Ongeveer een maand geleden, tijdens een hockeywedstrijd, heb ik een compleet verkeerde draai met mijn linkerknie gemaakt. Waarschijnlijk is mijn voorste kruisband gescheurd (geheel of gedeeltelijk, dat is nog niet duidelijk), en ik volg nu drie keer per week instense fysiotherapie, met een steeds langer wordende oefeningenlijst voor thuis.

Zwaar klote, maar dit is nu even mijn realiteit.

Kan wel huilen, maar ja, wat schiet ik daar mee op: niets!

Dus blijven lachen!

Dat lachen lukt wel. Ik heb inmiddels een nieuwe 'nickname': LeoKnieke (of Knieke, al naar gelang de vorige namen).
Ook heb ik inmiddels ontdekt dat je het woord 'knie' maar al te vaak kan inzetten.

Op zijn engels, naar aanleiding van de uitdrukking "She's one sandwich short of a picnic": I'm one ligament away from a knee.

Gisteravond bij mijn ouders gegeten, en mijn moeder kan er ook wat van!
Onderstaande uit een email (nadat we bijna de hele avond al een paar goeie uitdrukkingen hadden verzonnen):

• als je maar een wit knietje kunt halen
• tot op zekere kniehoogte
• houdt me op de (knie)hoogte
• een knielengte voorliggen
• een knietje valt niet ver van het been
• als er één knie over de dam is volgen er meer
• één knietje brengt nog geen lengte
• circus Knie (bestaat echt!)
• ik kan je niet bij-knieeën (bijbenen)
• Wasa Kniekebröt

Gebruik vooral de comments als je er nog meer kan verzinnen!

UPDATE

en nog een paar:
"Een knieval doen", "Waar de blanke top der knieën", of "Een, twee, knie ..." of "Weeknie" ....Tot knies!

UPDATE 2

via collega:
"Zullen we straks even een potje kniekeren?"

February 14 2009 a cute little puppy was born: Hocks (or as she's known to her kennel: Isis).
April 10 2009 she moved in with my sister and my brother-in-law.

She's adorable and playful and she still has to learn quite a few things!

Today I spent some time with her as my sister was visiting our grandmother (no dogs allowed!). She obviously was a bit confused, missing my sister, but we got along well. A few scrapes and bruises on my arms (war wounds?), but no harm done. I'll be Hocks-sitting again this Saturday, hopefully I'll be able to take some more photos!.

For now, enjoy the whole Hocks Set @ flickr.

With an early Friday break for my Easter weekend, I visited the Keukenhof together with friends Ingrid and Bjorn.

As the three of us (well, some more than others) are quite keen photographers, we were armed with batteries, memory cards and tripods (mine's a monopod), and of course our cameras.

An approximate 450 photos later (my count), we went our way again and headed home. The Keukenhof by now was a very crowded place and I cannot blame the other visitors. The weather was gorgeously hot and the tulips (and other bulbs) were blooming for our enjoyment!

By the next day I had checked and rechecked my photos, of which about 40 made the cut to be placed on flickr: Keukenhof April 10 @ flickr

[related post: Major photo update]

This past weekend I spent in Frankfurt, visiting Katie and joining Judy&Stan for a brief weekend of fun and touristic outings.

As I was lucky to have a Canon 300D with me (and about 6GB of memory cards), I took loads of photos. Tonight (and last night) I downloaded and uploaded the photos to my flickr account, and you can find the best of the approximately 600 photos I took right here: Frankfurt@flickr.

Enjoy!

(and thanks to Katie and Frank for showing us Frankfurt and the Rhine!)

The Loreley (Rhine river)

The Liebfrauenkirche in Oberwesel

Schloß Schönburg

Hildegard von Bingen

A character from 'Der Struwwelpeter'

The Bull at the Exchange

Seems to have the beginning of a running theme here:

http://twitpic.com/1q2uo

and

http://flickr.com/photos/mokblog/3325647813/

[totally forgot to make links clickable]

[via colleague at work]

Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business. When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a wife with which to share his fortune.

One evening at an investment meeting he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away. "I may look like just an ordinary man," he said to her, but in just a few years, my father will die, and I'll inherit $200 million."

Impressed, the woman obtained his business card and three days later, she became his stepmother.

Women are so much better at financial planning than men.

Created by Train Horn

How many total songs?
5554 songs, 16.7 days, 35.29 GB

Sort by song title - first and last
'Aan de Oevers van de Tijd' by Spinvis [Dagen van Gras, Dagen van Stro]- '3005' by 4Hero [Two Pages]

Sort by time - shortest and longest
00:00:02 'Bright Moments (Excerpt)' by Rahsaan Roland Kirk [Does Your House Have Lions: The Rahsaan Roland Kirk Anthology] - 01:25:53 'Symfonie no. 8' of Anton Bruckner by Koninklijk Concertgebrouw Orkest conducted by Bernard Haitink [120 Jaar Koninklijk Concertgebrouw Orkest]

Sort by Album - first and last
'ABBA' by ABBA - '120 Jaar Koninklijk Concertgebrouw Orkest' by Koninklijk Concertgebrouw Orkest

Sort by Artist - first and last
a-ha - 10,000 Maniacs

Top five played songs
Not counted

Find the following words. How many songs show up?
Sex: 7
Death: 20
Love: 332
You: 514
Home: 89
Boy: 33
Girl: 59

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle
Not counted

(I still do not have the standard playlists Top Five Played Songs and Party Shuffle)

Where previously I had help cleaning my room in Leiden [read: With a little help], this short vacation (I'm off from work for a week) will be spent partly to clean out areas of my house. After two years of living here, I seem to have collected (again!) things I can only describe as STUFF ...

Follow my progress here at flickr: Cleaning 2009 Photo Set.

[nicked from KateF]

Italics: started but not finished. Bold: finished reading.

Download my list here : 20090222_100bookstohaveread-list.pdf

(simply because I did not feel like redoing all the bold and italics after discovering c/p did not work properly)

[sneak peak below]

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