rebeekah

11.17.2006

I'm a 43

Below is a little test I received in an email from a coworker.
I don't usually take the time to do these, but I like this one!

Try it and tell me what you get. :)

This supposedly is a real test given by the Human Relations Dept. at many of the major corporations today. It helps them get better insight concerning their employees and prospective employees. (Dr. Phil did this test on Oprah - he got a 55, she got a 38.) The test seems pretty accurate, and it only takes 2 minutes. Don't peek at the end!

Answers are for who you are NOW --- not who you were in the past. It's only 10 Simple questions, so grab a pencil and paper, keeping track of your letter answers to each question.

Ready? Set...GO! :)

1. When do you feel your best?
a) in the morning
b) during the afternoon and early evening
c) late at night

2. You usually walk...
a) fairly fast, with long steps
b) fairly fast, with little steps
c) less fast head up, looking the world in the face
d) less fast, head down
e) very slowly

3. When talking to people you...
a) stand with your arms folded
b) have your hands clasped
c) have one or both your hands on your hips
d) touch or push the person to whom you are talking
e) play with your ear, touch your chin, or smooth your hair

4. When relaxing, you sit with...
a) your knees bent with your legs neatly side by side
b) your legs crossed
c) you r legs stretched out or straight
d) one leg curled under you

5. When something really amuses you, you react with...
a) big appreciated laugh
b) a laugh, but not a loud one
c) a quiet chuckle
d) a sheepish smile

6. When you go to a party or social gathering you...
a) make a loud entrance so everyone notices you
b) make a quiet entrance, looking around for someone you know
c) make the quietest entrance, trying to stay unnoticed

7. You're working very hard, concentrating hard, and you're interrupted...
a) welcome the break
b) feel extremely irritated
c) vary between these two extremes

8. Which of the following colors do you like most?
a) Red or orange
b) black
c) yellow or light blue
d) green
e) dark blue or purple
f) white
g) brown or gray

9. When you are in bed at night, in those last few moments before going to sleep you are...
a) stretched out on your back
b) stretched out face down on your stomach
c) on your side, slightly curled
d) with your head on one arm
e) with your head under the covers

10. You often dream that you are...
a) falling
b) fighting or struggling
c) searching for something or somebody
d) flying or floating
e) you usually have dreamless sleep
f) your dreams are always pleasant

POINTS:

1. (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6
2. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 7 (d) 2 (e) 1
3. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 7 (e) 6
4. (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) 1
5. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 2
6. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 2
7. (a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 4
8. (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 5 (d) 4 (e) 3 (f) 2 (g) 1
9. (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 2 (e) 1
10. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 6 (f) 1

Now add up the total number of points...

OVER 60 POINTS: Others see you as someone they should "handle with care." You're seen as vain, self-centered, and who is extremely dominant. Others may admire you, wishing they could be more like you, but don't always trust you, hesitating to become too deeply involved with you.

51 TO 60 POINTS: Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.

41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.

31 TO 40 POINTS: Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful & practical. They see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over if that trust is ever broken.

21 TO 30 POINTS: Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It would really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment, expecting you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then, usually decide against it. They think this reaction is caused partly by your careful nature.

UNDER 21 POINTS: People think you are shy, nervous, and indecisive, someone who needs looking after, who always wants someone else to make the decisions & who doesn't want to get involved with anyone or anything! They see you as a worrier who always sees problems that don't exist. Some people think you' re boring. Only those who know you well know that you aren't.

WELL?... :)

11.13.2006

Fake-Cryer

Well, I didn't meet the goal of posting the "same hat...same baby" photo, but here's one I snapped last Thursday night.



Can you believe she was actually "crying" when I took this? Yes, my sweet little bitty baby already knows how to fake cry. Who teaches them these things? :)

EDIT: Wow--after publishing the post, I couldn't help but notice MY profile pic and how closely these two photos resemble each other!! Pretty cute!! :)

11.10.2006

Three Posts in One Day


My favourite type of tree during my favourite season.

listening to lettuce

anyone know how to post an audio clip?? (wave sound file)

i've looked at blogger's help but have only been able to find information on audioblogging. i'm not interested in that...i just REALLY want to share with you all a phone message i had waiting on me when i got back from lunch today. (WRONG NUMBER.) at first i thought my sister was pranking me.

let me just say it's from the "local grocer" and involves my lettuce order.

Toonces, the driving...DOG?



Did you ever see the SNL skit about Toonces, the driving cat? My favourites are the ones with Steve Martin and Victoria Jackson.

Well, apparently China's inhabitants are doing more than eating their dogs these days. You've been replaced, Toonces!

11.09.2006

i couldn't believe my ears

1) “So, tell me all the details--like, when you had the baby, was it just like, ‘oh my gosh, i don’t have a baby inside me anymore?’”

This was loudly gushed from a girl i hardly know who somehow made her way into the neonatal ICU (with two church friends of ours) where Elisabeth was staying. It didn’t help that the girl was very pregnant, and i was still dealing with feelings of depression from, among other things, never “looking” pregnant…not to mention all the emotions that went along with all I had been experiencing with Elisabeth in the hospital for weeks and weeks. Oh, and after I had been tormented (believe me, this question was only one of MANY), she moved her way over to ANOTHER MOTHER of a baby in the ICU. This, my friends, is why the rule “only two visitors at a time are allowed” was made. (And in this instance, I—or the nurses, hello?—definitely should have enforced it.) You know how sometimes you think you may have been rude to someone, but you probably really weren’t? Well, I wish I would’ve had the guts to be even ruder.

2) “So, was that hard? With her being in the hospital and all?”

UNBELIEVABLE.

3) “Have you bonded?” (Asked in a real sickly sweet kind of way.)

UNREAL.

These two questions came almost back-to-back out of the mouth of a nice, but extremely flaky woman I know. Let me set the scene so you’ll have a better picture: these questions were asked while standing over Elisabeth in her crib at home (she had been home a week and a half or so). Please keep in mind she was in the hospital for FORTY-EIGHT DAYS. No, no—that wasn’t hard AT ALL. Wow. And as far as how to answer this next question—I’m just speechless. I understand some women have trouble feeling close to their babies, but you show me ANY parent of a premature baby who has stayed in an ICU for seven weeks that doesn’t feel like every fiber of their being is woven and attached to every tiny part of that baby…I can’t imagine. (By the way, I hate the word “bonded,” I’m pretty sure.)

4) “Well, how much is she weighing these days?”
(I give the current weight.)
“Oh my, well you know, [Junior] was never THAT small—I mean, he came out weighing BLAH BLAH BLAH.”

I cannot beLIEVE or begin to count the number of times I’ve heard this. Tell me, how in the world is it at all comforting OR even remotely funny to tell me Junior’s birth weight when my little baby was born ten weeks early weighing roughly the size of a half a sack of sugar? I am extremely proud of every OUNCE she weighs now, even if it is only a small newborn size and she’s almost four months old. (She’s seven pounds, five ounces, by the way.) :)

Okay, enough meanness for now. I'm sure everyone means well.

11.07.2006

Same Hat


Could she BE any cuter??

This was taken almost exactly two months ago by her Poppa. Tomorrow (okay, let's be serious--some time this week) I'm going to post a photo of her in how she looks in this hat NOW... :)

11.02.2006

Squealing Baby
Every so often, little squeals of joy or exclamation will burst out of her, and her cuteness overWHELMS me. I need to get out the dang camera and start taking some PHOTOS of her, for heaven's sake--as well as some video so maybe you can share with me in the happiness this baby girl brings to all around her.

I suppose I have turned into one of those parents. Oh well. :)

The Boob Tube
Last night Doug and I missed Lost. We were so disappointed!! I was especially mad when my eyes accidentally fell across an article today and read that _ _ _ died! (For those who watch the show and somehow missed the episode and don't WANT to know, you are welcome.) I will NOT miss, however, The Office tonight. I can hardly wait. Doug and I find ourselves literally in tears due to laughing so hard. We've simply got to buy up all the available episodes of this genius show. When I first learned there was going to be an "American" version of The Office, I thought--no, there's no way it can even come close to being as funny as the BBC version...but oh, you just wait. Just WATCH. LOVE.IT.

Going Home
No, this section is not about heaven. I've written just a wee bit here, mostly wanting to fill up space and time. 1) I didn't want the R.L. comment (see below) to be at the top of my blog anymore and 2) it's time to go home!