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Sunday, November 19, 2006

Outcast Genius??

The other day I wandered over to SEB’s blog and read with interest his results from the Geek, Dork or Nerd test.  After that I just had to find out what I would test out as, and here are the results:

Outcast Genius
82 % Nerd, 78% Geek, 56% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in all three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius.

Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don’t care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occasion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject).

Outcast geniuses can be very lonely, due to their being outcast from most normal groups and too smart for the room among many other types of dorks and geeks, but they can also be the types to eventually rule the world, ala Bill Gates, the prototypical Outcast Genius.

Congratulations!


Also, you might want to check out some of the other tests if you’re interested in any of the following:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Professional Wrestling

Love & Sexuality

America/Politics

Thanks Again!—THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

Thursday, November 16, 2006

I have a dog that snores……….. and other random thoughts

I have a dog that snores.  The little furballs (they aren’t really ‘little’, they weigh around 40lbs) sleep in their crate sort of kitty corner, behind me when I sit at the computer.  One of them snores!!  She sounds like a human - I swear.  If you didn’t know that there was a dog there you would be looking for a person.  If she has been around something that she is allergic to, she snores almost as deeply as sweet hubby and also wheezes.  Totally freaked me out the first time that I heard it.

The other day while driving sweet hubby around to an appointment I said, “The Me Generation is alive and well on Long Island. And is more than one generation big.” Perhaps not the best use of English, but it got the point across.  He told me that it sounded like I was writing a blog. 
When I came home I did start a blog with that as the title, but it got so damn depressing that I deleted it.  I really hate thinking that I am living somewhere that people do not know how to neighbor (it is really getting to be a lost art folks!), think that no matter what the situation that they are the ONLY one around who has somewhere to go, things to do and that entitles them to push their way to the front of every situation.  (People wonder why I don’t like to go out much nor care much to go shopping around here) It also shows in how they drive, how they act, how they talk - yech!!!

I got my hair done this last weekend.  I have a perm and the top was going flat so the lady who cuts my hair here (and honey she ain’t cheap) said to find out what size rollers the lady who cuts my hair in MI (better service, better stylist, better price) uses and she would also give me a ‘partial perm’ just like I can get in MI.  Oh yeah!!  I am so looking forward to the end of flat top hair.  I have my MI stylist give me the info, I bring it with me, I am happy.  I should know that it won’t be done right - but I try to give her the benefit of the doubt.  First, they don’t have the perm solution that has been used on me with great success; then I get an argument about the size of the perm rod. 
I tell her that we use white on top because I don’t want to look like a poodle when I am done.  She plays with my hair a bit and then says, “Yeah, but I think that I will use grey.” (For those of you who don’t have any experience with perms, white makes a bigger curl than grey) I say, “I don’t want grey used, I want white.” She comes back with “as much as you are spending for this perm, you want something that will last.  I’m using grey.”
So there I sit getting the rods put in my hair and fuming.  The perm solution goes on, and under the dryer I go.  Time is up and out I come so that they can check the curl.  The perm is not working well on my hair; it is not giving a good curl.  It gets left on a bit longer.  They rinsed the hair and then put on the solution to neutralize the perm solution and I sat with the rods still in my hair.  Rods come out, hair is rinsed, trimmed and blown dry. 
I make a comment that it is awfully curly.  “Oh, that will loosen up in a week or so.”
So far it hasn’t loosened up and I look like a frizzy poodle on top.  The rest of my old perm is still on the sides and has nice curls.

For all of that I paid more than I paid to have a full perm done in MI.  (Oh, just another reason I can’t wait to move back!!)

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Thought you might be wondering…………….

Well, I was trying to do better and try to blog more than I have been.....................
Then I got hit with the migraine from hell.  It hit early on Sunday, somewhere between 3 and 4 a.m. and if I wasn’t already taking pain killers and muscle relaxers I would’ve got up out of bed and taken some of the really good Tylenol sinus medicine that puts those sinus related migraines right out of business.  But since I can’t take the extra Tylenol product with what I already take at night - poor liver would suffer if I did - I stayed in bed and tossed and turned for several hours.  Once it hit 8:30 a.m. I was out of the bed and tip-toeing down the hall so as not to wake the mutts.  Oh good, I got into the kitchen without a woof being heard; reached for the all important box of medicinal salvation and then disaster.............  It hit another box that contained HS girl’s allergy pills and they crashed down to the top of the microwave.  Woof, woof - “who is in the kitchen?”
Quickly I ran tippy-toe down the hall back to the safety of the bedroom.  Little fur balls wouldn’t stop making noise, just ‘cause I woke them up and their precious bladders felt like it was time to go out...........  So sweet hubby got out of bed and let them out.  (Thanks baby!!)
I peeled the wrapper and dropped the two pills straight down.  2.5 hours later and no relief in sight.  Repeated the procedure as soon as allowable and did it as often as allowable - still no relief.
Somehow it got to be Monday, more of the same plus I had to go for my yearly eye exam.  Now having a migraine and trying to drive on Long Island makes one have a very short tolerance span - trust me, you did not want to be in the van.
Having your eyes examined - yes, the whole she-bang with drops to dilate and a bunch of different lights being shined directly into your eyes to check for all sorts of nasty eye things that people get when they get older (cataracts, glaucoma, etc) is absolutely PAINFUL when one has a severe migraine.
Now imagine the drive home, even with those ridiculous, dorky wrap around sunglasses over the regular glasses and you won’t even have to guess why sweet hubby went to sleep on the ride home.  (Except for the short moment he woke up - just as some real idiot decided to not yield to the huge van and I almost hit his stupid foreign car - sweet hubby screamed and the guy flashed us his IQ - though I wouldn’t brag if mine was 1)
Made it to Tuesday without killing anyone and the pain was no better.  Went to our usual physical therapy session and chiropractic appointment and told the chiro what was up.  Got a massage, some nice stretches and then he worked on my neck which was out.  Then it was over for heat and stim.  It helped, but it didn’t totally kill it.
Today was my second chiro treatment for the week and again he took extra time with me.  The neck is feeling a bit better and the migraine has eased to be just a nagging headache.  I think it is a bit medicine related so am looking forward to the appointment with our care giver next week.

Tonight HS girl is at her Senior Banquet.  Boy did she look cute when she left.  Last night I went with her to get her nails done (boy, nail salons do not help when you don’t feel well) nails meaning hands and toes.  Today was a new haircut after school and then home to rush around getting ready before her friends came to pick her up.  They were going bowling after the banquet - in their dresses; can’t wait to see those shots complete with bowling shoes.

Hope all is well with you and your’s in your own neck of the woods. 

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Halloween is over………..

Well, here it is the day after Halloween.  The candy is beckoning from the bowl, I am doing my best to ignore it.  We had a few trick-or-treaters but not the huge hordes that used to roam the neighborhood.

Here is a picture of my buddy, JP.
He came over dressed as a little monkey - if only the hands didn’t shake so much you’d have been able to see it so much clearer.

We passed out Mickey Dee coupons and assorted “fun size” candy bars and packages of M&Ms.  Some of the kids were so funny.  I would put the coupon around the piece of candy and put it in their bag and some of them would just stare at that paper.  One little girl snatched it back out of her bag and ran to her mom and said “She was putting paper in my bag!” with all the indignation a four year old can give.  Once her mom read what it was, the girl was all smiles and it was “Ooh, MacDonalds!!”

One boy wished me a “Happy Halloween” before he said “Trick-or-treat”.

Ah well, our last Halloween in this neighborhood and it came without the usual pranks we have come to expect. What a nice change.
And how was Halloween in your neck of the woods??