A Little Laugh, and A Little About Me

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I found this sign at my local grocery store.
Really, inside of me there is a 14 year old dying to get out and make jokes...

This weekend, I took myself a personality test courtesy of this website because I was bored. Then, I thought it was so on the money that I thought I'd share with all of you (I know, you're all just dying to know, aren't you?)

Well with no further delay, here was my assessment:

INTROVERT While you may not be anti-social, you do need (and deserve) your private time and space to retreat from the world. Unlike extroverts, you need to develop a concept of the world or some aspect of it before experiencing it. Too much socializing may sap your energies. Your energies are derived from exploring the inner world of ideas, impressions and pure thought.

INTUITIVE While you do process information through your senses you add a twist to your processing by relying on intuition and serendipity. You look for undercurrents of meaning and abstractions in what you experience physically. You do not just see things just as they are, but as what they could be. While you may rely on common sense at times, you trust inspiration far more.

PERCEIVING You like to have as much information as possible before making a decision. Putting off a final decision until the last moment does not make you uncomfortable. Indeed once a decision is made, a course plotted, you may feel a bit uneasy, because you feel bound to a certain course of action. You would much prefer to wait and see what happens. You enjoy the opportunity to improvise. Commitments are not etched in stone to you, and are changeable.

FEELING You make decisions subjectively based upon your values and what is important to you. How people will be affected by your decisions is important to you. You are likely to make decisions based upon what you feel is acceptable and agreeable rather than what is logical. Your truths are founded in your values and those of the society you live in. It is important to remember that we are discussing how you evaluate data and make decisions, and that you rely on your feelings to do so in no way implies you are overly emotional.

Your Personality Type

Introvert/Intuitive/Feeling/Perceiving You are devoted and compassionate. You have a well-developed distaste for rules, orders and schedules. You are a natural born learner and can get so absorbed in your projects that you forget those around you. You are passionate about your beliefs and love ideals. You have very high standards for yourself. You are very creative, sensitive, reserved, and introspective. You respect the values of others and expect them to respect yours. In relationships you are loyal and totally committed. You prefer a few deep relationships over a horde of acquaintances. Because you are somewhat reserved, you do best in one on one and small group situations. When you feel comfortable, you can be very entertaining and capricious. You are nurturing and supportive by nature. You greatest social challenge is to balance your need to withdraw into your inner-world with your need to keep a strong connection with those you care for. .

The sentences in red I especially thought was funny, I had always known this about myself, I had done a "professional" personality assessment when I was a corporate gal, and one of the things that they said about me was that I had no respect for authority. I had to laugh, and since then I tell people that about myself all of the time. It is true though, I have never been interested in having a "boss" let alone have him or her tell me what to do. I have an entrepreneur streak in me that I get from my Dad, and I HAVE to be in charge.

As far as the projects go, that is so me. Another thing that I do is start new projects before I finish old ones. Case in point:

--I have so many knitting and crocheting projects that are currently underway that I have to purchase new craft bags to put them in.

--I am currently working on three quilts

--I am currently writing two novels

--I am about to go back to school in Photography

--I am seriously looking into doing some local voiceover work

--I just put into works a plan to buy a cello and relearn how to play

--I have a brand new business selling Shirley J products that needs to be kick-started

--I'm currently involved in a serious weight loss program (more about that to come)

--oh yeah, and then there's the whole kid thing... (Which includes but is not limited to my desire to help my son calm down by doing yoga with him)

The part in blue is really interesting to me, because I had just had a phone conversation with a friend of mine where we discussed both of our tendencies to think about how our blogs will affect everyone who reads it, and how that limits our posting abilities. Seriously, I run down the list of all of my known readers and I wonder if he or she will be offended by what I write. Now, that doesn't always stop me from writing what I want to, but I do always think about it. In fact right now I am concerned that all of you are thinking that I'm vain and narcissistic.

In orange, this is a part of my personality that is a blessing and a curse. Just ask my husband how much research I do before buying a new pet (I know everything there is to know about raising cats, dogs, guinea pigs, snakes and goldfish) or before I gave birth (I read so many books that I completely exhausted myself). Decision making is stressful for me, and honestly the way I console myself is to tell myself that I can always change my mind later. Even airplane tickets can be changed for a comparatively small fee.

The green part is actually very helpful for me to have defined, I was actually just barely wondering why it is that I was so backward and awkward at my new friend's halloween party (I literally stood in one spot the entire time), when I was the one dying to go and craving a social gathering of any sort. Now I can agree that it wasn't that I'm anti-social, it's because I only knew like three of the twenty people there. I love parties, but I hate being around people I don't know. Getting to know new people is a painful and aggrivating part of life that I have accepted because I love having people I know well that know me well. I wouldn't call this being shy though, because I'm not lacking self esteem, it's just a process that I don't enjoy, especially on a large scale.

The part in yellow is very important to me, because I truly think that in order to be successful in any endeavor you have to be able to visualize a different reality. This has especially been helpful with my weightloss. When I am overweight--it is very challenging for me to imagine that I can look differently, and I personally think this is part of the reason why weight loss is so nebulous and difficult to achieve (but only part of the reason.... again, more to come later).

And lastly, a word about personality tests: Sometimes they are insightful, sometimes I worry that they are as limiting as giving someone a label, and sometimes I just wonder if they are like fortune cookies, deliberately vague and flattering. Oh well, it was fun anyway!

At least I was able to provide a laugh if the rest is of no use to you right?