Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
How Pure Are You?
What a fun quiz. I had to take it to see if I was more pure than Crazy Mom --- yup, I am, but just.
You Are 79% Pure |
 You're pretty pure, and you have no plans on changing that. You do have a devilish side though... and it will probably get the better of you. |
I Simply Must Know
This looks long, but it's relatively quick. Give it a try. I filled mine out over at Vixens Den (click on her name if you want to see my answers)
So I really want to know more about all of you. Answer the questions in the comments and if you want, try this over at your place.
01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) What was the last book you read?
07) What zodiac sign are you?
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
09) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
26) What’s your favorite place to hang out at?
27) Do you believe in ghosts?
28) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
29) Do you swear a lot?
30) Biggest pet peeve?
31) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
32) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
33) Favourite and least favourite food?
34) Do you believe in God?
35) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
So I really want to know more about all of you. Answer the questions in the comments and if you want, try this over at your place.
01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) What was the last book you read?
07) What zodiac sign are you?
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
09) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
26) What’s your favorite place to hang out at?
27) Do you believe in ghosts?
28) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
29) Do you swear a lot?
30) Biggest pet peeve?
31) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
32) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
33) Favourite and least favourite food?
34) Do you believe in God?
35) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
T Shirt Givaway
I was just over at It's A Woman's World and she's giving away a cool t-shirt in honor of the Bloggy Giveaways Quarterly Giveaway Carnival.
I heard about this give-a-way from My Crazy Life With a Toddler. Glad my blogger friends keep me in the loop of such fun contests.
I heard about this give-a-way from My Crazy Life With a Toddler. Glad my blogger friends keep me in the loop of such fun contests.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Weekend update
We wanted to get our last camping weekend in in order to winterize our camper. The weatherman was predicting rain all weekend - Not Again!! Leaving work on Friday - you guessed it - already drizzling. We were only going to a local park about an hours away so at least the travel time wasn't extensive. There was one backup of a spun out car that lasted about 20 minutes and then we were on our way again. Once there things were pretty quick since we didn't tow the car. MM comes in and starts to take off his jacket and I start to fix dinner - what no electricity? Back out he goes. He was ready to throw in the towel and head home because this power surger box that we have had a short in it and we couldn't keep the power on. Just one more try and 'yes' it's on - don't anybody breathe. Oh yeah, the park had already turned off the water - good thing we had a full tank.
It was nice sleeping Friday night because it kept sprinkling on and off and I love to hear it on the roof. Saturday morning things were sunny and bright. Okay, it was still a bit on the cool side. We built a fire and kept it going all day. There was a kid across the road from us that was in shorts and shortsleeve shirt wearing flip flops and I kept thinking 'is it just me?'. Checking the thermometer it was around 47 -48 all day. Not shorts weather, but boy was it beautiful. Seeing and listening to the leaves blowing around and watching the trees try to hang onto their remaining leaves. A perfect fall day.
Sunday we woke to - you guessed it - rain again. We kind of took our time getting going and it paid off. MM was able to rinse out and empty all of our holding tanks and the winterizing had begun. We were able to get home before the strong winds started (thank God, cause that is not fun). Anyway, what started out as a weekend that I was not looking forward to turned out quite nicely.
Do you plan your weekends exclusively around what the weatherman predicts?
It was nice sleeping Friday night because it kept sprinkling on and off and I love to hear it on the roof. Saturday morning things were sunny and bright. Okay, it was still a bit on the cool side. We built a fire and kept it going all day. There was a kid across the road from us that was in shorts and shortsleeve shirt wearing flip flops and I kept thinking 'is it just me?'. Checking the thermometer it was around 47 -48 all day. Not shorts weather, but boy was it beautiful. Seeing and listening to the leaves blowing around and watching the trees try to hang onto their remaining leaves. A perfect fall day.
Sunday we woke to - you guessed it - rain again. We kind of took our time getting going and it paid off. MM was able to rinse out and empty all of our holding tanks and the winterizing had begun. We were able to get home before the strong winds started (thank God, cause that is not fun). Anyway, what started out as a weekend that I was not looking forward to turned out quite nicely.
Do you plan your weekends exclusively around what the weatherman predicts?
Advice for School Leavers
While cruising through the internet I found this interesting website about school leaver career building advice. My first thought was 'what's a school leaver?'. The answer is - one who leaves school usually after completing a course of study. This was very intriguing to me since most of us haven't a clue what we want to do once we get out of school. This site has opportunities for contruction, engineering, commercial law, hospitality and leisure just to name a few.
I wish there was something like that around here. When my kids finished school we relied a lot on word of mouth for openings and that worked out pretty good, but can you imagine how many more opportunities there are when you open up the whole world. Interestingly enough, my husband spread the word about our son graduating to all of his friends and clients and before you know it he had a few interviews that panned out quite nicely. It happened to be a member of the church that we used to belong to, that had a neighbor that was working for a company that was looking for an engineer, that put him on to his first job (did you follow that?). Our daughter usually made her own connections through previous jobs. One of her most interesting finds was, while she was in school, another student was the president of a company and he was impressed with her and offered her a job when she graduated. But how many more opportunities are there using a career guide?
I also read an interesting fact on this site about education and Alzheimer's. There is a theory that education and demanding jobs create a buffer against the effects of dementia on the brain. The brain could be made stronger through higher education and job challenges. Sign me up for higher education if it helps combat Alzeheimer's, especially after seeing the ravages of this disease on some of the older folks that I know. A friend of mine has also changed her diet a lot after reading about the effects of a Mediterranean diet on the brain. Guess there's a lot we can do to help stay healthy and stay in the job market for as long as possible.
I wish there was something like that around here. When my kids finished school we relied a lot on word of mouth for openings and that worked out pretty good, but can you imagine how many more opportunities there are when you open up the whole world. Interestingly enough, my husband spread the word about our son graduating to all of his friends and clients and before you know it he had a few interviews that panned out quite nicely. It happened to be a member of the church that we used to belong to, that had a neighbor that was working for a company that was looking for an engineer, that put him on to his first job (did you follow that?). Our daughter usually made her own connections through previous jobs. One of her most interesting finds was, while she was in school, another student was the president of a company and he was impressed with her and offered her a job when she graduated. But how many more opportunities are there using a career guide?
I also read an interesting fact on this site about education and Alzheimer's. There is a theory that education and demanding jobs create a buffer against the effects of dementia on the brain. The brain could be made stronger through higher education and job challenges. Sign me up for higher education if it helps combat Alzeheimer's, especially after seeing the ravages of this disease on some of the older folks that I know. A friend of mine has also changed her diet a lot after reading about the effects of a Mediterranean diet on the brain. Guess there's a lot we can do to help stay healthy and stay in the job market for as long as possible.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Hello Quizzy
I got this fun quiz from The Life and Times of Bendy Ruggles.
It's pretty right on for most of the things.
How to Get Along with Me
In Intimate Relationships
What I Like About Being a Doris
What's Hard About Being a Doris
Dorises as Children Often
Dorises as Parents
It's pretty right on for most of the things.
Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz...
You Are a Doris!
You are a Doris -- "I must help others."
Dorises are warm, concerned, nurturing, and sensitive to other people's needs.
How to Get Along with Me
- * Tell me that you appreciate me. Be specific.
- * Share fun times with me.
- * Take an interest in my problems, though I will probably try to focus on yours.
- * Let me know that I am important and special to you.
- * Be gentle if you decide to criticize me.
In Intimate Relationships
- * Reassure me that I am interesting to you.
- * Reassure me often that you love me.
- * Tell me I'm attractive and that you're glad to be seen with me.
What I Like About Being a Doris
- * being able to relate easily to people and to make friends
- * knowing what people need and being able to make their lives better
- * being generous, caring, and warm
- * being sensitive to and perceptive about others' feelings
- * being enthusiastic and fun-loving, and having a good sense of humor
What's Hard About Being a Doris
- * not being able to say no
- * having low self-esteem
- * feeling drained from overdoing for others
- * not doing things I really like to do for myself for fear of being selfish
- * criticizing myself for not feeling as loving as I think I should
- * being upset that others don't tune in to me as much as I tune in to them
- * working so hard to be tactful and considerate that I suppress my real feelings
Dorises as Children Often
- * are very sensitive to disapproval and criticism
- * try hard to please their parents by being helpful and understanding
- * are outwardly compliant
- * are popular or try to be popular with other children
- * act coy, precocious, or dramatic in order to get attention
- * are clowns and jokers (the more extroverted Dorises), or quiet and shy (the more introverted Dorises)
Dorises as Parents
- * are good listeners, love their children unconditionally, and are warm and encouraging (or suffer guilt if they aren't)
- * are often playful with their children
- * wonder: "Am I doing it right?" "Am I giving enough?" "Have I caused irreparable damage?"
- * can become fiercely protective
Take Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz at HelloQuizzy
Political commentary of the day
I was just wondering...
When will this political stuff be over?
I'm am so sick of the ads on tv and the phone calls that I could puke. No one will convince me that I'm wrong so just stop already. I have lots of reasons for my opinions, but I'll just stop with one. How could anyone sit in regular church services for 20!! years listening to what Obama listened to and not get up and walk out. Talk about propaganda, wouldn't all of that anti American talk have to sink in after awhile? But that's just my opinion and I'm entitled to it as everyone is entitled to one.
Whatever your stance, it is important for all of us to get out and vote!! That's what this country is founded on and a lot of people have died to give you that right.
When will this political stuff be over?
I'm am so sick of the ads on tv and the phone calls that I could puke. No one will convince me that I'm wrong so just stop already. I have lots of reasons for my opinions, but I'll just stop with one. How could anyone sit in regular church services for 20!! years listening to what Obama listened to and not get up and walk out. Talk about propaganda, wouldn't all of that anti American talk have to sink in after awhile? But that's just my opinion and I'm entitled to it as everyone is entitled to one.
Whatever your stance, it is important for all of us to get out and vote!! That's what this country is founded on and a lot of people have died to give you that right.
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