C'est moi?

Your Score: 6 - the Questioner

Thanks for taking the test !

you chose CY - your Enneagram type is SIX (aka "The Loyalist").

"I am affectionate and skeptical"

Questioners are responsible, trustworthy, and value loyalty to family,
friends, groups, and causes. Their personalities range broadly from reserved
and timid to outspoken and confrontative.

How to Get Along with Me

• Be direct and clear.

Listen to me carefully.

Don't judge me for my anxiety.

Work things through with me.

Reassure me that everything is OK between us.

Laugh and make jokes with me.

Gently push me toward new experiences.

Try not to overreact to my overreacting.

What I Like About Being a SIX

• being committed and faithful to family and friends



• being responsible and hardworking



• being compassionate toward others



• having intellect and wit



• being a nonconformist



• confronting danger bravely



• being direct and assertive

What's Hard About Being a SIX

• the constant push and pull involved in trying to make up my mind



• procrastinating because of fear of failure; having little confidence
  in myself



• fearing being abandoned or taken advantage of



• exhausting myself by worrying and scanning for danger



• wishing I had a rule book at work so I could do everything right



• being too critical of myself when I haven't lived up to my expectations
  

SIXes as Children Often

• are friendly, likable, and dependable, and/or sarcastic, bossy, and
  stubborn



• are anxious and hypervigilant; anticipate danger



• form a team of "us against them" with a best friend or parent
  



• look to groups or authorities to protect them and/or question authority and rebel



• are neglected or abused, come from unpredictable or alcoholic families, and/or take on the fearfulness of an overly anxious parent

SIXes as Parents

• are often loving, nurturing, and have a strong sense of duty



• are sometimes reluctant to give their children independence



• worry more than most that their children will get hurt



• sometimes have trouble saying no and setting boundaries

Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele

The Enneagram Made Easy

Discover the 9 Types of People

Harper
SanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages

Link: The Quick & Painless ENNEAGRAM Test written by felk on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

I LOVE YOUTUBE

because I get to see videos from the Cure and the Cocteau Twins

I didn't have MTV, and didn't want it.

So now it's just
too cool
to see
how some of my favorite songs
played out in video form.

This is a very sweet treasure. (Catch by the Cure)



Also, please enjoy Rilkean Dreams My German teacher taught me of Rainer Marie Rilke. Jetzt versteh ich warum, thanks to this line in Wikipedia:

His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.

Does that nail my problem, or WHAT?!!?
Herzlichen Dank, Frau

So, here, 3 worlds collide: German, Music, Self
Ahh... at last a triangulation I can use!!

Cocteau Twins: Rilkean Dream (Half Gift)

COCTEAU TWINS lyrics

COCTEAU TWINS lyrics

It's the most confounding time of the year

Confession: As Advent approaches, I am in the precarious position of being required to keep myself in check. This time of year, I love to linger in the Joyful Mysteries and just let my mind wander in the garden of the Son, and all of the earthly revelry... lights, bells, music...

The end result is a veritable waterfall of attempts at communicating where my mind wanders.

Last year, we caught it, but barely, 'cause it has been "normal" for many years.

And so, I have to watch it. You are my friends. I just wanna say...

THUNK!!!!! Honey, was that the dollar?

Dollar Collapses Against Yen



Lyrics here

Man, I am so glad we're just simple folks leading a straight forward life.
Trying times.
I know ***so*** many people worried
- about job cuts,
- paying the heating bill
- paying for their commute to the Metroplex
- Putting food on the table and clothes on the childrens' backs
or, alternatively,
- moving money around to "protect" against a depression
x that- we only call them "looming recessions" nowadays
-trying to find a tangible investment that won't lose too much value

Thank you God for not letting us get all big headed and foolish
during the many dot com booms
Thank you God for teaching us to love our neighbors and hear their stories
Thank you God for teaching us that being a consumer is so much easier,
but far more costly, than being a producer.

Gobble gobble!

May your turkey be warm, and your gravy not so runny.

This happened in my lifetime

Sehr traurig. I liked Gemany because it used to be, well, German. When i saw McDonald's in Bremen, Pizza Hut in Seeheim, that was a beginning of an end.

Oldest blogger in the world?

I'm often truly amazed by my family... my great uncle is 81 years old. And he has a blog, indeed.

He's a participant in w3c.org, builds Partch drums, and strongly believes in a semantic web. And though we're ideologically very different, I can't help but admire his often quirky yet utopian ideology of humanity.

So just to irk him, I'll have to say "I hope when I'm your age I'm as sharp as you."

The Lord of the Fed?

Is it just me, or does Bernanke look an awful lot like someone else?

I'm not sayin' anything else, heheheh.

An Apple a Day :)

My husband is THE COOLEST man on earth!

For our annual equipment upgrade CD bought me an...IMAC!!!

This is very good for so many reasons, not the least of which I am a very visual/auditory person.

Yes, I can type the financial into any ol' spreadsheet, the way my brain functions, I need all of the WELL THOUGHT OUT visual cues I can get.

Not only does the 24" screen blow my mind, the thing is incredibly bright and resolution is astounding.

My eyes should adjust within the month. ;)

Furthermore (and important for serious architects) this magnificent machine will run MAC OSX, Linux, and Windows

And now, to express my humble appreciation:
THANK YOU MERCI GRACIAS DANKE SEHR

Burn, baby, burn

It was a disco inferno in the burn barrel today. Mother of 5, determined to destroy remnants of the past , filled the barrel to the brim. And then spent the next 2 hours trying to make sure the house would be safe.

Lessons learned:

1) Flying cinder paper is scary
2) Eldest son is phenomenally quick with garden hose.
3) to effectively burn paper, photos, old cloth-bound journals, place them vertically in barrel, rather than horizontally.
4) It's going to be a long night making sure fire stays where it's supposed to
5) Never fill barrel over half-full
6) Burning misery is still good therapy

End of transmission =0)

Feast of Carols

If anyone wants to join us for the Feast of Carols at A&M Commerce - we'll be ordering tickets tomorrow. Tickets are $24 per person. The show is on Saturday, December 1st, 6 - 10 p.m.

Sorry for the short notice - but the first show already sold out! Give us a call if you're coming!

Ol' McDonald had a Farm

Chicken
Egg
Egg
Chicken

Seems this place has one paradox after another.
Ya fix something, and animal (or child) destroys it
An animal or child destroys something, ya fix it.

This month's Q&A:
1)How do we deal with a road that has become a flooded frog habitat?
Concrete... 4500 lbs of concrete. Carried, mixed, set by CD.
Hats off, honey! That was awesome work!

2) How do we keep the animals out from ransacking beneath the house, permanently?
Chicken wire around entire skirting area,
stapled into place by #1 son,
staked into the ground by #2 son
Hopefully this area will be covered with lap siding sooner than later:)

What's really cool is progress.
One step after another in the right direction instead of just trying to "cover up" the many messes this wonderful blank canvas presents.
Woo-hoo!

English drink too much and...

Think Rudy GIULIANI is the most conservative American.

Is this some form of mass hallucination or is Joseph Goebbels back in business? Could they pick a more aggressive, womanizing, cross dressing weirdo?