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Friday, October 24, 2008

I am a Doris

Well, go figure....

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 tume 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


Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Hmmm, looks like I've got some reading to do

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

Two were taken out of the list because they were repetitive. (In case you were wodnering, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis was removed because it is included in The Chronicles of Narnia, and Hamlet by William Shakespeare was removed because it is included in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.)

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible

7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (most, but not all)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac

66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte's Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


50 Odd Things about Me

Nabbed from DrSarra, Guardpuppy and LdyAnne......

50 ODD Things about you!

1) Favorite hobby? Baking

2) How do you feel about your ex?  hm, do I really have to answer that?.....  

3) Do you own guns? no

4) What flavor do you add to your drink at sonic? none

5) Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? no

6) What do you think of hot dogs?  well, I'll eat one if there is nothing else around to eat

7) Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night or Do You Hear What I Hear

8) What do you prefer to drink in the morning? coffee

9) Can you do push ups?  dunno, haven't tried in years

10) Can you do a chin up? dunno, haven't tried in years

11) What is your favorite piece of jewelry? Amethyst Cross Necklace

12) Do you like blue cheese? yep

13) Ever been in a car wreck? yes, but none were my fault

14) Do you have ADD? no

15) What's one trait that you hate about yourself? too naive

16) Middle name? Anne

17) Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment?

1. I want to go home

2. My desk has a ton of work piled up

3. Hope the weather is nice for this weekend

18) Name 3 things you bought yesterday?

1. microwave

2. underwear for brendan

3. small drinking glasses

How about today??

1. nothing yet

 2. 

 3.

19)  Name 3 drinks you regularly drink?

1.  water

2. coffee

3. iced tea

20) Current worry?  rather not go into that

21) Current hate right now? there is not enough time

23) How did you bring in the New Year?  had a bunch of friends over to the house for food and fireworks

24) Where would you like to be right now?  on a beach

25) Name three people who will complete this?

1. I alwasy hate this question, so I am leaving it "blank"

2.  

3.

26) Do you own slippers?  no

27) What shirt are you wearing? navy blue scrubs

28) Do you like sleeping on satin sheets?  dunno, i never have

29) Can you whistle?  yes

30) Where are you right now? My desk at work

31) Would you be a pirate?  not mean enough

32) What songs do you sing in the shower?  depends on my mood

33) Favorite girl's name?  olivia

34) Favorite boy's name? brendan

35) What's in your pocket? air

36) Last thing that made you laugh?  reading a joke my friend sent

37) Best bed sheets as a child? they had tiny violets all over them

38) Worst injury you've ever had? fractured arm from falling out of tree, had a hard cast on for months..or slipping and getting a bunch of glass in my knee

39) Do you love where you live? well, I love the area......

40) How many TVs do you have in your house? two

41) Who is your loudest friend?  I plead the fifth.....

42) How many dogs do you have? none

43) Does someone have a crush on you? well, if they did, I wouldn't say

44)  What's your favorite novel?  can't pick just one, better question would be who is your favorite author (and once again, wouldn't be able to pick just one)

This is missing question number 45-I don't know what it was

46) What is your favorite candy? gobstoppers

47) Favorite Sports Team?  Redskins!

48) What song do you want played at your funeral?  Hm, Haven't ever thought of that one....

49) What were you doing 12 AM last night?  sleeping

50) What was the first thing you thought of when you woke? wow, I woke up before the alarm went off!


Monday, March 17, 2008

Why not....it's St. Paddy's Day after all

What Your Shamrock Says About You
You are unselfish, responsible, and a good leader. You contribute a lot to your community.

At times, you can be self-righteous and stubborn. There's no better way to do things than your way.

You consider yourself a lucky person. Luck always seems to be on your side.

You are creative, innovative, and complicated. You definitely have a unique spin on the world.


Wednesday, March 05, 2008

ok, so I'm not into working this morning....

You Are Kermit
Hi, ho! Lovable and friendly, you get along well with everyone you know.
You're a big thinker, and sometimes you over think life's problems.
Don't worry - everyone know's it's not easy being green.
Just remember, time's fun when you're having flies!



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