Musings of a Multi-Cultural Mind

Sorry I've been slacking on this blog a bit, but we've had a lot going on.  We finally got Stephen moved out of his condo and settled (mostly) into mine, and in the course of having his condo on the market for just a couple weeks, we just closed escrow and made a nice chunk of change to save towards a new house. First thing's first though - yesterday I celebrated my 37th birthday :) We started our day with a quick breakfast at Sunny Side Kitchen, this great little ma & pa shop in Escondido that has a simple breakfast & lunch menu of various paninis.  Their works breakfast panini (half sandwich with side of fruit) includes egg, cheese, bacon & avocado on seasoned sourdough bread (or you can ask for gluten free bread) for only $5, and they always have fresh cold brew coffee and house made lemonade, along with an assortment of mini muffins and cookies.  They usually have a daily soup and a quiche as well, and a few salads to go along with the full size lunc...

That was one of the complaints I had in my last job - my manner of speech was not definitive.  Instead of saying "I will complete the project by 4pm," I often softened my message to "I would like to complete everything by 4pm."  One of the owners of the company would scold me and knit pick at my speech and my character when I spoke like this.  I do get it - American business people especially like strong, definitive speech with firm promises.  They want to feel that confidence in you that you can deliver specifically what they need.  But what's definitive really anyways?  Most of the time nobody is able to really keep those promises, so it all becomes a load of bullshit in the end. I grew up in a house where I was seldom ever given a so-called definitive answer.  Yes/No questions were usually met with a "maybe" or "we'll see." I learned to become complacent with seeing how things would turn out, what was meant to be or not.  In this way...