Embracing My Id

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:39:32 GMT

Swiped from uinendolothen - another strangely accurate quiz. I've always come out as a 2 in other Enneagram quized/tests and I DO work as an Administrative Assistant, which totally fits the #2 profile. :-)

the Helper
Test finished!

you chose CX - your Enneagram type is TWO.

"I must help others"

Helpers 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 intersting 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 Two

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 Two

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 tume in to them
working so hard to be tactful and considerate that I suppress my real feelings

Twos 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 Twos), or quiet and shy (the more introverted Twos)

Twos 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

Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele

The Enneagram Made Easy
Discover the 9 Types of People
HarperSanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages

You are not completely happy with the result?!
You chose CX

Would you rather have chosen:

AX (SEVEN)

BX (NINE)

CY (SIX)

CZ (ONE)

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 0% on ABC

You scored higher than 26% on XYZ

Link: The Quick and Painless ENNEAGRAM Test written by felk on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Yet another quiz yanked from lady_aurora:

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:43:40 GMT

WHITES are motivated by PEACE, seek independence and require kindness. They resist confrontation at all costs. (Feeling good is more important than being good.) They are typically quiet by nature, they process things very deeply and objectively, and they are by far the best listeners of all the colors. They respect people who are kind, but recoil from perceived hostility or verbal battle.

WHITES need their quiet independence and refuse to be controlled by others. WHITES want to do things their own way, in their own time. They ask little of others, and resent others demanding much of them. WHITES are much stronger than people think because they don't reveal their feelings. WHITES are kind, non-discriminate, patient and can be indecisive, timid, and silently stubborn. When you deal with a WHITE, be kind, accept (and support) their individuality, and look for nonverbal clues to their feelings.

What Color Are You?
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Five Factor Personality Test Meme

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:23:51 GMT

swiped from uinendolothen (as usual):

Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion:

You have low extroversion.
You are quiet and reserved in most social situations.
A low key, laid back lifestyle is important to you.
You tend to bond slowly, over time, with one or two people.

Conscientiousness:

You have low conscientiousness.
Impulsive and off the wall, you don't take life too seriously.
Unfortunately, you sometimes end up regretting your snap decisions.
Overall, you tend to lack focus, and it's difficult for you to get important things done.

Agreeableness:

You have medium agreeableness.
You're generally a friendly and trusting person.
But you also have a healthy dose of cynicism.
You get along well with others, as long as they play fair.

Neuroticism:

You have medium neuroticism.
You're generally cool and collected, but sometimes you do panic.
Little worries or problems can consume you, draining your energy.
Your life is pretty smooth, but there's a few emotional bumps you'd like to get rid of.

Openness to experience:

Your openness to new experiences is high.
In life, you tend to be an early adopter of all new things and ideas.
You'll try almost anything interesting, and you're constantly pushing your own limits.
A great connoisseir of art and beauty, you can find the positive side of almost anything.

The Five Factor Personality Test

Silly meme . . .

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:50:27 GMT

Swiped from uinendolothen, as usual:

DOG - Your daemon may be a dog if you are loyal and
caring, and like to know what is expected of
you. You probably are very family oriented, and
have a small group of friends that you are very
close to, rather than a large group of
acquaintances. You dislike confrontation, but
you will stand up and fight for the people and
issues that you really care about. You may
prefer someone else to take the lead in a
situation, although you would rather take the
lead yourself than have the situation fall
apart. You probably enjoy routine and order,
but that doesn't mean you don't like to have
fun. If anything, your friends probably know
you for getting intense, child-like pleasure in
the small things in life.

What Is Your Daemon?
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I see more geocaching in my future. . . .

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:42:20 GMT

<td align="center"> How Martina should improve for 2006:

Go on a quest to find buried treasure

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com</td>

PSI-Q Test

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:39:04 GMT

Swiped from uinendolothen:

100 films

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:10:02 GMT

Swiped from uinendolothen: ABC top 100 "favorite films"

Directions: Bold the ones you've seen.

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. Amelie
3. Blade Runner
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Donnie Darko
6. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Princess Bride
9. Gone With The Wind
10. Fight Club
11. The Sound of Music
12. To Kill A Mockingbird
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey
14. Casablanca
15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
16. American Beauty
17. Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
18. Monty Python's Life of Brian
19. Lawrence Of Arabia
20. Apocalypse Now
21. Cinema Paradiso
22. Doctor Zhivago
23. The Matrix
24. The Castle
25. Singin' in the Rain
26. A Clockwork Orange
27. The Blues Brothers
28. Withnail and I
29. Life is Beautiful
30. The Godfather [commentary: but it's been a LONG time]
31. Moulin Rouge
32. Some Like it Hot
33. Lost in Translation
34. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
35. Local Hero
36. The Third Man
37. Brazil
38. Serenity
39. Breakfast at Tiffany's
40. A Room with a View [commentary: no, but I've read the book - doesn't that count?]
41. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
42. Dead Poets Society
43. Harold and Maude
44. The Big Lebowski
45. The Wizard of Oz
46. Out Of Africa
47. Picnic at Hanging Rock
48. The Usual Suspects
49. Cabaret
50. Forrest Gump
51. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
52. The Piano
53. Pirates of the Carribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
54. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
55. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [commentary: BOTH of them!]
56. The City of Lost Children
57. The African Queen
58. Love Actually
59. Strictly Ballroom
60. Wings of Desire
61. Raiders of the Lost Ark
62. Babette's Feast
63. The Fifth Element
64. Spirited Away
65. Aliens
66. It's a Wonderful Life
67. Napoleon Dynamite
68. Rear Window
69. Romeo And Juliet [commentary: I've seen about 4 versions of this]
70. Dirty Dancing
71. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
72. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
73. Trainspotting
74. Muriel's Wedding
75. When Harry Met Sally
76. The Great Escape
77. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
78. Gallipoli
79. Lantana
80. Garden State
81. Sin City
82. Chariots of Fire
83. The English Patient
84. This is Spinal Tap
85. Chocolat
86. Fargo
87. Look Both Ways
88. Goodfellas [commentary: but I don't remember much]
89. Aliens [commentary: this is listed twice]
90. Grease
91. All About Eve
92. Citizen Kane
93. Stand By Me
94. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
95. Mulholland Drive
96. Back to the Future
97. High Fidelity
98. The Thin Red Line
99. Being John Malkovich
100. Dead Man

65 outta 100 - looks like I've got a few movies to add to my Netflix queue. :-)

Purity test

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:28:54 GMT

Silly stuff swiped from lady_aurora:

Your Ultimate Purity Test 2.0 Score Is...
	Your Score:	Average For All Users	Average For All ( total)
Dating	19.23%	33.39%	Gone steady
Self-Lovin'	48.48%	61.56%	When I think about you - or anyone - I touch myself
Shamelessness	46.77%	77.9%	Puts 'em on the glass
Sex Drive	54.76%	75.86%	A fool for love, but not always
Straightness	9.26%	40.31%	Knows the other body type like a map
Gayness	59.26%	79.24%	Had that experience at camp
Dominant	60%	87.47%	Not afraid to tie the knot
Submissive	57.14%	87.89%	Bound and gagged a few times
Fucking Sick	80.61%	90.32%	Refreshingly normal
Total Score	52.85%	74.41%
Take The Ultimate Purity Test 2.0 and see how you match up! (By The Ferrett)

I'm WHAT? in Math? I think I did something wrong. . . .

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:00:35 GMT

Your brain: 140% interpersonal, 60% visual, 100% verbal, and 100% mathematical!

Congratulations on being 400% smart! Actually, on my test, everyone is. The above score breaks down what kind of thinking you most enjoy doing. A score above 100% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 100% means you use it less. It says nothing about how good you are at any one, just how interested you are in each, relatively. A substantial difference in scores between two people means, conclusively, that they are different kinds of thinkers.

Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice, which I think is obvious:

Don't date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 80%.
Don't be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 100%.
Don't have sex with someone if their math percentage is over 200%.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 94% on interpersonal

You scored higher than 64% on visual

You scored higher than 85% on verbal

You scored higher than 72% on mathematical

Link: The 4-Variable IQ Test written by chriscoyne on Ok Cupid

Shag 'em . . . shag 'em if you want 'em . . . shag 'em

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:25:29 GMT

Swiped (b/c I hate the word "gakked" - sounds like yarfing) from another friend of uinendolothen:

If you'd shag them, in bold.
If you'd shag them after a few drings, in italics.
If you wouldn't shag them, or don't know who they are, leave alone.

1. Stephen Dorff
2. Wesley Snipes
3. Denzel Washington
4. Samuel L Jackson
5. Hayden Christensen
6. Ian Somerhalder
7. James Van Der Beek
8. Ashton Kutcher
9. Sean William Scott
10. The Rock
11. Brendan Fraser
12. Oded Fehr
13. John Hannah
14. Hugh Grant
15. Colin Firth - is it possible to double bold?
16. Liam Neeson
17. Daniel Day-Lewis
18. Leonardo DiCaprio
19. Billy Zane
20. Harry Connick Jr
21. Sean Astin
22. Dominic Monaghan
23. Karl Urban
24. Vin Diesel
25. Paul Walker
26. Joshua Jackson
27. James Marsden
28. Shawn Ashmore
29. Hugh Jackman
30. Will Kemp
31. David Wenham
32. Viggo Mortensen
33. Elijah Wood
34. Tobey Maguire
35. James Franco
36. Alfred Molina
37. Harrison Ford
38. Sean Connery
39. Shane West
40. Stuart Townsend
41. Richard Roxburgh
42. Ewan McGregor
43. Jonathan Rhys Meyers
44. Christian Bale
45. Jared Leto
46. Colin Farell
47. Ben Affleck
48. Josh Hartnett
49. Bruce Willis
50. Billy Bob Thornton - ewww!
51. Dennis Quaid
52. Jake Gyllenhaal
53. Patrick Swayze
54. Keanu Reeves
55. Gary Oldman
56. Tim Roth
57. Steve Buscemi . . another ew!
58. Michael Madsen
59. Rick Yune
60. Pierce Brosnan
61. Robert Carlyle
62. Jonny Lee Miller
63. Jude Law
64. Matt Damon
65. Clive Owen
66. Ryan Phillippe
67. Benicio Del Toro
68. Johnny Depp
69. Orlando Bloom
70. Sean Bean
71. Eric Bana
72. Brad Pitt
73. George Clooney
74. Mark Wahlberg
75. Jason Statham
76. Edward Norton
77. Ben Stiller
78. Owen Wilson
79. Vince Vaughn
80. Joaquin Phoenix
81. Russell Crowe
82. Billy Boyd
83. Paul Bettany
84. Heath Ledger
85. Mel Gibson
86. Jason Isaacs
87. Alan Rickman
88. Kevin Costner
89. Christian Slater
90. Antonio Banderas
91. Tom Cruise
92. Ving Rhames
93. John Cusack
94. John Malkovich
95. Charlie Sheen
96. Kiefer Sutherland
97. Emilio Estevez
98. Rob Lowe
99. Matt Dillon
100. Kevin Bacon
101. Adam Brody
102. Andy Serkis
103. Alan Cumming
104. Josh Groban
105. Sean Biggerstaff
106. Zack Braff
107. Harry Sinclair
108. Gerard Butler
109. Marton Csokas
110. Jeremy Sumpter
111. Sean Patrick Flanery
112. Cillian Murphy
113. Hugh Dancy
114. Ioan Gruffudd
115. Mads Mikkelsen
116. Gael Garcia Bernal
116. Enrique Murciano
117. Jamie Bamber
118. Chris Evans
119. Joe Perry
120. Craig Parker
121. Gabriel Byrne
122. Josh Holloway
123. Matthew Fox
124. Jason Mewes

I can think of a handful of women who I would probably put in italics, too. Like Jessica Alba, but that's probably just because we just saw her in Sin City and she looked awesome.

Meme extravaganza

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:37:35 GMT

As seen lately in the LJ of katethoughts:

1. YOUR PORN STAR NAME: (Name of first pet / Street you live on): Ming Kennedy
2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (Name of your favorite snack food / Grandfather's first name): Cashew Theodore
3. YOUR FASHION DESIGNER NAME: (First word you see on your left / Favorite restaurant): Suite Typhoon!
4. EXOTIC FOREIGNER ALIAS: (Favorite Spice / Last Foreign Vacation Spot): Cumin Tofino
5. SOCIALITE ALIAS: (Silliest Childhood Nickname / Town Where You First Partied): Teeny Champaign
6. "FLY GIRL/BOY" ALIAS (a la J. Lo): (First Initial / First Two or Three Letters of your Last Name): M. Ba
7. ICON ALIAS: (Something Sweet Within Sight / Any Liquid in Your Kitchen): White chocolate milk (?)
8. DETECTIVE ALIAS: (Favorite Baby Animal / Where You Went to High School): Kitty Watseka
9. BARFLY ALIAS: (Last Snack Food You Ate / Your Favorite Alcoholic Drink): Pretzel Amaretto
10. SOAP OPERA ALIAS: (Middle Name / Street Where You First Lived): Foster Mulberry
11. ROCK STAR ALIAS: (Favorite Candy / Last Name Of Favorite Musician): Butterscotch Brightman
12. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: ( First 2 letters of your first name and the first 3 Letters from your last name makes your first name. Take the first 2 letters of your mother's maiden name and the first 3 letters of the city you were born in): Mabae Fosou (hmm, I kinda like that).

Swiped from pips_scarf

Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:45:01 GMT

You Are From Mercury

You are talkative, clever, and knowledgeable - and it shows.
You probably never leave home without your cell phone!
You're witty, expressive, and aware of everything going on around you.
You love learning, playing, and taking in all of what life has to offer.
Be careful not to talk your friends' ears off, and temper your need to know everything.

What Planet Are You From?

Elemental faeries:

Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:45:13 GMT

Here are my little Elemental dolls that I've been working on for awhile now.

Fire, Water, Earth, & Air

I love Fire, Water is pretty good, I'm not too sure about the hair on Air, but Earth still needs a bit more work. All four of these are heavily edited, but Earth was the only one where contrasting colors were used which means that it stands out a lot more. I need to work on subtlety a bit more when doing reshading.

Silly Stuff

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 06:29:30 GMT

My life is rated NC-17.
What is your life rated?

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:21:40 GMT

After the self-restraint of my shopping trip at Barnes & Noble the other day, I decided to set up a wish list with Amazon to make shopping a bit easier for both my dear husband and myself (so that I remember the cool books that I saw and that were recommended to me). Sure makes it easier to use up my B&N points if I actually have a list of the things that I wanted. :-)

Too Funny!!

Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:22:58 GMT

And I always thought that it was Ming Mulberry, but this somehow seems much more appropriate.

Your Porn Star Name is: Busty de Lusty

Get your own Porn Star Name

Gimme! Gimme!

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:14:19 GMT

Okay, here is the one item that I REALLY REALLY want for Christmas this year:

Amy Brown 2005 Calendar

It looks like most places are sold out already. *pout* I sure hope someone gets this for me!

Ooh - and have I mentioned my desire to wallpaper my desk area (work or home, not sure yet) with Amy Brown prints? I've never really had the urge to collect anything, but I think that her faerie art might just do it.

*sigh* And just let me tell you how sad I am that the largest size (XL) that the cap sleeve t-shirts on this site come in is only equivalent to a JUNIOR SIZE 10 - how wrong is that?

Another one . . . . .

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:03:17 GMT

You Are a New School Democrat

You like partying and politics - and are likely to be young and affluent.

You're less religious, traditional, and uptight than most Democrats.

Smoking pot, homosexuality, and gambling are all okay in your book.

You prefer that the government help people take care of themselves.

What political persuasion are you?

Quiz time - - again

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:00:31 GMT

You Are the Peacemaker

9

You are emotionally stable and willing to find common ground with others.

Your friends and family often look to you to be the mediator when there is conflict.

You are easy going and accepting. You take things as they come.

Avoding conflict at all costs, you're content when things are calm.

What number are you?

Gift ideas/hints

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:26:42 GMT

For anyone (particularly my dear husband), here are some ideas for holiday gifts for me:

Art items - I'm not sure exactly what, but I'm really tired of not having any creativity in my life - maybe some pastels and some nice art paper - maybe a little easel, a canvas, and some oils - I don't really know. I just want a way to express myself with my hands - with vibrant color. You get the picture. Naiah & Michelle could probably be inestimatable help in this area.

Books! Always a good gift and yes, I currently have a queue of many books, but at the moment I'm upgrading my classics section with the B&N Collector's Library Editions. I've got a bunch of them already, but there are a bunch more that I want: Great Expectations, Madame Bovary, Oliver Twist, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Little Women, The Secret Garden, Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, and Just So Stories & The Jungle Book. Of course good books that you feel I just MUST have in my library are always good choices too. :-)

Stemware - I want very badly to round out our stemware collection that we didn't receive from the wedding. We have the Waterford Marquis Vintage Collection and still need *sigh* all the following: 2 Vintage Iced Beverages Set of Four, 2 Vintage Pilsner Set of Four, 4 Vintage Brandy Pairs, 2 Vintage Flutes Set of Four, 3 Vintage Large 10oz Martini Pairs, 2 Vintage Oversized All Purpose Goblets Set of Four, and the Rectangle Tray with Black Leather Handle.

I'll post more as I think of them. Yes, I'm quite the princess - I know.

Inspired by

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 01:36:46 GMT

Inspired by the "what color anime hair would you have?" quiz:

See! She's sad - she's not cute or funny!

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:05:49 GMT

Because everyone thinks she's cute & funny - here's the full picture:

Doll addiction

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 06:48:11 GMT

And here's one for the happy days! Yay! :-)

I swear - I'm going to learn Korean so that I can use the original site - they have boy dolls there and then I could do one of Joe! :-)

sad userpic

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:56:12 GMT

So I finally got around to making a new userpic for those days when the sexy confident one just doesn't seem right.

Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:21:16 GMT

I purchased a William Shakespeare signet ring at the Folger's Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., and since then, have been fascinated with the idea of having my own signet ring.

For those of you who don't know what this is - a signet ring is a ring with a flat top into which is engraved the wearers initials, insignia, coat of arms, etc. It was used as a signature - to seal documents & letters by pressing the ring into soft wax forming the insignia. Therefore, letters & forms are carved mirror image so that they show up properly when pressed into the wax.

So, I desperately want my own signet ring, but am unsure of what I would want it to say/look like. It should be silver or white gold, but I have a couple different ideas of the impression.

One of these ideas would be the marque from Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel trilogy. The thorned rose with the motto "Love as thy wilt" around it. Another idea would be the image of a book fairy with "all information is knowledge". The last idea that I'm entertaining would simply be my initials "MB" in some fabulous type with a vine interweaving around it.

The question is: how do I go about designing my ideas in order to bring them to fruition. *sigh*

* On a side note - I really need to make some new userpics for this LJ. As cute as my current one is, sometimes she just isn't right for the mood.