YSK: You Should Know.....

[thedivahrrrself]

Originally Posted by JAGG

YSK I just waxed my pick-up I love a freshly waxed truck!
YSK It is in the high 70's and an ice cold beer tasted good when I finished.
YSK I'm off to finish another project.
YSK I don't think I will have time to put the xmas lights up today. Maybe next weekend.

YSK if you keep putting it off, it will be new years.
YSAK I'm sure Maddie would be glad to tell you exactly where she wants the lights, if you'll only let her be in charge.

[puddin']

ysk: fried chicken, scrambled eggs and green beans IS da breakfast o' champions! lol

ysk: tryin' to cram a week's worth o' errands into 1 day is exhaustin'. oy...

ysk: i yam not infallible (also read as human as)

ysk: i dig cleanin'. yup...

ysk: i'm off to have a much needed, elongated lol chat wit' me darlin'.

[Soft*Silver]

YSK I miss seeing Dexter but I had to let HBO go...just refusing to pay extra to watch ONE show of theirs!

[clay]

YSK I STILL believe you to be a beautiful soul!!!
YSK: Friendships are one of my most cherished gifts in life! I have very long term friendships...45 yrs, 35 yrs. 30 yrs., and many 15 & 20 yr. ones that I am STILL in touch with regularly.....

YSK: What a gorgeous day this was!!!

[JAGG]

Originally Posted by thedivahrrrself

YSK if you keep putting it off, it will be new years.
YSAK I'm sure Maddie would be glad to tell you exactly where she wants the lights, if you'll only let her be in charge.

YSK I already received a phone call from Miss Maddie informing me that I'm not allowed to put the lights up without her proper supervision.
YSK I got another phone call checking to make sure I wasn't putting the lights up today. lol

[thedivahrrrself]

YSK that the next 10 days cannot go fast enough.

YSK that I'm ready to make some cookies!

YSK that I am extremely thankful for having you in my life.

[thedivahrrrself]

YSK I learned something today:

The construction "from whence" has been criticized as redundant since the 18th century. It is true that whence incorporates the sense of from: a remote village, whence little news reached the wider world. But "from whence" has been used steadily by reputable writers since the 14th century, most notably in the King James Bible: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help" (Psalms). Such a respectable precedent makes it difficult to label the construction as incorrect.
Still, it may be observed that whence (like thence) is most often used nowadays to impart an archaic or highly formal tone to a passage, and that this effect is probably better realized if the archaic syntax of the word without "from" is preserved as well.

The things you learn while you write papers. Now, that's taken up some space in my brain that was probably occupied by something useful. Dammit.

[not2shygrrl]

YSK : I feel like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer when: She says she loves me *blush*
YSK : I feel like Clarice when I tell her that I love her! *swoon*

[JAGG]

Ysk I think there should be limits on certain types of posts.
Ysk Rearranging furniture on a sinking ship is fun to watch. Especially when we get play by play action.
Ysk Statistics show people who have a life outside of their computers with real human friends and interactions , tend to be less depressed.
And have much more exciting things to post about.

[Abigail Crabby]

YSK it's a hella lot colder than I expected it to be on the left coast.....

[JAGG]

Originally Posted by thedivahrrrself

YSK I learned something today:

The construction "from whence" has been criticized as redundant since the 18th century. It is true that whence incorporates the sense of from: a remote village, whence little news reached the wider world. But "from whence" has been used steadily by reputable writers since the 14th century, most notably in the King James Bible: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help" (Psalms). Such a respectable precedent makes it difficult to label the construction as incorrect.
Still, it may be observed that whence (like thence) is most often used nowadays to impart an archaic or highly formal tone to a passage, and that this effect is probably better realized if the archaic syntax of the word without "from" is preserved as well.

The things you learn while you write papers. Now, that's taken up some space in my brain that was probably occupied by something useful. Dammit.

YSK This is very boring. Just saying.

[thedivahrrrself]

Originally Posted by JAGG

YSK This is very boring. Just saying.

Not to people who like words. Or geeks. Or both.

[LoyalWolfsBlade]

YSK there are some really weird people out there and if you do not believe me reading Craig list will show I am right

[thedivahrrrself]

YSK I took a personality profile today. It seems disturbingly accurate.


You Are Best Described As USUALLY TAKING CARE OF OTHERS

Words That Describe You:

• Understanding
• Unquestioning
• Humane
• Selfless
• Gentle
• Kindhearted
• Gullible
• Indulgent

A General Description of How You Interact with Others
Here's one important truth about you: you have a tender heart. Yes, you know that others need to learn to take care of themselves. Yes, you know they need to accept the consequences of their foolish or bad behavior. And sometimes, even when your instinct is to help them, you will let them fend for themselves and let them suffer the consequences of their choices or circumstances.

But most of the time you are there to help when they need you. If they are in trouble, you offer compassion and go out of your way to be helpful. If they need someone who will listen, you are trustworthy and sympathetic. And you are direct with them; when they need advice or counsel, you offer it in a straightforward, direct manner, without beating around the bush.

You're also smart enough to know that you cannot take good care of others if you fail to take good care of yourself, so you listen to your own wants and needs. If you've run out of sympathetic energy, you spend time restoring yourself. If you've ignored your own pain or frustration, you find a friend who will listen well, or go into your own private healing place and give yourself permission to focus on you.

But before long, you're back at it with your friends, offering a sympathetic ear and compassion on which they learn to trust, also giving straightforward advice and counsel when they ask for it. You do know how to take care of yourself, but your genuine interest is in taking care of others.

Negative Reactions Others May Have Toward You
Selfish people might be embarrassed by you. While they're using their time and energy almost exclusively on themselves, they see you giving time to others, and your kindness puts them in a bad light.

Maybe they'll think you're a phony, that you use your altruism to get others indebted to you so they'll then owe you a favor. Or perhaps they'll accuse you, directly or behind your back, of focusing on the needs of others so no one ever focuses on your foibles or your genuine wounds.

All of these are false accusations; yours is a genuine compassion, because you truly have a tender heart. One criticism might be more substantial, though. People might notice when you let things get out of balance and spend so much time responding to others that you neglect your own needs.

Positive Responses Others May Have Toward You
For many people, your genuine kindness will be an example of a way to treat others and a way we want others to treat us. They will see in you the traits of compassion and sympathy which they might want to focus on in the development of their own character.

For those people you help you will be the friend they need, there at the right moment to help them when they've stepped into yet another thicket of pain or confusion. They will be grateful for your listening, for your straight talk when they need straight talk more than anything, and for the hand you extend so they can find their way, with your help, out of whatever tangle they've gotten themselves into.


On the Openness Dimension you are CURIOUS

Words That Describe You:

• Original
• Inventive
• Thinker
• Brave
• Eccentric
• Unique

A General Description of How You Approach New Information and Experiences
You think like an artist. Or better, you SEE like an artist. While most people look at life's straight lines, its height and depth and width, you're bending the lines with your imagination and turning black and white into shades of blue and yellow. And in conversations at work or with your friends you want to ask, "Do you see what I see?" A few might, most don't, but you've piqued everyone's curiosity with your own original and inventive ways of thinking.

You can, if you must, think in conventional ways. But left on your own, you'll usually opt for the eccentric or avant-garde; in fact you're usually bored with what everyone else is comfortable with. You learn from reading, talking, watching people, and simply sitting in the soft chair of your mind and wondering how people would learn how to count if they could only use uneven numbers. You are out in front of conventional ideas, bravely originally defining true and false, right and wrong, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Negative Reactions Others May Have Toward Your Style of Thinking
You drive through life faster than the speed limit, and when you hit speed bumps, and you hit a lot of them with your mind distracted from the straight line ahead your wheels leave the ground.

For people who like life at a safer speed, you move too fast and lose touch too often with the solid ground they prefer, hence their discomfort with you. As odd as you might find this, many people feel safe in the shelter of the world they already know. They like the familiar. They breathe easily and sleep deeply knowing with more certainty how the world works. So although they might enjoy your company and be curious about your latest notion of how to count backwards by threes, they can only take you in small doses. And they wish you'd quit trying to push the boundaries of their personal and social cosmos.

Positive Responses Others May Have Toward You
Even those whom you make uncomfortable know, as just about everyone does, that you're not a flake. You think well, and even your wildest fancies have their roots in the deep soil of sound ideas and tested beliefs. So even if some people don't want to drive at high speed with you, they will respect you for your courage as an innovative and unconventional thinker. You lend color and imagination to what would otherwise be the straight black and white lines of their work world and social environments.

A few more daring people of your circle might even learn from you to take a risk they would otherwise never consider. As comfortable as they are on solid ground, they may be curious about what it would be like to go faster than the speed limit, or paint the living room two shades of blue, or question ideas or beliefs they've fingered like sacred beads since they were children.

After all, they watch you do it, and you seem no worse for the risks you take. In fact, your eyes are wider and your breath quicker, and maybe they can find at least a bit of this for themselves. To be certain, they don't want their wheels to leave the ground, but maybe the next time they approach a speed bump they might just brace themselves and speed up just a little bit.


On Emotional Stability you are SOMETIMES STEADY, SOMETIMES RESPONSIVE

Words That Describe You:

• Adaptable
• Engaged
• Able to Cope
• Passionate
• Perceptive
• Flexible
• Receptive
• Aware
• Avid

A General Description of Your Reactivity
You are free to express your passions about certain subjects with appropriate people. But you are also emotionally adaptable; if the conversation needs to be more cerebral, you'll keep it "in your head" and talk calmly through whatever issue is on the table. This emotional awareness serves you well. You sometimes get in over your head, either by opening up to the wrong person or by triggering in someone else's emotions they may not be able to deal with.

Negative Reactions Others May Have Toward You
When it comes to dealing with emotions we all meet some people with whom we don't match well. You bring a balanced approach to your emotional life. As such, those who are at the extremes are most likely to have a negative reaction to you. Those who live in their emotions may feel you tend to "live in your head" while those who go through life as an emotional rock may feel that you are a bit too "touchy feely" for their approach.

And of course it is always possible that you may misread others - we all do at times. So there have undoubtedly been those times when you have misread cues and stayed in your head with someone who hoped for a more open emotional approach or you may have opened up emotionally with someone who keeps their emotions bottled up.


Your approach toward your obligations is FLEXIBLE

Words That Describe You:

• Spontaneous
• Intuitive
• Perceptive
• Natural
• Somewhat Disorganized
• Unpredictable At Times

A General Description of How You Interact with Others
When there's a job to be done, like most people you want to know what the goal is and when it's to be completed. For you, that's a start. Next you want to know what the plan is to get to the goal. So you lay out a plan, or at least the major points of a plan. You don't need an in-depth specification of every little detail; in fact you prefer not to work that way. You lay out your goals, develop a general plan, and then you get things done.

You believe in intuition as well as organization. As such, you trust impulses as much as strategies and you value spontaneity as much as you do efficiency. In a word, you like to keep it flexible. When you set out to accomplish a task, you prefer to have some room to maneuver. Some of the most productive times for you are the unplanned moments of inspiration and creativity that just come to you. While you do keep to a general plan, those times of pure vision and originality are what really drive you.

Some of the people who rely completely on an organized approach to getting things done may be surprised at your efficiency. But there is a definite method to your approach. With a creative flair that others may not have anticipated, the original plan gets met and there are often a few extra accomplishments along the way. Your comfort zone starts with a task and a plan but it also requires the freedom to be able to go with your instincts and impulses so that you can not just accomplish the task, you also have the option to explore something brand new along the way.

Negative Reactions Others May Have Toward You
People may have problems with your style for two reasons. First, you don't always follow the rules or go along with detailed plans, whether at work or at home. Those who need the details to stay on task just don't quite understand how you are going to get it all done. Second, while you get things done - the way you veer off course at times and use your creativity may leave others wondering what went on. Some people find all this creativity and thinking "out-of-the-box" at odds with their desire to follow a clear course. And this causes not only some confusion it may also spark some anger toward you at times. Even you would likely admit that living and working with you takes someone who is able to let you do your thing at times. If someone is really tied to a rigid approach to how things should get done, there is clearly the potential for some conflict with you.

Every workplace and home does need a modicum of reliability and a decent amount or order and organization if it is to accommodate the mix of people who work or live there. That leads to a serious question for you: Are there times when your creative, though at times unpredictable, style keeps others off balance? Are there some plans that should be sacred, some space always well organized, some charts left as designed? Are there are some things you could change that would allow those who live and work with you to feel more in control; changes that wouldn't impinge on your creative processes? If others are finding your style to be difficult to deal with you may want to consider how you can all work together most efficiently.

Positive Responses Others May Have Toward You
The truth is that your work style gets things done, often with more beauty, fun, creativity and imagination than others could ever manage. But your style is very unique to you. Flexibility is essential to your style. With your creativity and flexibility the path you take to any goal can make everyone's accomplishments more inventive and enjoyable. Bringing some extra enjoyment to people's work can be a real asset; one you may want to use more consciously.

A lot of people wish they had some of whatever it is that you've got. They get so bogged down reading the committee notes or checking the project calendar that they seldom just cut loose and let their impulses run. They neglect their intuition to the point that it barely whispers - that is, until you come along with yours shouting out loud and remind everyone in the room that there's something to listen to besides the original plan and the orderly, organized path laid out to get there. So not only do you enhance the accomplishments of the group, you also enhance the lives of each member willing to find in themselves the spontaneity that is your trademark personal characteristic.


When it comes to Extraversion you are SOMETIMES OUTGOING, SOMETIMES RESERVED

Words That Describe You:

• Moderate
• Amiable
• Laid-back
• Temperate
• Relaxed
• Poised
• Civil
• Uncommitted
• Pleasant

A General Description of How You Interact with Others
Lucky you! You enjoy your own company as much as you enjoy the company of others. You are a great conversationalist and thrive in the wonderful kinds of connections you know how to have with your family and friends. You also equally enjoy your own company, whether sitting in a favorite chair with your book and soft music playing or meandering in the woods by yourself. You like coming home to your family or your roommate; but if no one is home, you find quiet, solitary time to be just as pleasurable.

Because you are so amiable and relaxed, you are comfortable with almost any group of family or friends. Whether they are pumped up and lively or calm and subdued, you remain at ease. If someone needs to take over the conversation, you are comfortable taking the lead; you can also lay back and let someone else be in charge. If the conversation gets rowdy, your moderate demeanor will often draw it down to a more temperate level. If someone in the group loses their cool, you will most likely maintain your poise, and if they get nasty you know how to keep a civil tongue.

You may find yourself out of balance on occasion. If you're alone too much, you may need to get in touch with someone. If you spend too much time with your family and friends, you may need to sneak off for a day by yourself, to putter and read and clear your head of the noise of too much conversation. When you're at your best, you live with a rhythm of time with others, time alone, time with others, time alone. It's a satisfying, comfortable balance.

Negative Reactions Others May Have Toward You
You may occasionally run into problems with other people. Close friends and family may get frustrated with you, or you with them. They may want conversations to be lively and passionate, while you keep things amiable and civil. Or others may be more quiet and reserved than you, and when you're in one of your more animated moments they may wish you would back off. You may be ready to put more energy into a conversation than they are comfortable with.

And your balance may be a problem. Other people may be consistently more sociable or more reserved than you, and find you to hard to read, some may even say you ride the fence.

Positive Responses Others May Have Toward You
Most people will truly appreciate your flexibility in social situations. They will like you for your amiable warmth and your willingness to engage, and for your ability to sit back and let others take the lead or the spotlight. They will appreciate ways in which you temper what could become intemperate moments; by remaining poised and relaxed; when others' temperatures are rising, you keep things civil and sane.

[thedivahrrrself]

YSAK that I forwarded the "approach to obligations" section to my coworkers. I kept hearing laughter and "yup" as they each read it. I think they agree on the accuracy.

[JAGG]

YSK I want one of those pocket hoses I saw on tv today.

[thedivahrrrself]

Originally Posted by JAGG

YSK I want one of those pocket hoses I saw on tv today.

YSK I thought all butches came with pocket hoses LOL

[JAGG]

YSK I never should have made those low fat brownies Saturday. They are much better for me when they stay a powdery substance in a box.

[Gráinne]

Originally Posted by JAGG

YSK I never should have made those low fat brownies Saturday. They are much better for me when they stay a powdery substance in a box.

That is not a brownie. A powder in a box is an obscene imitation of a brownie. If you're going to eat a brownie, do it right and have a homemade one, fat and all.

[JAGG]

YSK I slept like a baby last night !! It felt soooo good !!