsley, chopped
3 sprigs fresh dill or 1 sprig dry
1/4 c. olive oil
1 pinch of pepper & kosher salt
1 lemon, (zest and juice of the whole lemon)

Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix together. Ready to be served, or can be made a few hours earlier and placed in the fridge for serving later.

In the beginning . . .

Hi Gundersens! We are starting a family blog for the amazing Gundersen family. It is officially located at http://gundersenfamilie.blogspot.com and uses the actual Norwegian spelling of family, ("familie") in the web address because the English spelling of family was already taken. Hopefully, it will help us all to stay in better touch with each other! I sent invites to everyone I had emails for, (Leonard, Jake, Traci, Jen, Shawna, Mills, and Steve Jr.) If you know the emails of others, like Becky, Stacy, Aaron, Karen, Connie, Ellen (does Grandma Ellen have an email?) then please state in the comment section here what their addresses are and we will add them as blog authors so they can post too. Traci's sister Maren is pretty hilarious, so she got invited as kind of an honorary Gundersen. Other honorary Gundersens could also be added by request, if you would like.

This is where you can post the latest goings-on in your life. Or anything you want. Connie wanted Traci's Lemon Garlic Shrimp recipe, so she is going to post it so Connie can get it anytime. You could put up pictures of your kids, or your new house, or maybe even a pug doing something crazy like dressing up as an Elvis pug.

Welcome to the blog! Here's to hoping that this actually works.