Stinnews---Thurs

What a techno-wiz am I? I got back into my own site and am now ready to blog again. Blogging, on purpose, sounds kind of gross--I like it.

Well, who would have thought that I'd get 4 comments in one blog. Last night I was feeling rather impulsive by inviting real people to read my stuff, but after reading the stuff that the kids write and read--why not me? So thanks, guys, for your comments. Remember this is just Stinnews, nothing too profound or interesting.....

I failed to mention yesterday that we had some BIG excitement over our Labor Day weekend. Mark's little sister, Amy, had a real LABOR DAY and delivered Joshua Cooper on Monday. We were so excited to get to see him before we left. He is adorable!The new parents are doing well. I don't know if his daddy, Eric, has come off Cloud 9 yet, but may return to earth during a late night feeding or not. :) I'll try to add a picture of him. All my techies are at school, so I'm on my own. I know that his virtual birth announcement is at southeastmohospital.com/babies. Joshua is grandbaby #14 for Mark's folks. We haven't had a boy in over 21 years. Daniel was followed by 10 grandgirls in a row. Wow. We are very haopy for Amy and Eric and wish we could see baby Joshua in every outfit in his closet. :)

Stinnews for today. Hannah stayed home this am with a stomach from yesterday. She was determined to get back to school so she could go to the football game after school. I knew it wasn't band, pe and Lang arts that she wanted to get back too.

I got my jog in this am. It was muggy and humid and I thought I might die, but as usual, I lived through it. I have never seen a dead body at the little park that I jog on the trail. (This really was meant as a joke, my side of town is usually very safe.) I skipped my jog yesterday and can always tell when I miss a day. Then I wonder why the body can't get IN shape as fast as it gets OUT of shape. Today I slapped myself with the thought that "this body has NEVER been IN shape, so qutcherbellyachin". :) I was not anxious to go this am, but thought of the email from my pal Amie who jogged down my old street in JC the other day. So if I could inspire Amie, then she could move my old bones too. Thanks, Amie.

Lesa and I had quite a chat about supper today. (See, I told you this was fascinating stuff). We each only know how to fix 5 things for supper so we traded. I didn't know that you could buy frozen meatballs or that brown gravy came in a packet. This brings "home cookin" to a new level. I shared with her my secret recipe of Costco Dino-chicken nuggets and mac n cheese. Actually that's what Hannah makes when I'm not home for a meal. :) I did share chicken enchildas and chicken manicotti. We still are interested in easy supper ideas, preferably 5 ingredients or less. :)

Em and I went to Blue Springs and got freon in my van's ac. I already knew that I had a leak in the evaporator and it was going to cost $1200 to fix it. I'm not thrilled about putting that kind of $ in a190,000+ miles van. So hopefully this freon will last till the weather gets cooler. I did talk the guy into a $15 discount. He was giving me a coupon for next time, so I smiled real nice and asked him if I could use it today. He let me! I did drive all the way over to BS to his shop and I could have stayed here in town. Nice!!

Tonight is Abby's skating party. The PTA rents the local skating rink for grades K-2 tonight. Next Thurs is Kat's night, but she is still disabled, plus it's Hannah's open house at school next week plus the first SURVIVOR!!! So anyway, Abby will go skating tonight and tomorrow is Friday!!! This weird week ends quickly, that's nice. It's nice just to have the little kids skate together.

I should mention Mark eventually in a post. He is still alive and well (handsome,too). He is being worked to death, but seems to be able to get home at a decent hour lately. I told him that it's going to take some getting used to having him for supper, but we LIKE it!!! He is gearing up for teaching the high school class at church Oct- Dec. I Corinthians. So he is loving getting ready for that. The grass will need some attention soon. Jess mowed for us all summer, and now Mark is back at it and missing Jess alot. lol,

Almost time for the little girls to come in and then the races begin all over again....

Until later,

this is KK for Stinnews OUT!!!