Busy fall

Football, VocalEssence, homework, work work, running, now swim team. The blog has been suffering. I miss it. I'm going to try to do a better job of updating things here.

Chicken curry for breakfast

Breakfast - chicken and veg curry
Originally uploaded by WkHanson08.

Why not? Gary has been honing his Indian curry skills and whipped this up this morning for our lunches at work. I couldn't resist eating a dose for breakfast, too.

Your cute picture of the day

Sophie is one of Peggy's running partners. Be sure to click on the picture to enlarge it.

Sophie

You have to read this and follow the link to T-odd

What Have I Done?

WARNING: T-odd writes very, very long, rambling posts but this one is pretty funny.

Update: I kid the T-odd. I kid!

Funky/Cool Stuff (including Halloween purses)

Funky/Cool Stuff made by my friend and for sale on Etsy:

See here.

End of summer

Running related

"When things look worst, we run the most. Three times, America has seen distance-running skyrocket and it’s always in the midst of a national crisis. The first boom came during the Great Depression; the next was in the ‘70s, when we were struggling to recover from a recession, race riots, assassinations, a criminal President and an awful war. And the third boom? One year after the Sept. 11 attacks, trailrunning suddenly became the fastest-growing outdoor sport in the country. I think there’s a trigger in the human psyche that activates our first and greatest survival skill whenever we see the shadow of approaching raptors."

I'm loading this book into my iPhone for our weekend road trip.

Song stylin

Here you see a sneaky little picture of Hank, on the way home from football practice, rocking out to a Taylor Swift song. He knew all the words to this one and the Britney Spears song that followed it. We will try to find a good way to embarrass him with this story when he's older.

Freak shows and corn dogs

Goodbye summer. We hardly knew ya.

Quality time

The Hansons like to have fun everywhere they go.

Hank said it

You know how sometimes you get attached to your teacher?

I don't see that happening this year.

Toothless hobo

Toothless hobo
Originally uploaded by WkHanson08.

The word "harsh" sounds pretty cute coming out of a mouth missing the front teeth. As in: "My new teacher only gets a little bit harsh when someone's bad." The word "teacher" sounds cute, too.

Back to school

I was excited for Hope's friend, whose mom decided to shave a few hours off of her day by dropping her daughter off at Hope's bus stop instead of driving her to school like she did last year. I assured my friend that her daughter would love Chuck The Bus Driver as much as everyone else has for the last two years. I don't think bus drivers get much better than him. He stopped by our house last summer and again this year to let me know he was going to get to drive the same route. It's pretty cute -- jolly Chuck and the gaggle of kids he drives to Chinese school. I was curious how my friend's daughter felt about her first day taking the bus. I received the following text message from her yesterday evening:

So...I understand Chuck sings &
does magic tricks with his teeth. Neat.

Gonna be another good year on the bus. :-P