Happy Thanksgiving...well day after since it's 12:35

Today was great. I got up at noon ...(now that was a feat because I declare someone was trying to get me up earlier) and honestly I don't know what I was doing until about one thirty...but we put out our yardsale signs and then wen't to the expansive Walton's place to get a few more supplies for our dinner. When we got back it was 3:30 and I didn't finish cooking until about six thirty. I think I made great time. Now I have to say that I am very um...NON domestic and don't get me wrong I am perfectly capable of throwing down in the kitchen and keeping a clean home BUT...I do not like housework...it's tedious and boring but a great necessity. My daughter and I cooked together and it was interesting, lol. I made shrimp fettucine, a 3lb turkey breast with cranberry sauce (of course), cornish hens, collard greens, red rice, and a cake. I even made my own icing and of course I put spirulina in the collards and baked flax seed into the cake....we ate so much I thought I was going to pop. My daughter was so drowsy she wanted to go to bed but we were on the run..had to go and see the fam. All my aunts were there complaining about each person's turkey being seasoned poorly or whatnot.. I love my family, they make me laugh like no one else can and you'd think they'd run out of jokes eventually but we don't..ever. I know we all have our issues and our foibles but we love each other and I'm very thankful for them.


So, Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Enjoy the day, and truly give thanks.

Creating Jackson Knight

Well we've decided to do it. After brainstorming on who I would ask to host a radio show with me, I came upon Octavia. She's perfect because we have a lot in common and always have somethiing to talk about when we meet. We almost always run out of time when we talk and have to head off to do something else in our lives, but that is what makes for great conversation. Not to mention for two people who didn't and in some respects don't really know each other, we really do talk like old friends every time we'd meet. I'm excited because we see a gap in the market for women with our intellect and our viewpoints and we can't wait till we get on the airwaves!!

Jackson Knight Show

Fake Friends...

Ok, so sometimes people are users. It happens, right? My "friend" that moved here to Charleston was one of those people. Turns out she wasn't the person I thought she was. You wouldn't believe what I spent my summer doing. Lord knows it wasn't worth it. But I learned a valuable life lesson and I won't be repeating that mistake again.

Ladies, another woman can not live in your house. Especially one with four children and your family is mixed into the nonsense. Especially not a woman who has three girls aged 4,6,8 that aren't potty trained and are living in your house. The ensuing fallout is just not worth it..trust!

Summer Time is here again!

This is the first time I've been off for an entire summer, and I have to say ...man are the other nine months of the year worth it to not have to wake up to the daily grind for three months! :) I'm so excited, lol. I'm getting projects done that I've had to put on the backburner in the midst of grading papers, creating powerpoints and going over assignments...sigh...dang it feels good.

I was thinking today as I put shears up to my windows...one of my neighbors strikes me as a pervert..I might want to pull the blinds down a bit more at night...I'd hate to have to go outside and rumble with the neighbor for peeking in my windows, lol.

My best friend just moved down here and I'm excited because she needed a change. At leat now if she falls on hard times she has some friends that would help her out. She came over a couple days ago with her kids and I have to say...she must have the patience of Job.

-jaha Knight, poet

Finding me again

I keep looking frantically, she must be around here somewhere! That beautiful, daring and slightly fearless woman that is willing to do what she feels needs to be done. Her ideas are too big to be in my purse. Her shoes are too smallhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif to house such an imagination..

I keep seeing myself floating high above my real life and wondering where I'm going now. I know I'm taking the safest road for myself because I've taken too many risks and I'm doing it under the guise of what's best for my daughter. Isn't that a great thing? Aren't I being selfless? Look at how great a mother I'm being ...I'm being R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-L-E... The reality is I'm selling myself short and not being the best that I can be bc I'm so busy trying to be someone I'm not. Now don't get me wrong, I'm responsible but I don't do day jobs. But here I am waking up at the crack of God's dawn ...dressing the part of staid day worker, and trudging off to a 9-5 that doesn't make me happy, comes with the strictest of restrictions and comes along with someone else's rules on how I should live my life and conduct myself. Ugh...

I don't know how people do this everyday. I'm trying it out for now with my eye on the long term benefits that I've staked out and in the hopes that I will make it to that deadline I have set without maiming, shooting or stabbing anyone.

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