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The Big 5 Personality Test

Irritated by a young friend of mine, I started comparing notes with my mom. The discussion turned to the question of Narcissism. In doing some research, I my attention was arrested by the statement "If you're reading this because of problems with someone you know now, the chances are excellent that one or both of your parents was a narcissist. Narcissists are so much trouble that only people with special prior training (i.e., who were raised by narcissists) get seriously involved with them. "

Something about that sentence slowly wended it's way into my consciousness.

Seriously involved? One parent a narcissist??

Then it hit me: most of the traits pointed to my ex, and to my dad! This let me to search for more information on personalities. I then stumbled on this site, and here are my results.

I'm a O76-C58-E48-A32-N43 Big Five!!

Now I am going to bed!

adventures in momland

My mom's house (in Surrey) has had no heat since last weekend - it seems a little copper wire inside her furnace decided to take a break... literally! So for the past four days, she has been heating the house with the fireplace. Actually, trying to heat is more accurate: she never did get the place very warm, since the fireplace is a simple wood burning one in one end of the house. So to help heat the bedrooms (and, most importantly, the computer room/office!) she had plugged in a couple of electric heaters. Anyhow, I found this anecdote in my inbox this evening, and found it to be worth posting here!

When I came back from school, the temperature was only 56º , so waiting for the repair guy I decided to get the small heater in my "office" going, and in addition I plugged the long baseboard style one in the living room. A few minutes later, no heat coming out of it. I went to check upstairs... same thing! The I realized that both were plugged on the same electrical circuit and that the braker had popped. So I went down, figured out which one it was... but unfortunately it didn't want to go back in place... so no heat and part of the house didn't have any electricity either. Oh well!

Anyway, the repair man came to fix the furnace around 4:30pm - just a little something called a thermo-coupling - and my furnace was purring like a pussy cat. The temperature was begining to rise again. However I couldn't get the circuit braker to stay on so I waited for Olivier to come home. He arrived within the hour, and after brain storming about the matter, he decided to change the braker which seem to be brocken and replace it with a spare one I had. He called Garry F first to make sure the spare one I had was ok. He connected the wire and then flicked the switch... hurrah - for 1/2 a second and... pooofff ALL the lights were out!!! This time, the entire house had no power!

"Oh no!" said Olivier... "how could this be? What did I do wrong!?"

A little concerned myself, I decided to go out to check the neighbourhood... Would you believe the entire street - and more - had no light.

"I hope I didn't cause that" whined Olivier a little worried. He decided to call Garry F. again. Guess what?! They didn't have any power either! Now your brother was really shaking.

"No way" he said to Garry, "I can't believe it"... "I didn't do it, really, I didn't" Garry was laughing his gutts out when Olivier related the event! It was just a coinsidence!!! And what more, we had no light for over one hour, then the light came back on and Olivier was just about to flick the switch again... the lights went off again. Imagine if he had flicked it again at the same time, he would really be freeked out!!!

Meanwhile, the house was just starting to warm up... but no power means no heat! So back to square one - lets get the fire place going again!

It was a good hour again before the power was restored... I didn't wait, I was too hungy by then. So I toasted some bread on the fire, and made myself a nice roast beef sandwich with mayo and letuce, and toast with jam for desert. Oh ya, I was really smart... I had boiled water just before the power went off, and I put the exces boiling water in a thermos , so I was even able to have a to go with my toast! Oohoo!

T'was very nice around here... I had all the candles on again, the fire on... may be I'll turn the lights off for the rest of the evening!

TTYL

mom

5ive-Minute Stories

Well now here is a nifty idea! I will have to come back and play...

hot chocolate maggots

I ran out of cream for my morning coffee. So I thought I'd try adding hot chocolate powder to it, like a mocha. It worked rather well, and tasted great. The thing is, my hot chocolate powder (which I never really use: too sweet) has mini marshmallows in it. Now this souds great, and really, what could be better? They taste like marshmallows should too! But I left my coffee/chocomocha on the counter to cool as I did my makeup, and when I drank it just now, I realised that the minimallows had almost completely melted. They looked like little maggots in the bottom of the mug.

Sweet sweeeeet maggots.

What a way to start the morning!

what is the (animal) world coming to?

*sigh*

I am not a good correspondant...

But I'll make up for it with animal crackers!

cracker #1: my cat has better aim than most men!
My cats got rather angry at me for having forgotten to go get more litter for their bin. One cat decided to piss on the bathroom floor to make his point. The other cat, not to be out done, left little poopies inside an empty food can on the floor! I was amazed at his aim, but assumed it to be a fluke. Well, the next morning there could be no doubt: I found another filled can - this time with pee in it!!! I'd like to see a guy aim that well, and not slop over the side!

cracker #2: mom lives in a love shack and drives a shaggin wagon!
For some reason, all the pets that ever lived at the family home have had unusually affectionate relationships. We used to have a dog, Charlie, and three cats, Todd (male), Taffy and Cloe (females). As the girls had no use for poor little Todd (who grew to a whopping 23 lbs), he decidede that Charlie would be his mommie - and suckled on him for 6 weeks while the poor dog didn't know what to do about it! Later, we had another laugh as Taffy went into heat and decided that Charlie was a more worthy suitor to woo than anyone else in the house (all neutered, anyhow), so she made continual sexy moves and advances on him! Poor dog must have been wondering whether he was still in fact a dog! These pets have all passed on, but now mom has two other female cats (Fluffcore and Isabelle), and a male bunny. Strangely enough, the cats were quite wary of the rabbit, since he was the fearless sort who often ended up chasing them around the house! It has been quite awhile now since they've all become friends (especially Isa and the rabbit - Fluffcore is a loner). Now I hear that the rabbit has gone and fallen in love! To mom's horror, he decided to try and start a family with Isa!!

Whatever pheromones are in that house do not seem to have invaded my appartment: the cats are still fighting as bitterly as ever down here!