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Inkblots

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I took a rather long test where I had to examine ‘inkblots’.
Here are the results:
You are driven by a higher purpose than most people. You have a deeply-rooted desire to facilitate peacefulness in the world. Whether through subtle interactions with love ones, or through getting involved in social causes, it is important to you to influence the world.

You are driven by a desire to encourage others to think about the positive side of things instead of focusing on the negative. The reason your unconscious is consumed by this might stem from an innate fear of war and turmoil. Thus, to avoid that uncomfortable place for you, your unconscious seeks out the peace in your environment.

Usually, the thing that underlies this unconscious drive is a deep respect for humankind. You care about the future of the world, even beyond your own involvement in it. As a result, your personal integrity acts as a surrogate for your deeper drive toward peace and guides you in daily life towards decisions that are respectful toward yourself and others.

Though your unconscious mind is driven most strongly by Peace, there is much more to who you are at your core.
I have this in my email siggie:
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If
you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever
increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires
effort. This is one of the things that discipline – training – is
about.– James Clavell, in his novel “Shogun”

And I had this in the signature before I took the test. Interesting.

Seems like I’m blogging alot, I know…

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Actually I’m getting it out of my system as I probably won’t be near a computer for 4 days from the 6th-9th because of our Florida trip. We can’t wait! Brian is a bit anxious as he hasn’t been on a plane since 1989. I am praying my sinuses will be clear and I won’t have to use the bathroom too much on the plane. And damn that ‘Lost’ show! Funny how you worry about dumb things. Hey John Travolta, come get us! (he’s a pilot too). I was just suffering so much with my nose and throat today. My nose feels like it’s closing up and it’s burning. Flonase is helping, but I bet I’ll have to take a dose of Sudafed tomorrow. Crossing fingers.
Watched one of the best contestants get the boot tonight on ‘Survivor’. Here she’s a local girl from Glenolden, PA. Brian just happen to work in the same town for 13 yrs. Bet she knows the company he worked for too! She’s a ‘Prendy’ girl, went to the burb Catholic girl’s high school. I know other grads from that school (one was in my wedding party). Pretty neat. I usually pick up a local accent, but she didn’t seem as ‘Philly’ as Paul from Extreme Makeover:Home Edition.
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I didn’t plant outside, too windy. I got hung up repotting indoor plants. I did about 10 plants from Prayer Plants to Christmas cacti before I ran out of potting soil. I have another bag outside though. I’d like to combine the leftover cacti into one big pretty pot. They are one of my favorite plants. I also have a windowsill full of African violets. I do have a green thumb, don’t I? Wish me well with my sinuses. : )

Meganame generator

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Dianne Carol C’s Aliases

Your movie star name: Candy Alan
Your fashion designer name is Dianne Paris
Your socialite name is Diadsie New York
Your fly girl / guy name is D Col
Your detective name is Cat Penncrest
Your barfly name is Snickers Apricot Sour
Your soap opera name is Carol State
Your rock star name is Dove Sports Car
Your star wars name is Diacos Colbri
Your punk rock band name is The Empty Lightning Rod

The Amazing Meganame Generator

WRCF

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This is the result of the quiz I nabbed from Abby’s blog:
20 Questions to a Better Personality
Wackiness: 54/100 Rationality: 56/100 Constructiveness: 56/100 Leadership: 44/100
You are a WRCF–Wacky Rational Constructive Follower. This makes you a Paul Begala.You are unflappable and largely unconcerned with others’ reactions to you. You were not particularly interested in the results of this test, and probably took it only as a result of someone else asking you to. You have a biting wit and intense powers of observation. No detail is lost on you, and your friends know it–relying on you to have the facts when others express only opinions. You are even-tempered, friendly, and educated. Foolish strangers may mistake your mildness for weakness–they will be surprised.You entire approach to life is enviable (I don’t feel this way most of the time anyway). You will raise good kids (this I agree with) .Of the 83510 people who have taken this quiz since tracking began (8/17/2004), 4.8 % are this type.

Ahhh…some quiet time here…for a while

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Well the guys went looking for a computer desk and it’s ‘me’ time right now. No cookie baking, cleaning, etc. My time to surf the web and do a little blogging. I am dying to hit a few after Christmas sales, and I may….afterwards.
Christmas Eve and Christmas were nice. Not really hectic. We didn’t have to go out on the 24th until 4 pm. We then went to my mom’s and I basically had to redo the lights on her tree. My hair totally fell out and I had spent like an hour with the steam rollers! Mom’s house was a disaster. She can’t seem to allot time for cleaning much. She only gets moving around 11 or 12 every day. We told her not to worry about gifts and she got me like 6 tops that I really didn’t need. We went out to our favorite local restaurant which is conveniently up the road from my mom’s house. Her boarder and friend Jim came and somehow I got stuck sitting next to him and not my son or husband. He gets really tight wadded and pointed to the children’s hamburger and wanted to order it! Craphead. I think this will be the last year he will come along. His room is a mess and the rest of the place is starting to look bad.
We went over to my brother’s house to see them which was nice. Their house looks beautiful as they did a reversal making the dining room the living room (now the eating area is closer to the kitchen where he knocked down a doorway). My little brother amazes me with his talents. He does tend to get overwhelmed at times and takes it out on my mom, etc. Next he wants to redo his kitchen-just what I want to do next in my house. Bet he beats us to it!
That night we got home at 10:30 and decided to find a midnight mass service to attend. We went to a church in nearby Delaware and it was a nice change. We got to lounge around the next morning instead of running out the door to our church. Christmas was still a bit hectic for me as I made a big roast beef dinner. We gave each other thoughtful gifts, my favorite was an amethyst crucifix from Brian and Elton John’s 4 set DVD from Sean.
Sean and I went over to see my ailing uncle and his wife yesterday. Mom, Ken and his family went too. It was a nice visit and the kids opened their gifts from us over there. Tori went ga ga over a Barbie Swan Lake musicbox I gave her! I love when that happens. I got it for half nothing at a Kohl’s sale last year.
Well, that’s the last few days in a nutshell. Glad it’s over, but miss it already.

If I was born a guy…

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How would your life differ if you were born a member of the opposite sex?
Apart from the obvious, anatomy, clothes, romance and marriage, what things might be better? Worse? Would it change the opportunities and problems you were presented? How would you take advantage of the changes? If you could switch sexes for a day, would you? How about forever?
First of all, I’d feel terribly sorry for my mom as she would have had 4 sons. She always reminisces that when I was born she couldn’t believe I was a girl and the nurses had to keep saying-‘yes, it’s a girl’. Being the only girl made me a little more special than my brothers, but I felt left out sometimes too. Not to say I wasn’t on the floor playing with my brother Don’s Hot Wheels either! I just didn’t have that many people to play dolls with and ‘to be a girl’ with. We had neighbor girls, but they were a bit younger than me. My brother Don was my best friend until he was 13 (we are a year apart in age). I am sure it may have been a little easier to have another boy who could share clothes with his brothers. I was in a good position-#2 of 4, but actually was a middle child for 7 years. Middle children have a hard time occasionally and if I was a boy I would have felt it more.

I don’t care to switch sexes. I lived around boys/men my entire life and that’s enough for me and definitely wouldn’t want to switch forever.

Blogger doesn’t like me…

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I have no idea why I couldn’t get on here through my AOL account. When the photo service uploads a photo, it opens Blog in the IE on the desktop, not AOL. So I was getting error messages for two days thinking it was a Blog in general problem. I looked at a few of my friends’ blogs listed and they had posted, so I knew it was my problem. I opened the dashboard in the desktop IE and then cut and pasted the address here, so it is up on AOL again. At least I know what the problem is. Crossing fingers.

Mind Hump-Halloweenie

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1. What are your favorite Halloween songs?
The Monster Mash and Thriller, but Iike the video a lot more than the song.
2. Do you know the words to any of the songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show? (Which ones?) Let’s do the time warp, Dammit Janet
3. The spooky monsters are coming after you. You know that music will soothe each one long enough for you to escape…but each monster requires different music, what do you play for:
a: Dracula- Strangers in the Night
b: Frankenstein-Whenever I see your smilin’ face
c: The Wolf Man- I wanna hold your furry hand
d: The Mummy-Wrap your arms around me?

4. You’ve been cursed and turned into a spooky Halloween creature.
What creature are you, and what’s your theme song? George W. Bush and my theme song is ‘She bang’ Now all my Republican friends will really get up my crawl
5. Halloween is a time for creepy movies. What creepy movie has the best music, in your opinion? Psycho