You Have a Choleric Temperament

You are a person of great enthusiasm – easily excited by many things.Unsatisfied by the ordinary, you are reaching for an epic, extraordinary life.You want the best. The best life. The best love. The best reputation. You posses a sharp and keen intellect. Your mind is your primary weapon. Strong willed, nothing can keep you down. Your energy can break down any wall. You’re an instantly passionate person – and this passion gives you an intoxicating power over others. At your worst, you are a narcissist. Full of yourself and even proud of your faults. Stubborn and opinionated, you know what you think is right. End of discussion. A bit of a misanthrope, you often see others as weak, ignorant, and inferior.

What Temperment Are You?

What a horrible, horrible test. It SO lies. Except maybe the part about having a sharp and keen intellect. Oh, and the part about having enthusiasm. Other than that…all lies. Who put that quiz together anyway? Clearly they don’t know how great I am and how everyone else is inferior.  Choleric…whatever.

While I appreciate that I’m great and that should be enough reason to move from your other machine to the one right next to mine when there were six others that were free…

Could you…would you….PLEASE STOP SINGING YOUR DAMN R&B SONGS SO LOUD THAT I CAN’T HEAR THE NEWS?!!!!

‘Kay? ‘Kay.

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 9/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

1. Men like to have everything out where it is easily accessible.

2. They will not pick up unless you ask them to. This is just the way it is. Either ask, or stop complaining about it.

3. You will think something needs to be cleaned WAY before they do.

4. So you must either clean it, or if you want them to do it…ASK.

5. If your man has any brains at all, if you ask him to do a specific task he will do it.

6. But if you want it done in the next hour or so…you have to tell him WHEN to do it.

7. Otherwise he will do it…but it might take him a few days to get around to it.

8. Because let’s face it…most men are NOT wired to put a cleaning task at the top of their “to do” list..we must do that for them.

9. If you don’t like the way your man cleans something, you should NEVER, under any circumstances, gripe about the way he has done the task. This is a sure fire way to guarantee he will never agree to do it again.

10. Be smart about it and re-do the work after he has left the house.

11. Men are more likely to do a load of towels vs. scouring the bathroom.

12. Cleaning sucks, but in my world yard work sucks more. So I do the cleaning and he does the yard work.

13. If you are irritated about anything related to cleaning and your guy, you must specifically tell them that is the case. Much as we’d like to believe it is so, your man will never, EVER guess that the reason you’re mad is because he did not put his towel in the laundry basket.

14. Unless you have a regular maid service or cleaning lady, do not expect that when you return from a trip your man will have tidied up and caught up on the laundry. This is just NOT going to happen.

15. However, you might have a newly painted room or some new landscaping in the yard if you married a good catch. Work like this should be highly praised and should outweigh whatever cleaning has not been done.

16. Because he will not clean while you are gone.

17. He just won’t.

18. So don’t think he will.

19. Even if you leave him a to-do list with cleaning on it.

20. That’s just the way it is.

21. That is all.

But if we had the death penalty in all states and actually enforced it, then inmates wouldn’t be able to sue in order to get our tax dollars to pay for stuff like this.

So do you think your hard-earned tax dollars should pay for this type of surgery…especially for a guy that was convicted of killing his wife?

I don’t.

That is all.

If you’ve been by here before, you probably already know I don’t really like going to the grocery store at all. There’s the baggers, the shoppers, the whiny kids, the people blocking the aisles all over the place…in general, I hate to get groceries.

Trips to the old grocery store a few miles away have been bugging me a lot more than usual lately. And then last week I brought home spoiled cottage cheese that was not set to expire for a couple of weeks.

So I was glad to see the new grocery store less than a mile away was finally opening this weekend. Seriously, you just go down to the end of our street, turn right, go a couple blocks, and then it’s like right there. SO convenient. They’re putting in a Starbuck’s and a Subway shop there too.

But I digress.

So anyway, I waited until this morning to get groceries in anticipation of the new store grand opening. Usually on a Sunday morning before 11, there really aren’t that many people buying groceries. They’re at church. But today I knew that at least SOME of them would skip church to go to the store due to the grand opening specials plus it’s going to rain later today.

OH….MY….GOD!!!!!

I have some questions about what I saw at the new store today:

1. Who the hell goes to a new grocery store on grand opening day when people are trying to get their weekly foodstuffs TO WINDOW SHOP?!!!! I am NOT kidding. Several people had dressed up to go out and “just look” at what was there. Unbelievable.

2. Did people smoke pot or drink before going to the store today? Because there were many, many people just stopped in the aisles blocking carts both ways just staring blankly into space. They weren’t reviewing a list or looking at their carts or the shelves…they were just staring blankly.

3. Why do people who don’t normally go grocery shopping go to grand openings and block all the aisles in the produce section? Seriously…it was bad. They had no idea what the hell they were doing, but they were dressed up.

4. Do you think these people were maybe there because they thought press would be taking pictures or interviewing people? I do.

5. Why is it that when people are getting groceries, they always seem to walk at a snail’s pace, even when they’re not looking for something on the shelves. How out of shape ARE these people? Move your asses so I can get my damn stewed tomatoes!

I’m sure I could think of more to gripe about. But I’m home now and the groceries are all put away so I guess it was worth the trip. Especially since drive time to the new store is less than two minutes. I do have to say the store is very nice and they have all sorts of specialty items and they carry even more of what I need than the old store does. The people working there were quite nice and they were all dressed in crisp white shirts and black ties (even the ladies). Very classy. So…good review on the store itself, the people that work there, and the selection. The prices might be a little higher, but who cares! It’s just a few blocks away and well worth the few extra bucks for the convenience.

Hopefully by next week all the lookie-loos and slow-pokes that were there today will go back to church and wherever else it is they go to buy their processed food and take-out.

Tommy’s off for another South American vacation work trip, so I took the opportunity to go see Snakes on a Plane with The Boy.

Now before you think I’m a horrible mom for taking the kid to an R rated movie when he’s only 12….there’s only like one scene that has what I would consider questionable content. It’s just a few minutes and I made sure to cover his eyes. Yeah, they toss the f-bomb here and there for form, and you see a bunch of people get bitten by snakes. But overall I would say that the movie’s so damn funny that any fear the snakes might induce is completely overshadowed by the funny. And he’s in middle school and has me for a mom and plays the XBox…of course he’s heard cussing before.

The movie is exactly what it says it is. It’s a plane. There are snakes on it. And Samuel L. Jackson does his thang. Like many reviews you’ve heard and read, I’d agree that this will go down as one of the funniest camp horror movies of all time. Better than Scary Movie. Much better.

Go see it. You won’t be sorry.

We’ll go see Talladega Nights when Tommy’s in town. It’s not scary so we might actually persuade him to go with us. If you’ve seen that one, is it worth the money? I’ve heard good and bad things about it.

You Are 26 Years Old

20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what’s to come… love, work, and new experiences.

What Age Do You Act?

I got an eight out of 10 on this quiz. I would have scored higher, but I did the same thing I always used to do in college and second-guessed myself (hey, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it). Got the bonus question wrong too, so if we’re going to be accurate I guess I scored eight out of 11. Oh well….if you have time, go give it a try.

1. I’m not big on lying…all politicians make promises they don’t intend to keep.

2. I’m not good at pretending I like someone when I absolutely abhor who they are and what they stand for.

3. I don’t like feeling indebted to someone.

4. Once I make up my mind, I rarely change it based on what others think.

5. I don’t like going to lunch with people that expect something in return (when I was working, these people were called vendors; in Washington they’re called lobbyists).

6. I don’t like being watched; it makes me jumpy. Those pesky congressional security details would drive me nuts.

7. I don’t like people who don’t follow through…the entire U.N. would fit into this category with regard to resolutions they make but refuse to enforce.

8. Politicians spend other people’s money on programs they know are useless in order to get votes or gain influence. I just wouldn’t feel right about wasting other people’s hard earned cash.

9. I don’t think I could work with people that sought ways to waste even more of people’s hard earned money by expanding already failing programs.

10. Speaking of working with people…I can’t work with people I can’t trust. How many times have we seen certain politicians leave “private” meetings with the other party and then hold press conferences to tell reporters what was discussed? Horrible.