Archive for December, 2008

Which Female Icon Are You?

Posted by: nekogalin Personal in Personal
3
Dec


Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz…

You Are an Ingrid!

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You are an Ingrid — “I am unique”

Ingrids have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me

  • * Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
  • * Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
  • * Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
  • * Though I don’t always want to be cheered up when I’m feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
  • * Don’t tell me I’m too sensitive or that I’m overreacting!

What I Like About Being an Ingrid

  • * my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
  • * my ability to establish warm connections with people
  • * admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
  • * my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
  • * being unique and being seen as unique by others
  • * having aesthetic sensibilities
  • * being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

What’s Hard About Being an Ingrid

  • * experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
  • * feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don’t deserve to be loved
  • * feeling guilty when I disappoint people
  • * feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
  • * expecting too much from myself and life
  • * fearing being abandoned
  • * obsessing over resentments
  • * longing for what I don’t have

Ingrids as Children Often

  • * have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
  • * are very sensitive
  • * feel that they don’t fit in
  • * believe they are missing something that other people have
  • * attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
  • * become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
  • * feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents’ divorce)

Ingrids as Parents

  • * help their children become who they really are
  • * support their children’s creativity and originality
  • * are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
  • * are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
  • * are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed


Take Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz
at HelloQuizzy

H/T: Catholic Fire

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Children: Then And Now

Posted by: nekogalin Humor in Humor
2
Dec

Ever wondered how different it is with children now as compared to back when we were children? Here’s an interesting article from Catholic Exchange.

At The Store Then: “Stay by my side. Stay where you can see me!  Don’t you dare leave this aisle!  Hold my hand in this store! Get out from under that clothes rack — that is NOT funny! You scared Mommy to death!”

At The Store Now:  “Stop stepping on my heels!  What are you, my shadow?  Feel free to go wander around and look at stuff. I’ll text you when I’m ready to go.”

School Mornings Then: “I hear the bus, hurry! Get away from the curb! Do you have your lunch? Homework? Gym clothes?  Quick! Run back to the house and get them. Hurry Hurry Hurry!”

School Mornings Now: “Drive carefully.  No loud music. No texting while driving!  Watch your speed. Do you have your keys? Sunglasses? Wallet? Phone?  Quick! Run back to the house and get them. Hurry Hurry Hurry!”

Halloween Then:  “Can we get our pumpkins now, can we huh huh huh?”
“It’s October 1st!”
“So?”

Halloween Now: “Want to pick out pumpkins tonight?”
“Nah.  I don’t wanna get one this year.”

Christmas List Then: “And a super monster Lego set, Thomas the Tank Engine trains, a dumptruck, cap gun, Brio pirate set, and some Hank The Cowdog books on tape.”

Christmas List Now: “Uhhhhh, lemme think about it.  Grocery money?”

Read the complete article here.

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I came across this interesting post on TechRepublic.com.

Matching music to tedious IT tasks is a popular way to lighten the load. Here are 10 songs that groove well into IT’s underbelly.

#1: You’re trying to solve a problem that you don’t think is solvable

Song: “The Middle”
Artist: Jimmy Eat World

#2: You’re overworked and managing way too many tasks

Song: “Living Dead Girl”
Artist: Rob Zombie

#3: You’ve completed a big project and feel really good about things (for now)

Song: “I’m Like a Bird”
Artist: Nelly Furtado

#4: You’ve taken a new job and look forward to shaking off the technical shackles of your previous job

Song: “Broken”
Artist: Amy Lee and Seether

#5: You’re doing a repetitive task for the 100th time and think you’re going crazy

Song: “Turnover”
Artist: Fugazi

Read the complete article here.

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