Stolen from both knightbear and gangrel_pri and maybe more since I'm not really up to date on my friends page reading today.
Your Brain is Purple
Of all the brain types, yours is the most idealistic. You tend to think wild, amazing thoughts. Your dreams and fantasies are intense. Your thoughts are creative, inventive, and without boundaries. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking of fictional people and places - or a very different life for yourself.
I am not at all surprised by the description of the outcome to be honest. However, the choice of color for that outcome puzzles me a bit since I'm used to associating creativity etc with gold or in kirlean photography it is red. I seem to have a bazillion friends with purple on the brain though... Seems like every LiveJournal layout I do for a friend ends up being purple because that's what color they like. phoenixfyre1 is the exception... and since she never updates her LiveJournal, nor reads nor comments on her friends', it's sometimes hard to remember to add her to the list of layouts I designed.
So anyway... I have a purple brain it seems. Which is being eaten by yet another FMA fanfiction... the story of which is interesting... the writing... well let's say that this person has promise... but she's not there just yet. She's a little trapped in favorite words and stock phrases just yet. But she's got some promise if she keeps learning, and listens to honest critique. She could become a very good fiction writer if she works at it. Oh well... At least it's not some awful color. I am given to a bit of purple prose myself at times it seems.
(Too bad my current icon set does not have a purple icon hahaha... So I'll have to use the gold one to express my creativity.)
Ok... This is going to be short and sweet.... I might give more details tomorrow after I've rested. It's been a difficult day. Poor Little Star has been going back and forth between me and my daughter to comfort us by having us pet her.
My mom is in the ICU after undergoing emergency surgery early this morning. It's very serious. My dad was transported to Hospice this afternoon. His condition is such that there is not enough we can do to ensure his comfort. Mom was killing herself trying.
With all that is going on, my daughter and I do not have time or heart to deal what are by comparison very petty matters. We are busy watching a man we have both loved intensely every day we have existed die day by day, and his beloved wife of nearly 60 years is too sick to be with him. That by itself is cruel enough for us without having it inflicted on us elsewhere.
Today was Dad's 78th birthday. I don't know what tomorrow holds.
Not sure I understand why Riza is my sworn enemy. I'm going to break up with Falman, though, if he doesn't loosen up some, and also open his eyes. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe after I break up with Falman I'm planning to go after Riza's boyfriend. ^__^ Also, though I'm unemployed I fully intend to apprentice myself to Winry as soon as I can.
Your result for The Quick & Painless ENNEAGRAM Test...
7 - the Adventurer
Thanks for taking the test !
you chose AX - your Enneagram type is SEVEN (aka "The Enthusiast").
"I am happy and open to new things"
Adventurers are energetic, lively, and optimistic. They want to contribute to the world.
How to Get Along with Me
• Give me companionship, affection, and freedom. • Engage with me in stimulating conversation and laughter. • Appreciate my grand visions and listen to my stories. • Don't try to change my style. Accept me the way I am. • Be responsible for youself. I dislike clingy or needy people. • Don't tell me what to do.
What I Like About Being a SEVEN
• being optimistic and not letting life's troubles get me down • being spontaneous and free-spirited • being outspoken and outrageous. It's part of the fun. • being generous and trying to make the world a better place • having the guts to take risks and to try exciting adventures • having such varied interests and abilities
What's hard about being a SEVEN
• not having enough time to do all the things I want • not completing things I start • not being able to profit from the benefits that come from specializing; not making a commitment to a career • having a tendency to be ungrounded; getting lost in plansor fantasies • feeling confined when I'm in a one-to-one relationship
SEVENs as Children Often
• are action oriented and adventuresome • drum up excitement • prefer being with other children to being alone • finesse their way around adults • dream of the freedom they'll have when they grow up
SEVENs as Parents
• are often enthusiastic and generous • want their children to be exposed to many adventures in life • may be too busy with their own activities to be attentive
Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele, The Enneagram Made Easy. Discover the 9 Types of People.
Harper: San Francisco, 1994, 161 pages
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Only to a certain point. Were they criminally negligent? Sometimes a parent does everything they can, and they have a kid that behaves perfectly when they are there, but when they are on their own they are hanging with the wrong crowd and the difference in personality is like night and day. In those cases then no. I don't think the parents can be held responsible. If they're present and they're just letting their kids do whatever with no intervention of any kind? That's a whole other story.
Today would have been my dad's 92nd birthday. He's already long since gone now. He died 10 days after his 78th birthday. Hard to believe it's been almost 14 years now. I hope Roger is hanging out with him now. Dad served in Munich during the Korean War. His platoon had been slated to go to Korea as well, but at the last minute a runner came aboard their ship with new orders and they all went to Germany instead. I told him once that I felt lucky that he'd gone to Germany instead of Korea because otherwise, I might not have had the opportunity to have him as a father. He told me that it wasn't that lucky as the guys in Germany during the restoration didn't get promoted as fast as the guys fighting in Korea, and the lower officers and enlisted men ended up doing more of the higher officers' work. Dad was enlisted, but he was the one doing all of the Lieutenant's actual work, including scheduling teams and such things, because the Lieutenant couldn't do it competently apparently. I still consider it lucky in my case, and I'm sure my brother would have agreed with me. I couldn't have asked for a better pair of parents.
He and Mom kept up a correspondence the whole time he was away, during which they came to an understanding that when he returned from his tour of duty, they would marry, which they did and were married for nearly 55 years. After Dad passed through the veil, mom compiled all their letters that she could find and gave copies to both of us kids. They are very sweet. When Roger passed through, Lexxie kept his copy of those letters. I hadn't known that she didn't get a copy. Somehow I thought she had. Mom told her she could make her a copy of her own, because Roger's copy was 14 years old, but she wanted Roger's copy, and honestly it was pristine. He took very good care of it.
Dad retired from Kroger as a store manager, and then went back to school and started a whole different career, which he also retired from. So when they both retired, Mom and Dad each had 2 full retirements saved, as well as their IRA's, so they were able to travel and have a vacation home in Arizona which they enjoyed a lot until Dad got sick. They both had such an amazing work ethic, and lived frugally so they could save for the future, and still managed to plan fun vacations and and weekend camping trips for us. My brother wrote the most beautiful eulogy for our Dad and he talked about the work ethic we learned, and the vacations, and the camping trips we went on, and hunting with Dad (I didn't get to do that, but Roger continued to be and avid hunter the rest of his life.
I miss that old man. 14 years later, I still hear him in my head when I'm weighing a decision, or see him driving by in a car or a pickup truck and have to do a double take. Lol. Now, I see my brother sometimes too. I hope he and Dad are hanging out together right now, remembering the good times. I wish Dad had lived long enough to meet Jameson.
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