Thursday, November 16, 2006
What did you Expect?
Like sands through the hour glass...so are..the days of our lives. Yes, yes. I know. It has been a while since I last posted. I had my favorite event agency person remind me in a subtle way that I need to keep the world posted on my life so that my faithful blog aids can somehow live vicariously through me. It is an amazing responsibility to keep you people entertained, yet, I chose to do this and I must live up to my end of the bargain. So, here goes....
I was thinking the other day...is there someplace on earth where a person eats chicken for the first time and says "hmmm...this tastes like Frog Legs"? I'm certain there is. I mean, it would be short-sighted for us to think that everyone else in the world used chicken as the gold standard for what other stuff tastes like. It is like the people who are so incredulous that not everyone on the planet speaks English...or that soccer is the most popular sport on the planet...or that christianity is the third most popular religion. I guess we as Americans are pretty insulated from birth and the propoganda would tend to drive us towards these feelings that everything we do is the "norm" and anything we don't do is "weird". Which reminds me...i before e except after c unless the word is weird or foreign. I made that up when I was a kid and thought I would share it with you....seemed pretty funny at the time.
So, the democrats have taken over the government and it could not have come at a better time. As most of you know, I am a staunch democrat as I actually care about people and have yet to make enough money for that concern to override my compassion. But, over time, I am hoping to be rich enough where I care more about keeping my taxes low and less about those rat bastard poor people. Those will be the days. In all seriousness, with my brother heading over to Iraq on the 20th of this month, it is good to have some level-minded doves driving the discussions re. Iraq now vs. the neoconservative Hawks pre-election. I propose a gradual withdrawal of troops starting with old guys named Brian. It is the only plan that makes any sense. I also propose breaking Iraq into three separate countries. They could do it similar to what they did with Germany...split it down the middle (or, in this case, thirds) and then split up the oil producing regions like they did with Berlin. That way, the Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites could all have their own land and not have to intermingle and they could still share the oil revenue. And the US could stay there and just man the borders to make sure that they don't break into a bunch of border wars. Just a thought....
So, the Knight family continues to stay busy...Hagen had his 6 month check up this morning and continues to head down the charts as far as percentile...he is 16lbs 4oz and 27.5 inches. Which, in comparison to Liska makes him a monster, but is only the 35th percentile vs. other kids. Liska continues to get smarter and more beautiful every day. She is now working on jigsaw puzzles and is mastering the 24 piecers...we are going to have to get her a 100 piece puzzle just so she doesn't finish them so quickly. I think from the time we open the box to completion is less than half an hour. Pretty crazy. But, with the Knight surname comes certain expectations for brilliance and she is living up to it. :-) I think the visit from her cousins pushed her to be the best she can be as they are all brilliant as well. Not that I am bias. :-)
We put our house on the market and the folks from Designed to Sell finished up and it looks fantastic! It ended up being the largest open house in Designed to Sell history. Peeps lined up down the block...over 100 in total. No offers though. I am fully expecting that we will still be in Cali when I start my new job....speaking of which, that job starts on January 2. I am staying at Nestle until then to help with transition. Noone really wants my job as we have not gotten any applications from the internal posting so we are looking for peeps outside the company. Should be interesting. I did learn that my new firm, EquaTerra, is going to be having their annual summit at the end of January and it is going to be held at the Ritz Carlton in Cancun, Mexico. A stark contrast to anything we do at Nestle...it will be nice to get back to a small company that treats their employees like Kings and Queens. haha
OK...enough writing for today...have to save some for tomorrow. I am going to try to get on more of a regular writing kick...I tend to not want to write at work, not because it is a bad use of company time, but because I have no pics on my computer to upload. But, when I get home I am too damn tired to do anything, so I end up not posting at all. So, suffer through no pics for awhile and just read my brilliant writing. Hopefully I will get back in the groove and write something worth reading in the not too distant future. :-)
Much love to all!
jak
I was thinking the other day...is there someplace on earth where a person eats chicken for the first time and says "hmmm...this tastes like Frog Legs"? I'm certain there is. I mean, it would be short-sighted for us to think that everyone else in the world used chicken as the gold standard for what other stuff tastes like. It is like the people who are so incredulous that not everyone on the planet speaks English...or that soccer is the most popular sport on the planet...or that christianity is the third most popular religion. I guess we as Americans are pretty insulated from birth and the propoganda would tend to drive us towards these feelings that everything we do is the "norm" and anything we don't do is "weird". Which reminds me...i before e except after c unless the word is weird or foreign. I made that up when I was a kid and thought I would share it with you....seemed pretty funny at the time.
So, the democrats have taken over the government and it could not have come at a better time. As most of you know, I am a staunch democrat as I actually care about people and have yet to make enough money for that concern to override my compassion. But, over time, I am hoping to be rich enough where I care more about keeping my taxes low and less about those rat bastard poor people. Those will be the days. In all seriousness, with my brother heading over to Iraq on the 20th of this month, it is good to have some level-minded doves driving the discussions re. Iraq now vs. the neoconservative Hawks pre-election. I propose a gradual withdrawal of troops starting with old guys named Brian. It is the only plan that makes any sense. I also propose breaking Iraq into three separate countries. They could do it similar to what they did with Germany...split it down the middle (or, in this case, thirds) and then split up the oil producing regions like they did with Berlin. That way, the Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites could all have their own land and not have to intermingle and they could still share the oil revenue. And the US could stay there and just man the borders to make sure that they don't break into a bunch of border wars. Just a thought....
So, the Knight family continues to stay busy...Hagen had his 6 month check up this morning and continues to head down the charts as far as percentile...he is 16lbs 4oz and 27.5 inches. Which, in comparison to Liska makes him a monster, but is only the 35th percentile vs. other kids. Liska continues to get smarter and more beautiful every day. She is now working on jigsaw puzzles and is mastering the 24 piecers...we are going to have to get her a 100 piece puzzle just so she doesn't finish them so quickly. I think from the time we open the box to completion is less than half an hour. Pretty crazy. But, with the Knight surname comes certain expectations for brilliance and she is living up to it. :-) I think the visit from her cousins pushed her to be the best she can be as they are all brilliant as well. Not that I am bias. :-)
We put our house on the market and the folks from Designed to Sell finished up and it looks fantastic! It ended up being the largest open house in Designed to Sell history. Peeps lined up down the block...over 100 in total. No offers though. I am fully expecting that we will still be in Cali when I start my new job....speaking of which, that job starts on January 2. I am staying at Nestle until then to help with transition. Noone really wants my job as we have not gotten any applications from the internal posting so we are looking for peeps outside the company. Should be interesting. I did learn that my new firm, EquaTerra, is going to be having their annual summit at the end of January and it is going to be held at the Ritz Carlton in Cancun, Mexico. A stark contrast to anything we do at Nestle...it will be nice to get back to a small company that treats their employees like Kings and Queens. haha
OK...enough writing for today...have to save some for tomorrow. I am going to try to get on more of a regular writing kick...I tend to not want to write at work, not because it is a bad use of company time, but because I have no pics on my computer to upload. But, when I get home I am too damn tired to do anything, so I end up not posting at all. So, suffer through no pics for awhile and just read my brilliant writing. Hopefully I will get back in the groove and write something worth reading in the not too distant future. :-)
Much love to all!
jak
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I am so depressed about Bri leaving tomorrow. I just called him and gave him my love (and safety speech).
Keep us posted on where you are living:). And, as always, I love to hear the updates on your lives. Hugs and kisses to you and your family.
Love,
Your Sister
Keep us posted on where you are living:). And, as always, I love to hear the updates on your lives. Hugs and kisses to you and your family.
Love,
Your Sister
# posted by 
: 5:11 PM
: 5:11 PM
So, dear husband, you seem to FORGET that your beautiful and genius-level intelligent children, although named 'Knight', have half of their genes from the 'Huang' family Give props to Ma and Pa Huang in Tulsa, yo!
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