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and oi! Robots! no cleaning up the site. I’m sitting at exactly 200 subscribers and I love double zero numbers. They look so cool.

Thanks!

Your Top Strength
Humor and playfulness
You like to laugh and tease. Bringing smiles to other people is important to you. You try to see the light side of all situations.

Your Second Strength
Capacity to love and be loved
You value close relations with others, in particular those in which sharing and caring are reciprocated. The people to whom you feel most close are the same people who feel most close to you.

Your Third Strength
Honesty, authenticity, and genuineness
You are an honest person, not only by speaking the truth but by living your life in a genuine and authentic way. You are down to earth and without pretense; you are a “real” person.

Your Fourth Strength
Appreciation of beauty and excellence
You notice and appreciate beauty, excellence, and/or skilled performance in all domains of life, from nature to art to mathematics to science to everyday experience.

Your Fifth Strength
Perspective (wisdom)
Although you may not think of yourself as wise, your friends hold this view of you. They value your perspective on matters and turn to you for advice. You have a way of looking at the world that makes sense to others and to yourself.

And just for fun, my bottom five, the ones I have least:
Strength#20
Citizenship, teamwork, and loyalty
You excel as a member of a group. You are a loyal and dedicated teammate, you always do your share, and you work hard for the success of your group.

Strength#21
Industry, diligence, and perseverance
You work hard to finish what you start. No matter the project, you “get it out the door” in timely fashion. You do not get distracted when you work, and you take satisfaction in completing tasks.

Strength#22
Zest, enthusiasm, and energy
Regardless of what you do, you approach it with excitement and energy. You never do anything halfway or halfheartedly. For you, life is an adventure.

Strength#23
Modesty and humility
You do not seek the spotlight, preferring to let your accomplishments speak for themselves. You do not regard yourself as special, and others recognize and value your modesty.

Strength#24
Leadership
You excel at the tasks of leadership: encouraging a group to get things done and preserving harmony within the group by making everyone feel included. You do a good job organizing activities and seeing that they happen.

Thanks, Jessy!

This looks like something I used to shoot whilst playing Asteroids as a kid. Not pretty. Achievement, work, family/home, and energy are all low. I miss having a home where I can express myself through art and have people over at any time. Work is very difficult now that I’m doing all the facilities work in addition to the admin/clerical work. Energy is a constant battle for me. Achievement – I had trouble rating this. I haven’t accomplished much, it feels, and yet I know I’ve got 6 straight months of daily poems under my belt (after tomorrow) and have a new car, a 2 year plan to have everything paid and have money for life coach training. It all feels like preparation for achievement, not achievement itself. (Not at all related to my self esteem and contentment scores. Oh, no.)

I use this site: http://www.new-oceans.co.uk/new/wheel2.htm

my dead husband would have been 40, if not for the dying and all.

Part of me is sad about that and part of me is bored. All of me is feeling anxious and unsettled.

It would be nice if acceptance was equal to detachment.

can any of you tell me why it’s so much easier to hold challenging yoga poses if I breathe through my mouth instead of my nose? This isn’t a truly random question, so I thought I’d ask it here instead of the…oh, I’m bored of this explanation already!

twirling around in an office chair for several minutes at high speed right after eating cookies was a bad idea.

I got a good goofy video of it on my phone, though. Wheeeeee!!!

Some work to be done, clearly. My social life has taken a harsh hit since I moved here and haven’t had a car, which shows up in my fun, recreation, and friendships. My self esteem is stupidly low. I’m trying to address that with the chakra/intuition work and by learning new skills. The dead novel and lack of other creative work or learning outside of job-related software and systems lowered the achievements score. I think I’ve got some cures up my sleeve for that, as well.

My finance, relationship, security, home/family and work/career scores are happily high and my health/wellbeing, energy and contentment scores are much higher than they’ve been in the past.

For the curious, I use this site: http://www.new-oceans.co.uk/new/wheel2.htm

I read the entries of some of the people to whom I subscribe and I am amazed at their minds. They think about the world and themselves in several different contexts. They make subtle jokes that fly right over my heads. They’re accomplished musically, artistically, emotionally, professionally and academically.

It makes me feel a little sad about my battered brain. :(

to catch up with my online networks now that I have access at home again and then, somehow, my mood dived. I think it’s a combo of missing several walks, not enough sleep, post-holiday blues and looking back at the last year and seeing what I gave up to come out here. I’ve got a great life, but I miss the artistic community and friendships I had in NC.

Here’s hoping a good cry and a long nap turn things around.

I can’t believe how much my head hurts. It’s nuts. This has turned into a full out assault on my head. I woke up at 2am and my face was melting onto my pillow. Eyes, nose, ears, mouth, all streaming goo. I think I have some sort of suburban ebola virus. My doctor thinks it’s just a bad cold. HA! Ebola, clearly.

My boss looked and me and said, “Go home. And don’t come in tomorrow.” I think I’ll listen to her.