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May. 11th, 2009

  • 11:01 PM
tick
Have made the switch to dreamwidth. Find me over there as vofpracticality same as here. Timing was just about perfect for my paid account to expire here and for me to join there. happy feet.

Dec. 18th, 2008

  • 8:22 PM
hands-on-head
Oh my GOD. Why, Why, Why, Can't Seattlites use CHAINS???? Inquiring minds want to know. Really.

Dec. 12th, 2008

  • 10:57 PM
aikido
Got a sideways compliment from Sensei today. During the course of the conversation she mentioned that most bb have a downward curve to their training after the bb test, and if they continue training, it starts to come up again eventually. She said I wasn't doing that, that I have continued to train and my progress has not dipped. This was unique in her 20+ yrs of experience. This got me to thinking.... Is it because this isn't my first bb? The more I think about it, I think that is it. I have been doing martial arts for 28 years. If I had stuck with just one style I would be at least 4th Dan by now. You don't see dips in intensity at that level. At least not normally.
So, I have seen the 1st Dan drop off effect many times. I don't think I am experiencing it because I don't think of myself as a 1st Dan. But on the other hand, I don't train for the rank. The rank is nice, and it is nice to be a bb again but that is not why I train. I train for mental health. When I am not training, I am not a good person to be around. I took a few years off between HRD and Aikido and by the end of that period my husband was strongly urging me to get back into training.

photomeme

  • Dec. 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 AM
daddy-smile
Photomeme going around. Got from [info]kazbaby.

The Rules:
1. Answer each of the questions below using the Flickr Search engine.
2. Choose a photo from the first three pages.
3. Copy the URL of your favorite photo into this site: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php
4. Share!



(1) Name: Sue (Sunbonnet Sue)
(2) Favorite food: Chocolate (Child w/Chocolate)
(3) Home town: Seattle (Space Needle)
(4) Favorite color: Blue (Pretty blue trees)
(5) Celebrity crush: Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Pretty man)
(6) Favorite drink: White Russian (Tasty drink)
(7) Dream vacation: Unlimited time in Europe (European alleyway)
(8) Favorite dessert: Mint chocolate chip ice cream with hot fudge (Sundae)
(9) What I want to be when I grow up: Happy (Smile)
(10) What I love most in the world: Books (I love books)
(11) A word that describes me: Confident (Confident child)
(12) My username: vofpracticality (no results but my expanded name found some: voice of practicality)

Thanksgiving

  • Nov. 27th, 2008 at 10:40 PM
good days
So, Thanksgiving at our house.....
Turkey (Alton Brown Brine recipe)
Stuffing
Green Bean Casserole
Mashed Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Acorn Squash
Cranberry Jelly
Pumpkin Pie
Chocolate-Pumpkin Torte

What was your menu?

Mary, Witches and society.

  • Nov. 17th, 2008 at 6:58 AM
bitch
So I'm driving along, listening to a Peter, Paul & Mary Christmas CD. Yeah, I know it is a bit early. I was stressed. Sue me. Anyway, a song comes on about Mary and Joseph. Mary informs Joe that she is pregnant, Joe gets huffy. Mary asks him to pick her some cherries, Joe snottily tells her to get the father of her child to do it. Mary proceeds to ask again for cherries and the tree bows down and puts cherries in her lap. So, instead of enjoying this pretty song, what am I thinking? "Wow, if that really happened they probably would have turned on Mary as a witch or whatever they called them in that time period." Then I start to contemplate different cultures attitudes towards women who seem to have some sort of magical ability. Next thing I know I have missed about 4 songs on the CD and I am most of the way to work.

Writer's Block: Secret Ballot

  • Nov. 4th, 2008 at 2:53 PM
bitch

It's hard to ignore the fact that today is Election Day in the U.S. If you went to the polls today, tell us what it was like. Long line? Free stickers? Hanging chads? We want the details.


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My county is completely vote by mail. I voted on saturday and was very relieved to not have to stand in line or other nonsense. I got the free sticker!

typical

  • Sep. 28th, 2008 at 12:13 AM
bitch

Your result for The Personality Defect Test...

Spiteful Loner

You are 71% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 71% Brutal, and 29% Arrogant.

You are the Spiteful Loner, the personality type that is most likely to go on a shooting rampage. In high school, you were probably that kid who wore all black and who sat alone in a corner of the lunch room, drawing pictures of dead babies. You are a rational person and tend to hold emotions in very low-esteem; not only that, but you are also rather introverted, meaning you probably bury any emotions you feel deep inside yourself, like all of the bodies in your backyard. Combine these traits with your dislike of others and your brutality, and it seems that you would be quite likely to shoot innocent people in a rampage. Most likely, you also have low self-esteem. Hell, I get low self-esteem just looking at you. This is only yet one more incentive to go on a shooting rampage, because you wouldn't care if you died as a result. Granted, you probably haven't gone on a shooting rampage and probably never will, but all the motivations are there. All you need is for someone to push you over the edge, calling you names and belittling you. Like me. But don't shoot me. I have a 101 mile-long knife, you know. In conclusion, your personality is defective because you are too introverted, brutal, insecure, and rather unemotional. No wonder no one hangs around you, you morbid, cold-hearted freak!



To put it less negatively:

1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.

2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.

3. You are more BRUTAL than gentle.

4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.


Compatibility:


Your exact opposite is the Televangelist.


Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Capitalist Pig, the Smartass, and the Sociopath.


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If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits.


The other personality types:

The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.


Be sure to take my Sublime Philosophical Crap Test if you are interested in taking a slightly more intellectual test that has just as many insane ramblings as this one does!


About Saint_Gasoline



I am a self-proclaimed pseudo-intellectual who loves dashes. I enjoy science, philosophy, and fart jokes and water balloons, not necessarily in that order. I spend 95% of my time online, and the other 5% of my time in the bathroom, longing to get back on the computer. If, God forbid, you somehow find me amusing instead of crass and annoying, be sure to check out my blog and my webcomic at SaintGasoline.com.

Take The Personality Defect Test at HelloQuizzy

Mar. 20th, 2008

  • 10:32 PM
boyfriend
Another silly quiz.


Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with? (pics)
created with QuizFarm.com
You scored as SG-1 (Stargate)

You are versatile and diverse in your thinking. You have an open mind to that which seems highly unlikely and accept it with a bit of humor. Now if only aliens would stop trying to take over your body.


SG-1 (Stargate)


94%

Serenity (Firefly)


88%

Moya (Farscape)


88%

Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)


88%

Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)


88%

FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)


81%

Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)


81%

Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)


75%

Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)


69%

Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)


63%

Enterprise D (Star Trek)


44%

Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)


44%

Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)


38%


Valentine's Day

  • Feb. 6th, 2008 at 10:53 PM
bitch
A bit of fun. Send me a Valentinr? Please?

My Valentinr - vofpracticality
Get your own valentinr

Yet another silly item

  • Nov. 7th, 2007 at 6:22 PM
bitch
My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Milady the Most Honourable Susan the Abrupt of Barton in the Beans
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Random exercise.

  • Oct. 2nd, 2007 at 7:08 PM
bitch
Gakked from [info]justblue0162

Go to Google, enter "[your name] needs" in quotes, and post the top ten results. If they don't make sense, are mangled or repetitive, skip to the next until you have ten unique entries.

1. Sue needs help.
2. Sue needs to go back to school to learn the basics of What Not to Wear.
3.
Susan needs to understand that she needs to be building up her language.
4.
Sue needs her own room on these church trips.
5. Sue needs another saddle.

6.  Sue needs developers.
7.  Sue needs a guitarist.
8.  Sue needs your help.
9. Sue needs to step back here and say "HUH?"
10.
Sue needs to unite parts of the clothes.

I am seeing a theme here with help and clothes.  Not really sure where the saddle will come into play but hey guess I need to live a little. 

Another random quiz

  • Sep. 12th, 2007 at 9:54 PM
bitch
You Passed the US Citizenship Test

Congratulations - you got 9 out of 10 correct!

Jul. 24th, 2007

  • 11:20 PM
bitch
Collage of the interests listed in my profile. It didn't cope well with the single name interests of some of my fanfic stuff but overall was very interesting. Rather entertaining that "An tir" came out as a cow and I missed it. I managed to take out all the other ones that were mismatches for the interest vs. picture but the cow slipped through.

My Interests Collage! )</div>

American accent quiz.

  • Jul. 24th, 2007 at 10:25 PM
bitch
LOL. I just took an American accent quiz and evidently my first 10 years as a Pittsburgher mix very strangely with my 30+ years in the NW in Washington.
Yeah, I know it shows Minnesota but i guess that is what happens when you mix Washingtonian (eastern and western) with Pittsburgher.

Results for What American accent do you have?

by Xavier

Thank you for taking our quiz. Apologies to all Vermont and Pittsburgh people because I know the answer it gave you was probably way off. Now that you're done, why not add your results to the American Regional Accent Map?

North Central. This is what everyone calls a "Minnesota accent." If you saw "Fargo" or "Drop Dead Gorgeous" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Some Americans may mistake you for a Canadian.


To post this quiz result in your blog, web page, or online journal, please select and copy the code in the Quiz HTML field below, then just paste into your website. For additional help, please scroll down.


 
What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

North Central. This is what everyone calls a "Minnesota accent." If you saw "Fargo" or "Drop Dead Gorgeous" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Some Americans may mistake you for a Canadian.

Take this quiz now - it's easy!
We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?



Hospitals

  • May. 29th, 2007 at 7:25 PM
subtext
5 days of ICU and General cardiac care floor only to be told....go home, we need to order the parts, then we can schedule the surgery.  Argh.

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