Happy Father's Day!

To all the Dad's (and Dad's to be, Adam!!:)

 

We're Gone this week

To see Dustin graduate from Army Training!!

Wishing everyone

 

(and this is a great graphic that a friend made and sent for Dustin:)

See you when we get back! :)

 

I may 'throw like a girl" but, apparently, I.....

I posted something about this over at my troop support journal  

Click here: MAIL CALL!Supporting the Troops

 

but I thought I'd also post it over here, just because it totally cracked me up:)

 

I may 'throw like a girl", but, apparently, I write.....like a Guy??

 

My friend over at   Random Threads  had a post earlier this week "Does your writing give clues to your gender?" 

Click here: Does your writing give clues to your gender?

and if you go by and check her post out, you can test yourself.

Beware,though. I tested myself, 57 ways to Sunday,LOL.....and the results ALWAYS came back that my writing was MALE.

I know it says it's not 100% accurate....but this is really messing with my head:)

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In other news, Tracy and Adam got the latest on when they might Finally get to go to China and meet and bring home the newest member of their family

Click here: A Red Thread to China: 6 days referred this month, 14 LID's in front of us.......

not the greatest news, I'm so sorry.

And I'm working the next few days, and then we leave for Graduation!  The camera arrived!!YAY!!! (and Thanks! Bro:)  so expect lots of pics sometime after we get back!

 

NINE DAYS! till Dustin's grad:)

SEVEN DAYS, till we hop into the car and head off across the country:)

And leave Miss April here,LOL....(so she can go to Chincoteague with the church Youth Group.) 100 years ago (third grade?) I remember reading Misty of Chincoteague .Since we lived in  Parchment,MI  then ( Go,Panthers! ) I of course had no idea that someday I'd end up living in Virginia.

(and still have somehow never made it to Chincoteague, even after 29 years of living here!)

We made reservations last night for the hotel near  Ft. Leonard Wood   where we'll be staying, looks like we made them just in time....we had been waiting on info from Dustin and/or info from a letter we were supposed to get, with more info about graduation(which has never yet arrived). Well, Dustin had called his Dad last night, and seemed to have confused us with the independently wealthy,LOL...I'm not even going to tell you the price of the hotel He suggested we stay at.

And so when I got home from work, I said "I really think we need to go ahead and make the reservation NOW" and we proceeded to research hotels. Holy Schnike! Hotel after hotel said "SOLD OUT" for the dates we wanted,but luckily we were finally able to find one we could still reserve a room at.

Tony said "You really had a good idea" regarding my saying we needed to make the reservation last night...which should have made me feel good,ROFL, except that I'm still dissecting whether or not that was a backhanded compliment? because of the complete and utter astonishment in his tone of voice when he said that:)

If you want an idea of what we're going to be doing while we're out there? we finally went by the website and realized there was a posting there

Graduation and Family Day

(which perhaps is also the letter we never received?LOL)

In other family news...sheriff deputy son Kyle did NOT get to run in the Special Olympics Torch run this year, as he had to work.

And,did y'all realize that son Ben is a blogger also? Check out his blog on MySpace .

I am impressed with his writing ability:) and I have learned something (since I knew nothing about the subject matter prior to reading these:)

That's all for today.Love to all!

 

Update: A Pic of my Newest Niece with her sister

And, Tracy and Adam weigh in on the Welcome,also.

Click here: A Red Thread to China: Our extended family is bigger now!

 

Click here: A Red Thread to China: Introducing our newest niece Tabatha.......

 

 

 

 

Woo Hoo! My new niece is Here!

Congratulations! to my brother Kirby and his wife Takaho, on the arrival of their second daughter!!

Welcome to the World, Tabatha:)

Love from Aunt Kathi

 

My dorky life (episode 57)

OK, so sometimes I think a person can have Too Much imagination,lol.

Worked night shift last night. We have a part of the building that is very spooky and scary to go into, we All agree on that. Plus, there are the usual 'ghost stories' that you get when you work somewhere, about the building supposedly being 'haunted'.

So, I'm coming out of this scary back hall, and I Swear that I think I hear a ghostly voice whisper,very quietly......"Kathi".

I did not waste any time whatsoever to stick around and see Who (or What) could have whispered my name.(and I'm not even really sure at this point if I actually Heard anything? or if it's just cause I'm always freaked out by being in that part of the building,anyway?)

But I immediately slammed the elevator button and Jumped into the elevator the instant the doors opened,and took off for another floor.

(Yes, I am 46 years old,LOL....but I am a chicken:)plus, I think I've read too much Stephen King and Dean Koontz!

About 45 minutes later, I come around a corner and come across my Boss....who had come in early, and I didn't know it.  We were having a problem with the phones, due to an electrical storm. She says to me "I tried to find you, but I didn't want to yell with everyone sleeping, so I was walking around whispering your name."

And I am hugging her and saying "Oh, THANK GOD....I thought I was going nuts! I HEARD you whisper, but I ran away, because it totally freaked me out!"

And by this time, of course, both she and one of my co-workers are bent over laughing:)

I think it's funny now,too.....but I didn't when I heard that ghostly voice saying my name!!